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Wake, men me call, whom Warrior or watchman Never caught sleeping, Far in Northumberland Slew I the witch-bear, Cleaving his brain-pan, At one stroke I felled him." And so forth, chanting all his doughty deeds, with such a voice and spirit joined to that musical talent for which he was afterwards so famous, till the hearts of the wild Norsemen rejoiced, and "Skall to the stranger!
Skall to the young Viking!" rang through the hall. Then showing proudly the fresh wounds on his bare arms, he sang of his fight with the Cornish ogre, and his adventure with the Princess.
"Skall to the Viking!" shouted the Danes once more, at this outburst of heathendom, common enough among their half-converted race, in times when monasticism made so utter a divorce between the life of the devotee and that of the worldling, that it seemed reasonable enough for either party to have their own heaven and their own hell. After all, Hereward was not original in his wish.
'E's wort' two hondred pesos." Murphy, the Swede, followed quickly: "Aye ban' send may vages home to may ole' moder, but aye skall bat you some." "Haven't you boys risked enough already?" ventured Miss Chapin. "Remember, it will go pretty hard with the losers." "Harder the better," came a voice. "Y'all don't have to bet, jest because I'm h'yar," gibed Gallagher. "God!
The Maggie II is commanded by Captain Phineas Scraggs, and after taking on provisions and water to-day will proceed to San Francisco, to-morrow, for discharge of cargo. "By yiminy," quoth Neils Halvorsen, "aye bat you that bane de ole man so sure as you bane alive. And aye bat new hat he skall be glad to see Neils Halvorsen. I guess aye hire Kanaka boy an' he bane pull me out to see de ole man."
Then the two young men looked each other in the face, and each saw that the other was a man who would suit him. "Skall to the Viking!" cried Robert, aping, as was his fancy, the Norse rovers' slang. "Will you come with me to Holland?" "You must ask my young lord there," and he pointed to Arnulf. "I am his man now, by all laws of honor." A flush of jealousy passed over Robert's face.
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