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The Wanderer’s Necklace

CHAPTER II
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Well, men of Agger, enter and rest you.

After you have eaten we will talk further of these matters." It was just then that, appearing between the trees on the road that ran to Fladstrand and to the sea, I saw a company mounted upon horses.

In front was a young woman, wrapped in a coat of furs, talking eagerly to a man who rode by her.

Behind, clad in armour, with a battle-axe girt about him, rode another man, big and fork-bearded, who stared about him gloomily, and behind him again ten or twelve thralls and seamen.
One glance was enough for me.

Then I sprang up, crying: "Iduna's self, and with her my brother Steinar, the lord Athalbrand and his folk.


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