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Updated: June 13, 2025
The Black One was the first to notice her amid the confusion. He dropped the cloak he was waving and stared at her wonderingly for a moment; then he burst into a boisterous laugh. "Look at the shield-maiden, comrades, look at the shield-maiden! It has come into her mind that she is going back to Thorhild!" For a moment Alwin wondered who Thorhild might be.
Gathered together in the grassy space were more armed retainers, more white-clad thralls, more barking dogs, more house servants in holiday attire, and, at the head of them, the far-famed Eric the Red and his strong-minded Thorhild. One glance at the Red One convinced Alwin that his reputation did not belie him.
She put out a hand to raise her, but Editha caught it in both of hers, fondling it and clinging to it. "Sweetest lady, I am not out of my wits. It is the truth, the blessed truth. Mine own eyes have proved it. Four times has Thorhild sent me on errands to Egil's house, and each time have I seen " "Yet said nothing to me! You have let me suffer!" "No, no, spare me your reproaches!
Then vaguely he remembered hearing that it was to escape a strong-minded matron of that name that Helga had fled from Greenland. That now she must go back to be civilized, and made like other maidens, struck him also as an excellent joke; and he joined in the laugh. One after another caught it up with jests and mocking. "Back to Thorhild the Iron-Handed!" "No more short kirtles!"
"Thorhild is not here, nor do I expect that she will ever rule over me again. She struck me once too often, and I ran away to Leif. For two years now I have lived almost like the shield-maidens we were wont to talk of. Oh, Sigurd, I have been so happy!" She threw back her head and lifted her beautiful face up to the sunlit sky and the fresh wind. "So free and so happy!"
He was born about the middle of the tenth century at Jaederen, in Norway, but was outlawed on account of a manslaughter, and set sail for Iceland, where he married a certain Thorhild, the daughter of Jorund and Thorbjorg the Ship-chested. But the same high temper and quarrelsome spirit which had compelled him to leave Norway got him into trouble also in his new home.
A strange shyness came over him, that weighted his feet and left him without a word to say when they met. But Helga greeted him cheerily. "Did you ever breathe finer air? I wish Thorhild would run out of gold thread every day in the week. Are you in a hurry?" "No," Alwin began hesitatingly, "I " She did not wait for the end.
It is my advice that you reconcile yourself to her at once." "It was in my mind," Helga said slowly, "it was in my mind that I could love her!" Shaking off Editha, she took a hesitating step forward. Thorhild had parted from Leif, and turned to welcome Sigurd. Helga took another step. Thorhild raised her head and looked at her.
"If I were not your sworn friend, I should enjoy wringing your neck," he said. "I met Helga at the gate yonder. She was going over to Glum Starkadsson's to get something for Thorhild, and also because she wished a walk over the hard snow." "Is it far from here? And in what direction?" "For what purpose do you wish to know that?" "I ask you in what direction it lies." "The Troll take you!"
I have just learned why it is that Thorhild no longer speaks to Eric, and why he is in a mood to smash things." "Why?" asked Alwin, impatiently; but he no longer struggled, for he knew it was useless in Rolf's grip. "Because last night Thorhild told Eric that she had become a Christian. Her bowerwoman told Helga, and when I met Helga " "Met her? Where? Is she in the women's-house?"
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