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The Danish History
Books I-IX

BOOK FIVE
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Their habitation is not fixed, and their dwellings are migratory; they pitch and settle wherever they have caught game.

Riding on curved boards (skees or snow-skates), they run over ridges thick with snow.

These men Arngrim attacked, in order to win renown, and he crushed them.

They fought with ill success; but, as they were scattering in flight, they cast three pebbles behind them, which they caused to appear to the eyes of the enemy like three mountains.

Arngrim's eyes were dazzled and deluded, and he called back his men from the pursuit of the enemy, fancying that he was checked by a barrier of mighty rocks.


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