. A child's book of warriors . could be more wonderful than those soldiers 13 A Childs Book of Warriors and their babel of tongues. Spaniards and Syrians,men from Athens and Carthage, Goths from theBaltic and Huns from the Danube, negroes fromNubia and Persians from the Euphrates, they seemedto have come from every country under the sun. The weather broke early in October, and we hadvery few stories until Christmas, when Sigfrid, ourIceland friend, came and brought three days ofdriving snow with him. He rigged up snow-shoesfor us, and in his honour we made the fire blaze
. A child's book of warriors . could be more wonderful than those soldiers 13 A Childs Book of Warriors and their babel of tongues. Spaniards and Syrians,men from Athens and Carthage, Goths from theBaltic and Huns from the Danube, negroes fromNubia and Persians from the Euphrates, they seemedto have come from every country under the sun. The weather broke early in October, and we hadvery few stories until Christmas, when Sigfrid, ourIceland friend, came and brought three days ofdriving snow with him. He rigged up snow-shoesfor us, and in his honour we made the fire blaze withold wood from the rose-bushes and loppings fromthe fruit trees. Then to the huge joy of Vigdis, whopretended that we were in Iceland, and that theNorthern Lights were dancing over the white wastes,Sigfrid told us the old Viking sagas. In the long evenings many of the stories got writtendown in remembrance of a good time, and I hopethey still keep some of the freshness of the gardenand the pleasantness of the winter
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