. A child's book of warriors . Olaf the VikinCT o After the slaying of Tryggva, Queen Astrid fledwith a small following; and Thorold, her foster-father, led her through the dark pine woods and therocky tracts of the fells to an island in a lonely lake,where she might safely lie hidden for a time. Thereher babe was born; and Thorold sprinkled him withwater in the old heathen fashion, and called him Olafafter his grandfather. And as soon as the danger ofpursuit appeared to have gone by, her little band ofdefenders returned quietly to their homes. All through the summer the fair young queenremain
. A child's book of warriors . Olaf the VikinCT o After the slaying of Tryggva, Queen Astrid fledwith a small following; and Thorold, her foster-father, led her through the dark pine woods and therocky tracts of the fells to an island in a lonely lake,where she might safely lie hidden for a time. Thereher babe was born; and Thorold sprinkled him withwater in the old heathen fashion, and called him Olafafter his grandfather. And as soon as the danger ofpursuit appeared to have gone by, her little band ofdefenders returned quietly to their homes. All through the summer the fair young queenremained on the island, nursing her little son, andhoping for happier fortunes. But as the red leavesbegan to fall, and the days to shorten and grow cold, It is time now, said Thorold, to get to yourfathers before the first snow. So they set out,Astrid and the babe, with two hand-maids, andThorold and his son Thorgils, a boy of six years; 205 A Childs Book of Warriors and travelling by starlight, and keeping away fromthe homesteads
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