. The Phynodderree, and other legends of the Isle of Man . e door, thusdo I punish you my one-legged travelling companion, and prove the temperof this wondrous sword. Before the now affrighted Hiallus-nan-urd could reach the door againto make his escape, the king made one cut at him, and, striking on the topof his head, the sword went down through his body, severing it in two. No sooner had the divided hammerman fallen to the ground than thewhite-spotted raven pounced upon one half. Seizing the still quiveringheart, he tore it out, and flew off with it in the direction of the Isle of Man,croak
. The Phynodderree, and other legends of the Isle of Man . e door, thusdo I punish you my one-legged travelling companion, and prove the temperof this wondrous sword. Before the now affrighted Hiallus-nan-urd could reach the door againto make his escape, the king made one cut at him, and, striking on the topof his head, the sword went down through his body, severing it in two. No sooner had the divided hammerman fallen to the ground than thewhite-spotted raven pounced upon one half. Seizing the still quiveringheart, he tore it out, and flew off with it in the direction of the Isle of Man,croaking quite triumphantly as he passed out of the open window. The fair Emergaid had swooned directly she saw her father fall, andthus was spared the dreadful sight of the hammermans fate. To her the twice-saved monarch now turned his attention, and raisingher gently in his arms, he bore her from the smithy, gazing with admirationon her lovely face. As he did so he felt his own heart struck by as hotand sharp a pang as that by which he had slain her AAYG OLAVE THE SECOND. At first the wooing of King Olave Goddardson did not progress. Grieffor the loss of her father forbade her listening to the love of him who hadmade her an orphan. Still her first sight of him, when he proved howstalwart a knight he was by cleaving her fathers anvil, had more thanfavourably impressed her, and she could not but admire so gallant asuitor; so as he was as resolute in love as in other matters, he finally wonher consent and made the best amends he possibly could for depriving herof one protector in her father by becoming himself her protector and herhusband. Suffice to say that his frank and manly bearing won her heart, and sheconsented to share with him the royal honours and duties of his little islandkingdom. King Olave conducted his lovely bride with a large fleet in great state tothe Isle of Man, where he had her crowned queen; and though history issilent on the subject, we may naturally c
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