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Angantyr left an only daughter, Hervor, who, when she grew up, dressed herself in man's attire, and took the name of Hervardar, and joined a party of Vikinger, or pirates. Knowing that Tirfing lay buried with her father, she determined to awaken the dead, and obtain the charmed blade.
If he had announced his intention of becoming Czar of all the Russias these boys would have taken it as a matter of course. They merely opened their eyes and said "Weel?" Yaspard had rather expected to surprise them, and was a little disconcerted by the way his startling intention was received. "I've told you heaps about Vikinger," he said; "you know just what I mean, eh?" "Weren't they pirates?"
"I shall take them with me on some of my Viking raids," Yaspard exclaimed. "Just as the Vikinger did, you know. They always carried a raven with them; and as for Loki he can be an imp, or a Valkyrur. It sounds quite fine, doesn't it?" Chatting gaily they reached the shore, and as soon as the boat touched, Thor and Loki flew off in stately flight to the house.
After this he joined a body of Vikinger, and became so distinguished that King Harold, for the aid he lent him, gave him his daughter Helga in marriage. But it was the destiny of Tirfing to commit crime, and Harold fell by the sword of his son-in-law. Heidreker was afterwards in Russia, and the son of the king was his foster-son.
The Harrisons burst out laughing at the ludicrous spectacle of four lads rubbing their eyes, scratching their heads, shaking themselves straight in their clothes, and looking as if there never had been half an idea in one of their minds. But Yaspard shouted in grandiloquent style "You, lads of Lunda there, listen! We are Vikinger in search of glory and spoil, and all the rest of it.
One would build a skeö, and the other would pull it down. These were lawless days, and men might do as they pleased." "Just like Vikinger," said Yaspard, who quite enjoyed the story. "Well?" "They never would speak to each other, even if they met at the church door, or at a neighbour's funeral. It was very sinful; and they would not let their children become acquainted.
He is as mad about Vikinger as you are, only it's in another way. I'll ask them to join our party. You would like to see Mr. Halsen again, wouldn't you?" "To be sure," Mr. Adiesen replied. "We'll fight our battle o'er again with our tongues this time. By all means let's have the Yarl and his boy on Friday." So things were settled; and in high good-humour the Lunda boys escorted Dr.
It had not required a great stretch of imagination to carry Yaspard Adiesen's thoughts from the scene before him to the olden days, when his native Isles were the haunts of Vikinger, whose ships were for ever winging their way over those waters bearing the spoils of many a stormy fight.
Don't they fight still, and in a worse way? for the Vikinger only laid on man for man, but now any nation who invents the most murderous machine for shooting can mow down armies of men miles off. As for the stealing what is half the trade of the world but a kind of civil picking of somebody's pocket a 'doing' of some one.
And, Yaspard, I think you are a little adrift about your Vikinging. It was only a section of the gallant Vikinger who made piracy their profession, or need its hateful sign. Why identify yourself with that lot? There are plenty of black flags flying all over the world, and not so many of the Red Cross, my lad.
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