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"The gods have bidden me cross the seas," replied Estein, "and they will steer my ship, whatever haven I choose." "Go, then," said Helgi, "and while that shrewd counsellor whom men call Helgi Sigvaldson sails with you, at least you will not lack sage advice." Estein laughed. They were silent for a time, and then Estein exclaimed, "We are well quit of that country of Jemtland!
"The gods indeed have dealt heavily with thee," said Atli, "and it is at their bidding that I called thee here." "Spoke they with King Bue also?" said Estein, with a slight curl of his lip, looking all the time at the fire. "Nay; hear me out, Estein. I knew that King Hakon would send, ere long, an avenging force to Jemtland."
"Dear was Estein to his father, and dear the old king to his son. Deep and burning, I fear, will his sorrow be," said the earl. "Fain would I comfort him," replied Helgi. "But I know well Estein's humours, and now he is best alone for a time." They walked slowly up to Hakonstad, the old earl leaning upon his son's arm, and as they went Helgi told him the tale of the Jemtland journey.
The most beautiful of all, the ornatissima, is found only in Jemtland, the aurobadia only in Sodermanland, the anopetala in other localities in the same country, the roseola near Stockholm, and the yellow lutescens in Finmarken.
"My name is Thorar," said the chief, speaking gravely and very courteously, "lawman of this region of Jemtland" he made a sweeping gesture with his hand as he said this "and a friend hitherto to the Northmen." "I know you by repute as a chief of high birth, and one who has long been faithful to my father.
But almost all the processes of agriculture, and of mechanical and chemical industry, are fatally destructive to aquatic animals within reach of their influence. Our author states that, in 1796, a terrible inundation was produced in the Indalself, which rises in the Storsjo in Jemtland, by drawing off into it the waters of another lake near Ragunda.
Mine own mind is not attentive to these gew-gaws, but a man whose eyes were sharp before a Jemtland axe clove his head this morning knew it for none of yours." "Did you not seize him at once?" said Estein. "I was for taking him on the spot, but we spoke without the town, and he had such a company along with him that after a sharp bout he got off, though he left three of his lads on the snow.
"Atli, a brother of Thord the Tall!" "Know you him?" "I have seen him," he answered evasively. "Once he came here. But how did you find him? He dwells in distant parts, so men say." "The writing gave me the direction of one who knew where he could be found, and so I travelled to a far country Jemtland it is, many days from Sogn. Thus it was that when I came here King Hakon had died."
So far as his followers were concerned, Estein was helpless. He glanced round the hall now and then, and could see them quickly succumbing to the Jemtland hospitality.
At seventeen he was made an Ensign in the Rifle Corps, and soon after Lieutenant in the Royal Chasseurs. He was fond of the life of the army, but he saw there was no great future in it for him, and he could not give up his passion for science and invention. He procured an appointment as surveyor for the district of Jemtland, and found himself free again to work on his own lines.
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