. A child's book of warriors . Salten Fjord; allthat night they plunged and strained at their cables;and day broke in an angry glare of tempest. Then Bishop Sigurd robed himself in white alb andgold-wrought cope, and raising aloft the cross, he 262 At Strife with the Gods set it on the prow of Olaf s ship. On either side helit the sacred candles, and the flames burnt clear,with never a flicker in the still air; and still waterlay about the bows. The rowers ran to their benches;the bishop intoned a hymn; the great ship felt thepull of forty oars, and as it sprang forward, a lane ofglassy sea op
. A child's book of warriors . Salten Fjord; allthat night they plunged and strained at their cables;and day broke in an angry glare of tempest. Then Bishop Sigurd robed himself in white alb andgold-wrought cope, and raising aloft the cross, he 262 At Strife with the Gods set it on the prow of Olaf s ship. On either side helit the sacred candles, and the flames burnt clear,with never a flicker in the still air; and still waterlay about the bows. The rowers ran to their benches;the bishop intoned a hymn; the great ship felt thepull of forty oars, and as it sprang forward, a lane ofglassy sea opened through the midst of the on either side, beyond the sweep of the oar-blades, the waves tossed up their white caps and theflying spindrift hid the shape of the hills. Thus through the gales of Thor Olaf won toGods Isle, and Raud was surprised and taken. Butthough the sturdy pagan renounced his old creed— Never again shall I bend to him who has betrayedme! —he refused to believe in Christ, and died 263
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