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As the time drew near, they felt as if they had only been allowed a respite. Knut and Astrid kept a good deal to themselves. The way in which the young people had taken things did not allow of much sympathy or consolation being offered them. Besides, Knut was too lively and worldly-minded to sit long in a house of mourning or to be always coming in upon a prayer meeting.
After some ten years' eclipse there, Knut and both his sons being now dead, Svein reappeared in Denmark under a new and eminent figure, "Jarl of Denmark," highest Liegeman to the then sovereign there.
Edmundsbury plundered by the Tyrant's tax-collectors, as they were on the point of being. In all ways impossible, however, Edmund's own death did not occur till two years after Svein's. Knut soon returned from Denmark, with increase of force sufficient for the English problem; which latter he now ended in a victorious, and essentially, for himself and chaotic England, beneficent manner.
"Wait! now shall we see the value of advisers." Presently the incoming tide drew near, and the King arose, stretched out his hand to the waters and said, "Back! I, Knut the Great, command thee. Back!" Never a word replied the sea, but still the unceasing tide crept steadily on. "Back, I say! Knut, Master of the Sea, commands it!"
He set it aside. He paused, and looking at the school-master, said, "This is the way it is every single day." As they proceeded upward they heard a merry song from the slopes. "Why, they are singing over their work," said the school-master. "That is little Knut Ostistuen who is singing; he is helping his father gather leaves. Over yonder my people are working; you will not find them singing."
In A Year of Their Lives the same "animal" method is transfered to the treatment of primitive human life, and the shadow of Knut Hamsun is plainly discernible in the background. Death, The Heirs, and The Belokonsky Estate are first class exercises in the manner of Bunin, and only A Thousand Years and The Crossways herald in, to a certain extent, Pilniak's own manner of invention.
Jarl Hakon accepted the generous terms; went to England and King Knut, and kept his bargain for a good few years; though he was at last driven, by pressure of King Knut, to violate it, little to his profit, as we shall see.
Became widely known by and by, there and elsewhere, as Knut the Great; and is thought by judges of our day to have really merited that title. A most nimble, sharp-striking, clear-thinking, prudent and effective man, who regulated this dismembered and distracted England in its Church matters, in its State matters, like a real King.
At last the time came for Knut to return to England, the larger country, where he lived for most of his reign, and Ulf went back with him and Edith with Ulf, of course. A mighty fleet sailed also, never had either of them seen so many ships before, and when the roll of the oars in the rowlocks came slipping over the glassy sea it rumbled like muttered thunder.
Around these banners gathered the bravest of the champions, fighting with heroic fury the Danes, under their ambitious king, fighting for glory and riches; the Swedes, under their patriot leader, striking for peace and freedom from foreign rule. While the battle was thus raging outside the town, Knut Posse, its governor, a skilful soldier, was not idle.
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