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Round the large fires the men grouped in great circles, with the ale-horns and flagons passing merrily from hand to hand; shouts of drink-hael and was-hael, bursts of gay laughter, snatches of old songs, old as the days of Athelstan, varying, where the Anglo-Danes lay, into the far more animated and kindling poetry of the Pirate North, still spoke of the heathen time when War was a joy, and Valhalla was the heaven.
"I take in thy words slowly," said the Kent man, shaking his head, "and after all, it matters little who is king, so he be a good one. Yes, I see now that the Earl was a just and generous man when he made the King send for the Atheling. Drink-hael! long life to them both!" "Was-hael," answered Godrith, draining his hippocras to Vebba's more potent ale.
Round the large fires the men grouped in great circles, with the ale-horns and flagons passing merrily from hand to hand; shouts of drink-hael and was-hael, bursts of gay laughter, snatches of old songs, old as the days of Athelstan, varying, where the Anglo-Danes lay, into the far more animated and kindling poetry of the Pirate North, still spoke of the heathen time when War was a joy, and Valhalla was the heaven.
"I take in thy words slowly," said the Kent man, shaking his head, "and after all, it matters little who is king, so he be a good one. Yes, I see now that the Earl was a just and generous man when he made the King send for the Atheling. Drink-hael! long life to them both!" "Was-hael," answered Godrith, draining his hippocras to Vebba's more potent ale.
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