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Said King Sweyn: 'Now here will be sailing Long Snake; and take we heed that we be not too late in meeting them. Then answered Earl Eric: 'That will not be Long Snake; few of their big ships have passed as yet; there are many more to come. And it was even as the Earl said. Now sailed a ship with striped sails, a long-ship built for speed, and much larger than the others that had gone by.
Then the women bethought them, and they spake a word or two together, and then they sundered and went one this way and one that, to gather together the warriors of the Raven who were a-field, or on the way, nigh unto the house, that they might follow Hallblithe down to the sea-shore and help him; after a while they came back again by one and two and three, bringing with them the wrathful young men; and when there was upward of a score gathered in the garth armed and horsed, they rode their ways to the sea, being minded to thrust a long-ship of the Ravens out over the Rollers into the sea, and follow the strong-thieves of the waters and bring a-back the Hostage, so that they might end the sorrow at once, and establish joy once more in the House of the Raven and the House of the Rose.
When once he shot over the side of a long-ship at the head of his men, that was ever but the beginning of the end. Not many minutes later, war would cease on that particular craft, no one being left to defend it. This did not make the wise- heads anxious to try it for themselves.
And at once Sigvaldi took his long-ship and rowed out to the ships, holding up a white shield; they, on the other hand, lowered their sails and waited. But that large ship was the Crane, steered by Thorkell Dydrill, the King's kinsman. They asked of Sigvaldi what tidings he had to tell them.
And they all at once said: 'A wondrous big ship and a beautiful one is the Long Snake. There will be no long-ship in the world to match her for beauty, and much glory is there in causing to be made such a treasure. Then said Sweyn, the Danish king, out loud: 'The Long Snake shall bear me; I shall steer it this evening before set of sun.
The long-ship was put in order, and they went away. It was Silver-tree herself that was at the helm, and she steered the ship so well that they were not long at all before they arrived. The prince was out hunting on the hills. Gold-tree knew the long-ship of her father coming. "Oh!" said she to the servants, "my mother is coming, and she will kill me."
Early in 1263 Magnus III of Orkney and Caithness, was in Bergen with King Hakon. For the Saga says, "with him from Bergen came Magnus, Jarl of Orkney, and the king gave him a good long-ship." Sailing from Norway in the end of July 1263, King Hakon found a fair wind, and crossed in two days to Shetland, where he lay for a fortnight assembling his fleet in Bressay Sound off Lerwick.
And it is great shame and disgrace for men to hear in other lands, if we lie by with an overwhelming host while he sails the high road of the seas outside. Earl Eric answered: 'Sire, let this swift long-ship pass if she will. I can tell you good tidings: that Olaf Tryggvason has not sailed by us, and this day you will have the chance of fighting with him.
"Why, Gold-tree, your daughter." "Oh! well, it is long since she was living. It is a year since I ate her heart and liver." "Oh! indeed she is not dead. She is married to a great prince abroad." Silver-tree went home, and begged the king to put the long-ship in order, and said, "I am going to see my dear Gold-tree, for it is so long since I saw her."
There are here now many chiefs, and I expect of this bout that we shall all have plenty of work. Still they said, when this long-ship and many craft had gone by: 'That must have been Long Snake. And Earl Eric, said the Danes, 'will never fight to avenge his father if he do not so now.
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