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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Go, then, to your ships," said he; "but for all your doubts of my courage you shall see before the sun goes down into the sea tonight that both Danes and Swedes will be less at their ease than I and my men!" As they moved to go, yet another of King Olaf's ships hove in sight. "Here now sails the Long Serpent!" cried the son of Queen Sigrid.
"What mean you? Who then was this youth? Of what land was he, and what was his name?" Elspeth paused and stepped nearer. "His name, my lord, was Lulach, and he was the son of Roderic MacAlpin and Sigrid the Fair." "You lie, vile witch, you lie!" cried Roderic, recoiling as he heard her words, and pressing his hands to his brow.
"Not so," said Roderic, planting his heavy elbows on the board; "for where can a man find happiness when those who are dearest to him have been torn away?" "Then you have had sorrows?" questioned the lady. She was the most beauteous damsel that ever came out of the Northland, and her name was Sigrid the Fair. I married her and we were happy."
He gained a ready favour with Sigrid by speaking all manner of false and malicious scandal against the man whom she had so lately rejected. Sigrid probably saw that by marrying the King of Denmark she might the more easily accomplish her vengeance upon Olaf Triggvison. She therefore accepted Forkbeard's proposals, and they were wedded in accordance with the rites and customs of their pagan faith.
And impatiently wagging his glove, hit her, or slightly switched her, on the face with it, and contemptuously turning away, walked out of the adventure. "This is a feat that may cost thee dear one day," said Sigrid. And in the end it came to do so, little as the magnificent Olaf deigned to think of it at the moment.
"But we are not afraid of those cowards, for no more courage is there in Danes than in wood goats. Never yet were Danes victorious over Norsemen, and they will not vanquish us today. But what chief flies the standards to the right?" "Those, lord, are the standards of Olaf the Swede King." "The son of Queen Sigrid the Haughty stands in need of a little practice in warfare," said Olaf.
Abandon these things, take christening, and believe in the one true God who made all things and knows all things, and then I will wed with you; but not else, O queen." Queen Sigrid, astonished that any man dared to speak to her in this wise, looked back at King Olaf in anger. "Never shall I depart from the troth that I have always held," she cried.
Also, in order to test her mind more surely, he feigned that a woman was about to become his wife, and, as he went up into the bride-bed, gave Sigrid the torch to hold.
Just as the great clock in the church tower began chiming the hour of nine, a group of children gathered on the granite pier opposite the King's Palace. A busy scene greeted their eyes. Vessels were being loaded and unloaded, passengers were arriving, men were hurrying to and fro, and boys selling newspapers were rushing about in the crowd. "Do you see the North Star?" Sigrid asked the others.
On the contrary, she gave him all praise for having done so much for her sake, and all her contempt of his seeming cowardice was turned to admiration of his courage. Now, at this same time King Sweyn Forkbeard was in Denmark, living with his new wife, Queen Sigrid the Haughty.
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