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The priests, confused, replied there could be no doubt those unfortunate folk had gone to a place they would rather not mention. "Then," said the old warrior, stepping back, "I will not be baptized. I will go along with my own people." He had lived with them, fought beside them; they were his people. He would stand by them to the end of eternity. Most assuredly, a very shocking old Viking!
The restless and melancholy surge, the wide and desolate expanse of the North Sea exalted the imagination of the Viking as the desert the imagination of the Arab.
The ships carried off included eighteen ships-of-the-line, twenty-one frigates, six brigs and twenty-five gunboats, with a large amount of naval stores of all kinds. The act was no more warrantable than were the viking descents upon England centuries before. The latter were the acts of barbarian freebooters, and England, in an age of boasted civilization, put herself in the same position.
Besides, it is very possible that the 'Viking' is an old vessel, and a slow sailer, like most Newfoundland ships, especially when heavily laden. On the other hand, we have had a great deal of bad weather during the past few weeks, and very possibly the vessel did not sail at the date indicated in Ole's letter.
He had never been to Boden, and he anticipated having a good time during his captivity. He took for granted that his prison would be Noostigard, the home of his cousins so little did he understand the mind and method of a Viking boy! It is no part of my intention to tell you just now what those boys arranged. They hugely enjoyed laying plans, and we shall hear presently how these were carried out.
You must stay at the Palace while you are on this planet; I am giving orders for your reception, and I wish you to be formally presented to me this evening." He hesitated briefly. "Gram; that is one of the Sword-Worlds, is it not?" Another brief hesitation. "Are you really a Space Viking, Prince Trask?"
The Viking chiefs, undoubtedly, must have learned the comfort of cleanliness and the delights of good living, but if such habits were general, the nation has greatly degenerated since their time. We stayed on deck until midnight, notwithstanding the rain, to see the grand rock of Hornelen, a precipice 1200 feet high.
How long would that beacon burn which flamed now in such prodigal waste? Would not the very springs of it dry up? She looked at him, and she saw the Viking. But the Viking had fled from the world, and they they would be going into it. Could love prevail against its dangers and pitfalls and duties? Love was the word that rang out, as one calling through the garden, and her thoughts ran molten.
Everybody was frightened when a Viking ship hove in sight," said Lowrie, who was rather reflective for his age and station. "So they did; but it could not be helped. Besides, every one tried to do the same. And for the matter of that, don't people do the same now?
They had no idea what a Viking was like, but they thought it must be something between a giant and a knight, with all the good qualities of both. There never could have been a greater inducement to learn geography and history than this long-talked-of trip.
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