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Updated: September 11, 2025
"I like the ship well enough. The crew is bad. And then, whose command is the fleet under?" "Take the ship, Thord, and lick my crew into shape; and Ranald, your king, shall command the fleet," Odda said plainly. "Fair and softly," said Thord bluntly. "I can do the two things you ask me; but will your men follow Ranald?" "Faith," said Odda, "if I say they are to do so, they must."
If you'll reach into that fuhthest closet, you'll find it on the last uppa hook on the right hand, and if you'll give it to me, I'll show you what I want done. Don't mind the looks of that closet; I've just tossed my things in, till I could get a little time and stren'th to put 'em in odda." Clementina brought the polonaise to Mrs.
So he showed it me. The letter was better written than the name, as it seemed to me. "I will take your word for it," I said, laughing as I looked; "but it is a kindly letter, and I will surely come." "Ay; he has written to you as to an equal," Odda said. "That is so. Now I would have the good king know that I am not that; I am but a sea king.
So when at last every Danish chief had made submission, and the whole host had marched back to what they held as their own land in Mercia, going to Gloucester, as was said, with Odda and Ethered the ealdormen hanging on their rear with a great levy, I rode with King Alfred to find Neot his cousin gaily enough.
So we rode away, pleased enough with the night's work, and reached Poole in broad daylight, while the gale was slackening. Well pleased was Odda to see me back, and to hear my news. Then he asked me what I would do next. There seemed to be no more work at sea, and yet he would have me speak with King Alfred and take some reward from him.
So Odda brought his men ashore, and marched on Wareham and thence after the Danes, not meaning to fight unless some advantage showed itself, for they were too many, but to keep them from harming the country. And I waited for wind to take me westward. Then the strange Norsemen left us.
On the day before I rode to Odda, who had already drawn his men to the Petherton ridge above Bridgwater, and told him what the king's word was. Then I went on up the long side of the Quantocks, and spoke in the Maytime woods with Thora, telling her for she was a warrior's daughter, and was worthy of a warrior's love that I must be at the king's side.
If you do not wish to go all the way to the very end of the fjord, there are numbers of pretty little places where you can break your journey. But if you like you can travel throughout the day and finish up late at night at Odda, or at Vik-i-Eidfjord, each of which is at the head of a branch of the Hardanger Fjord.
I would not be where men are jealous of me." "The only man likely to be so is Odda," the king answered. "You must settle that with him. It is the place that he must have held that you are taking. No man in all England can be jealous of a viking whose business is with ships. But Odda put this into my mind at first, and then Godred found out that he was right."
So it was, indeed; but Odda had not a thousand men. Perhaps, too, the Danes feared some sally from the fens; but however it was, they made not the mistake which destroyed Hubba by despising us rashly, for Guthrum drew his whole force together, and left the hills for a march towards the town which he heard was threatened.
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