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King Alfred’s Viking

CHAPTER V
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Harald Fairhair has the land that should have been mine.

I am but a sea king." Then he held out his hand, saying that there was much for which every Saxon should thank me, and I passed that by as well as I could, though I was pleased with the hearty grip he gave me.
"So long as Odda is satisfied it is enough," I said.

"If I have helped him a little, I have helped a man who is worth it." "Well," said the thane, "you seem to be pleased with one another.
Now I should like to see this ship of yours, of which he has so much to say." We went over her, and it was plain that this thane knew what he was talking about.

I wondered that the king had not set him in command instead of Odda, who frankly said what was true--that he was no sailor.

I supposed that this man, however, was not of high rank enough to lead so great a gathering of Saxons, and so I said nothing to him about it.
By and by we sat on the after deck with Harek, and I had ale brought to us, and we talked of ship craft of all sorts.


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