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In the vault overhead blue had deepened into purple, and all the silver star-lamps been hung out, their flames trembling unceasingly in the playing winds. By the soft light, the Jotun, who was striding across the camp, saw a graceful boyish form leave the circle around the King's fire and join a group of mounted men waiting on the river bank, some fifty yards away.
"What!" he gasped; and then his voice rose to a roar. "And the Englishman is her lover?" "You are wiser than I expected," the King laughed. "I intend to call you Thrym after this, for it is unlikely that Loke made a greater fool of the Giant. Your enemies will make derisive songs about it." Stamping with rage, the Jotun hammered his huge fist upon a tree-trunk until bark flew in every direction.
She stood before the Jotun as straight and unbending as a spear-shaft, and her eyes were reflections of his own. Her wonder was great when slowly, even while his eyes blazed, Rothgar's mouth began to twitch at the corners. All at once he rolled over on his back with a shout of laughter. "By Ragnar, there will not be many jests to equal this!" he gasped.
"If you had waited a little, you would be less light on your feet," the Jotun growled as he strode on, striking his heels savagely upon the frosty ground. "Where is the King?" he demanded, as soon as he had reached the ring of nobles sipping mead around the royal fire.
"Assington!"... "In Essex?" the chorus broke in upon him. "It happened as Grimalf said "... " the horse with the bloody saddle which he found over the hill "... "Do you know for certain if Edric "... "Why will you interrupt him?"... "Yes, end this talk!"... "Go on, go on!" "I also say go on, in the Troll's name!" the Jotun roared.
There was a great stone dolmen, as they call it a giant house, as it were, made of three flat stones for walls, and a fourth for a roof, so heavy that none know how such are raised nowadays. They might have served for a table, or maybe a stool, for a Jotun.
"No such purpose had I," the Jotun said with a touch of surliness. Pulling a bag from under his belt, he shook out of it upon the floor a mane of matted yellow hair. "If you want to know my errand, it is to bring you this. Yesterday it came to my ears that one of my men was suspected of having tried to give you poison through your wife's British thrall.
He had cast aside the splendor of the royal guards, wearing over his steel shirt a kirtle of blue that made his florid face seem redder and gave to his fiery hair a hotter glow. Two sentinels carrying shining pikes had followed him in, uncertainly, and now one plucked at his arm. But the Jotun shook him off to stride forward, clanking his heels with intentional noisiness upon the stone floor.
"Norman of Baddeby" her father's slayer! Memory entered like poison to spread burning through every vein. Her father Fridtjof the Jotun the battle Her ears were dinned with terrible noises; her eyes were seared by terrible pictures. She crushed her hands against her head, but the sound came from within and would not be stilled.
"Will you wager a finger-ring against my knife that your mind will not change when my ward stands again before you?" The Jotun smiled grimly. "Is that the expectation you are stringing your bow with? It will fail you as surely as the hair of Hother's wife failed him.
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