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"Ah," answered the other, "it will be well for the south when Eric Brighteyes and Gudruda are gone over sea, for their loves have brought much bloodshed upon the land." "Well, indeed!" sighed the first. "Had Asmund the Priest never found Groa, Ran's gift, singing by the sea, Valhalla had not been so full to-day. Mindest thou the day he brought her here?"
"True words, thyself thou sayest it," went on Atli "thou hound that I saved from the sea! 'Ran's gift, Hela's gift, so runs the saw, and now from Ran to Hela thou shalt go, thou mishandler of defenceless women!" "Here is somewhat of which I know nothing," said Eric. "And here is something of which thou shalt know," answered Atli, and he shook his sword before Eric's eyes. "Guard thyself!"
"I ran's hard as I could and I overbrook that girl at the took" "What? What?" gasped Janice. "Say that again, Gummy." "Oh I " His sister went off into a gale of laughter. "Oh, Gummy!" she cried, "you 'overbrook' her at the 'took, did you? Your tongue's twisted again." "Oh, pshaw!" exclaimed Gummy. "Of course, I mean I overtook her at the brook." "That's better," giggled Amy.
"We have not done so badly," said Eric to Skallagrim. "We shall do better yet," said Skallagrim to Eric; "rather had I seen Ospakar's head lying in the scuppers than those of all his carles; for he may get more men, but never another head!" Now the wind freshened till by midnight it blew strongly. The mate Hall came to Eric and said: "The Gudruda dips her nose deep in Ran's cup.
It was a title which the sea rovers of the north often gave to the man whom they had chosen as their chief, and it implied that he was a leader who ruled over warriors and who had acquired a large number of warships. Not often did such a king possess lands. His realm was the sea "Ran's land" and his estates were his ships.
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