. A child's book of warriors . head, howling with anguish, and followed Einarashore. Hard by the haven was a green howe look-ing over the sea, and Vigi ran to the top of it, andlaid him low with tears running down his folk brought him food, but never again didhe eat or drink; and there they found him dead. So, in the splendour of the setting sun, the armedfigure of the king vanished from Norway. For manya winter the people talked of the swift Wendish skeidrowing hard into the shadows of the Septembertwilight, and foretold that Olaf would surely comeagain. The wild swans sang in the
. A child's book of warriors . head, howling with anguish, and followed Einarashore. Hard by the haven was a green howe look-ing over the sea, and Vigi ran to the top of it, andlaid him low with tears running down his folk brought him food, but never again didhe eat or drink; and there they found him dead. So, in the splendour of the setting sun, the armedfigure of the king vanished from Norway. For manya winter the people talked of the swift Wendish skeidrowing hard into the shadows of the Septembertwilight, and foretold that Olaf would surely comeagain. The wild swans sang in the summer night;angelica stalks were fragrant in the early spring; butnever more was the king seen in Norway. The folk lamented him, and they most who knewhim best, and long afterwards was remembered thesong which Halfred the Skald made of him. All over Norway, when Olaf was here, The high cliffs seemed laughing; but ever since thenThe sea-ways are joyless, the hill-sides are drear,And restless I roam, the forlornest of men. 286. The Jorsala Pilgrims b It was many a winter after the Svold sea-fight; andGaut and Runolf were pilgrims from Iceland inJorsala Land. They had drunk of the well atNazareth. They had seen the snows of the sea of Galilee they had sat among the flower-ing grasses, the pink flax and the tall daisies growingover the carved stones of Capernaum. They hadbathed in the sacred waters of Jordan. In the Holy City of Jorsala they had prayed at thetomb wherein the body of the Lord was laid, and hadbowed down before the wood of the cross on which Hedied. Upon the spot on which the Temple of KingSolomon had stood there stood now a glittering domewith curtains of brocade, and within it they beheldthe rock which is the oldest rock in all the in ancient summers did the threshers winnowthe sheaves of Araunah. Beneath that rock thereis a cave; and ever on the night before Easter morn 387 A Childs Book of Warriors may be heard the hollow voices of all t
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