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Updated: June 3, 2025
Then Edith said a swift word to which Ulf listened, frowning, yet called to the undecided captain. "Ulf, of Sigurd's Vik, has seen too much war to be afraid to offer peace to any man. Choose thou!" The stranger laughed a laugh of relief, but said, "Peace it shall be, since that is a new thing to both of us. I am Thorfin the Viking." Ulf's face darkened.
Just as, eight hundred years afterward in America fell the blue-clad soldiers around their general, Custer, fighting the Sioux Indians on the Western plains. Thus William the Conqueror began to conquer England, and when he ended England was his own. Everywhere his captains built their castles, and where that captain was a Thorfin it was bad for the land.
The natives would willingly have purchased the weapons of the Icelanders, but this was expressly and judiciously forbidden by Thorfin. Yet one of them found means to steal a battle-ax, of which he immediately made a trial on one of his countrymen, whom he killed with one blow; on which a third person seized the mischievous weapon and threw it into the sea.
"Thord the Tall, Snaekol Gunnarson, and Thorfin of Skapstead. Snaekol and Thorfin are dead long since may God forgive them! but Thord the Tall lived to repent of the burning." "It was an ill deed," said Estein. "He was a heathen man then, King Estein but I forget, you know not of Christians." "I have heard of them," said Estein, half to himself.
Tit-Bits would publish my name and address if I win. What are you grinning at? They would." "I know it. Suppose you go for a walk. I want to look through my notes about our story." Now this reprehensible youth who left me, a little hurt and put back, might for aught he or I knew have been one of the crew of the Argo had been certainly slave or comrade to Thorfin Karlsefne.
Now Thorgeir was head-man of the household of those brothers in Reekfirth, and would ever be rowing out a-fishing, because in those days were the firths full of fish; so those in the Creek made up their plot; a man there was, a house-carle of Flosi in Arness, called Thorfin, him Flosi sent for Thorgeir's head, and he went and hid himself in the boat-stand; that morning, Thorgeir got ready to row out to sea, and two men with him, one called Hamund, the other Brand.
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