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After that I gave the Jarl's messages, and the king heard them well enough, though it seemed to Einar that the weregild to be paid was over heavy, and he had bidden me tell Harald that it was so. Therefore the king said that he would give me an answer on the morrow, and I went away into the town well pleased with his kindly way with me.
The news of his brother's death, which arrived during the feast, was considerately withheld from him, and he was greatly honoured there; but he roused the jarl's anger by slaying Sweyn Breast-rope, the jarl's forecastle-man, at Orphir, not indeed so much for the murder, as because Sweyn had fled and did not come to submit himself after it to the jarl, and so offended him.
Presenting my piece, I hailed him to descend or be shot. There was silence for a space, when the black barrel of a musket was thrust forth, leveled at my head. Instantly, Jarl's harpoon was presented at a dart; two to one; and my hail was repeated. But no reply. "Who are you?" "Samoa," at length said a clear, firm voice. "Come down from the rigging. We are friends."
"Does the sea come in all the way under the castle?" he wondered. "Oh that it would sap the foundations and sink castle and all, rather than let them give up old Jarl's stronghold to his enemies!"
Once more then I took the jarl's sword in my right hand, and raised his hand with my left, putting my own weapon by against the wall. And then the hilt slipped from the half-open fingers, and the sword was mine, and my hand held the jarl's. And it seemed to me that he gave it me, and that I must thank him for such a gift.
He was slain last night, by Norman Leofwinesson, who is Edric Jarl's thane." As both horseman and sentinel had started at that name, so now the King straightened into alertness, forgetting everything else. "Leofwinesson? What know you of him or his Jarl? Where are they? When saw you them?" "Last night; when they lay drunk in my father's castle at Avalcomb, after " "Avalcomb? Near St. Alban's?
She shrank away a little, as if frightened at the jarl's dark face and stern words, but Hubba called her by name. "Stay, Osritha; here is that friend of our father's from over seas, of whom you have heard." Then she looked pityingly at me, as I thought, saying very kindly: "You are welcome. Yet I fear you have suffered for your friendship to my father."
He fought with a Scottish chief named Melbrigda of the Tusks, and slew him, and bore back his head to the ships at his saddle bow. Then the great teeth of the chief swung against the jarl's leg and wounded it, and of that he died, and so was laid in a great mound at the head of the firth where his ships lay. After that, the Orkneys were a nest of evil vikings till we came.
This is Alwin, Edmund Jarl's son, of England. Bad luck has made him Leif's thrall, but his accomplishments have made me his friend." He spoke with the utmost mildness, merely glancing at the grinning crew; yet they sobered as though their mirth had been turned off by a faucet, and Thorgrim gave the thrall a civil welcome.
On that day the boy who brings to me the most wonderful thing which he has made with his own hands, planned out by himself, shall receive a prize worthy of a jarl's giving." He paused, and looked thoughtfully at Edith Fairhair's eager face. Then he said, "If the girls wish to try it like their brothers, they too shall have a prize of their own to win.
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