Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . re notched and blunted. King; they do not cut. Olafstept down to his arm-thest ; delivered out new swords; and it was observedas he did it, blood ran trickling from his wrist; but none knew where the woundwas. Eric boarded a third time. Olaf, left with hardly more than one man,sprang overboard (one sees that red coat of his still glancing in the evening sun),and sank in the deep waters to his long rest. Rumor ran among his people that he still wa
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . re notched and blunted. King; they do not cut. Olafstept down to his arm-thest ; delivered out new swords; and it was observedas he did it, blood ran trickling from his wrist; but none knew where the woundwas. Eric boarded a third time. Olaf, left with hardly more than one man,sprang overboard (one sees that red coat of his still glancing in the evening sun),and sank in the deep waters to his long rest. Rumor ran among his people that he still was not dead; grounding on somemovement by the ships of that traitorous Sigwald, they fancied Olaf had divedbeneath the keels of his enemies, and got away with Sigwald, as Sigwald himselfevidently did. Much was hoped, supposed, spoken, says one old mourningSkald ; but the truth was, Olaf Tryggv^eson was never seen in Norseland he remains still a shining figure to us ; the wildly beautifullest man, inbody and in soul, that one has ever heard of in the North. 9k SOLDIERS AND SAILORS WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR By G. W. Prothero(1027-1087). Cw ILLIAM I., King of England, surnamed. -vthe Conqueror, was born in 1027 He was the son of Robert, Dukeof Normandy and Herleva, daughter ofFulbert, a tanner of Falaise. When hewas about seven years old his father, in-tending to go on pilgrimage and havingno legitimate sons, proposed him as hisheir. The great men of the duchy didhomage to the child, and a year later (1035)his fathers death left him to make good hisclaim. Anarchy was the natural result of aminority. Williams life was on more thanone occasion in danger, and several of hisguardians perished in his service. At theearliest possible age he received knighthoodfrom the hands of Henry I. of France, andspeedily began to show signs of his ca-pacity for government. In 1042 he insisted that the truce ofGod should be proclaimed and observedin Normandy. When he was about twen
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