VANDRAD THE VIKING - A Norse Saga E-Book

J. Storer Clouston

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Long after King Estein had joined his fathers on the Little Holm beyond Hernersfiord, and Helgi, Earl of Askland, had become but a warlike memory, the skalds of Sogn still sang this tale of Vandrad the Viking. It contained much wonderful magic, and some astonishingly hard strokes, as they told it; but reading between their lines, the magic bears a strong resemblance to many spells cast even at this day, and as for the sword strokes, there was need for them to be hard in Norway then. For that was the age of the making of many kingdoms, and the North was beginning to do its share........TABLE OF CONTENTSCHAPTER I . THE WEST SEA SAILINGCHAPTER II. THE BAIRN-SLAYERSCHAPTER III. THE HOLY ISLECHAPTER IV. THE ISLAND SPELLCHAPTER V. ANDREAS THE HERMITCHAPTER VI. THE HALL OF LIOTCHAPTER VII. THE VERDICT OF THE SWORDCHAPTER VIII. IN THE CELL BY THE ROOSTCHAPTER IX. THE MESSAGE OF THE RUNESCHAPTER X. KING BUE'S FEASTCHAPTER XI. THE HOUSE IN THE FORESTCHAPTER XII. THE MAGICIANCHAPTER XIII. ARROW AND SHIELDCHAPTER XIV. THE MIDNIGHT GUESTCHAPTER XV. THE LAST OF THE LAWMANCHAPTER XVI. KING ESTEINCHAPTER XVII. THE END OF THE STORY 

Leseprobe

VANDRAD

THE

VIKING

or

The Feud and the Spell

a story by

J. STORER CLOUSTON

Republished byAbela Publishing, London[2017]

Vandrad the Viking

Typographical arrangement of this edition

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I . THE WEST SEA SAILING

CHAPTER II. THE BAIRN-SLAYERS

CHAPTER III. THE HOLY ISLE

CHAPTER IV. THE ISLAND SPELL

CHAPTER V. ANDREAS THE HERMIT

CHAPTER VI. THE HALL OF LIOT

CHAPTER VII. THE VERDICT OF THE SWORD

CHAPTER VIII. IN THE CELL BY THE ROOST

CHAPTER IX. THE MESSAGE OF THE RUNES

CHAPTER X. KING BUE'S FEAST

CHAPTER XI. THE HOUSE IN THE FOREST

CHAPTER XII. THE MAGICIAN

CHAPTER XIII. ARROW AND SHIELD

CHAPTER XIV. THE MIDNIGHT GUEST

CHAPTER XV. THE LAST OF THE LAWMAN

CHAPTER XVI. KING ESTEIN

CHAPTER XVII. THE END OF THE STORY

CHAPTER I

THE WEST SEA SAILING

Long after King Estein had joined his fathers on the little holm beyond Hernersfiord, and Helgi, Earl of Askland, had become but a warlike memory, the skalds of Sogn still sang this tale of Vandrad the Viking. It contained much wonderful magic, and some astonishingly hard strokes, as they told it; but reading between their lines, the magic bears a strong resemblance to many spells cast even at this day, and as for the sword strokes, there was need for them to be hard in Norway then. For that was the age of the making of many kingdoms, and the North was beginning to do its share.

One May morning, more than a thousand years ago, so the story runs, an old man came slowly along a woodland track that uncoiled itself from the mountain passes and snow-crowned inlands of Norway. Presently the trees grew thinner, and grass and wild flowers spread on either hand, and at last, just where the path dipped down to the water-side at Hernersfiord, the traveller stopped. For a while he remained there in the morning sunshine, watching the scene below, and now and then speaking out his thoughts absently in the rapt manner of a visionary.

Though his clothes were old and weather-stained, and bare of any ornament, his face and bearing were such as strike the mind at once and stay in the memory. He was tall and powerfully framed, and bore his years and the white volume of his beard in an altogether stately fashion; but his eyes were most indelible, pale blue and singularly cold in repose, very bright and keen and searching when his face was animated.