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A Sea Queen’s Sailing

CHAPTER 16: In Old Norway
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We are vowed to poverty." Now, I did not know of what he spoke, but Gerda did in some way, which is beyond me.

Wherefore she was more than content.

It is my thought that all her days it will be a good and pleasant thing to mind the use that cup came to at the last, and where it is.
The treasure was all on board Hakon's ship, and we must go with the tide.

The Danes were unbound and sent to help Thoralf on the ship which had been theirs, with the offer of freedom if they worked well; and I will add that they gave no trouble, and took service with Hakon as free men afterward, having learnt the good of honesty.

The hermits saw us to the shore, and so we left them, and the ships hoisted sail to a fair breeze, and were away for Norway and what lay before Hakon when he came thither.


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