. A child's book of warriors . ytnoth wasborne by the monks to the minster at Ely. Faracross marsh and mere floated their dirge-music asthey laid it to rest before the high altar in the choir. Above all men I have known, said the abbot, this lord was strong and gracious. Great-heartedhe was and glad-hearted, a true thegn of Christ,courteous and loyal to the humblest. Long shall Ibear in mind his last message to me, Tell my LordAbbot that I cannot dine without my men, becauseI cannot fight without them. Such an earl wecannot look to have again. But a coward fear of the sea-rovers fell upon King
. A child's book of warriors . ytnoth wasborne by the monks to the minster at Ely. Faracross marsh and mere floated their dirge-music asthey laid it to rest before the high altar in the choir. Above all men I have known, said the abbot, this lord was strong and gracious. Great-heartedhe was and glad-hearted, a true thegn of Christ,courteous and loyal to the humblest. Long shall Ibear in mind his last message to me, Tell my LordAbbot that I cannot dine without my men, becauseI cannot fight without them. Such an earl wecannot look to have again. But a coward fear of the sea-rovers fell upon KingEthelred and his councillors. They kissed the handthat smote them; they fed the marauders who pillagedthem; they bought a shameful peace. Ten thousandpounds of silver was weighed out from the treasurechests and taken down in waggons to the ships. When the kings had divided the spoil, Sweyn boreaway to Denmark, but Olaf, as you shall hear, spreadhis white sails striped with blue and green down thetrack of the westering sun. 224. Olaf in England Bitter cause had folk to remember those whitesails striped with blue and green, for Olaf cruisedalong Frankland, plundering town and village; anddoubling the red granite horns of Brittany, ran downthe rich sunny coast until the snow-capped moun-tains of Spain stretched east and west before him,like the outermost wall of the world. I have heard of these mountains, said Leif, sonof Eric the Red, whom he had with him on thatvoyage. Bear away to the south-west, and weshall come to the Long Sea, and the burning land ofthe Blackamoors, and Rome the Golden City of oldtime. Coming at last to Italy they saw the hills greenwith vines and grey with olives, and a fair white cityglittering on the shores of a blue bay. They droppedsails far out in the offing and planned to steal to landin the dark and capture the place at daybreak. 225 p A Childs Book of Warriors TKat night they feasted on a sea of stars with astarry heaven over them; but in the dark h
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