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Updated: May 23, 2025
'Did he, Svend, this man with brown hair, grizzled as you say it is now? Is his hair soft then, this Siur, going down on to his shoulders in waves? and his eyes, do they glow steadily, as if lighted up from his heart? and how does he speak? Did you not tell me that his words led you, whether you would or no, into dreamland? Ah well! tell him I am happy, but not so happy as we shall be, as we were.
So Siur gazed till he heard footsteps coming; then he turned to meet them. And Svend and his brethren sat silent in the council chamber, till they heard a great noise and clamour of the people arise through all the streets; and then they rose to see what it might be.
The King had a bow in his hands; he laid an arrow on the string, and made as if he aimed at Ulf. Ulf said, "Shoot another way, King, where it is more needful, my work is thy gain." Then the King asks, "Who is the chief of the force right opposite to us?" He is answered, "Svend of Denmark, with his army." Olaf replies, "We are not afraid of these soft Danes! Who are the troops on the right?"
They met and Leland sent Borrow his "Breitmann Ballads" because of the German Romany ballad in it, and his "Music Lesson of Confucius" because of the poem in it inspired by Borrow's reference to Svend Vonved in "The Romany Rye."
Svend, with Harald and Robert his two brethren, went their ways to the queen, and found her sitting alone in a fair court of the palace full of flowers, with a marble cloister round about it; and when she saw them coming, she rose up to meet them, her three fair sons. Truly as that right royal woman bent over them lovingly, there seemed little need of Siur's question.
Then Svend said: 'And, mother, don't be angry with Siur, will you? because he sent a message to you by me. 'Angry! and straightway her soul was wandering where her body could not come, and for a moment or two she was living as before, with him close by her, in the old mountain land. 'Well, mother, he wanted me to ask you if you were happy now.
King Svend sought him high and low to finish his dastardly work, while on Thing he wailed loudly before the people that Valdemar and Knud had tried to kill him, showing in proof of it his cloak, which he had rent with his own sword. But Valdemar's friends were wide awake.
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