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"By the Hammer of Thor! Thorolf the Strong is well named!" But Ulf was still more pleased; and when all had gone away he stored in a safe place all the bits of the Star which had been broken off to tell the truth, when Thorolf ended little was left of it but bits. From that time on, Ulf spent all his spare time in the smithy.
ULF I think the gods do mock their worshippers. AGMAR The gods have never mocked us. We are above all pinnacles that we have ever gazed at in dreams. ULF I think that when Man is high then most of all are the gods wont to mock him. THIEF Master, I have been with those that see all and know all, I have been with the thieves, Master.
"Then in that case, Ulred, it were best you went as my man, for you would then have the entry of the houses where the king will stop and can aid us in keeping guard." "That will do well for me," Ulred replied. "Ulf had best journey back as he came. He might go by ship after the king has left here." "No, he shall travel with us.
This indeed seemed to be true; for Kettle lay with his arm over an oar, and his head hanging down in the water, like a dead man. Yet there was life in him, for his fingers moved. Ulf had witnessed all this, and was on the point of attempting to leap across to Harald's ship when Kettle fell.
As soon as Ulf saw him enter it he darted off at full speed, turned down another lane, and then, when he got beyond the houses, and on to the broken ground that lay between them and the river, ran until he was nearly facing the end of the street which he had seen the man enter, and then threw himself down.
"So much the more reason for taking our arms with us, in order that we may have the means of talking the King's pleasure," retorted Ulf with a frown; "but sit ye down at my right hand, Haldor, and Hilda will wait upon thee. Come, my men all let us fall to." It is scarcely necessary to say that this invitation was accepted with alacrity.
Among that treasure was the Iron Star. Not that they knew its story, but because they knew iron when they saw it, and what iron was good for. So that is how Ulf and the Star together first saw the sea shining in the sun as it lapped in and around the black ledges of a Norway fjord, as the inlets of that rocky land are called. But it was a weary journey thither.
Horlingdal, where Ulf and Haldor and their families dwelt was, like nearly all the vales on the west of Norway, hemmed in by steep mountains of great height, which were covered with dark pines and birch trees.
"I will first go to the port-reeve's office and find out the names of the ships that arrived just before the time that the meeting by the river took place. She may have come in early that day, or on the day before. They would surely send word at once to him that they had arrived." "You might learn something that way, Ulred, but we do not know that the meeting Ulf saw was their first."
But at the repetition, in a voice of thunder, of the royal mandate, some hundreds of the King's men surrounded them, and, notwithstanding their wondrous strength and skill, they were being gradually overpowered by numbers, when suddenly a tremendous shout was heard, and next moment Ulf with his fifty men in battle array rushed out of the forest.
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