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Pitching his cloak higher on his shoulders, he fastened his eyes on a hole in the tapestry behind the Etheling's chair and began monotonously to recite his lesson: "Rothgar, the son of Lodbrok, sends you greeting, Sebert Oswaldsson; and it is his will that you surrender to him the odal and Tower of Ivarsdale; as is right, because the odal was created and the Tower was built by Ivar Vidfadmi, who was the first son of Lodbrok and the father's father's father of my chief " In spite of himself, he was obliged to stop to take in breath.
After I had learned well, as he said, the jarl tempered the axe head, heating and cooling it many times, until it would take an edge that would shear through iron without turning. And he also wrought runes on it, hammering gold wire into clefts that he made. "What say they?" I asked. "Thus they read," he answered: "Life for life. For Wulfric, Elfric's son, Lodbrok the seafarer, made me!"
Nor do I think that we Danes have made our name so well loved among English folk that we should look for the like among them." But I answered that we of East Anglia had no cause to blame his people, who had made peace with us and kept it faithfully. So the man led Lodbrok away, and I too went to seek gear more courtly than salt-stained and tar-spotted blue cloth of Lavenham.
"He said, paying no heed to me, 'Now, Wulfric you will hate me forever more, nor do I think that Lodbrok my father would be pleased with this; after which he spoke words so low that I caught but one here and there, but they were somewhat of the lady Osritha, our mistress. After that he said to me, 'Leave him horse and arms and unbind him, and then turned away.
I had forgotten your new faith," said Lodbrok. "Now from this time I, for one, have naught to say against it, for I think I owe it somewhat." And he was silent for a while. Now my father came aft, and sitting down by the Dane, asked him how he came to risk sailing in the little boat. "I know not if you can believe me," answered Lodbrok, "but I will tell you in a few words.
The son of Lodbrok shrugged his huge shoulders in stolid resignation; but the wrinkled forehead of the older man became somewhat smoother. There was nothing Jotun-like about his long, lean features, yet his expression was little pleasanter on that account.
All the while the hound kept going and coming, being very uneasy, and I rated it again. Then it came across me that I had not heard Lodbrok's horn, and that surely the dog would not so soon have left his quarry. And at that I hasted and hung the deer on a branch, and, mounting my horse, rode after the hound, which at once ran straight before me, going to where I thought Lodbrok would be.
Ivar Wide-Fathomer he was named, whence it is still called Ivarsdale. He was of the stock of Lodbrok, they say; and it is said, too, that one of his race is even now with Canute. Since Alfred, my fathers have had possession of it, but it is Danish-built, every stone. You must make believe that you are coming home." So he spun on, carelessly good-humored, as they climbed the wind-ing hill-path.
Now the bird had got free in some way, and finding neither of her masters, had fled home, even as Lodbrok said she would. "Now is your story proved to be true," said Hubba, smiling gravely at me, but speaking for Ingvar's ear. "Aye, over true," answered his brother; "serve this man well, Raud and Rolf, for he has been a close friend of Jarl Lodbrok."
And lo! the gate was an oak tree, tall and strong, yet beyond it was the light and the singing that I had reached. Then faded the face of Lodbrok, and after me looked sadly many faces, and one was yours, my son, and the nearest. So I woke." "That is a wondrous dream," I said, not knowing what to make thereof, having no skill in reading these matters.
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