I saw you fight, I saw you conquer, and my earnest prayers followed you.

Fight and conquer often again, as you have done this day, that the beams of your renown may shine over my far-distant country." And at a sign from Folko, she offered her tender lips for the new knight to kiss.

Thrilling all over, and full of a holy joy, Sintram arose in deep silence, and hot tears streamed down his softened countenance, whilst the shout and the trumpets of the assembled troops greeted the youth with stunning applause.

Old Rolf stood silently on one side, and as he looked in the mild beaming eyes of his foster-child, he calmly and piously returned thanks: "The strife at length hath found its end, Rich blessings now shall heaven send! The evil foe is slain!" Biorn and Jarl Eric had the while been talking together eagerly, but not unkindly.

The conqueror now led his vanquished enemy up the hill and presented him to the baron and Gabrielle, saying, "Instead of two enemies you now see two sworn allies; and I request you, my beloved guests and kinsfolk, to receive him graciously as one who henceforward belongs to us." "He was so always," added Eric, smiling; "I sought, indeed, revenge; but I have now had enough of defeats both by sea and land.