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What reason of enmity was there between this boy and Klerkon?" "No reason but wanton mischief," answered the warrior. "It was a causeless murder, and we claim the full and lawful punishment." "Justice shall be done," returned the king. "But I must first know what the peace breaker may have to say in his own defence.
But in the midst of his dreaming there came to him the remembrance of the crime that he had just committed, and he began to dread that King Valdemar might hold him guilty, and order him to be slain. All through the long night this dread haunted him. He had killed Jarl Klerkon, and the sense of his own guilt now preyed upon him like a terrible nightmare.
Then raising his eyes he looked into his uncle's face and added: "Do not fear, hersir. Klerkon shall not take me from you." Now, very soon after Sigurd had gone out to attend upon the king, Olaf quitted the house and went by secret ways to the stables, where he found his foster brother at work combing out the mane of Sigurd's fighting steed.
For ten years the boy had suffered in bondage under different masters, the last of whom Klerkon Flatface had brought him into Esthonia. "My one wish during all these years," said Egbert, has been to return to England, where the people are Christian, and do not worship your heathen gods.
And so all my teaching of you has gone for nothing! Oh, foolish boy! To think that you, who might have lived to be the king of all Norway, have ended in being no more than a common murderer!" "Murderer?" repeated Olaf. "Not so. It is but justice that I have done. Klerkon was the slayer of my dear foster father.
Then the king asked Sigurd what prize he had staked, and Sigurd answered: "The prize was staked many months ago when I met Klerkon over in Esthonia, and it was arranged that if the viking's horse should overcome mine he was to take the young thrall Ole." "Let the boy be given up to him, then," said the king; "for he has won him very fairly."
If Klerkon the Viking's horse should overcome Sleipner there is no help for us. You must go with the victor." Then Olaf smiled almost mockingly. "Be not afraid, my kinsman," said he. "Should Klerkon come to claim me as his prize he shall not find me. But he will never need to claim me.
Sigurd paused, and laying his hand on Olaf's shoulder, "This," said he, "is that same child, Olaf Triggvison, and he is the one true flower of which King Harald Fairhair was the parent stem. An ill thing would it be for Norway if, for the slaying of Klerkon the Viking, he were now to lose his life.
It was I who bought him from the vikings, with another of his kind one Thorgils, who is to this day my bond slave. I bought them in exchange for a good he goat from Klerkon Flatface. Very soon I found the younger lad was worthless.
It might be, indeed, that he had already gone across the river to the security of Grim Ormson's hut; but it was greatly to be feared that he had fallen into the hands of Klerkon Flatface. Suddenly, as Sigurd sat there in moody thought, the door of the room was flung open, and Olaf rushed in. He was strangely agitated.
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