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Updated: June 10, 2025
While the King wasted the resources of his country on these wars, his proud and unwise mother, Louise of Savoy, guided by Antoine du Prat, ruled, to the sorrow of all, at home.
Forthwith, pikemen and archers fell into array with Cnut at their head, while behind the spreading ranks of pikes Prat and his archers were ranged, bows strung and quivers slung before; and presently, at Beltane's word, they swung forth of the sheltering green, fierce-eyed, grim-lipped, bascinet and pike-head a-twinkle.
Rani was on the right wing, and Biorn the marshal on the left; and Ottar the scald bore Olaf's banner beside the king. There were six of the best warriors of the crew before Olaf as his shield wall, and six of the best English warriors had been named by Prat to act in the same way for me.
He and Jim were fighting, shoulder to shoulder, and, at the head of only five men, were endeavouring to cut a way through their foes in order to regain their own ship. Indeed, their desperate valour had nearly carried them through when Prat, suddenly dropping his reeking sword, put both hands up to his face, and, after swaying on his feet for a second, fell into Jim's arms.
Torfrida said humbly that she would try; and walked with the divining-rod between her pretty fingers for many a mile in wood and wold, wherever the ground looked red and rusty. But she never found any iron. "We must take the tires off the cart-wheels," said Leofwin Prat. "But how will the carts do without? For we shall want them if we march."
At last, faint and far across the valley, rose the doleful cry of a curlew thrice repeated, the which was answered from the east by the hooting of an owl, which again was caught up like an echo, and repeated thrice upon their right. Then Beltane sheathed his dagger. "Look," said he, "Cnut Prat, look north and tell me what ye see!" "Fire, my lord!" quoth Prat.
'Tis Prat who alone stood off a score what time I lay wounded and pinned beneath my charger. Mark ye yon lusty fellow beside him? 'Tis Cnut that, single-handed, hewed him a path through Ivo's battle and bare away his own banner, the which doth grace my hall at Thrasfordham e'en now. And yonder is Dirk that was a slave, yet fighteth like a paladin.
"Alack, lord," growled Ulf, "yonder is he where they lie so thick, and slain, methinks, yet will I bring him off " "Aye, lord," cried Tall Orson, great tears furrowing the grime of his cheeks, "and little Prat do be killed and lusty Cnut do be killed wi' him and my good comrade Jenkyn do lie smitten to death O there do be none of us left, methinks, lord!"
Now was the Chilian's last opportunity to snatch success out of the jaws of failure, and Captain Prat immediately seized it. Waving his sword above his head, he shouted: "Boarders, away! Follow me all who are able!" And he sprang over the side of his ship on to the decks of the Huascar.
He had found the archway partially blocked, so that an ordinary square-headed door might be inserted, a most barbarous arrangement. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. This arrangement dates from the deanship of Dean Prat, who is recorded to have given a large book-case, which had once belonged to H.R.H. the Duke of York.
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