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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story Of Frithiof The Bold, by Anonymous
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+
+Title: The Story Of Frithiof The Bold
+       1875
+
+Author: Anonymous
+
+Translator: Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris
+
+Release Date: January 25, 2008 [EBook #24420]
+Last Updated: March 9, 2018
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: UTF-8
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF FRITHIOF THE BOLD ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Widger
+
+
+
+
+
+THE STORY OF FRITHIOF THE BOLD.
+
+Translated From The  Icelandic By Eirikr Magnusson And William Morris
+
+1875
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.     Of King Belt and Thorstein Vikingson and their Children.
+
+Thus beginneth the tale, telling how that King Beli ruled over
+Sogn-land; three children had he, whereof Helgi was his first son, and
+Halfdan his second, but Ingibiorg his daughter. Ingibiorg was fair of
+face and wise of mind, and she was ever accounted the foremost of the
+king's children.
+
+Now a certain strand went west of the firth, and a great stead was
+thereon, which was called Baldur's Meads; a Place of Peace was there,
+and a great temple, and round about it a great garth of pales: many
+gods were there, but amidst them all was Baldur held of most account. So
+jealous were the heathen men of this stead, that they would have no hurt
+done therein to man nor beast, nor might any man have dealings with a
+woman there.
+
+Sowstrand was the name of that stead whereas the king dwelt; but on
+the other side the firth was an abode named Foreness, where dwelt a man
+called Thorstein, the son of Viking; and his stead was over against the
+king's dwelling.
+
+Thorstein had a son by his wife called Frithiof: he was the tallest and
+strongest of men, and more furnished of all prowess than any other man,
+even from his youth up. Frithiof the Bold was he called, and so well
+beloved was he, that all prayed for good things for him.
+
+Now the king's children were but young when their mother died; but a
+goodman of Sogn, named Hilding, prayed to have the king's daughter to
+foster: so there was she reared well and needfully: and she was called
+Ingibiorg the Fair. Frithiof also was fostered of goodman Hilding,
+wherefore was he foster-brother to the king's daughter, and they two
+were peerless among children.
+
+Now King Beli's chattels began to ebb fast away from his hands, for he
+was grown old.
+
+Thorstein had rule over the third part of the realm, and in him lay the
+king's greatest strength.
+
+Every third year Thorstein feasted the king at exceeding great cost, and
+the king feasted Thorstein the two years between.
+
+Helgi, Beli's son, from his youth up turned much to blood-offering:
+neither were those brethren well-beloved.
+
+Thorstein had a ship called Ellidi, which pulled fifteen oars on either
+board; it ran up high stem and stern, and was strong-built like an
+ocean-going ship, and its bulwarks were clamped with iron.
+
+So strong was Frithiof that he pulled the two bow oars of Ellidi;
+but either oar was thirteen ells long, and two men pulled every oar
+otherwhere.
+
+Frithiof was deemed peerless amid the young men of that time, and the
+king's sons envied him, whereas he was more praised than they.
+
+Now King Beli fell sick; and when the sickness lay heavy on him he
+called his sons to him and said to them: “This sickness will bring me to
+mine end, therefore will I bid you this, that ye hold fast to those old
+friends that I have had; for meseems in all things ye fall short of that
+father and son, Thorstein and Frithiof, yea, both in good counsel and in
+hardihood. A mound ye shall raise over me.”
+
+So with that Beli died.
+
+Thereafter Thorstein fell sick; so he spake to Frithiof: “Kinsman,” says
+he, “I will crave this of thee, that thou bow thy will before the king's
+sons, for their dignity's sake; yet doth my heart speak goodly things to
+me concerning thy fortune. Now would I be laid in my mound over against
+King Beli's mound, down by the sea on this side the firth, whereas it
+may be easiest for us to cry out each to each of tidings drawing nigh.”
+
+A little after this Thorstein departed, and was laid in mound even as he
+had bidden; but Frithiof took the land and chattels after him. Biorn
+and Asmund were Frithiof s foster-brethren; they were big and strong men
+both.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.     Frithiof wooeth Ingibiorg of those Brethren.
+
+So Frithiof became the most famed of men, and the bravest in all things
+that may try a man.
+
+Biorn, his foster-brother, he held in most account of all, but Asmund
+served the twain of them.
+
+The ship Ellidi, he gat, the best of good things, of his father's
+heritage, and another possession therewith--a gold ring; no dearer was
+in Norway.
+
+So bounteous a man was Frithiof withal, that it was the talk of most,
+that he was a man of no less honour than those brethren, but it were
+for the name of king; and for this cause they held Frithiof in hate and
+enmity, and it was a heavy thing to them that he was called greater
+than they: furthermore they thought they could see that Ingibiorg, their
+sister, and Frithiof were of one mind together.
+
+It befell hereon that the kings had to go to a feast to Frithiof s house
+at Foreness; and there it happened according to wont that he gave to all
+men beyond that they were worthy of. Now Ingibiorg was there, and she
+and Frithiof talked long together; and the king's daughter said to
+him:--
+
+          “A goodly gold ring hast thou.”
+           “Yea, in good sooth,” said he.
+
+Thereafter went those brethren to their own home, and greater grew their
+enmity of Frithiof.
+
+A little after grew Frithiof heavy of mood, and Biorn, his
+foster-brother, asked him why he fared so.
+
+He said he had it in his mind to woo Ingibiorg. “For though I be named
+by a lesser name than those brethren, yet am I not fashioned lesser.”
+
+“Even so let us do then,” quoth Biorn. So Frithiof fared with certain
+men unto those brethren; and the kings were sitting on their father's
+mound when Frithiof greeted them well, and then set forth his wooing,
+and prayed for their sister Ingibiorg, the daughter of Beli.
+
+The kings said: “Not overwise is this thine asking, whereas thou wouldst
+have us give her to one who lacketh dignity; wherefore we gainsay thee
+this utterly.”
+
+Said Frithiof: “Then is mine errand soon sped; but in return never will
+I give help to you henceforward, nay, though ye need it ever so much.”
+
+They said they heeded it nought: so Frithiof went home, and was joyous
+once more.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.     Of King Ring and those Brethren.
+
+There was a king named Ring, who ruled over Ringrealm, which also was in
+Norway: a mighty folk-king he was, and a great man, but come by now unto
+his latter days.
+
+Now he spake to his men: “Lo, I have heard that the sons of King Beli
+have brought to nought their friendship with Frithiof, who is the
+noblest of men; wherefore will I send men to these kings, and bid them
+choose whether they will submit them to me and pay me tribute, or else
+that I bring war on them: and all things then shall lie ready to my hand
+to take, for they have neither might nor wisdom to withstand me; yet
+great fame were it to my old age to overcome them.”
+
+After that fared the messengers of King Ring, and found those brethren,
+Helgi and Halfdan, in Sogn, and spake to them thus: “King Ring sends
+bidding to you to send him tribute, or else will he war against your
+realm.”
+
+They answered and said that they would not learn in the days of their
+youth what they would be loth to know in their old age, even how to
+serve King Ring with shame. “Nay, now shall we draw together all the
+folk that we may.”
+
+Even so they did; but now, when they beheld their force that it was but
+little, they sent Hilding their fosterer to Frithiof to bid him come
+help them against King Ring. Now Frithiof sat at the knave-play when
+Hilding came thither, who spake thus: “Our kings send thee greeting,
+Frithiof, and would have thy help in battle against King Ring, who
+cometh against their realm with violence and wrong.”
+
+Frithiof answered him nought, but said to Biorn, with whom he was
+playing: “A bare place in thy board, foster-brother, and nowise mayst
+thou amend it; nay, for my part I shall beset thy red piece there, and
+wot whether it be safe.”
+
+Then Hilding spake again:
+
+“King Helgi bade me say thus much, Frithiof, that thou shouldst go on
+this journey with them, or else look for ill at their hands when they at
+the last come back.”
+
+“A double game, foster-brother,” said Biorn; “and two ways to meet thy
+play.”
+
+Frithiof said: “Thy play is to fall first on the knave, yet the double
+game is sure to be.”
+
+No other outcome of his errand had Hilding: he went back speedily to the
+kings, and told them Frithiof's answer.
+
+They asked Hilding what he made out of those words. He said:
+
+“Whereas he spake of the bare place he will have been thinking of the
+lack in this journey of yours; but when he said he would beset the red
+piece, that will mean Ingibiorg, your sister; so give ye all the heed ye
+may to her. But whereas I threatened him with ill from you, Biorn deemed
+the game a double one; but Frithiof said that the knave must be set on
+first, speaking thereby of King Ring.”
+
+So then the brethren arrayed them for departing; but, ere they went,
+they let bring Ingibioig and eight women with her to Baldur's Meads,
+saying that Frithiof would not be so mad rash as to go see her thither,
+since there was none who durst make riot there.
+
+Then fared those brethren south to Jadar, and met King Ring in
+Sogn-Sound.
+
+Now, herewith was King Ring most of all wroth that the brothers had said
+that they accounted it a shame to fight with a man so old that he might
+not get a-horseback unholpen.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.     Frithiof goes to Baldur's Meads.
+
+Straightway whenas the kings were gone away Frithiof took his raiment
+of state and set the goodly gold ring on his arm; then went the
+foster-brethren down to the sea and launched Ellidi. Then said Biorn:
+“Whither away, foster-brother?”
+
+“To Baldur's Meads,” said Frithiof, “to be glad with Ingibiorg.”,
+
+Biorn said: “A thing unmeet to do, to make the gods wroth with us.”
+
+“Well, it shall be risked this time,” said Frithiof; “and withal, more
+to me is Ingibiorg's grace than Baldur's grame.”
+
+Therewith they rowed over the firth, and went up to Baldur's Meads and
+to Ingibiorg's bower, and there she sat with eight maidens, and the new
+comers were eight also.
+
+But when they came there, lo, all the place was hung with cloth of pall
+and precious webs.
+
+Then Ingibiorg arose and said:
+
+“Why art thou so overbold, Frithiof, that thou art come here without the
+leave of my brethren to make the gods angry with thee?”
+
+Frithiof says: “Howsoever that may be, I hold thy love of more account
+than the gods' hate.”
+
+Ingibiorg answered: “Welcome art thou here, thou and thy men!”
+
+Then she made place for him to sit beside her, and drank to him in the
+best of wine; and thus they sat and were merry together.
+
+Then beheld Ingibiorg the goodly ring on his arm, and asked him if that
+precious thing were his own.
+
+Frithiof said Yea, and she praised the ring much. Then Frithiof said:
+
+“I will give thee the ring if thou wilt promise to give it to no one,
+but to send it to me when thou no longer shalt have will to keep it: and
+hereon shall we plight troth each to other.”
+
+So with this troth-plighting they exchanged rings.
+
+Frithiof was oft at Baldur's Meads a-night time, and every day between
+whiles would he go thither to be glad with Ingibiorg.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.     Those Brethren come Home again.
+
+Now tells the tale of those brethren, that they met King Ring, and he
+had more folk than they: then went men betwixt them, and sought to make
+peace, so that no battle should be: thereto King Ring assented on such
+terms that the brethren should submit them to him, and give him in
+marriage Ingibiorg their sister, with the third part of all their
+possessions.
+
+The kings said Yea thereto, for they saw that they had to do with
+overwhelming might: so the peace was fast bound by oaths, and the
+wedding was to be at Sogn whenas King Ring should go see his betrothed.
+
+So those brethren fare home with their folk, right ill content with
+things. But Frithiof, when he deemed that the brethren might be looked
+for home again, spake to the king's daughter:
+
+“Sweetly and well have ye done to us, neither has goodman Baldur been
+wroth with us; but now as soon as ye wot of the kings' coming home,
+spread the sheets of your beds abroad on the Hall of the Goddesses, for
+that is the highest of all the garth, and we may see it from our stead.”
+
+The king's daughter said: “Thou dost not after the like of any other:
+but certes, we welcome dear friends whenas ye come to us.”
+
+So Frithiof went home; and the next morning he went out early, and when
+he came in then he spake and sang:
+
+          “Now must I tell
+          To our good men
+          That over and done
+          Are our fair journeys;
+          No more a-shipboard
+          Shall we be going,
+          For there are the sheets
+          Spread out a-bleaching.”
+
+Then they went out, and saw that the Hall of the Goddesses was all
+thatched with white linen. Biorn spake and said: “Now are the kings come
+home, and but a little while have we to sit in peace, and good were it,
+meseems, to gather folk together.”
+
+So did they, and men came flocking thither.
+
+Now the brethren soon heard of the ways of Frithiof and Ingibiorg, and
+of the gathering of men. So King Helgi spake:
+
+“A wondrous thing how Baldur will bear what shame soever Frithiof and
+she will lay on him! Now will I send men to him, and wot what atonement
+he will offer us, or else will I drive him from the land, for our
+strength seemeth to me not enough that we should fight with him as now.”
+
+So Hilding, their fosterer, bare the king's errand to Frithiof and his
+friends, and spake in such wise: “This atonement the kings will have of
+thee, Frithiof, that thou go gather the tribute of the Orkneys, which
+has not been paid since Beli died, for they need money, whereas they are
+giving Ingibiorg their sister in marriage, and much of wealth with her.”
+
+Frithiof said: “This thing only somewhat urges us to peace, the good
+will of our kin departed; but no trustiness will those brethren show
+herein. But this condition I make, that our lands be in good peace while
+we are away.” So this was promised and all bound by oaths.
+
+Then Frithiof arrays him for departing, and is captain of men brave and
+of good help, eighteen in company.
+
+Now his men asked him if he would not go to King Helgi and make peace
+with him, and pray himself free from Baldur's wrath.
+
+But he answered: “Hereby I swear that I will never pray Helgi for
+peace.”
+
+Then he went aboard Ellidi, and they sailed out along the Sognnrth.
+
+But when Frithiof was gone from home, King Halfdan spake to Helgi his
+brother: “Better lordship and more had we if Frithiof had payment for
+his masterful deed: now therefore let us burn his stead, and bring on
+him and his men such a storm on the sea as shall make an end of them.”
+
+Helgi said it was a thing meet to be done.
+
+So then they burned up clean all the stead at Foreness and robbed it of
+all goods; and after that sent for two witch-wives, Heidi and Hamglom,
+and gave them money to raise against Frithiof and his men so mighty a
+storm that they should all be lost at sea. So they sped the witch-song,
+and went up on the witch-mount with spells and sorcery.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.     Frithiof Sails for the Orkneys.
+
+SO when Frithiof and his men were come out of the Sognfirth there fell
+on them great wind and storm, and an exceeding heavy sea: but the ship
+drave on swiftly, for sharp built she was, and the best to breast the
+sea.
+
+So now Frithiof sang:--
+
+          “Oft let I swim from Sogn
+          My tarred ship sooty-sided,
+          When maids sat o'er the mead-horn
+          Amidst of Baldur's Meadows;
+          Now while the storm is wailing
+          Farewell I bid you maidens,
+          Still shall ye love us, sweet ones,
+          Though Ellidi the sea fill.”
+
+Said Biorn: “Thou mightest well find other work to do than singing songs
+over the maids of Baldur's Meadows.”
+
+“Of such work shall I not speedily run dry, though,” said Frithiof.
+Then they bore up north to the sounds nigh those isles that are called
+Solundir, and therewith was the gale at its hardest.
+
+Then sang Frithiof:
+
+          “Now is the sea a-swelling,
+          And sweepeth the rack onward;
+          Spells of old days cast o'er us
+          Make ocean all unquiet;
+          No more shall we be striving
+          Mid storm with wash of billows,
+          But Solundir shall shelter
+          Our ship with ice-beat rock-walls.”
+
+So they lay to under the lee of the isles hight Solundir, and were
+minded to abide there; but straightway thereon the wind fell: then they
+turned away from under the lee of the islands, and now their voyage
+seemed hopeful to them, because the wind was fair awhile: but soon it
+began to freshen again.
+
+Then sang Frithiof:
+
+          “In days foredone
+          From Foreness strand
+          I rowed to meet
+          Maid Ingibiorg;
+          But now I sail
+          Through chilly storm
+          And wide away
+          My long-worm driveth.”
+
+And now when they were come far out into the main, once more the sea
+waxed wondrous troubled, and a storm arose with so great drift of snow,
+that none might see the stem from the stern; and they shipped seas, so
+that they must be ever a-baling. So Frithiof sang:
+
+          “The salt waves see we nought
+          As seaward drive we ever
+          Before the witch-wrought weather,
+          We well-famed kings'-defenders:
+          Here are we all a-standing,
+          With all Solundir hull-down,
+          Eighteen brave lads a-baling
+          Black Ellidi to bring home.”
+
+Said Biorn: “Needs must he who fareth far fall in with diverse hap.”
+
+“Yea, certes, foster-brother,” said Frithiof. And he sang withal:
+
+          “Helgi it is that helpeth
+          The white-head billows' waxing;
+          Cold time unlike the kissing
+          In the close of Baldut's Meadow!
+          So is the hate of Helgi
+          To that heart's love she giveth.
+          O would that here I held her,
+          Gift high above all giving!”
+
+“Maybe,” said Biorn, “she is looking higher than thou now art: what
+matter when all is said?”
+
+“Well,” says Frithiof, “now is the time to show ourselves to be men of
+avail, though blither tide it was at Baldur's Meadows.”
+
+So they turned to in manly wise, for there were the bravest of men come
+together in the best ship of the Northlands. But Frithiof sang a stave:
+
+          “So come in the West-sea,
+          Nought see I the billows,
+          The sea-water seemeth
+          As sweeping of wild-fire.
+          Topple the rollers,
+          Toss the hills swan-white,
+          Ellidi wallows
+          O'er steep of the wave-hills.”
+
+Then they shipped a huge sea, so that all stood a-baling. But Frithiof
+sang:
+
+          “With love-moved mouth the maiden
+          Mepledgeth though I founder.
+          Ah! bright sheets lay a-bleaching,
+          East there on brents the swan loves.”
+
+Biorn said: “Art thou of mind belike that the maids of Sogn will weep
+many tears over thee?”
+
+Said Frithiof: “Surely that was in my mind.”
+
+Therewith so great a sea broke over the bows, that the water came in
+like the in-falling of a river; but it availed them much that the ship
+was so good, and the crew aboard her so hardy.
+
+Now sang Biorn:
+
+          “No widow, methinks,
+          To thee or me drinks;
+          No ring-bearer fair
+          Biddeth draw near;
+          Salt are our eyne
+          Soaked in the brine;
+          Strong our arms are no more,
+          And our eyelids smart sore.”
+
+Quoth Asmund: “Small harm though your arms be tried somewhat, for no
+pity we had from you when we rubbed our eyes whenas ye must needs rise
+early a-mornings to go to Baldu's Meadows.”
+
+“Well,” said Frithiof, “why singest thou not, Asmund?”
+
+“Not I,” said Asmund; yet sang a ditty straightway:
+
+
+          “Sharp work about the sail was
+          When o'er the ship seas tumbled,
+          And there was I a-working
+          Within-board 'gainst eight balers;
+          Better it was to bower,
+          Bringing the women breakfast,
+          Than here to be 'mid billows
+          Black Ellidi a-baling.”
+
+“Thou accountest thy help of no less worth than it is?” said Frithiof,
+laughing therewith; “but sure it showeth the thrall's blood in thee that
+thou wouldst fain be awaiting at table.”
+
+Now it blew harder and harder yet, so that to those who were aboard
+liker to huge peaks and mountains than to waves seemed the sea-breakers
+that crashed on all sides against the ship.
+
+Then Frithiof sang:
+
+          “On bolster I sat.
+          In Baldur's Mead erst,
+          And all songs that I could
+          To the king's daughter sang;
+          Now on Ran's bed belike
+          Must I soon be a-lying,
+          And another shall be
+          By Ingibiorg's side.”
+
+Biorn said: “Great fear lieth ahead of us, foster-brother, and now dread
+hath crept into thy words, which is ill with such a good man as thou.”
+
+Says Frithiof: “Neither fear nor fainting is it, though I sing now of
+those our merry journeys; yet perchance more hath been said of them than
+need was: but most men would think death surer than life, if they were
+so bested as we be.”
+
+“Yet shall I answer thee somewhat,” said Biorn, and sang:
+
+          “Yet one gain have I gotten
+          Thou gatst not 'mid thy fortune,
+          For meet play did I make me
+          With Ingibiorgs eight maidens;
+          Red rings we laid together
+          Aright in Baldur's Meadow,
+          When far off was the warder
+          Of the wide land of Halfdan.”
+
+“Well,” said he, “we must be content with things as they are,
+foster-brother.”
+
+Therewith so great a sea smote them, that the bulwark was broken and
+both the sheets, and four men were washed overboard and all lost.
+
+Then sang Frithiof:
+
+          “Both sheets are bursten
+          Amid the great billows,
+          Four swains are sunk
+          In the fathomless sea?
+
+“Now, meseems,” said Frithiof, “it may well be that some of us will
+go to the house of Ran, nor shall we deem us well sped if we come not
+thither in glorious array; wherefore it seems good to me that each man
+of us here should have somewhat of gold on him.”
+
+Then he smote asunder the ring, Ingibiorg's gift, and shared it between
+all his men, and sang a stave withal:
+
+          “The red ring here I hew me
+          Once owned of Halfdan's father,
+          The wealthy lord of erewhile,
+          Or the sea waves undo us,
+          So on the guests shall gold be,
+          If we have need of guesting;
+          Meet so for mighty men-folk
+          Amid Ran's hall to hold them.”
+
+“Not all so sure is it that we come there,” said Biorn; “and yet it may
+well be so.”
+
+Now Frithiof and his folk found that the ship had great way on her, and
+they knew not what lay ahead, for all was mirk on either board, so that
+none might see the stem or stern from amidships; and therewith was there
+great drift of spray amid the furious wind, and frost, and snow, and
+deadly cold.
+
+Now Frithiof went up to the masthead, and when he came down he said to
+his fellows: “A sight exceeding wondrous have I seen, for a great whale
+went in a ring about the ship, and I misdoubt me that we come nigh to
+some land, and that he is keeping the shore against us; for certes
+King Helgi has dealt with us in no friendly wise, neither will this
+his messenger be friendly. Moreover I saw two women on the back of the
+whale, and they it is who will have brought this great storm on us
+with the worst of spells and witchcraft; but now we shall try which may
+prevail, my fortune or their devilry, so steer ye at your straightest,
+and I will smite these evil things with beams.”
+
+          Therewith he sang a stave:
+          “See I troll women
+          Twain on the billows,
+          Een they whom Helgi
+          Hither hath sent.
+          Ellidi now
+          Or ever her way stop
+          Shall smile the backs
+          Of these asunder.”
+
+So tells the tale that this wonder went with the good ship Ellidi, that
+she knew the speech of man.
+
+But Biorn said: “Now may we see the treason of those brethren against
+us.” Therewith he took the tiller, but Frithiof caught up a forked beam,
+and ran into the prow, and sang a stave:
+
+          “Ellidi, hail!
+          Leap high o'er the billows!
+          Break of the troll wives
+          Brow or teeth now!
+          Break cheek or jaw
+          Of the cursed woman,
+          One foot or twain
+          Of the ogress filthy.”
+
+Therewith he drave his fork at one of the skin-changers, and the beak of
+Ellidi smote the other on the back, and the backs of both were broken;
+but the whale took the deep, and gat him gone, and they never saw him
+after.
+
+Then the wind fell, but the ship lay waterlogged; so Frithiof called out
+to his men, and bade bale out the ship, but Biorn said:
+
+“No need to work now, verily!”
+
+“Be thou not afeard, foster-brother,” said Frithiof, “ever was it the
+wont of good men of old time to be helpful while they might, whatsoever
+should come after.” And therewith he sang a stave:
+
+          “No need, fairfellows,
+          To fear the death-day;
+          Rather be glad,
+          Good men of mine:
+          For if dreams wot aught
+          All nights they say
+          I yet shall have
+          My Ingibiorg.”
+
+Then they baled out the ship; and they were now come nigh unto land; but
+there was yet a flaw of wind in their teeth. So then did Frithiof take
+the two bow oars again, and rowed full mightily. Therewith the weather
+brightened, and they saw that they were come out to Effia Sound, and so
+there they made land.
+
+The crew were exceeding weary; but so stout a man was Frithiof that he
+bore eight men a-land over the foreshore, but Biorn bore two, and Asmund
+one. Then sang Frithiof:
+
+          “Fast bare I up
+          To the fire-lit house
+          My men all dazed
+          With the drift of the storm;
+          And the sail moreover
+          To the sand I carried;
+          With the might of the sea
+          Is there no more to do.”
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.     Frithiof at the Orkneys.
+
+Now Earl Angantyr was at Effia whenas Frithiof and his folk came a-land
+there. But his way it was, when he was sitting at the drink, that one
+of his men should sit at the watch-window, looking weatherward from the
+drinking hall, and keep watch there. From a great horn drank he ever:
+and still as one was emptied another was filled for him. And he who held
+the watch when Frithiof came a-land was called Hallward; and now he saw
+where Frithiof and his men went, and sang a stave:
+
+          “Men see I a-baling
+          Amid the storm's might;
+          Six bale on Ellidi
+          Seven are a-rowing;
+          Like is he in the stem,
+          Straining hard at the oars,
+          To Frithiof the bold,
+          The brisk in the battle.”
+
+So when he had drunk out the horn, he cast it in through the window, and
+spake to the woman who gave him drink:
+
+          “Take up from the floor,
+          O fair-going woman,
+          The horn cast adown
+          Drunk out to the end!
+          I behold men at sea
+          Who, storm-beaten, shall need
+          Help at our hands
+          Ere the haven they make.”
+
+Now the Earl heard what Hallward sang; so he asked for tidings, and
+Hallward said: “Men are come a-land here, much forewearied, yet brave
+lads belike: but one of them is so hardy that he beareth the others.
+ashore.”
+
+Then said the Earl, “Go ye, and meet them, and welcome them in seemly
+wise; if this be Frithiof, the son of Hersir Thorstein, my friend, he is
+a man famed far and wide for all prowess.”
+
+Then there took up the word a man named Atli, a great viking, and he
+spake: “Now shall that be proven which is told of, that Frithiof hath
+sworn never to be first in the craving of peace.”
+
+There were ten men in company with him, all evil and outrageous, who
+often wrought berserksgang.
+
+So when they met Frithiof they took to their weapons.
+
+But Atli said:
+
+“Good to turn hither, Frithiof! Clutching ernes should claw; and we no
+less, Frithiof! Yea, and now may'st thou hold to thy word, and not crave
+first for peace.”
+
+So Frithiof turned to meet them, and sang a stave:
+
+          “Nay, nay, in nought
+          Now shall ye cow us.
+          Blenching hearts
+          Isle-abiders!
+          Alone with you ten
+          The fight will I try,
+          Rather than pray
+          For peace at your hands.”
+
+Then came Hallward thereto, and spake: “The Earl wills that ye all be
+made welcome here: neither shall any set on you.”
+
+Frithiof said he would take that with a good heart; howsoever he was
+ready for either peace or war.
+
+So thereon they went to the Earl, and he made Frithiof and all his men
+right welcome, and they abode with him, in great honour holden, through
+the wintertide; and oft would the Earl ask of their voyage: so Biorn
+sang:
+
+          “There baled we, wight fellows,
+          Washed over and over
+          On both boards
+          By billows;
+          For ten days we baled there,
+          And eight thereunto.”
+
+The Earl said: “Well nigh did the king undo you; it is ill seen of
+such-like kings as are meet for nought but to overcome men by wizardry.
+But now I wot,” says Angantyr, “of thine errand hither, Frithiof, that
+thou art sent after the scat: whereto I give thee a speedy answer, that
+never shall King Helgi get scat of me, but to thee will I give money,
+even as much as thou wilt; and thou mayest call it scat if thou hast a
+mind to, or whatso else thou wilt.”
+
+So Frithiof said that he would take the money.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.     King Ring weddeth Ingibiorg.
+
+Now shall it be told of what came to pass in Norway the while Frithiof
+was away: for those brethren let burn up all the stead at Foreness.
+Moreover, while the weird sisters were at their spells they tumbled down
+from off their high witch-mount, and brake both their backs.
+
+That autumn came King Ring north to Sogn to his wedding, and there at a
+noble feast drank his bridal with Ingibiorg.
+
+“Whence came that goodly ring which thou hast on thine arm?” said King
+Ring to Ingibiorg.
+
+She said her father had owned it, but he answered and said:
+
+“Nay, for Frithiof s gift it is: so take it off thine arm straightway;
+for no gold shalt thou lack whenas thou comest to Elfhome.”
+
+So she gave the ring to King Helgi's wife, and bade her give it to
+Frithiof when he came back.
+
+Then King Ring wended home with his wife, and loved her with exceeding
+great love.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.     Frithiof brings the Tribute to the Kings.
+
+The spring after these things Frithiof departed from the Orkneys and
+Earl Angantyr in all good liking; and Hallward went with Frithiof.
+
+But when they came to Norway they heard tell of the burning of
+Frithiof's stead.
+
+So when he was gotten to Foreness, Frithiof said: “Black is my house
+waxen now; no friends have been at work here.” And he sang withal:
+
+          “Frank and free,
+          With my father dead,
+          In Foreness old
+          We drank aforetime.
+          Now my abode
+          Behold I burned;
+          For many ill deeds
+          The kings must I pay.”
+
+Then he sought rede of his men what was to be done; but they bade him
+look to it: then he said that the scat must first be paid out of hand.
+So they rowed over the Firth to Sowstrand; and there they heard that the
+kings were gone to Baldur's Meads to sacrifice to the gods; so Frithiof
+and Biorn went up thither, and bade Hallward and Asmund break up
+meanwhile all ships, both great and small, that were anigh; and they did
+so. Then went Frithiof and his fellow to the door at Baldur's Meads, and
+Frithiof would go in. Biorn bade him fare warily, since he must needs go
+in alone; but Frithiof charged him to abide without, and keep watch; and
+he sang a stave:
+
+          “All alone go I
+          Unto the stead;
+          No folk I need
+          For the finding of kings;
+          But cast ye the fire
+          O'er the kings' dwellingly
+          If I come not again
+          In the cool of the even.”
+
+“Ah,” said Biorn, “a goodly singing!”
+
+Then went Frithiof in, and saw but few folk in the Hall of the
+Goddesses; there were the kings at their blood-offering, sitting
+a-drinking; a fire was there on the floor, and the wives of the kings
+sat thereby, a-warming the gods, while others anointed them, and wiped
+them with napkins.
+
+So Frithiof went up to King Helgi and said: “Have here thy scat!”
+
+And therewith he heaved up the purse wherein was the silver, and drave
+it on to the face of the king; whereby were two of his teeth knocked
+out, and he fell down stunned in his high seat; but Halfdan got hold of
+him, so that he fell not into the fire. Then sang Frithiof:
+
+          “Have here thy scat,
+          High lord of the warriors!
+          Heed that and thy teeth,
+          Lest all tumble about thee!
+          Lo the silver abideth
+          At the bight of this bag here,
+          That Biorn and I
+          Betwixt us have borne thee.”
+
+Now there were but few folk in the chamber, because the drinking was
+in another place; so Frithiof went out straightway along the floor, and
+beheld therewith that goodly ring of his on the arm of Helgi's wife as
+she warmed Baldur at the fire; so he took hold of the ring, but it was
+fast to her arm, and he dragged her by it over the pavement toward the
+door, and Baldur fell from her into the fire; then Halfdan's wife caught
+hastily at Baldur, whereby the god that she was warming fell likewise
+into the fire, and the fire caught both the gods, for they had been
+anointed, and ran up thence into the roof, so that the house was all
+ablaze: but Frithiof got the ring to him ere he came out. So then Biorn
+asked him what had come of his going in there; but Frithiof held up the
+ring and sang a stave:
+
+          “The heavy purse smote Helgi
+          Hard 'midst his scoundrel's visage:
+          Lowly bowed Halfdan's brother,
+          Fell bundling 'mid the high seat;
+          There Baldur fell a-burning.
+          But first my bright ring gat I.
+          Fast from the roaring fire
+          I dragged the bent crone forward.”
+
+Men say that Frithiof cast a firebrand up on to the roof, so that the
+hall was all ablaze, and therewith sang a stave:
+
+          “Down stride we toward the sea-strand,
+          And strong deeds set a-going,
+          For now the blue flame bickers
+          Amidst of Baldur's Meadow.”
+
+And therewith they went down to the sea.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.     Frithiof made an Outlaw.
+
+But as soon as King Helgi had come to himself he bade follow after
+Frithiof speedily, and slay them all, him and his fellows: “A man of
+forfeit life, who spareth no Place of Peace!”
+
+So they blew the gathering for the kings' men, and when they came out to
+the hall they saw that it was afire; so King Halfdan went thereto with
+some of the folk, but King Helgi followed after Frithiof and his men,
+who were by then gotten a-shipboard and were lying on their oars.
+
+Now King Helgi and his men find that all the ships are scuttled, and
+they have to turn back to shore, and have lost some men: then waxed King
+Helgi so wroth that he grew mad, and he bent his bow, and laid an arrow
+on the string, and drew at Frithiof so mightily that the bow brake
+asunder in the midst.
+
+But when Frithiof saw that, then he gat him to the two bow oars of
+Ellidi, and laid so hard on them that they both brake, and with that he
+sang a stave:
+
+          “Young Ingibiorg
+          Kissed I aforetime,
+          Kissed Beli's daughter
+          In Baldur's Meadow.
+          So shall the oars
+          Of Ellidi
+          Break both together
+          As Helgi's bow breaks.”
+
+Then the land-wind ran down the firth and they hoisted sail and sailed;
+but Frithiof bade them look to it that they might have no long abiding
+there. And so withal they sailed out of the Sognfirth, and Frithiof
+sang:
+
+          “Sail we away from Sogn,
+          E'en as we sailed aforetime,
+          When flared the fire all over
+          The house that was my fathers'.
+          Now is the bale a-burning
+          Amidst of Baldur's Meadow:
+          But wend I as a wild-wolf,
+          Well wot I they have sworn it.”
+
+“What shall we turn to now, foster-brother?” said Biorn.
+
+“I may not abide here in Norway,” said Frithiof: “I will learn the ways
+of warriors, and sail a-warring.”
+
+So they searched the isles and out-skerries the summer long, and
+gathered thereby riches and renown; but in autumn-tide they made for
+the Orkneys, and Angantyr gave them good welcome, and they abode there
+through the winter-tide.
+
+But when Frithiof was gone from Norway the kings held a Thing, whereat
+was Frithiof made an outlaw throughout their realm: they took his lands
+to them, moreover, and King Halfdan took up his abode at Foreness, and
+built up again all Baldur's Meadow, though it was long ere the fire
+was slaked there. This misliked King Helgi most, that the gods were all
+burned up, and great was the cost or ever Baldur's Meadow was built anew
+fully equal to its first estate.
+
+So King Helgi abode still at Sowstrand.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.     Frithiof fareth to see King Ring and Ingibiorg.
+
+Frithiof waxed ever in riches and renown whithersoever he went: evil men
+he slew, and grimly strong-thieves, but husbandmen and chapmen he let
+abide in peace; and now was he called anew Frithiof the Bold; he had
+gotten to him by now a great company well arrayed, and was become
+exceeding wealthy of chattels.
+
+But when Frithiof had been three winters a-warring he sailed west, and
+made the Wick; then he said that he would go a-land: “But ye shall fare
+a-warring without me this winter; for I begin to weary of warfare, and
+would fain go to the Uplands, and get speech of King Ring: but hither
+shall ye come to meet me in the summer, and I will be here the first day
+of summer.”
+
+Biorn said: “This counsel is naught wise, though thou must needs rule;
+rather would I that we fare north to Sogn, and slay both those kings,
+Helgi and Halfdan.”
+
+“It is all naught,” said Frithiof; “I must needs go see King Ring and
+Ingibiorg.”
+
+Says Biorn: “Loth am I hereto that thou shouldst risk thyself alone in
+his hands; for this Ring is a wise man and of great kin, though he be
+somewhat old.”
+
+But Frithiof said he would have his own way: “And thou, Biorn, shalt be
+captain of our company meanwhile.”
+
+So they did as he bade, and Frithiof fared to the Uplands in the autumn,
+for he desired sore to look upon the love of King Ring and Ingibiorg.
+But or ever he came there he did on him, over his clothes, a great cloak
+all shaggy; two staves he had in his hand, and a mask over his face, and
+he made as if he were exceeding old.
+
+So he met certain herdsmen, and, going heavily, he asked them: “Whence
+are ye?” They answered and said: “We are of Streitaland, whereas the
+king dwelleth.”
+
+Quoth the carle: “Is King Ring a mighty king, then?”
+
+They answered: “Thou lookest to us old enough to have cunning to know
+what manner of man is King Ring in all wise.”
+
+The carle said that he had heeded salt-boiling more than the ways of
+kings; and therewith he goes up to the king's house.
+
+So when the day was well worn he came into the hall, blinking about as a
+dotard, and took an outward place, pulling his hood over him to hide his
+visage.
+
+Then spake King Ring to Ingibiorg: “There is come into the hall a man
+far bigger than other men.”
+
+The queen answered: “That is no such great tidings here.”
+
+But the king spake to a serving-man who stood before the board, and
+said: “Go thou, and ask yon cowled man who he is, whence he cometh, and
+of what kin he is.”
+
+So the lad ran down the hall to the new-comer and said: “What art thou
+called, thou man? Where wert thou last night? Of what kin art thou?”
+
+Said the cowled man: “Quick come thy questions, good fellow! but hast
+thou skill to understand if I shall tell thee hereof?”
+
+“Yea, certes,” said the lad.
+
+“Well,” said the cowl-bearer, “Thief is my name, with Wolf was I last
+night, and in Grief-ham was I reared.”
+
+Then ran the lad back to the king, and told him the answer of the
+new-comer.
+
+“Well told, lad,” said the king; “but for that land of Grief-ham, I know
+it well: it may well be that the man is of no light heart, and yet a
+wise man shall he be, and of great worth I account him.”
+
+Said the queen: “A marvellous fashion of thine, that thou must needs
+talk so freely with every carle that cometh hither! Yea, what is the
+worth of him, then?”
+
+“That wottest thou no clearer than I,” said the king; “but I see that he
+thinketh more than he talketh, and is peering all about him.”
+
+Therewith the king sent a man after him, and so the cowl-bearer went up
+before the king, going somewhat bent, and greeted him in a low voice.
+Then said the king: “What art thou called, thou big man?”
+
+And the cowl-bearer answered and sang:
+
+          “Peace-thief they called me
+          On the prow with the Vikings;
+          But War-thief whenas
+          I set widows a-weeping;
+          Spear-thief when I
+          Sent forth the barbed shafts;
+          Battle-thief when I
+          Burst forth on the king;
+          Hel-thief when I
+          Tossed up the small babies:
+          Isle-thief when I
+          In the outer isles harried;
+          Slaws-thief when I
+          Sat aloft over men:
+          Yet since have I drifted
+          With salt-boiling carls,
+          Needy of help
+          'Ere hither I came.”
+
+Said the king: “Thou hast gotten thy name of Thief from many a matter,
+then; but where wert thou last night, and what is thy home?”
+
+The cowl-bearer said: “In Grief-ham I grew up; but heart drave me
+hither, and home have I nowhere.”
+
+The king said: “Maybe indeed that thou hast been nourished in Grief-ham
+a certain while; yet also maybe that thou wert born in a place of peace.
+But in the wild-wood must thou have lain last night, for no goodman
+dwelleth anigh named Wolf; but whereas thou sayest thou hast no home,
+so is it, that thou belike deemest thy home nought, because of thy heart
+that drave thee hither.”
+
+Then spake Ingibiorg: “Go, Thief, get thee to some other harbour, or in
+to the guest-hall.”
+
+“Nay,” said the king, “I am old enow to know how to marshal guests; so
+do off thy cowl, new-comer, and sit down on my other hand.”
+
+“Yea, old, and over old,” said the queen, “when thou settest
+staff-carles by thy side.”
+
+“Nay, lord, it beseemeth not,” said Thief; “better it were as the
+queen sayeth. I have been more used to boiling salt than sitting beside
+lords.”
+
+“Do thou my will,” said the king, “for I will rule this time.”
+
+So Thief cast his cowl from him, and was clad thereunder in a dark blue
+kirtle; on his arm, moreover, was the goodly gold ring, and a thick
+silver belt was round about him, with a great purse on it, and therein
+silver pennies glittering; a sword was girt to his side, and he had a
+great fur hood on his head, for his eyes were bleared, and his face all
+wrinkled.
+
+“Ah! now we fare better, say I,” quoth the king; “but do thou, queen,
+give him a goodly mantle, well shapen for him.”
+
+“Thou shalt rule, my lord,” said the queen; “but in small account do I
+hold this Thief of thine.”
+
+So then he gat a good mantle over him, and sat down in the high-seat
+beside the king.
+
+The queen waxed red as blood when she saw the goodly ring, yet would she
+give him never a word; but the king was exceeding blithe with him and
+said: “A goodly ring hast thou on thine arm there; thou must have boiled
+salt long enough to get it.”
+
+Says he, “That is all the heritage of my father.”
+
+“Ah!” says the king, “maybe thou hast more than that; well, few
+salt-boiling carles are thy peers, I deem, unless eld is deep in mine
+eyes now.”
+
+So Thief was there through the winter amid good entertainment, and well
+accounted of by all men; he was bounteous of his wealth, and joyous with
+all men: the queen held but little converse with him; but the king and
+he were ever blithe together.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.     Frithiof saves the King and Queen on the Ice.
+
+The tale tells that on a time King Ring and the queen, and a great
+company, would go to a feast. So the king spake to Thief: “Wilt thou
+fare with us, or abide at home?”
+
+He said he had liefer go; and the king said: “Then am I the more
+content.”
+
+So they went on their ways, and had to cross a certain frozen water.
+Then said Thief: “I deem this ice untrustworthy; meseemeth ye fare
+unwarily.”
+
+Quoth the king: “It is often shown how heedful in thine heart thou wilt
+be to us.”
+
+So a little after the ice broke in beneath them, and Thief ran thereto,
+and dragged the wain to him, with all that was therein; and the king and
+the queen both sat in the same: so Thief drew it all up on to the ice,
+with the horses that were yoked to the wain.
+
+Then spake King Ring: “Right well drawn, Thief! Frithiof the Bold
+himself would have drawn no stronger had he been here; doughty followers
+are such as thou!”
+
+So they came to the feast, and there is nought to tell thereof, and the
+king went back again with seemly gifts.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII.     The King sleeps before Frithiof.
+
+Now weareth away the mid-winter, and when spring cometh, the weather
+groweth fair, the wood bloometh, the grass groweth, and ships may glide
+betwixt land and land. So on a day the king says to his folk: “I will
+that ye come with us for our disport out into the woods, that we may
+look upon the fairness of the earth.”
+
+So did they, and went flock-meal with the king into the woods; but so it
+befell, that the king and Frithiof were gotten alone together afar from
+other men, and the king said he was heavy, and would fain sleep. Then
+said Thief: “Get thee home, then, lord, for it better beseemeth men of
+high estate to lie at home than abroad.”
+
+“Nay,” said the king, “so will I not do.” And he laid him down
+therewith, and slept fast, snoring loud.
+
+Thief sat close by him, and presently drew his sword from his sheath and
+cast it far away from him.
+
+A little while after the king woke up, and said: “Was it not so,
+Frithiof, that a many things came into thy mind e'en now? But well hast
+thou dealt with them, and great honour shalt thou have of me. Lo, now, I
+knew thee straightway that first evening thou earnest into our hall: now
+nowise speedily shalt thou depart from us; and somewhat great abideth
+thee.”
+
+Said Frithiof: “Lord king, thou hast done to me well, and in friendly
+wise; but yet must I get me gone soon, because my company cometh
+speedily to meet me, as I have given them charge to do.”
+
+So then they rode home from the wood, and the king's folk came flocking
+to him, and home they fared to the hall and drank joyously; and it was
+made known to all folk that Frithiof the Bold had been abiding there
+through the winter-tide.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV.     King Ring's Gift to Frithiof.
+
+Early of a morning-tide one smote on the door of that hall, wherein
+slept the king and queen, and many others: then the king asked who it
+was that called at the hall door; and so he who was without said: “Here
+am I, Frithiof; and I am arrayed for my departure.”
+
+Then was the door opened, and Frithiof came in, and sang a stave:
+
+          “Have great thanks for the guesting
+          Thou gavest with all bounty;
+          Dight fully for wayfaring
+          Is the feeder of the eagle;
+          But, Ingidiorg, I mind thee
+          While yet on earth we tarry;
+          Live gloriously! I give thee
+          This gift for many kisses.”
+
+And therewith he cast the goodly ring towards Ingibiorg, and bade her
+take it.
+
+The king smiled at this stave of his, and said: “Yea, forsooth, she hath
+more thanks for thy winter quarters than I; yet hath she not been more
+friendly to thee than I.”
+
+Then sent the king his serving-folk to fetch victuals and drink, and
+saith that they must eat and drink before Frithiof departed. “So arise,
+queen, and be joyful!” But she said she was loth to fall a-feasting so
+early.
+
+“Nay, we will eat all together,” said King Ring; and they did so.
+
+But when they had drank a while King Ring spake: “I would that thou
+abide here, Frithiof; for my sons are but children and I am old, and
+unmeet for the warding of my realm, if any should bring war against it.”
+ Frithiof said: “Speedily must I be gone, lord.” And he sang:
+
+          “Oh, live, King Ring,
+          Both long and hale!
+          The highest king
+          Neath heaven's skirt!
+          Ward well, O king,
+          Thy wife and land,
+          For Ingibiorg now
+          Never more shall I meet.”
+
+Then quoth King Ring:
+
+          “Fare not away,
+          O Frithiof, thus,
+          With downcast heart,
+          O dearest of chieftains!
+          For now will I give thee
+          For all thy good gifts,
+          Far better things
+          Than thou wottest thyself.”
+
+And again he sang:
+
+          “To Frithiof the famous
+          My fair wife I give,
+          And all things therewith
+          That are unto me.”
+
+Then Frithiof took up the word and sang:
+
+          “Nay, how from thine hands
+          These gifts may I have,
+          But if thou hast fared
+          By the last way of fate.”
+
+The king said: “I would not give thee this, but that I deem it will soon
+be so, for I sicken now. But of all men I would that thou shouldst have
+the joy of this; for thou art the crown of all Norway. The name of king
+will I give thee also; and all this, because Ingibiorg's brethren would
+begrudge thee any honour; and would be slower in getting thee a wife
+than I am.”
+
+Said Frithiof: “Have all thanks, lord, for thy goodwill beyond that I
+looked for! but I will have no higher dignity than to be called earl.”
+
+Then King Ring gave Frithiof rule over all his realm in due wise, and
+the name of earl therewith; and Frithiof was to rule it until such time
+as the sons of King Ring were of age to rule their own realm. So King
+Ring lay sick a little while, and then died; and great mourning was
+made for him; then was there a mound cast over him, and much wealth laid
+therein, according to his bidding.
+
+Thereafter Frithiof made a noble feast, whereunto his folk came; and
+thereat was drunken at one and the same time the heritage feast after
+King Ring, and the bridal of Frithiof and Ingibiorg.
+
+After these things Frithiof abode in his realm, and was deemed therein a
+most noble man; he and Ingibiorg had many children.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV.     Frithiof King in Sogn.
+
+Now those kings of Sogn, the brethren of Ingibiorg, heard these tidings,
+how that Frithiof had gotten a king's rule in Ringrealm, and had wedded
+Ingibiorg their sister. Then says Helgi to Halfdan, his brother, that
+unheard of it was, and a deed over-bold, that a mere hersir's son should
+have her to wife: and so thereat they gather together a mighty army, and
+go their ways therewith to Ringrealm, with the mind to slay Frithiof,
+and lay all his realm under them.
+
+But when Frithiof was ware of this, he gathered folk, and spake to the
+queen moreover: “New war is come upon our realm; and now, in whatso wise
+the dealings go, fain am I that thy ways to me grow no colder.”
+
+She said: “In such wise have matters gone that I must needs let thee be
+the highest.”
+
+Now was Biorn come from the east to help Frithiof; so they fared to the
+fight, and it befell, as ever erst, that Frithiof was the foremost in
+the peril: King Helgi and he came to handy-blows, and there he slew King
+Helgi.
+
+Then bade Frithiof raise up the Shield of Peace, and the battle was
+stayed; and therewith he cried to King Halfdan: “Two choices are in
+thine hands now, either that thou give up all to my will, or else
+gettest thou thy bane like thy brother; for now may men see that mine is
+the better part.”
+
+So Halfdan chose to lay himself and his realm under Frithiof's sway;
+and so now Frithiof became ruler over Sogn-folk, and Halfdan was to be
+Hersir in Sogn and pay Frithiof tribute, while Frithiof ruled Ringrealm.
+So Frithiof had the name of King of Sogn-folk from the time that he gave
+up Ringrealm to the sons of King Ring, and thereafter he won Hordaland
+also. He and Ingibiorg had two sons, called Gunnthiof and Hunthiof, men
+of might, both of them.
+
+
+AND SO HERE ENDETH THE STORY OF FRITHIOF THE BOLD.
+
+
+
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+Title: The Story Of Frithiof The Bold
+       1875
+
+Author: Anonymous
+
+Translator: Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris
+
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+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <h1>
+      THE STORY OF FRITHIOF THE BOLD.
+    </h1>
+    <h3>
+      Translated From The Icelandic <br /> By Eirikr Magnusson And William Morris
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      1875
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <big><b>CONTENTS</b></big>
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        <br />
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0001"> CHAPTER I. Of King Belt and Thorstein Vikingson
+        and their Children. </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0002"> CHAPTER II. Frithiof wooeth Ingibiorg of those
+        Brethren. </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0003"> CHAPTER III. Of King Ring and those Brethren.
+        </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0004"> CHAPTER IV. Frithiof goes to Baldur's Meads.
+        </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0005"> CHAPTER V. Those Brethren come Home again. </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0006"> CHAPTER VI. Frithiof Sails for the Orkneys.
+        </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0007"> CHAPTER VII. Frithiof at the Orkneys. </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0008"> CHAPTER VIII. King Ring weddeth Ingibiorg. </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0009"> CHAPTER IX. Frithiof brings the Tribute to the
+        Kings. </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0010"> CHAPTER X. Frithiof made an Outlaw. </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0011"> CHAPTER XI. Frithiof fareth to see King Ring
+        and Ingibiorg. </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0012"> CHAPTER XII. Frithiof saves the King and Queen
+        on the Ice. </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0013"> CHAPTER XIII. The King sleeps before Frithiof.
+        </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0014"> CHAPTER XIV. King Ring's Gift to Frithiof. </a>
+      </p>
+      <p class="toc">
+        <a href="#link2HCH0015"> CHAPTER XV. Frithiof King in Sogn. </a>
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0001" id="link2HCH0001">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER I. Of King Belt and Thorstein Vikingson and their Children.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      Thus beginneth the tale, telling how that King Beli ruled over Sogn-land;
+      three children had he, whereof Helgi was his first son, and Halfdan his
+      second, but Ingibiorg his daughter. Ingibiorg was fair of face and wise of
+      mind, and she was ever accounted the foremost of the king's children.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now a certain strand went west of the firth, and a great stead was
+      thereon, which was called Baldur's Meads; a Place of Peace was there, and
+      a great temple, and round about it a great garth of pales: many gods were
+      there, but amidst them all was Baldur held of most account. So jealous
+      were the heathen men of this stead, that they would have no hurt done
+      therein to man nor beast, nor might any man have dealings with a woman
+      there.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sowstrand was the name of that stead whereas the king dwelt; but on the
+      other side the firth was an abode named Foreness, where dwelt a man called
+      Thorstein, the son of Viking; and his stead was over against the king's
+      dwelling.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thorstein had a son by his wife called Frithiof: he was the tallest and
+      strongest of men, and more furnished of all prowess than any other man,
+      even from his youth up. Frithiof the Bold was he called, and so well
+      beloved was he, that all prayed for good things for him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now the king's children were but young when their mother died; but a
+      goodman of Sogn, named Hilding, prayed to have the king's daughter to
+      foster: so there was she reared well and needfully: and she was called
+      Ingibiorg the Fair. Frithiof also was fostered of goodman Hilding,
+      wherefore was he foster-brother to the king's daughter, and they two were
+      peerless among children.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now King Beli's chattels began to ebb fast away from his hands, for he was
+      grown old.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thorstein had rule over the third part of the realm, and in him lay the
+      king's greatest strength.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Every third year Thorstein feasted the king at exceeding great cost, and
+      the king feasted Thorstein the two years between.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Helgi, Beli's son, from his youth up turned much to blood-offering:
+      neither were those brethren well-beloved.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thorstein had a ship called Ellidi, which pulled fifteen oars on either
+      board; it ran up high stem and stern, and was strong-built like an
+      ocean-going ship, and its bulwarks were clamped with iron.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So strong was Frithiof that he pulled the two bow oars of Ellidi; but
+      either oar was thirteen ells long, and two men pulled every oar
+      otherwhere.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Frithiof was deemed peerless amid the young men of that time, and the
+      king's sons envied him, whereas he was more praised than they.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now King Beli fell sick; and when the sickness lay heavy on him he called
+      his sons to him and said to them: &ldquo;This sickness will bring me to mine
+      end, therefore will I bid you this, that ye hold fast to those old friends
+      that I have had; for meseems in all things ye fall short of that father
+      and son, Thorstein and Frithiof, yea, both in good counsel and in
+      hardihood. A mound ye shall raise over me.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So with that Beli died.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thereafter Thorstein fell sick; so he spake to Frithiof: &ldquo;Kinsman,&rdquo; says
+      he, &ldquo;I will crave this of thee, that thou bow thy will before the king's
+      sons, for their dignity's sake; yet doth my heart speak goodly things to
+      me concerning thy fortune. Now would I be laid in my mound over against
+      King Beli's mound, down by the sea on this side the firth, whereas it may
+      be easiest for us to cry out each to each of tidings drawing nigh.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      A little after this Thorstein departed, and was laid in mound even as he
+      had bidden; but Frithiof took the land and chattels after him. Biorn and
+      Asmund were Frithiof s foster-brethren; they were big and strong men both.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0002" id="link2HCH0002">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER II. Frithiof wooeth Ingibiorg of those Brethren.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      So Frithiof became the most famed of men, and the bravest in all things
+      that may try a man.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Biorn, his foster-brother, he held in most account of all, but Asmund
+      served the twain of them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The ship Ellidi, he gat, the best of good things, of his father's
+      heritage, and another possession therewith&mdash;a gold ring; no dearer
+      was in Norway.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So bounteous a man was Frithiof withal, that it was the talk of most, that
+      he was a man of no less honour than those brethren, but it were for the
+      name of king; and for this cause they held Frithiof in hate and enmity,
+      and it was a heavy thing to them that he was called greater than they:
+      furthermore they thought they could see that Ingibiorg, their sister, and
+      Frithiof were of one mind together.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It befell hereon that the kings had to go to a feast to Frithiof s house
+      at Foreness; and there it happened according to wont that he gave to all
+      men beyond that they were worthy of. Now Ingibiorg was there, and she and
+      Frithiof talked long together; and the king's daughter said to him:&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;A goodly gold ring hast thou.&rdquo;
+           &ldquo;Yea, in good sooth,&rdquo; said he.
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Thereafter went those brethren to their own home, and greater grew their
+      enmity of Frithiof.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A little after grew Frithiof heavy of mood, and Biorn, his foster-brother,
+      asked him why he fared so.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He said he had it in his mind to woo Ingibiorg. &ldquo;For though I be named by
+      a lesser name than those brethren, yet am I not fashioned lesser.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Even so let us do then,&rdquo; quoth Biorn. So Frithiof fared with certain men
+      unto those brethren; and the kings were sitting on their father's mound
+      when Frithiof greeted them well, and then set forth his wooing, and prayed
+      for their sister Ingibiorg, the daughter of Beli.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The kings said: &ldquo;Not overwise is this thine asking, whereas thou wouldst
+      have us give her to one who lacketh dignity; wherefore we gainsay thee
+      this utterly.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Said Frithiof: &ldquo;Then is mine errand soon sped; but in return never will I
+      give help to you henceforward, nay, though ye need it ever so much.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      They said they heeded it nought: so Frithiof went home, and was joyous
+      once more.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0003" id="link2HCH0003">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER III. Of King Ring and those Brethren.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      There was a king named Ring, who ruled over Ringrealm, which also was in
+      Norway: a mighty folk-king he was, and a great man, but come by now unto
+      his latter days.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now he spake to his men: &ldquo;Lo, I have heard that the sons of King Beli have
+      brought to nought their friendship with Frithiof, who is the noblest of
+      men; wherefore will I send men to these kings, and bid them choose whether
+      they will submit them to me and pay me tribute, or else that I bring war
+      on them: and all things then shall lie ready to my hand to take, for they
+      have neither might nor wisdom to withstand me; yet great fame were it to
+      my old age to overcome them.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      After that fared the messengers of King Ring, and found those brethren,
+      Helgi and Halfdan, in Sogn, and spake to them thus: &ldquo;King Ring sends
+      bidding to you to send him tribute, or else will he war against your
+      realm.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      They answered and said that they would not learn in the days of their
+      youth what they would be loth to know in their old age, even how to serve
+      King Ring with shame. &ldquo;Nay, now shall we draw together all the folk that
+      we may.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Even so they did; but now, when they beheld their force that it was but
+      little, they sent Hilding their fosterer to Frithiof to bid him come help
+      them against King Ring. Now Frithiof sat at the knave-play when Hilding
+      came thither, who spake thus: &ldquo;Our kings send thee greeting, Frithiof, and
+      would have thy help in battle against King Ring, who cometh against their
+      realm with violence and wrong.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Frithiof answered him nought, but said to Biorn, with whom he was playing:
+      &ldquo;A bare place in thy board, foster-brother, and nowise mayst thou amend
+      it; nay, for my part I shall beset thy red piece there, and wot whether it
+      be safe.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Then Hilding spake again:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;King Helgi bade me say thus much, Frithiof, that thou shouldst go on this
+      journey with them, or else look for ill at their hands when they at the
+      last come back.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A double game, foster-brother,&rdquo; said Biorn; &ldquo;and two ways to meet thy
+      play.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Frithiof said: &ldquo;Thy play is to fall first on the knave, yet the double
+      game is sure to be.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      No other outcome of his errand had Hilding: he went back speedily to the
+      kings, and told them Frithiof's answer.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They asked Hilding what he made out of those words. He said:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Whereas he spake of the bare place he will have been thinking of the lack
+      in this journey of yours; but when he said he would beset the red piece,
+      that will mean Ingibiorg, your sister; so give ye all the heed ye may to
+      her. But whereas I threatened him with ill from you, Biorn deemed the game
+      a double one; but Frithiof said that the knave must be set on first,
+      speaking thereby of King Ring.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So then the brethren arrayed them for departing; but, ere they went, they
+      let bring Ingibioig and eight women with her to Baldur's Meads, saying
+      that Frithiof would not be so mad rash as to go see her thither, since
+      there was none who durst make riot there.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then fared those brethren south to Jadar, and met King Ring in Sogn-Sound.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now, herewith was King Ring most of all wroth that the brothers had said
+      that they accounted it a shame to fight with a man so old that he might
+      not get a-horseback unholpen.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0004" id="link2HCH0004">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER IV. Frithiof goes to Baldur's Meads.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      Straightway whenas the kings were gone away Frithiof took his raiment of
+      state and set the goodly gold ring on his arm; then went the
+      foster-brethren down to the sea and launched Ellidi. Then said Biorn:
+      &ldquo;Whither away, foster-brother?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To Baldur's Meads,&rdquo; said Frithiof, &ldquo;to be glad with Ingibiorg.&rdquo;,
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Biorn said: &ldquo;A thing unmeet to do, to make the gods wroth with us.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, it shall be risked this time,&rdquo; said Frithiof; &ldquo;and withal, more to
+      me is Ingibiorg's grace than Baldur's grame.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Therewith they rowed over the firth, and went up to Baldur's Meads and to
+      Ingibiorg's bower, and there she sat with eight maidens, and the new
+      comers were eight also.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But when they came there, lo, all the place was hung with cloth of pall
+      and precious webs.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then Ingibiorg arose and said:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why art thou so overbold, Frithiof, that thou art come here without the
+      leave of my brethren to make the gods angry with thee?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Frithiof says: &ldquo;Howsoever that may be, I hold thy love of more account
+      than the gods' hate.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Ingibiorg answered: &ldquo;Welcome art thou here, thou and thy men!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Then she made place for him to sit beside her, and drank to him in the
+      best of wine; and thus they sat and were merry together.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then beheld Ingibiorg the goodly ring on his arm, and asked him if that
+      precious thing were his own.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Frithiof said Yea, and she praised the ring much. Then Frithiof said:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I will give thee the ring if thou wilt promise to give it to no one, but
+      to send it to me when thou no longer shalt have will to keep it: and
+      hereon shall we plight troth each to other.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So with this troth-plighting they exchanged rings.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Frithiof was oft at Baldur's Meads a-night time, and every day between
+      whiles would he go thither to be glad with Ingibiorg.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0005" id="link2HCH0005">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER V. Those Brethren come Home again.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      Now tells the tale of those brethren, that they met King Ring, and he had
+      more folk than they: then went men betwixt them, and sought to make peace,
+      so that no battle should be: thereto King Ring assented on such terms that
+      the brethren should submit them to him, and give him in marriage Ingibiorg
+      their sister, with the third part of all their possessions.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The kings said Yea thereto, for they saw that they had to do with
+      overwhelming might: so the peace was fast bound by oaths, and the wedding
+      was to be at Sogn whenas King Ring should go see his betrothed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So those brethren fare home with their folk, right ill content with
+      things. But Frithiof, when he deemed that the brethren might be looked for
+      home again, spake to the king's daughter:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Sweetly and well have ye done to us, neither has goodman Baldur been
+      wroth with us; but now as soon as ye wot of the kings' coming home, spread
+      the sheets of your beds abroad on the Hall of the Goddesses, for that is
+      the highest of all the garth, and we may see it from our stead.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The king's daughter said: &ldquo;Thou dost not after the like of any other: but
+      certes, we welcome dear friends whenas ye come to us.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So Frithiof went home; and the next morning he went out early, and when he
+      came in then he spake and sang:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Now must I tell
+          To our good men
+          That over and done
+          Are our fair journeys;
+          No more a-shipboard
+          Shall we be going,
+          For there are the sheets
+          Spread out a-bleaching.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Then they went out, and saw that the Hall of the Goddesses was all
+      thatched with white linen. Biorn spake and said: &ldquo;Now are the kings come
+      home, and but a little while have we to sit in peace, and good were it,
+      meseems, to gather folk together.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So did they, and men came flocking thither.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now the brethren soon heard of the ways of Frithiof and Ingibiorg, and of
+      the gathering of men. So King Helgi spake:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A wondrous thing how Baldur will bear what shame soever Frithiof and she
+      will lay on him! Now will I send men to him, and wot what atonement he
+      will offer us, or else will I drive him from the land, for our strength
+      seemeth to me not enough that we should fight with him as now.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So Hilding, their fosterer, bare the king's errand to Frithiof and his
+      friends, and spake in such wise: &ldquo;This atonement the kings will have of
+      thee, Frithiof, that thou go gather the tribute of the Orkneys, which has
+      not been paid since Beli died, for they need money, whereas they are
+      giving Ingibiorg their sister in marriage, and much of wealth with her.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Frithiof said: &ldquo;This thing only somewhat urges us to peace, the good will
+      of our kin departed; but no trustiness will those brethren show herein.
+      But this condition I make, that our lands be in good peace while we are
+      away.&rdquo; So this was promised and all bound by oaths.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then Frithiof arrays him for departing, and is captain of men brave and of
+      good help, eighteen in company.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now his men asked him if he would not go to King Helgi and make peace with
+      him, and pray himself free from Baldur's wrath.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But he answered: &ldquo;Hereby I swear that I will never pray Helgi for peace.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Then he went aboard Ellidi, and they sailed out along the Sognnrth.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But when Frithiof was gone from home, King Halfdan spake to Helgi his
+      brother: &ldquo;Better lordship and more had we if Frithiof had payment for his
+      masterful deed: now therefore let us burn his stead, and bring on him and
+      his men such a storm on the sea as shall make an end of them.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Helgi said it was a thing meet to be done.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So then they burned up clean all the stead at Foreness and robbed it of
+      all goods; and after that sent for two witch-wives, Heidi and Hamglom, and
+      gave them money to raise against Frithiof and his men so mighty a storm
+      that they should all be lost at sea. So they sped the witch-song, and went
+      up on the witch-mount with spells and sorcery.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0006" id="link2HCH0006">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER VI. Frithiof Sails for the Orkneys.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      SO when Frithiof and his men were come out of the Sognfirth there fell on
+      them great wind and storm, and an exceeding heavy sea: but the ship drave
+      on swiftly, for sharp built she was, and the best to breast the sea.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So now Frithiof sang:&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Oft let I swim from Sogn
+          My tarred ship sooty-sided,
+          When maids sat o'er the mead-horn
+          Amidst of Baldur's Meadows;
+          Now while the storm is wailing
+          Farewell I bid you maidens,
+          Still shall ye love us, sweet ones,
+          Though Ellidi the sea fill.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Said Biorn: &ldquo;Thou mightest well find other work to do than singing songs
+      over the maids of Baldur's Meadows.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Of such work shall I not speedily run dry, though,&rdquo; said Frithiof. Then
+      they bore up north to the sounds nigh those isles that are called
+      Solundir, and therewith was the gale at its hardest.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then sang Frithiof:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Now is the sea a-swelling,
+          And sweepeth the rack onward;
+          Spells of old days cast o'er us
+          Make ocean all unquiet;
+          No more shall we be striving
+          Mid storm with wash of billows,
+          But Solundir shall shelter
+          Our ship with ice-beat rock-walls.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      So they lay to under the lee of the isles hight Solundir, and were minded
+      to abide there; but straightway thereon the wind fell: then they turned
+      away from under the lee of the islands, and now their voyage seemed
+      hopeful to them, because the wind was fair awhile: but soon it began to
+      freshen again.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then sang Frithiof:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;In days foredone
+          From Foreness strand
+          I rowed to meet
+          Maid Ingibiorg;
+          But now I sail
+          Through chilly storm
+          And wide away
+          My long-worm driveth.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      And now when they were come far out into the main, once more the sea waxed
+      wondrous troubled, and a storm arose with so great drift of snow, that
+      none might see the stem from the stern; and they shipped seas, so that
+      they must be ever a-baling. So Frithiof sang:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;The salt waves see we nought
+          As seaward drive we ever
+          Before the witch-wrought weather,
+          We well-famed kings'-defenders:
+          Here are we all a-standing,
+          With all Solundir hull-down,
+          Eighteen brave lads a-baling
+          Black Ellidi to bring home.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Said Biorn: &ldquo;Needs must he who fareth far fall in with diverse hap.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yea, certes, foster-brother,&rdquo; said Frithiof. And he sang withal:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Helgi it is that helpeth
+          The white-head billows' waxing;
+          Cold time unlike the kissing
+          In the close of Baldut's Meadow!
+          So is the hate of Helgi
+          To that heart's love she giveth.
+          O would that here I held her,
+          Gift high above all giving!&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Maybe,&rdquo; said Biorn, &ldquo;she is looking higher than thou now art: what matter
+      when all is said?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; says Frithiof, &ldquo;now is the time to show ourselves to be men of
+      avail, though blither tide it was at Baldur's Meadows.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So they turned to in manly wise, for there were the bravest of men come
+      together in the best ship of the Northlands. But Frithiof sang a stave:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;So come in the West-sea,
+          Nought see I the billows,
+          The sea-water seemeth
+          As sweeping of wild-fire.
+          Topple the rollers,
+          Toss the hills swan-white,
+          Ellidi wallows
+          O'er steep of the wave-hills.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Then they shipped a huge sea, so that all stood a-baling. But Frithiof
+      sang:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;With love-moved mouth the maiden
+          Mepledgeth though I founder.
+          Ah! bright sheets lay a-bleaching,
+          East there on brents the swan loves.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Biorn said: &ldquo;Art thou of mind belike that the maids of Sogn will weep many
+      tears over thee?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Said Frithiof: &ldquo;Surely that was in my mind.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Therewith so great a sea broke over the bows, that the water came in like
+      the in-falling of a river; but it availed them much that the ship was so
+      good, and the crew aboard her so hardy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now sang Biorn:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;No widow, methinks,
+          To thee or me drinks;
+          No ring-bearer fair
+          Biddeth draw near;
+          Salt are our eyne
+          Soaked in the brine;
+          Strong our arms are no more,
+          And our eyelids smart sore.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Quoth Asmund: &ldquo;Small harm though your arms be tried somewhat, for no pity
+      we had from you when we rubbed our eyes whenas ye must needs rise early
+      a-mornings to go to Baldu's Meadows.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said Frithiof, &ldquo;why singest thou not, Asmund?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Not I,&rdquo; said Asmund; yet sang a ditty straightway:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Sharp work about the sail was
+          When o'er the ship seas tumbled,
+          And there was I a-working
+          Within-board 'gainst eight balers;
+          Better it was to bower,
+          Bringing the women breakfast,
+          Than here to be 'mid billows
+          Black Ellidi a-baling.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou accountest thy help of no less worth than it is?&rdquo; said Frithiof,
+      laughing therewith; &ldquo;but sure it showeth the thrall's blood in thee that
+      thou wouldst fain be awaiting at table.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Now it blew harder and harder yet, so that to those who were aboard liker
+      to huge peaks and mountains than to waves seemed the sea-breakers that
+      crashed on all sides against the ship.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then Frithiof sang:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;On bolster I sat.
+          In Baldur's Mead erst,
+          And all songs that I could
+          To the king's daughter sang;
+          Now on Ran's bed belike
+          Must I soon be a-lying,
+          And another shall be
+          By Ingibiorg's side.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Biorn said: &ldquo;Great fear lieth ahead of us, foster-brother, and now dread
+      hath crept into thy words, which is ill with such a good man as thou.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Says Frithiof: &ldquo;Neither fear nor fainting is it, though I sing now of
+      those our merry journeys; yet perchance more hath been said of them than
+      need was: but most men would think death surer than life, if they were so
+      bested as we be.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yet shall I answer thee somewhat,&rdquo; said Biorn, and sang:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Yet one gain have I gotten
+          Thou gatst not 'mid thy fortune,
+          For meet play did I make me
+          With Ingibiorgs eight maidens;
+          Red rings we laid together
+          Aright in Baldur's Meadow,
+          When far off was the warder
+          Of the wide land of Halfdan.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;we must be content with things as they are,
+      foster-brother.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Therewith so great a sea smote them, that the bulwark was broken and both
+      the sheets, and four men were washed overboard and all lost.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then sang Frithiof:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Both sheets are bursten
+          Amid the great billows,
+          Four swains are sunk
+          In the fathomless sea?
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now, meseems,&rdquo; said Frithiof, &ldquo;it may well be that some of us will go to
+      the house of Ran, nor shall we deem us well sped if we come not thither in
+      glorious array; wherefore it seems good to me that each man of us here
+      should have somewhat of gold on him.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Then he smote asunder the ring, Ingibiorg's gift, and shared it between
+      all his men, and sang a stave withal:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;The red ring here I hew me
+          Once owned of Halfdan's father,
+          The wealthy lord of erewhile,
+          Or the sea waves undo us,
+          So on the guests shall gold be,
+          If we have need of guesting;
+          Meet so for mighty men-folk
+          Amid Ran's hall to hold them.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Not all so sure is it that we come there,&rdquo; said Biorn; &ldquo;and yet it may
+      well be so.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Now Frithiof and his folk found that the ship had great way on her, and
+      they knew not what lay ahead, for all was mirk on either board, so that
+      none might see the stem or stern from amidships; and therewith was there
+      great drift of spray amid the furious wind, and frost, and snow, and
+      deadly cold.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now Frithiof went up to the masthead, and when he came down he said to his
+      fellows: &ldquo;A sight exceeding wondrous have I seen, for a great whale went
+      in a ring about the ship, and I misdoubt me that we come nigh to some
+      land, and that he is keeping the shore against us; for certes King Helgi
+      has dealt with us in no friendly wise, neither will this his messenger be
+      friendly. Moreover I saw two women on the back of the whale, and they it
+      is who will have brought this great storm on us with the worst of spells
+      and witchcraft; but now we shall try which may prevail, my fortune or
+      their devilry, so steer ye at your straightest, and I will smite these
+      evil things with beams.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          Therewith he sang a stave:
+          &ldquo;See I troll women
+          Twain on the billows,
+          Een they whom Helgi
+          Hither hath sent.
+          Ellidi now
+          Or ever her way stop
+          Shall smile the backs
+          Of these asunder.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      So tells the tale that this wonder went with the good ship Ellidi, that
+      she knew the speech of man.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But Biorn said: &ldquo;Now may we see the treason of those brethren against us.&rdquo;
+       Therewith he took the tiller, but Frithiof caught up a forked beam, and
+      ran into the prow, and sang a stave:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Ellidi, hail!
+          Leap high o'er the billows!
+          Break of the troll wives
+          Brow or teeth now!
+          Break cheek or jaw
+          Of the cursed woman,
+          One foot or twain
+          Of the ogress filthy.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Therewith he drave his fork at one of the skin-changers, and the beak of
+      Ellidi smote the other on the back, and the backs of both were broken; but
+      the whale took the deep, and gat him gone, and they never saw him after.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then the wind fell, but the ship lay waterlogged; so Frithiof called out
+      to his men, and bade bale out the ship, but Biorn said:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No need to work now, verily!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Be thou not afeard, foster-brother,&rdquo; said Frithiof, &ldquo;ever was it the wont
+      of good men of old time to be helpful while they might, whatsoever should
+      come after.&rdquo; And therewith he sang a stave:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;No need, fairfellows,
+          To fear the death-day;
+          Rather be glad,
+          Good men of mine:
+          For if dreams wot aught
+          All nights they say
+          I yet shall have
+          My Ingibiorg.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Then they baled out the ship; and they were now come nigh unto land; but
+      there was yet a flaw of wind in their teeth. So then did Frithiof take the
+      two bow oars again, and rowed full mightily. Therewith the weather
+      brightened, and they saw that they were come out to Effia Sound, and so
+      there they made land.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The crew were exceeding weary; but so stout a man was Frithiof that he
+      bore eight men a-land over the foreshore, but Biorn bore two, and Asmund
+      one. Then sang Frithiof:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Fast bare I up
+          To the fire-lit house
+          My men all dazed
+          With the drift of the storm;
+          And the sail moreover
+          To the sand I carried;
+          With the might of the sea
+          Is there no more to do.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0007" id="link2HCH0007">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER VII. Frithiof at the Orkneys.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      Now Earl Angantyr was at Effia whenas Frithiof and his folk came a-land
+      there. But his way it was, when he was sitting at the drink, that one of
+      his men should sit at the watch-window, looking weatherward from the
+      drinking hall, and keep watch there. From a great horn drank he ever: and
+      still as one was emptied another was filled for him. And he who held the
+      watch when Frithiof came a-land was called Hallward; and now he saw where
+      Frithiof and his men went, and sang a stave:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Men see I a-baling
+          Amid the storm's might;
+          Six bale on Ellidi
+          Seven are a-rowing;
+          Like is he in the stem,
+          Straining hard at the oars,
+          To Frithiof the bold,
+          The brisk in the battle.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      So when he had drunk out the horn, he cast it in through the window, and
+      spake to the woman who gave him drink:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Take up from the floor,
+          O fair-going woman,
+          The horn cast adown
+          Drunk out to the end!
+          I behold men at sea
+          Who, storm-beaten, shall need
+          Help at our hands
+          Ere the haven they make.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Now the Earl heard what Hallward sang; so he asked for tidings, and
+      Hallward said: &ldquo;Men are come a-land here, much forewearied, yet brave lads
+      belike: but one of them is so hardy that he beareth the others. ashore.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Then said the Earl, &ldquo;Go ye, and meet them, and welcome them in seemly
+      wise; if this be Frithiof, the son of Hersir Thorstein, my friend, he is a
+      man famed far and wide for all prowess.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Then there took up the word a man named Atli, a great viking, and he
+      spake: &ldquo;Now shall that be proven which is told of, that Frithiof hath
+      sworn never to be first in the craving of peace.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      There were ten men in company with him, all evil and outrageous, who often
+      wrought berserksgang.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So when they met Frithiof they took to their weapons.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But Atli said:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Good to turn hither, Frithiof! Clutching ernes should claw; and we no
+      less, Frithiof! Yea, and now may'st thou hold to thy word, and not crave
+      first for peace.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So Frithiof turned to meet them, and sang a stave:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Nay, nay, in nought
+          Now shall ye cow us.
+          Blenching hearts
+          Isle-abiders!
+          Alone with you ten
+          The fight will I try,
+          Rather than pray
+          For peace at your hands.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Then came Hallward thereto, and spake: &ldquo;The Earl wills that ye all be made
+      welcome here: neither shall any set on you.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Frithiof said he would take that with a good heart; howsoever he was ready
+      for either peace or war.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So thereon they went to the Earl, and he made Frithiof and all his men
+      right welcome, and they abode with him, in great honour holden, through
+      the wintertide; and oft would the Earl ask of their voyage: so Biorn sang:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;There baled we, wight fellows,
+          Washed over and over
+          On both boards
+          By billows;
+          For ten days we baled there,
+          And eight thereunto.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      The Earl said: &ldquo;Well nigh did the king undo you; it is ill seen of
+      such-like kings as are meet for nought but to overcome men by wizardry.
+      But now I wot,&rdquo; says Angantyr, &ldquo;of thine errand hither, Frithiof, that
+      thou art sent after the scat: whereto I give thee a speedy answer, that
+      never shall King Helgi get scat of me, but to thee will I give money, even
+      as much as thou wilt; and thou mayest call it scat if thou hast a mind to,
+      or whatso else thou wilt.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So Frithiof said that he would take the money.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0008" id="link2HCH0008">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER VIII. King Ring weddeth Ingibiorg.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      Now shall it be told of what came to pass in Norway the while Frithiof was
+      away: for those brethren let burn up all the stead at Foreness. Moreover,
+      while the weird sisters were at their spells they tumbled down from off
+      their high witch-mount, and brake both their backs.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      That autumn came King Ring north to Sogn to his wedding, and there at a
+      noble feast drank his bridal with Ingibiorg.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Whence came that goodly ring which thou hast on thine arm?&rdquo; said King
+      Ring to Ingibiorg.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She said her father had owned it, but he answered and said:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nay, for Frithiof s gift it is: so take it off thine arm straightway; for
+      no gold shalt thou lack whenas thou comest to Elfhome.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So she gave the ring to King Helgi's wife, and bade her give it to
+      Frithiof when he came back.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then King Ring wended home with his wife, and loved her with exceeding
+      great love.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0009" id="link2HCH0009">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER IX. Frithiof brings the Tribute to the Kings.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      The spring after these things Frithiof departed from the Orkneys and Earl
+      Angantyr in all good liking; and Hallward went with Frithiof.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But when they came to Norway they heard tell of the burning of Frithiof's
+      stead.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So when he was gotten to Foreness, Frithiof said: &ldquo;Black is my house waxen
+      now; no friends have been at work here.&rdquo; And he sang withal:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Frank and free,
+          With my father dead,
+          In Foreness old
+          We drank aforetime.
+          Now my abode
+          Behold I burned;
+          For many ill deeds
+          The kings must I pay.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Then he sought rede of his men what was to be done; but they bade him look
+      to it: then he said that the scat must first be paid out of hand. So they
+      rowed over the Firth to Sowstrand; and there they heard that the kings
+      were gone to Baldur's Meads to sacrifice to the gods; so Frithiof and
+      Biorn went up thither, and bade Hallward and Asmund break up meanwhile all
+      ships, both great and small, that were anigh; and they did so. Then went
+      Frithiof and his fellow to the door at Baldur's Meads, and Frithiof would
+      go in. Biorn bade him fare warily, since he must needs go in alone; but
+      Frithiof charged him to abide without, and keep watch; and he sang a
+      stave:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;All alone go I
+          Unto the stead;
+          No folk I need
+          For the finding of kings;
+          But cast ye the fire
+          O'er the kings' dwellingly
+          If I come not again
+          In the cool of the even.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ah,&rdquo; said Biorn, &ldquo;a goodly singing!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Then went Frithiof in, and saw but few folk in the Hall of the Goddesses;
+      there were the kings at their blood-offering, sitting a-drinking; a fire
+      was there on the floor, and the wives of the kings sat thereby, a-warming
+      the gods, while others anointed them, and wiped them with napkins.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So Frithiof went up to King Helgi and said: &ldquo;Have here thy scat!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      And therewith he heaved up the purse wherein was the silver, and drave it
+      on to the face of the king; whereby were two of his teeth knocked out, and
+      he fell down stunned in his high seat; but Halfdan got hold of him, so
+      that he fell not into the fire. Then sang Frithiof:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Have here thy scat,
+          High lord of the warriors!
+          Heed that and thy teeth,
+          Lest all tumble about thee!
+          Lo the silver abideth
+          At the bight of this bag here,
+          That Biorn and I
+          Betwixt us have borne thee.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Now there were but few folk in the chamber, because the drinking was in
+      another place; so Frithiof went out straightway along the floor, and
+      beheld therewith that goodly ring of his on the arm of Helgi's wife as she
+      warmed Baldur at the fire; so he took hold of the ring, but it was fast to
+      her arm, and he dragged her by it over the pavement toward the door, and
+      Baldur fell from her into the fire; then Halfdan's wife caught hastily at
+      Baldur, whereby the god that she was warming fell likewise into the fire,
+      and the fire caught both the gods, for they had been anointed, and ran up
+      thence into the roof, so that the house was all ablaze: but Frithiof got
+      the ring to him ere he came out. So then Biorn asked him what had come of
+      his going in there; but Frithiof held up the ring and sang a stave:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;The heavy purse smote Helgi
+          Hard 'midst his scoundrel's visage:
+          Lowly bowed Halfdan's brother,
+          Fell bundling 'mid the high seat;
+          There Baldur fell a-burning.
+          But first my bright ring gat I.
+          Fast from the roaring fire
+          I dragged the bent crone forward.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Men say that Frithiof cast a firebrand up on to the roof, so that the hall
+      was all ablaze, and therewith sang a stave:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Down stride we toward the sea-strand,
+          And strong deeds set a-going,
+          For now the blue flame bickers
+          Amidst of Baldur's Meadow.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      And therewith they went down to the sea.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0010" id="link2HCH0010">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER X. Frithiof made an Outlaw.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      But as soon as King Helgi had come to himself he bade follow after
+      Frithiof speedily, and slay them all, him and his fellows: &ldquo;A man of
+      forfeit life, who spareth no Place of Peace!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So they blew the gathering for the kings' men, and when they came out to
+      the hall they saw that it was afire; so King Halfdan went thereto with
+      some of the folk, but King Helgi followed after Frithiof and his men, who
+      were by then gotten a-shipboard and were lying on their oars.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now King Helgi and his men find that all the ships are scuttled, and they
+      have to turn back to shore, and have lost some men: then waxed King Helgi
+      so wroth that he grew mad, and he bent his bow, and laid an arrow on the
+      string, and drew at Frithiof so mightily that the bow brake asunder in the
+      midst.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But when Frithiof saw that, then he gat him to the two bow oars of Ellidi,
+      and laid so hard on them that they both brake, and with that he sang a
+      stave:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Young Ingibiorg
+          Kissed I aforetime,
+          Kissed Beli's daughter
+          In Baldur's Meadow.
+          So shall the oars
+          Of Ellidi
+          Break both together
+          As Helgi's bow breaks.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Then the land-wind ran down the firth and they hoisted sail and sailed;
+      but Frithiof bade them look to it that they might have no long abiding
+      there. And so withal they sailed out of the Sognfirth, and Frithiof sang:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Sail we away from Sogn,
+          E'en as we sailed aforetime,
+          When flared the fire all over
+          The house that was my fathers'.
+          Now is the bale a-burning
+          Amidst of Baldur's Meadow:
+          But wend I as a wild-wolf,
+          Well wot I they have sworn it.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What shall we turn to now, foster-brother?&rdquo; said Biorn.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I may not abide here in Norway,&rdquo; said Frithiof: &ldquo;I will learn the ways of
+      warriors, and sail a-warring.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So they searched the isles and out-skerries the summer long, and gathered
+      thereby riches and renown; but in autumn-tide they made for the Orkneys,
+      and Angantyr gave them good welcome, and they abode there through the
+      winter-tide.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But when Frithiof was gone from Norway the kings held a Thing, whereat was
+      Frithiof made an outlaw throughout their realm: they took his lands to
+      them, moreover, and King Halfdan took up his abode at Foreness, and built
+      up again all Baldur's Meadow, though it was long ere the fire was slaked
+      there. This misliked King Helgi most, that the gods were all burned up,
+      and great was the cost or ever Baldur's Meadow was built anew fully equal
+      to its first estate.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So King Helgi abode still at Sowstrand.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0011" id="link2HCH0011">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER XI. Frithiof fareth to see King Ring and Ingibiorg.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      Frithiof waxed ever in riches and renown whithersoever he went: evil men
+      he slew, and grimly strong-thieves, but husbandmen and chapmen he let
+      abide in peace; and now was he called anew Frithiof the Bold; he had
+      gotten to him by now a great company well arrayed, and was become
+      exceeding wealthy of chattels.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But when Frithiof had been three winters a-warring he sailed west, and
+      made the Wick; then he said that he would go a-land: &ldquo;But ye shall fare
+      a-warring without me this winter; for I begin to weary of warfare, and
+      would fain go to the Uplands, and get speech of King Ring: but hither
+      shall ye come to meet me in the summer, and I will be here the first day
+      of summer.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Biorn said: &ldquo;This counsel is naught wise, though thou must needs rule;
+      rather would I that we fare north to Sogn, and slay both those kings,
+      Helgi and Halfdan.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is all naught,&rdquo; said Frithiof; &ldquo;I must needs go see King Ring and
+      Ingibiorg.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Says Biorn: &ldquo;Loth am I hereto that thou shouldst risk thyself alone in his
+      hands; for this Ring is a wise man and of great kin, though he be somewhat
+      old.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      But Frithiof said he would have his own way: &ldquo;And thou, Biorn, shalt be
+      captain of our company meanwhile.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So they did as he bade, and Frithiof fared to the Uplands in the autumn,
+      for he desired sore to look upon the love of King Ring and Ingibiorg. But
+      or ever he came there he did on him, over his clothes, a great cloak all
+      shaggy; two staves he had in his hand, and a mask over his face, and he
+      made as if he were exceeding old.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So he met certain herdsmen, and, going heavily, he asked them: &ldquo;Whence are
+      ye?&rdquo; They answered and said: &ldquo;We are of Streitaland, whereas the king
+      dwelleth.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Quoth the carle: &ldquo;Is King Ring a mighty king, then?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      They answered: &ldquo;Thou lookest to us old enough to have cunning to know what
+      manner of man is King Ring in all wise.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The carle said that he had heeded salt-boiling more than the ways of
+      kings; and therewith he goes up to the king's house.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So when the day was well worn he came into the hall, blinking about as a
+      dotard, and took an outward place, pulling his hood over him to hide his
+      visage.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then spake King Ring to Ingibiorg: &ldquo;There is come into the hall a man far
+      bigger than other men.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The queen answered: &ldquo;That is no such great tidings here.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      But the king spake to a serving-man who stood before the board, and said:
+      &ldquo;Go thou, and ask yon cowled man who he is, whence he cometh, and of what
+      kin he is.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So the lad ran down the hall to the new-comer and said: &ldquo;What art thou
+      called, thou man? Where wert thou last night? Of what kin art thou?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Said the cowled man: &ldquo;Quick come thy questions, good fellow! but hast thou
+      skill to understand if I shall tell thee hereof?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yea, certes,&rdquo; said the lad.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said the cowl-bearer, &ldquo;Thief is my name, with Wolf was I last
+      night, and in Grief-ham was I reared.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Then ran the lad back to the king, and told him the answer of the
+      new-comer.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well told, lad,&rdquo; said the king; &ldquo;but for that land of Grief-ham, I know
+      it well: it may well be that the man is of no light heart, and yet a wise
+      man shall he be, and of great worth I account him.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Said the queen: &ldquo;A marvellous fashion of thine, that thou must needs talk
+      so freely with every carle that cometh hither! Yea, what is the worth of
+      him, then?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That wottest thou no clearer than I,&rdquo; said the king; &ldquo;but I see that he
+      thinketh more than he talketh, and is peering all about him.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Therewith the king sent a man after him, and so the cowl-bearer went up
+      before the king, going somewhat bent, and greeted him in a low voice. Then
+      said the king: &ldquo;What art thou called, thou big man?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      And the cowl-bearer answered and sang:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Peace-thief they called me
+          On the prow with the Vikings;
+          But War-thief whenas
+          I set widows a-weeping;
+          Spear-thief when I
+          Sent forth the barbed shafts;
+          Battle-thief when I
+          Burst forth on the king;
+          Hel-thief when I
+          Tossed up the small babies:
+          Isle-thief when I
+          In the outer isles harried;
+          Slaws-thief when I
+          Sat aloft over men:
+          Yet since have I drifted
+          With salt-boiling carls,
+          Needy of help
+          'Ere hither I came.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Said the king: &ldquo;Thou hast gotten thy name of Thief from many a matter,
+      then; but where wert thou last night, and what is thy home?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The cowl-bearer said: &ldquo;In Grief-ham I grew up; but heart drave me hither,
+      and home have I nowhere.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The king said: &ldquo;Maybe indeed that thou hast been nourished in Grief-ham a
+      certain while; yet also maybe that thou wert born in a place of peace. But
+      in the wild-wood must thou have lain last night, for no goodman dwelleth
+      anigh named Wolf; but whereas thou sayest thou hast no home, so is it,
+      that thou belike deemest thy home nought, because of thy heart that drave
+      thee hither.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Then spake Ingibiorg: &ldquo;Go, Thief, get thee to some other harbour, or in to
+      the guest-hall.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nay,&rdquo; said the king, &ldquo;I am old enow to know how to marshal guests; so do
+      off thy cowl, new-comer, and sit down on my other hand.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yea, old, and over old,&rdquo; said the queen, &ldquo;when thou settest staff-carles
+      by thy side.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nay, lord, it beseemeth not,&rdquo; said Thief; &ldquo;better it were as the queen
+      sayeth. I have been more used to boiling salt than sitting beside lords.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Do thou my will,&rdquo; said the king, &ldquo;for I will rule this time.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So Thief cast his cowl from him, and was clad thereunder in a dark blue
+      kirtle; on his arm, moreover, was the goodly gold ring, and a thick silver
+      belt was round about him, with a great purse on it, and therein silver
+      pennies glittering; a sword was girt to his side, and he had a great fur
+      hood on his head, for his eyes were bleared, and his face all wrinkled.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ah! now we fare better, say I,&rdquo; quoth the king; &ldquo;but do thou, queen, give
+      him a goodly mantle, well shapen for him.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou shalt rule, my lord,&rdquo; said the queen; &ldquo;but in small account do I
+      hold this Thief of thine.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So then he gat a good mantle over him, and sat down in the high-seat
+      beside the king.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The queen waxed red as blood when she saw the goodly ring, yet would she
+      give him never a word; but the king was exceeding blithe with him and
+      said: &ldquo;A goodly ring hast thou on thine arm there; thou must have boiled
+      salt long enough to get it.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Says he, &ldquo;That is all the heritage of my father.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ah!&rdquo; says the king, &ldquo;maybe thou hast more than that; well, few
+      salt-boiling carles are thy peers, I deem, unless eld is deep in mine eyes
+      now.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So Thief was there through the winter amid good entertainment, and well
+      accounted of by all men; he was bounteous of his wealth, and joyous with
+      all men: the queen held but little converse with him; but the king and he
+      were ever blithe together.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0012" id="link2HCH0012">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER XII. Frithiof saves the King and Queen on the Ice.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      The tale tells that on a time King Ring and the queen, and a great
+      company, would go to a feast. So the king spake to Thief: &ldquo;Wilt thou fare
+      with us, or abide at home?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      He said he had liefer go; and the king said: &ldquo;Then am I the more content.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So they went on their ways, and had to cross a certain frozen water. Then
+      said Thief: &ldquo;I deem this ice untrustworthy; meseemeth ye fare unwarily.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Quoth the king: &ldquo;It is often shown how heedful in thine heart thou wilt be
+      to us.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So a little after the ice broke in beneath them, and Thief ran thereto,
+      and dragged the wain to him, with all that was therein; and the king and
+      the queen both sat in the same: so Thief drew it all up on to the ice,
+      with the horses that were yoked to the wain.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then spake King Ring: &ldquo;Right well drawn, Thief! Frithiof the Bold himself
+      would have drawn no stronger had he been here; doughty followers are such
+      as thou!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So they came to the feast, and there is nought to tell thereof, and the
+      king went back again with seemly gifts.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0013" id="link2HCH0013">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER XIII. The King sleeps before Frithiof.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      Now weareth away the mid-winter, and when spring cometh, the weather
+      groweth fair, the wood bloometh, the grass groweth, and ships may glide
+      betwixt land and land. So on a day the king says to his folk: &ldquo;I will that
+      ye come with us for our disport out into the woods, that we may look upon
+      the fairness of the earth.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So did they, and went flock-meal with the king into the woods; but so it
+      befell, that the king and Frithiof were gotten alone together afar from
+      other men, and the king said he was heavy, and would fain sleep. Then said
+      Thief: &ldquo;Get thee home, then, lord, for it better beseemeth men of high
+      estate to lie at home than abroad.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nay,&rdquo; said the king, &ldquo;so will I not do.&rdquo; And he laid him down therewith,
+      and slept fast, snoring loud.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thief sat close by him, and presently drew his sword from his sheath and
+      cast it far away from him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A little while after the king woke up, and said: &ldquo;Was it not so, Frithiof,
+      that a many things came into thy mind e'en now? But well hast thou dealt
+      with them, and great honour shalt thou have of me. Lo, now, I knew thee
+      straightway that first evening thou earnest into our hall: now nowise
+      speedily shalt thou depart from us; and somewhat great abideth thee.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Said Frithiof: &ldquo;Lord king, thou hast done to me well, and in friendly
+      wise; but yet must I get me gone soon, because my company cometh speedily
+      to meet me, as I have given them charge to do.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So then they rode home from the wood, and the king's folk came flocking to
+      him, and home they fared to the hall and drank joyously; and it was made
+      known to all folk that Frithiof the Bold had been abiding there through
+      the winter-tide.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0014" id="link2HCH0014">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER XIV. King Ring's Gift to Frithiof.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      Early of a morning-tide one smote on the door of that hall, wherein slept
+      the king and queen, and many others: then the king asked who it was that
+      called at the hall door; and so he who was without said: &ldquo;Here am I,
+      Frithiof; and I am arrayed for my departure.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Then was the door opened, and Frithiof came in, and sang a stave:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Have great thanks for the guesting
+          Thou gavest with all bounty;
+          Dight fully for wayfaring
+          Is the feeder of the eagle;
+          But, Ingidiorg, I mind thee
+          While yet on earth we tarry;
+          Live gloriously! I give thee
+          This gift for many kisses.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      And therewith he cast the goodly ring towards Ingibiorg, and bade her take
+      it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The king smiled at this stave of his, and said: &ldquo;Yea, forsooth, she hath
+      more thanks for thy winter quarters than I; yet hath she not been more
+      friendly to thee than I.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Then sent the king his serving-folk to fetch victuals and drink, and saith
+      that they must eat and drink before Frithiof departed. &ldquo;So arise, queen,
+      and be joyful!&rdquo; But she said she was loth to fall a-feasting so early.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nay, we will eat all together,&rdquo; said King Ring; and they did so.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But when they had drank a while King Ring spake: &ldquo;I would that thou abide
+      here, Frithiof; for my sons are but children and I am old, and unmeet for
+      the warding of my realm, if any should bring war against it.&rdquo; Frithiof
+      said: &ldquo;Speedily must I be gone, lord.&rdquo; And he sang:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Oh, live, King Ring,
+          Both long and hale!
+          The highest king
+          Neath heaven's skirt!
+          Ward well, O king,
+          Thy wife and land,
+          For Ingibiorg now
+          Never more shall I meet.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Then quoth King Ring:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Fare not away,
+          O Frithiof, thus,
+          With downcast heart,
+          O dearest of chieftains!
+          For now will I give thee
+          For all thy good gifts,
+          Far better things
+          Than thou wottest thyself.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      And again he sang:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;To Frithiof the famous
+          My fair wife I give,
+          And all things therewith
+          That are unto me.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      Then Frithiof took up the word and sang:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+          &ldquo;Nay, how from thine hands
+          These gifts may I have,
+          But if thou hast fared
+          By the last way of fate.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      The king said: &ldquo;I would not give thee this, but that I deem it will soon
+      be so, for I sicken now. But of all men I would that thou shouldst have
+      the joy of this; for thou art the crown of all Norway. The name of king
+      will I give thee also; and all this, because Ingibiorg's brethren would
+      begrudge thee any honour; and would be slower in getting thee a wife than
+      I am.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Said Frithiof: &ldquo;Have all thanks, lord, for thy goodwill beyond that I
+      looked for! but I will have no higher dignity than to be called earl.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Then King Ring gave Frithiof rule over all his realm in due wise, and the
+      name of earl therewith; and Frithiof was to rule it until such time as the
+      sons of King Ring were of age to rule their own realm. So King Ring lay
+      sick a little while, and then died; and great mourning was made for him;
+      then was there a mound cast over him, and much wealth laid therein,
+      according to his bidding.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thereafter Frithiof made a noble feast, whereunto his folk came; and
+      thereat was drunken at one and the same time the heritage feast after King
+      Ring, and the bridal of Frithiof and Ingibiorg.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      After these things Frithiof abode in his realm, and was deemed therein a
+      most noble man; he and Ingibiorg had many children.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2HCH0015" id="link2HCH0015">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHAPTER XV. Frithiof King in Sogn.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      Now those kings of Sogn, the brethren of Ingibiorg, heard these tidings,
+      how that Frithiof had gotten a king's rule in Ringrealm, and had wedded
+      Ingibiorg their sister. Then says Helgi to Halfdan, his brother, that
+      unheard of it was, and a deed over-bold, that a mere hersir's son should
+      have her to wife: and so thereat they gather together a mighty army, and
+      go their ways therewith to Ringrealm, with the mind to slay Frithiof, and
+      lay all his realm under them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But when Frithiof was ware of this, he gathered folk, and spake to the
+      queen moreover: &ldquo;New war is come upon our realm; and now, in whatso wise
+      the dealings go, fain am I that thy ways to me grow no colder.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      She said: &ldquo;In such wise have matters gone that I must needs let thee be
+      the highest.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Now was Biorn come from the east to help Frithiof; so they fared to the
+      fight, and it befell, as ever erst, that Frithiof was the foremost in the
+      peril: King Helgi and he came to handy-blows, and there he slew King
+      Helgi.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then bade Frithiof raise up the Shield of Peace, and the battle was
+      stayed; and therewith he cried to King Halfdan: &ldquo;Two choices are in thine
+      hands now, either that thou give up all to my will, or else gettest thou
+      thy bane like thy brother; for now may men see that mine is the better
+      part.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So Halfdan chose to lay himself and his realm under Frithiof's sway; and
+      so now Frithiof became ruler over Sogn-folk, and Halfdan was to be Hersir
+      in Sogn and pay Frithiof tribute, while Frithiof ruled Ringrealm. So
+      Frithiof had the name of King of Sogn-folk from the time that he gave up
+      Ringrealm to the sons of King Ring, and thereafter he won Hordaland also.
+      He and Ingibiorg had two sons, called Gunnthiof and Hunthiof, men of
+      might, both of them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      AND SO HERE ENDETH THE STORY OF FRITHIOF THE BOLD. <br /><br />
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story Of Frithiof The Bold, by Anonymous
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Story Of Frithiof The Bold
+       1875
+
+Author: Anonymous
+
+Translator: Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris
+
+Release Date: January 25, 2008 [EBook #24420]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF FRITHIOF THE BOLD ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Widger
+
+
+
+
+
+THE STORY OF FRITHIOF THE BOLD.
+
+Translated From The  Icelandic By Eirikr Magnusson And William Morris
+
+1875
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.     Of King Belt and Thorstein Vikingson and their Children.
+
+Thus beginneth the tale, telling how that King Beli ruled over
+Sogn-land; three children had he, whereof Helgi was his first son, and
+Halfdan his second, but Ingibiorg his daughter. Ingibiorg was fair of
+face and wise of mind, and she was ever accounted the foremost of the
+king's children.
+
+Now a certain strand went west of the firth, and a great stead was
+thereon, which was called Baldur's Meads; a Place of Peace was there,
+and a great temple, and round about it a great garth of pales: many
+gods were there, but amidst them all was Baldur held of most account. So
+jealous were the heathen men of this stead, that they would have no hurt
+done therein to man nor beast, nor might any man have dealings with a
+woman there.
+
+Sowstrand was the name of that stead whereas the king dwelt; but on
+the other side the firth was an abode named Foreness, where dwelt a man
+called Thorstein, the son of Viking; and his stead was over against the
+king's dwelling.
+
+Thorstein had a son by his wife called Frithiof: he was the tallest and
+strongest of men, and more furnished of all prowess than any other man,
+even from his youth up. Frithiof the Bold was he called, and so well
+beloved was he, that all prayed for good things for him.
+
+Now the king's children were but young when their mother died; but a
+goodman of Sogn, named Hilding, prayed to have the king's daughter to
+foster: so there was she reared well and needfully: and she was called
+Ingibiorg the Fair. Frithiof also was fostered of goodman Hilding,
+wherefore was he foster-brother to the king's daughter, and they two
+were peerless among children.
+
+Now King Beli's chattels began to ebb fast away from his hands, for he
+was grown old.
+
+Thorstein had rule over the third part of the realm, and in him lay the
+king's greatest strength.
+
+Every third year Thorstein feasted the king at exceeding great cost, and
+the king feasted Thorstein the two years between.
+
+Helgi, Beli's son, from his youth up turned much to blood-offering:
+neither were those brethren well-beloved.
+
+Thorstein had a ship called Ellidi, which pulled fifteen oars on either
+board; it ran up high stem and stern, and was strong-built like an
+ocean-going ship, and its bulwarks were clamped with iron.
+
+So strong was Frithiof that he pulled the two bow oars of Ellidi;
+but either oar was thirteen ells long, and two men pulled every oar
+otherwhere.
+
+Frithiof was deemed peerless amid the young men of that time, and the
+king's sons envied him, whereas he was more praised than they.
+
+Now King Beli fell sick; and when the sickness lay heavy on him he
+called his sons to him and said to them: "This sickness will bring me to
+mine end, therefore will I bid you this, that ye hold fast to those old
+friends that I have had; for meseems in all things ye fall short of that
+father and son, Thorstein and Frithiof, yea, both in good counsel and in
+hardihood. A mound ye shall raise over me."
+
+So with that Beli died.
+
+Thereafter Thorstein fell sick; so he spake to Frithiof: "Kinsman," says
+he, "I will crave this of thee, that thou bow thy will before the king's
+sons, for their dignity's sake; yet doth my heart speak goodly things to
+me concerning thy fortune. Now would I be laid in my mound over against
+King Beli's mound, down by the sea on this side the firth, whereas it
+may be easiest for us to cry out each to each of tidings drawing nigh."
+
+A little after this Thorstein departed, and was laid in mound even as he
+had bidden; but Frithiof took the land and chattels after him. Biorn
+and Asmund were Frithiof s foster-brethren; they were big and strong men
+both.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.     Frithiof wooeth Ingibiorg of those Brethren.
+
+So Frithiof became the most famed of men, and the bravest in all things
+that may try a man.
+
+Biorn, his foster-brother, he held in most account of all, but Asmund
+served the twain of them.
+
+The ship Ellidi, he gat, the best of good things, of his father's
+heritage, and another possession therewith--a gold ring; no dearer was
+in Norway.
+
+So bounteous a man was Frithiof withal, that it was the talk of most,
+that he was a man of no less honour than those brethren, but it were
+for the name of king; and for this cause they held Frithiof in hate and
+enmity, and it was a heavy thing to them that he was called greater
+than they: furthermore they thought they could see that Ingibiorg, their
+sister, and Frithiof were of one mind together.
+
+It befell hereon that the kings had to go to a feast to Frithiof s house
+at Foreness; and there it happened according to wont that he gave to all
+men beyond that they were worthy of. Now Ingibiorg was there, and she
+and Frithiof talked long together; and the king's daughter said to
+him:--
+
+          "A goodly gold ring hast thou."
+          "Yea, in good sooth," said he.
+
+Thereafter went those brethren to their own home, and greater grew their
+enmity of Frithiof.
+
+A little after grew Frithiof heavy of mood, and Biorn, his
+foster-brother, asked him why he fared so.
+
+He said he had it in his mind to woo Ingibiorg. "For though I be named
+by a lesser name than those brethren, yet am I not fashioned lesser."
+
+"Even so let us do then," quoth Biorn. So Frithiof fared with certain
+men unto those brethren; and the kings were sitting on their father's
+mound when Frithiof greeted them well, and then set forth his wooing,
+and prayed for their sister Ingibiorg, the daughter of Beli.
+
+The kings said: "Not overwise is this thine asking, whereas thou wouldst
+have us give her to one who lacketh dignity; wherefore we gainsay thee
+this utterly."
+
+Said Frithiof: "Then is mine errand soon sped; but in return never will
+I give help to you henceforward, nay, though ye need it ever so much."
+
+They said they heeded it nought: so Frithiof went home, and was joyous
+once more.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.     Of King Ring and those Brethren.
+
+There was a king named Ring, who ruled over Ringrealm, which also was in
+Norway: a mighty folk-king he was, and a great man, but come by now unto
+his latter days.
+
+Now he spake to his men: "Lo, I have heard that the sons of King Beli
+have brought to nought their friendship with Frithiof, who is the
+noblest of men; wherefore will I send men to these kings, and bid them
+choose whether they will submit them to me and pay me tribute, or else
+that I bring war on them: and all things then shall lie ready to my hand
+to take, for they have neither might nor wisdom to withstand me; yet
+great fame were it to my old age to overcome them."
+
+After that fared the messengers of King Ring, and found those brethren,
+Helgi and Halfdan, in Sogn, and spake to them thus: "King Ring sends
+bidding to you to send him tribute, or else will he war against your
+realm."
+
+They answered and said that they would not learn in the days of their
+youth what they would be loth to know in their old age, even how to
+serve King Ring with shame. "Nay, now shall we draw together all the
+folk that we may."
+
+Even so they did; but now, when they beheld their force that it was but
+little, they sent Hilding their fosterer to Frithiof to bid him come
+help them against King Ring. Now Frithiof sat at the knave-play when
+Hilding came thither, who spake thus: "Our kings send thee greeting,
+Frithiof, and would have thy help in battle against King Ring, who
+cometh against their realm with violence and wrong."
+
+Frithiof answered him nought, but said to Biorn, with whom he was
+playing: "A bare place in thy board, foster-brother, and nowise mayst
+thou amend it; nay, for my part I shall beset thy red piece there, and
+wot whether it be safe."
+
+Then Hilding spake again:
+
+"King Helgi bade me say thus much, Frithiof, that thou shouldst go on
+this journey with them, or else look for ill at their hands when they at
+the last come back."
+
+"A double game, foster-brother," said Biorn; "and two ways to meet thy
+play."
+
+Frithiof said: "Thy play is to fall first on the knave, yet the double
+game is sure to be."
+
+No other outcome of his errand had Hilding: he went back speedily to the
+kings, and told them Frithiof's answer.
+
+They asked Hilding what he made out of those words. He said:
+
+"Whereas he spake of the bare place he will have been thinking of the
+lack in this journey of yours; but when he said he would beset the red
+piece, that will mean Ingibiorg, your sister; so give ye all the heed ye
+may to her. But whereas I threatened him with ill from you, Biorn deemed
+the game a double one; but Frithiof said that the knave must be set on
+first, speaking thereby of King Ring."
+
+So then the brethren arrayed them for departing; but, ere they went,
+they let bring Ingibioig and eight women with her to Baldur's Meads,
+saying that Frithiof would not be so mad rash as to go see her thither,
+since there was none who durst make riot there.
+
+Then fared those brethren south to Jadar, and met King Ring in
+Sogn-Sound.
+
+Now, herewith was King Ring most of all wroth that the brothers had said
+that they accounted it a shame to fight with a man so old that he might
+not get a-horseback unholpen.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.     Frithiof goes to Baldur's Meads.
+
+Straightway whenas the kings were gone away Frithiof took his raiment
+of state and set the goodly gold ring on his arm; then went the
+foster-brethren down to the sea and launched Ellidi. Then said Biorn:
+"Whither away, foster-brother?"
+
+"To Baldur's Meads," said Frithiof, "to be glad with Ingibiorg.",
+
+Biorn said: "A thing unmeet to do, to make the gods wroth with us."
+
+"Well, it shall be risked this time," said Frithiof; "and withal, more
+to me is Ingibiorg's grace than Baldur's grame."
+
+Therewith they rowed over the firth, and went up to Baldur's Meads and
+to Ingibiorg's bower, and there she sat with eight maidens, and the new
+comers were eight also.
+
+But when they came there, lo, all the place was hung with cloth of pall
+and precious webs.
+
+Then Ingibiorg arose and said:
+
+"Why art thou so overbold, Frithiof, that thou art come here without the
+leave of my brethren to make the gods angry with thee?"
+
+Frithiof says: "Howsoever that may be, I hold thy love of more account
+than the gods' hate."
+
+Ingibiorg answered: "Welcome art thou here, thou and thy men!"
+
+Then she made place for him to sit beside her, and drank to him in the
+best of wine; and thus they sat and were merry together.
+
+Then beheld Ingibiorg the goodly ring on his arm, and asked him if that
+precious thing were his own.
+
+Frithiof said Yea, and she praised the ring much. Then Frithiof said:
+
+"I will give thee the ring if thou wilt promise to give it to no one,
+but to send it to me when thou no longer shalt have will to keep it: and
+hereon shall we plight troth each to other."
+
+So with this troth-plighting they exchanged rings.
+
+Frithiof was oft at Baldur's Meads a-night time, and every day between
+whiles would he go thither to be glad with Ingibiorg.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.     Those Brethren come Home again.
+
+Now tells the tale of those brethren, that they met King Ring, and he
+had more folk than they: then went men betwixt them, and sought to make
+peace, so that no battle should be: thereto King Ring assented on such
+terms that the brethren should submit them to him, and give him in
+marriage Ingibiorg their sister, with the third part of all their
+possessions.
+
+The kings said Yea thereto, for they saw that they had to do with
+overwhelming might: so the peace was fast bound by oaths, and the
+wedding was to be at Sogn whenas King Ring should go see his betrothed.
+
+So those brethren fare home with their folk, right ill content with
+things. But Frithiof, when he deemed that the brethren might be looked
+for home again, spake to the king's daughter:
+
+"Sweetly and well have ye done to us, neither has goodman Baldur been
+wroth with us; but now as soon as ye wot of the kings' coming home,
+spread the sheets of your beds abroad on the Hall of the Goddesses, for
+that is the highest of all the garth, and we may see it from our stead."
+
+The king's daughter said: "Thou dost not after the like of any other:
+but certes, we welcome dear friends whenas ye come to us."
+
+So Frithiof went home; and the next morning he went out early, and when
+he came in then he spake and sang:
+
+          "Now must I tell
+          To our good men
+          That over and done
+          Are our fair journeys;
+          No more a-shipboard
+          Shall we be going,
+          For there are the sheets
+          Spread out a-bleaching."
+
+Then they went out, and saw that the Hall of the Goddesses was all
+thatched with white linen. Biorn spake and said: "Now are the kings come
+home, and but a little while have we to sit in peace, and good were it,
+meseems, to gather folk together."
+
+So did they, and men came flocking thither.
+
+Now the brethren soon heard of the ways of Frithiof and Ingibiorg, and
+of the gathering of men. So King Helgi spake:
+
+"A wondrous thing how Baldur will bear what shame soever Frithiof and
+she will lay on him! Now will I send men to him, and wot what atonement
+he will offer us, or else will I drive him from the land, for our
+strength seemeth to me not enough that we should fight with him as now."
+
+So Hilding, their fosterer, bare the king's errand to Frithiof and his
+friends, and spake in such wise: "This atonement the kings will have of
+thee, Frithiof, that thou go gather the tribute of the Orkneys, which
+has not been paid since Beli died, for they need money, whereas they are
+giving Ingibiorg their sister in marriage, and much of wealth with her."
+
+Frithiof said: "This thing only somewhat urges us to peace, the good
+will of our kin departed; but no trustiness will those brethren show
+herein. But this condition I make, that our lands be in good peace while
+we are away." So this was promised and all bound by oaths.
+
+Then Frithiof arrays him for departing, and is captain of men brave and
+of good help, eighteen in company.
+
+Now his men asked him if he would not go to King Helgi and make peace
+with him, and pray himself free from Baldur's wrath.
+
+But he answered: "Hereby I swear that I will never pray Helgi for
+peace."
+
+Then he went aboard Ellidi, and they sailed out along the Sognnrth.
+
+But when Frithiof was gone from home, King Halfdan spake to Helgi his
+brother: "Better lordship and more had we if Frithiof had payment for
+his masterful deed: now therefore let us burn his stead, and bring on
+him and his men such a storm on the sea as shall make an end of them."
+
+Helgi said it was a thing meet to be done.
+
+So then they burned up clean all the stead at Foreness and robbed it of
+all goods; and after that sent for two witch-wives, Heidi and Hamglom,
+and gave them money to raise against Frithiof and his men so mighty a
+storm that they should all be lost at sea. So they sped the witch-song,
+and went up on the witch-mount with spells and sorcery.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.     Frithiof Sails for the Orkneys.
+
+SO when Frithiof and his men were come out of the Sognfirth there fell
+on them great wind and storm, and an exceeding heavy sea: but the ship
+drave on swiftly, for sharp built she was, and the best to breast the
+sea.
+
+So now Frithiof sang:--
+
+          "Oft let I swim from Sogn
+          My tarred ship sooty-sided,
+          When maids sat o'er the mead-horn
+          Amidst of Baldur's Meadows;
+          Now while the storm is wailing
+          Farewell I bid you maidens,
+          Still shall ye love us, sweet ones,
+          Though Ellidi the sea fill."
+
+Said Biorn: "Thou mightest well find other work to do than singing songs
+over the maids of Baldur's Meadows."
+
+"Of such work shall I not speedily run dry, though," said Frithiof.
+Then they bore up north to the sounds nigh those isles that are called
+Solundir, and therewith was the gale at its hardest.
+
+Then sang Frithiof:
+
+          "Now is the sea a-swelling,
+          And sweepeth the rack onward;
+          Spells of old days cast o'er us
+          Make ocean all unquiet;
+          No more shall we be striving
+          Mid storm with wash of billows,
+          But Solundir shall shelter
+          Our ship with ice-beat rock-walls."
+
+So they lay to under the lee of the isles hight Solundir, and were
+minded to abide there; but straightway thereon the wind fell: then they
+turned away from under the lee of the islands, and now their voyage
+seemed hopeful to them, because the wind was fair awhile: but soon it
+began to freshen again.
+
+Then sang Frithiof:
+
+          "In days foredone
+          From Foreness strand
+          I rowed to meet
+          Maid Ingibiorg;
+          But now I sail
+          Through chilly storm
+          And wide away
+          My long-worm driveth."
+
+And now when they were come far out into the main, once more the sea
+waxed wondrous troubled, and a storm arose with so great drift of snow,
+that none might see the stem from the stern; and they shipped seas, so
+that they must be ever a-baling. So Frithiof sang:
+
+          "The salt waves see we nought
+          As seaward drive we ever
+          Before the witch-wrought weather,
+          We well-famed kings'-defenders:
+          Here are we all a-standing,
+          With all Solundir hull-down,
+          Eighteen brave lads a-baling
+          Black Ellidi to bring home."
+
+Said Biorn: "Needs must he who fareth far fall in with diverse hap."
+
+"Yea, certes, foster-brother," said Frithiof. And he sang withal:
+
+          "Helgi it is that helpeth
+          The white-head billows' waxing;
+          Cold time unlike the kissing
+          In the close of Baldut's Meadow!
+          So is the hate of Helgi
+          To that heart's love she giveth.
+          O would that here I held her,
+          Gift high above all giving!"
+
+"Maybe," said Biorn, "she is looking higher than thou now art: what
+matter when all is said?"
+
+"Well," says Frithiof, "now is the time to show ourselves to be men of
+avail, though blither tide it was at Baldur's Meadows."
+
+So they turned to in manly wise, for there were the bravest of men come
+together in the best ship of the Northlands. But Frithiof sang a stave:
+
+          "So come in the West-sea,
+          Nought see I the billows,
+          The sea-water seemeth
+          As sweeping of wild-fire.
+          Topple the rollers,
+          Toss the hills swan-white,
+          Ellidi wallows
+          O'er steep of the wave-hills."
+
+Then they shipped a huge sea, so that all stood a-baling. But Frithiof
+sang:
+
+          "With love-moved mouth the maiden
+          Mepledgeth though I founder.
+          Ah! bright sheets lay a-bleaching,
+          East there on brents the swan loves."
+
+Biorn said: "Art thou of mind belike that the maids of Sogn will weep
+many tears over thee?"
+
+Said Frithiof: "Surely that was in my mind."
+
+Therewith so great a sea broke over the bows, that the water came in
+like the in-falling of a river; but it availed them much that the ship
+was so good, and the crew aboard her so hardy.
+
+Now sang Biorn:
+
+          "No widow, methinks,
+          To thee or me drinks;
+          No ring-bearer fair
+          Biddeth draw near;
+          Salt are our eyne
+          Soaked in the brine;
+          Strong our arms are no more,
+          And our eyelids smart sore."
+
+Quoth Asmund: "Small harm though your arms be tried somewhat, for no
+pity we had from you when we rubbed our eyes whenas ye must needs rise
+early a-mornings to go to Baldu's Meadows."
+
+"Well," said Frithiof, "why singest thou not, Asmund?"
+
+"Not I," said Asmund; yet sang a ditty straightway:
+
+
+          "Sharp work about the sail was
+          When o'er the ship seas tumbled,
+          And there was I a-working
+          Within-board 'gainst eight balers;
+          Better it was to bower,
+          Bringing the women breakfast,
+          Than here to be 'mid billows
+          Black Ellidi a-baling."
+
+"Thou accountest thy help of no less worth than it is?" said Frithiof,
+laughing therewith; "but sure it showeth the thrall's blood in thee that
+thou wouldst fain be awaiting at table."
+
+Now it blew harder and harder yet, so that to those who were aboard
+liker to huge peaks and mountains than to waves seemed the sea-breakers
+that crashed on all sides against the ship.
+
+Then Frithiof sang:
+
+          "On bolster I sat.
+          In Baldur's Mead erst,
+          And all songs that I could
+          To the king's daughter sang;
+          Now on Ran's bed belike
+          Must I soon be a-lying,
+          And another shall be
+          By Ingibiorg's side."
+
+Biorn said: "Great fear lieth ahead of us, foster-brother, and now dread
+hath crept into thy words, which is ill with such a good man as thou."
+
+Says Frithiof: "Neither fear nor fainting is it, though I sing now of
+those our merry journeys; yet perchance more hath been said of them than
+need was: but most men would think death surer than life, if they were
+so bested as we be."
+
+"Yet shall I answer thee somewhat," said Biorn, and sang:
+
+          "Yet one gain have I gotten
+          Thou gatst not 'mid thy fortune,
+          For meet play did I make me
+          With Ingibiorgs eight maidens;
+          Red rings we laid together
+          Aright in Baldur's Meadow,
+          When far off was the warder
+          Of the wide land of Halfdan."
+
+"Well," said he, "we must be content with things as they are,
+foster-brother."
+
+Therewith so great a sea smote them, that the bulwark was broken and
+both the sheets, and four men were washed overboard and all lost.
+
+Then sang Frithiof:
+
+          "Both sheets are bursten
+          Amid the great billows,
+          Four swains are sunk
+          In the fathomless sea?
+
+"Now, meseems," said Frithiof, "it may well be that some of us will
+go to the house of Ran, nor shall we deem us well sped if we come not
+thither in glorious array; wherefore it seems good to me that each man
+of us here should have somewhat of gold on him."
+
+Then he smote asunder the ring, Ingibiorg's gift, and shared it between
+all his men, and sang a stave withal:
+
+          "The red ring here I hew me
+          Once owned of Halfdan's father,
+          The wealthy lord of erewhile,
+          Or the sea waves undo us,
+          So on the guests shall gold be,
+          If we have need of guesting;
+          Meet so for mighty men-folk
+          Amid Ran's hall to hold them."
+
+"Not all so sure is it that we come there," said Biorn; "and yet it may
+well be so."
+
+Now Frithiof and his folk found that the ship had great way on her, and
+they knew not what lay ahead, for all was mirk on either board, so that
+none might see the stem or stern from amidships; and therewith was there
+great drift of spray amid the furious wind, and frost, and snow, and
+deadly cold.
+
+Now Frithiof went up to the masthead, and when he came down he said to
+his fellows: "A sight exceeding wondrous have I seen, for a great whale
+went in a ring about the ship, and I misdoubt me that we come nigh to
+some land, and that he is keeping the shore against us; for certes
+King Helgi has dealt with us in no friendly wise, neither will this
+his messenger be friendly. Moreover I saw two women on the back of the
+whale, and they it is who will have brought this great storm on us
+with the worst of spells and witchcraft; but now we shall try which may
+prevail, my fortune or their devilry, so steer ye at your straightest,
+and I will smite these evil things with beams."
+
+          Therewith he sang a stave:
+          "See I troll women
+          Twain on the billows,
+          Een they whom Helgi
+          Hither hath sent.
+          Ellidi now
+          Or ever her way stop
+          Shall smile the backs
+          Of these asunder."
+
+So tells the tale that this wonder went with the good ship Ellidi, that
+she knew the speech of man.
+
+But Biorn said: "Now may we see the treason of those brethren against
+us." Therewith he took the tiller, but Frithiof caught up a forked beam,
+and ran into the prow, and sang a stave:
+
+          "Ellidi, hail!
+          Leap high o'er the billows!
+          Break of the troll wives
+          Brow or teeth now!
+          Break cheek or jaw
+          Of the cursed woman,
+          One foot or twain
+          Of the ogress filthy."
+
+Therewith he drave his fork at one of the skin-changers, and the beak of
+Ellidi smote the other on the back, and the backs of both were broken;
+but the whale took the deep, and gat him gone, and they never saw him
+after.
+
+Then the wind fell, but the ship lay waterlogged; so Frithiof called out
+to his men, and bade bale out the ship, but Biorn said:
+
+"No need to work now, verily!"
+
+"Be thou not afeard, foster-brother," said Frithiof, "ever was it the
+wont of good men of old time to be helpful while they might, whatsoever
+should come after." And therewith he sang a stave:
+
+          "No need, fairfellows,
+          To fear the death-day;
+          Rather be glad,
+          Good men of mine:
+          For if dreams wot aught
+          All nights they say
+          I yet shall have
+          My Ingibiorg."
+
+Then they baled out the ship; and they were now come nigh unto land; but
+there was yet a flaw of wind in their teeth. So then did Frithiof take
+the two bow oars again, and rowed full mightily. Therewith the weather
+brightened, and they saw that they were come out to Effia Sound, and so
+there they made land.
+
+The crew were exceeding weary; but so stout a man was Frithiof that he
+bore eight men a-land over the foreshore, but Biorn bore two, and Asmund
+one. Then sang Frithiof:
+
+          "Fast bare I up
+          To the fire-lit house
+          My men all dazed
+          With the drift of the storm;
+          And the sail moreover
+          To the sand I carried;
+          With the might of the sea
+          Is there no more to do."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.     Frithiof at the Orkneys.
+
+Now Earl Angantyr was at Effia whenas Frithiof and his folk came a-land
+there. But his way it was, when he was sitting at the drink, that one
+of his men should sit at the watch-window, looking weatherward from the
+drinking hall, and keep watch there. From a great horn drank he ever:
+and still as one was emptied another was filled for him. And he who held
+the watch when Frithiof came a-land was called Hallward; and now he saw
+where Frithiof and his men went, and sang a stave:
+
+          "Men see I a-baling
+          Amid the storm's might;
+          Six bale on Ellidi
+          Seven are a-rowing;
+          Like is he in the stem,
+          Straining hard at the oars,
+          To Frithiof the bold,
+          The brisk in the battle."
+
+So when he had drunk out the horn, he cast it in through the window, and
+spake to the woman who gave him drink:
+
+          "Take up from the floor,
+          O fair-going woman,
+          The horn cast adown
+          Drunk out to the end!
+          I behold men at sea
+          Who, storm-beaten, shall need
+          Help at our hands
+          Ere the haven they make."
+
+Now the Earl heard what Hallward sang; so he asked for tidings, and
+Hallward said: "Men are come a-land here, much forewearied, yet brave
+lads belike: but one of them is so hardy that he beareth the others.
+ashore."
+
+Then said the Earl, "Go ye, and meet them, and welcome them in seemly
+wise; if this be Frithiof, the son of Hersir Thorstein, my friend, he is
+a man famed far and wide for all prowess."
+
+Then there took up the word a man named Atli, a great viking, and he
+spake: "Now shall that be proven which is told of, that Frithiof hath
+sworn never to be first in the craving of peace."
+
+There were ten men in company with him, all evil and outrageous, who
+often wrought berserksgang.
+
+So when they met Frithiof they took to their weapons.
+
+But Atli said:
+
+"Good to turn hither, Frithiof! Clutching ernes should claw; and we no
+less, Frithiof! Yea, and now may'st thou hold to thy word, and not crave
+first for peace."
+
+So Frithiof turned to meet them, and sang a stave:
+
+          "Nay, nay, in nought
+          Now shall ye cow us.
+          Blenching hearts
+          Isle-abiders!
+          Alone with you ten
+          The fight will I try,
+          Rather than pray
+          For peace at your hands."
+
+Then came Hallward thereto, and spake: "The Earl wills that ye all be
+made welcome here: neither shall any set on you."
+
+Frithiof said he would take that with a good heart; howsoever he was
+ready for either peace or war.
+
+So thereon they went to the Earl, and he made Frithiof and all his men
+right welcome, and they abode with him, in great honour holden, through
+the wintertide; and oft would the Earl ask of their voyage: so Biorn
+sang:
+
+          "There baled we, wight fellows,
+          Washed over and over
+          On both boards
+          By billows;
+          For ten days we baled there,
+          And eight thereunto."
+
+The Earl said: "Well nigh did the king undo you; it is ill seen of
+such-like kings as are meet for nought but to overcome men by wizardry.
+But now I wot," says Angantyr, "of thine errand hither, Frithiof, that
+thou art sent after the scat: whereto I give thee a speedy answer, that
+never shall King Helgi get scat of me, but to thee will I give money,
+even as much as thou wilt; and thou mayest call it scat if thou hast a
+mind to, or whatso else thou wilt."
+
+So Frithiof said that he would take the money.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.     King Ring weddeth Ingibiorg.
+
+Now shall it be told of what came to pass in Norway the while Frithiof
+was away: for those brethren let burn up all the stead at Foreness.
+Moreover, while the weird sisters were at their spells they tumbled down
+from off their high witch-mount, and brake both their backs.
+
+That autumn came King Ring north to Sogn to his wedding, and there at a
+noble feast drank his bridal with Ingibiorg.
+
+"Whence came that goodly ring which thou hast on thine arm?" said King
+Ring to Ingibiorg.
+
+She said her father had owned it, but he answered and said:
+
+"Nay, for Frithiof s gift it is: so take it off thine arm straightway;
+for no gold shalt thou lack whenas thou comest to Elfhome."
+
+So she gave the ring to King Helgi's wife, and bade her give it to
+Frithiof when he came back.
+
+Then King Ring wended home with his wife, and loved her with exceeding
+great love.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.     Frithiof brings the Tribute to the Kings.
+
+The spring after these things Frithiof departed from the Orkneys and
+Earl Angantyr in all good liking; and Hallward went with Frithiof.
+
+But when they came to Norway they heard tell of the burning of
+Frithiof's stead.
+
+So when he was gotten to Foreness, Frithiof said: "Black is my house
+waxen now; no friends have been at work here." And he sang withal:
+
+          "Frank and free,
+          With my father dead,
+          In Foreness old
+          We drank aforetime.
+          Now my abode
+          Behold I burned;
+          For many ill deeds
+          The kings must I pay."
+
+Then he sought rede of his men what was to be done; but they bade him
+look to it: then he said that the scat must first be paid out of hand.
+So they rowed over the Firth to Sowstrand; and there they heard that the
+kings were gone to Baldur's Meads to sacrifice to the gods; so Frithiof
+and Biorn went up thither, and bade Hallward and Asmund break up
+meanwhile all ships, both great and small, that were anigh; and they did
+so. Then went Frithiof and his fellow to the door at Baldur's Meads, and
+Frithiof would go in. Biorn bade him fare warily, since he must needs go
+in alone; but Frithiof charged him to abide without, and keep watch; and
+he sang a stave:
+
+          "All alone go I
+          Unto the stead;
+          No folk I need
+          For the finding of kings;
+          But cast ye the fire
+          O'er the kings' dwellingly
+          If I come not again
+          In the cool of the even."
+
+"Ah," said Biorn, "a goodly singing!"
+
+Then went Frithiof in, and saw but few folk in the Hall of the
+Goddesses; there were the kings at their blood-offering, sitting
+a-drinking; a fire was there on the floor, and the wives of the kings
+sat thereby, a-warming the gods, while others anointed them, and wiped
+them with napkins.
+
+So Frithiof went up to King Helgi and said: "Have here thy scat!"
+
+And therewith he heaved up the purse wherein was the silver, and drave
+it on to the face of the king; whereby were two of his teeth knocked
+out, and he fell down stunned in his high seat; but Halfdan got hold of
+him, so that he fell not into the fire. Then sang Frithiof:
+
+          "Have here thy scat,
+          High lord of the warriors!
+          Heed that and thy teeth,
+          Lest all tumble about thee!
+          Lo the silver abideth
+          At the bight of this bag here,
+          That Biorn and I
+          Betwixt us have borne thee."
+
+Now there were but few folk in the chamber, because the drinking was
+in another place; so Frithiof went out straightway along the floor, and
+beheld therewith that goodly ring of his on the arm of Helgi's wife as
+she warmed Baldur at the fire; so he took hold of the ring, but it was
+fast to her arm, and he dragged her by it over the pavement toward the
+door, and Baldur fell from her into the fire; then Halfdan's wife caught
+hastily at Baldur, whereby the god that she was warming fell likewise
+into the fire, and the fire caught both the gods, for they had been
+anointed, and ran up thence into the roof, so that the house was all
+ablaze: but Frithiof got the ring to him ere he came out. So then Biorn
+asked him what had come of his going in there; but Frithiof held up the
+ring and sang a stave:
+
+          "The heavy purse smote Helgi
+          Hard 'midst his scoundrel's visage:
+          Lowly bowed Halfdan's brother,
+          Fell bundling 'mid the high seat;
+          There Baldur fell a-burning.
+          But first my bright ring gat I.
+          Fast from the roaring fire
+          I dragged the bent crone forward."
+
+Men say that Frithiof cast a firebrand up on to the roof, so that the
+hall was all ablaze, and therewith sang a stave:
+
+          "Down stride we toward the sea-strand,
+          And strong deeds set a-going,
+          For now the blue flame bickers
+          Amidst of Baldur's Meadow."
+
+And therewith they went down to the sea.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.     Frithiof made an Outlaw.
+
+But as soon as King Helgi had come to himself he bade follow after
+Frithiof speedily, and slay them all, him and his fellows: "A man of
+forfeit life, who spareth no Place of Peace!"
+
+So they blew the gathering for the kings' men, and when they came out to
+the hall they saw that it was afire; so King Halfdan went thereto with
+some of the folk, but King Helgi followed after Frithiof and his men,
+who were by then gotten a-shipboard and were lying on their oars.
+
+Now King Helgi and his men find that all the ships are scuttled, and
+they have to turn back to shore, and have lost some men: then waxed King
+Helgi so wroth that he grew mad, and he bent his bow, and laid an arrow
+on the string, and drew at Frithiof so mightily that the bow brake
+asunder in the midst.
+
+But when Frithiof saw that, then he gat him to the two bow oars of
+Ellidi, and laid so hard on them that they both brake, and with that he
+sang a stave:
+
+          "Young Ingibiorg
+          Kissed I aforetime,
+          Kissed Beli's daughter
+          In Baldur's Meadow.
+          So shall the oars
+          Of Ellidi
+          Break both together
+          As Helgi's bow breaks."
+
+Then the land-wind ran down the firth and they hoisted sail and sailed;
+but Frithiof bade them look to it that they might have no long abiding
+there. And so withal they sailed out of the Sognfirth, and Frithiof
+sang:
+
+          "Sail we away from Sogn,
+          E'en as we sailed aforetime,
+          When flared the fire all over
+          The house that was my fathers'.
+          Now is the bale a-burning
+          Amidst of Baldur's Meadow:
+          But wend I as a wild-wolf,
+          Well wot I they have sworn it."
+
+"What shall we turn to now, foster-brother?" said Biorn.
+
+"I may not abide here in Norway," said Frithiof: "I will learn the ways
+of warriors, and sail a-warring."
+
+So they searched the isles and out-skerries the summer long, and
+gathered thereby riches and renown; but in autumn-tide they made for
+the Orkneys, and Angantyr gave them good welcome, and they abode there
+through the winter-tide.
+
+But when Frithiof was gone from Norway the kings held a Thing, whereat
+was Frithiof made an outlaw throughout their realm: they took his lands
+to them, moreover, and King Halfdan took up his abode at Foreness, and
+built up again all Baldur's Meadow, though it was long ere the fire
+was slaked there. This misliked King Helgi most, that the gods were all
+burned up, and great was the cost or ever Baldur's Meadow was built anew
+fully equal to its first estate.
+
+So King Helgi abode still at Sowstrand.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.     Frithiof fareth to see King Ring and Ingibiorg.
+
+Frithiof waxed ever in riches and renown whithersoever he went: evil men
+he slew, and grimly strong-thieves, but husbandmen and chapmen he let
+abide in peace; and now was he called anew Frithiof the Bold; he had
+gotten to him by now a great company well arrayed, and was become
+exceeding wealthy of chattels.
+
+But when Frithiof had been three winters a-warring he sailed west, and
+made the Wick; then he said that he would go a-land: "But ye shall fare
+a-warring without me this winter; for I begin to weary of warfare, and
+would fain go to the Uplands, and get speech of King Ring: but hither
+shall ye come to meet me in the summer, and I will be here the first day
+of summer."
+
+Biorn said: "This counsel is naught wise, though thou must needs rule;
+rather would I that we fare north to Sogn, and slay both those kings,
+Helgi and Halfdan."
+
+"It is all naught," said Frithiof; "I must needs go see King Ring and
+Ingibiorg."
+
+Says Biorn: "Loth am I hereto that thou shouldst risk thyself alone in
+his hands; for this Ring is a wise man and of great kin, though he be
+somewhat old."
+
+But Frithiof said he would have his own way: "And thou, Biorn, shalt be
+captain of our company meanwhile."
+
+So they did as he bade, and Frithiof fared to the Uplands in the autumn,
+for he desired sore to look upon the love of King Ring and Ingibiorg.
+But or ever he came there he did on him, over his clothes, a great cloak
+all shaggy; two staves he had in his hand, and a mask over his face, and
+he made as if he were exceeding old.
+
+So he met certain herdsmen, and, going heavily, he asked them: "Whence
+are ye?" They answered and said: "We are of Streitaland, whereas the
+king dwelleth."
+
+Quoth the carle: "Is King Ring a mighty king, then?"
+
+They answered: "Thou lookest to us old enough to have cunning to know
+what manner of man is King Ring in all wise."
+
+The carle said that he had heeded salt-boiling more than the ways of
+kings; and therewith he goes up to the king's house.
+
+So when the day was well worn he came into the hall, blinking about as a
+dotard, and took an outward place, pulling his hood over him to hide his
+visage.
+
+Then spake King Ring to Ingibiorg: "There is come into the hall a man
+far bigger than other men."
+
+The queen answered: "That is no such great tidings here."
+
+But the king spake to a serving-man who stood before the board, and
+said: "Go thou, and ask yon cowled man who he is, whence he cometh, and
+of what kin he is."
+
+So the lad ran down the hall to the new-comer and said: "What art thou
+called, thou man? Where wert thou last night? Of what kin art thou?"
+
+Said the cowled man: "Quick come thy questions, good fellow! but hast
+thou skill to understand if I shall tell thee hereof?"
+
+"Yea, certes," said the lad.
+
+"Well," said the cowl-bearer, "Thief is my name, with Wolf was I last
+night, and in Grief-ham was I reared."
+
+Then ran the lad back to the king, and told him the answer of the
+new-comer.
+
+"Well told, lad," said the king; "but for that land of Grief-ham, I know
+it well: it may well be that the man is of no light heart, and yet a
+wise man shall he be, and of great worth I account him."
+
+Said the queen: "A marvellous fashion of thine, that thou must needs
+talk so freely with every carle that cometh hither! Yea, what is the
+worth of him, then?"
+
+"That wottest thou no clearer than I," said the king; "but I see that he
+thinketh more than he talketh, and is peering all about him."
+
+Therewith the king sent a man after him, and so the cowl-bearer went up
+before the king, going somewhat bent, and greeted him in a low voice.
+Then said the king: "What art thou called, thou big man?"
+
+And the cowl-bearer answered and sang:
+
+          "Peace-thief they called me
+          On the prow with the Vikings;
+          But War-thief whenas
+          I set widows a-weeping;
+          Spear-thief when I
+          Sent forth the barbed shafts;
+          Battle-thief when I
+          Burst forth on the king;
+          Hel-thief when I
+          Tossed up the small babies:
+          Isle-thief when I
+          In the outer isles harried;
+          Slaws-thief when I
+          Sat aloft over men:
+          Yet since have I drifted
+          With salt-boiling carls,
+          Needy of help
+          'Ere hither I came."
+
+Said the king: "Thou hast gotten thy name of Thief from many a matter,
+then; but where wert thou last night, and what is thy home?"
+
+The cowl-bearer said: "In Grief-ham I grew up; but heart drave me
+hither, and home have I nowhere."
+
+The king said: "Maybe indeed that thou hast been nourished in Grief-ham
+a certain while; yet also maybe that thou wert born in a place of peace.
+But in the wild-wood must thou have lain last night, for no goodman
+dwelleth anigh named Wolf; but whereas thou sayest thou hast no home,
+so is it, that thou belike deemest thy home nought, because of thy heart
+that drave thee hither."
+
+Then spake Ingibiorg: "Go, Thief, get thee to some other harbour, or in
+to the guest-hall."
+
+"Nay," said the king, "I am old enow to know how to marshal guests; so
+do off thy cowl, new-comer, and sit down on my other hand."
+
+"Yea, old, and over old," said the queen, "when thou settest
+staff-carles by thy side."
+
+"Nay, lord, it beseemeth not," said Thief; "better it were as the
+queen sayeth. I have been more used to boiling salt than sitting beside
+lords."
+
+"Do thou my will," said the king, "for I will rule this time."
+
+So Thief cast his cowl from him, and was clad thereunder in a dark blue
+kirtle; on his arm, moreover, was the goodly gold ring, and a thick
+silver belt was round about him, with a great purse on it, and therein
+silver pennies glittering; a sword was girt to his side, and he had a
+great fur hood on his head, for his eyes were bleared, and his face all
+wrinkled.
+
+"Ah! now we fare better, say I," quoth the king; "but do thou, queen,
+give him a goodly mantle, well shapen for him."
+
+"Thou shalt rule, my lord," said the queen; "but in small account do I
+hold this Thief of thine."
+
+So then he gat a good mantle over him, and sat down in the high-seat
+beside the king.
+
+The queen waxed red as blood when she saw the goodly ring, yet would she
+give him never a word; but the king was exceeding blithe with him and
+said: "A goodly ring hast thou on thine arm there; thou must have boiled
+salt long enough to get it."
+
+Says he, "That is all the heritage of my father."
+
+"Ah!" says the king, "maybe thou hast more than that; well, few
+salt-boiling carles are thy peers, I deem, unless eld is deep in mine
+eyes now."
+
+So Thief was there through the winter amid good entertainment, and well
+accounted of by all men; he was bounteous of his wealth, and joyous with
+all men: the queen held but little converse with him; but the king and
+he were ever blithe together.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.     Frithiof saves the King and Queen on the Ice.
+
+The tale tells that on a time King Ring and the queen, and a great
+company, would go to a feast. So the king spake to Thief: "Wilt thou
+fare with us, or abide at home?"
+
+He said he had liefer go; and the king said: "Then am I the more
+content."
+
+So they went on their ways, and had to cross a certain frozen water.
+Then said Thief: "I deem this ice untrustworthy; meseemeth ye fare
+unwarily."
+
+Quoth the king: "It is often shown how heedful in thine heart thou wilt
+be to us."
+
+So a little after the ice broke in beneath them, and Thief ran thereto,
+and dragged the wain to him, with all that was therein; and the king and
+the queen both sat in the same: so Thief drew it all up on to the ice,
+with the horses that were yoked to the wain.
+
+Then spake King Ring: "Right well drawn, Thief! Frithiof the Bold
+himself would have drawn no stronger had he been here; doughty followers
+are such as thou!"
+
+So they came to the feast, and there is nought to tell thereof, and the
+king went back again with seemly gifts.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII.     The King sleeps before Frithiof.
+
+Now weareth away the mid-winter, and when spring cometh, the weather
+groweth fair, the wood bloometh, the grass groweth, and ships may glide
+betwixt land and land. So on a day the king says to his folk: "I will
+that ye come with us for our disport out into the woods, that we may
+look upon the fairness of the earth."
+
+So did they, and went flock-meal with the king into the woods; but so it
+befell, that the king and Frithiof were gotten alone together afar from
+other men, and the king said he was heavy, and would fain sleep. Then
+said Thief: "Get thee home, then, lord, for it better beseemeth men of
+high estate to lie at home than abroad."
+
+"Nay," said the king, "so will I not do." And he laid him down
+therewith, and slept fast, snoring loud.
+
+Thief sat close by him, and presently drew his sword from his sheath and
+cast it far away from him.
+
+A little while after the king woke up, and said: "Was it not so,
+Frithiof, that a many things came into thy mind e'en now? But well hast
+thou dealt with them, and great honour shalt thou have of me. Lo, now, I
+knew thee straightway that first evening thou earnest into our hall: now
+nowise speedily shalt thou depart from us; and somewhat great abideth
+thee."
+
+Said Frithiof: "Lord king, thou hast done to me well, and in friendly
+wise; but yet must I get me gone soon, because my company cometh
+speedily to meet me, as I have given them charge to do."
+
+So then they rode home from the wood, and the king's folk came flocking
+to him, and home they fared to the hall and drank joyously; and it was
+made known to all folk that Frithiof the Bold had been abiding there
+through the winter-tide.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV.     King Ring's Gift to Frithiof.
+
+Early of a morning-tide one smote on the door of that hall, wherein
+slept the king and queen, and many others: then the king asked who it
+was that called at the hall door; and so he who was without said: "Here
+am I, Frithiof; and I am arrayed for my departure."
+
+Then was the door opened, and Frithiof came in, and sang a stave:
+
+          "Have great thanks for the guesting
+          Thou gavest with all bounty;
+          Dight fully for wayfaring
+          Is the feeder of the eagle;
+          But, Ingidiorg, I mind thee
+          While yet on earth we tarry;
+          Live gloriously! I give thee
+          This gift for many kisses."
+
+And therewith he cast the goodly ring towards Ingibiorg, and bade her
+take it.
+
+The king smiled at this stave of his, and said: "Yea, forsooth, she hath
+more thanks for thy winter quarters than I; yet hath she not been more
+friendly to thee than I."
+
+Then sent the king his serving-folk to fetch victuals and drink, and
+saith that they must eat and drink before Frithiof departed. "So arise,
+queen, and be joyful!" But she said she was loth to fall a-feasting so
+early.
+
+"Nay, we will eat all together," said King Ring; and they did so.
+
+But when they had drank a while King Ring spake: "I would that thou
+abide here, Frithiof; for my sons are but children and I am old, and
+unmeet for the warding of my realm, if any should bring war against it."
+Frithiof said: "Speedily must I be gone, lord." And he sang:
+
+          "Oh, live, King Ring,
+          Both long and hale!
+          The highest king
+          Neath heaven's skirt!
+          Ward well, O king,
+          Thy wife and land,
+          For Ingibiorg now
+          Never more shall I meet."
+
+Then quoth King Ring:
+
+          "Fare not away,
+          O Frithiof, thus,
+          With downcast heart,
+          O dearest of chieftains!
+          For now will I give thee
+          For all thy good gifts,
+          Far better things
+          Than thou wottest thyself."
+
+And again he sang:
+
+          "To Frithiof the famous
+          My fair wife I give,
+          And all things therewith
+          That are unto me."
+
+Then Frithiof took up the word and sang:
+
+          "Nay, how from thine hands
+          These gifts may I have,
+          But if thou hast fared
+          By the last way of fate."
+
+The king said: "I would not give thee this, but that I deem it will soon
+be so, for I sicken now. But of all men I would that thou shouldst have
+the joy of this; for thou art the crown of all Norway. The name of king
+will I give thee also; and all this, because Ingibiorg's brethren would
+begrudge thee any honour; and would be slower in getting thee a wife
+than I am."
+
+Said Frithiof: "Have all thanks, lord, for thy goodwill beyond that I
+looked for! but I will have no higher dignity than to be called earl."
+
+Then King Ring gave Frithiof rule over all his realm in due wise, and
+the name of earl therewith; and Frithiof was to rule it until such time
+as the sons of King Ring were of age to rule their own realm. So King
+Ring lay sick a little while, and then died; and great mourning was
+made for him; then was there a mound cast over him, and much wealth laid
+therein, according to his bidding.
+
+Thereafter Frithiof made a noble feast, whereunto his folk came; and
+thereat was drunken at one and the same time the heritage feast after
+King Ring, and the bridal of Frithiof and Ingibiorg.
+
+After these things Frithiof abode in his realm, and was deemed therein a
+most noble man; he and Ingibiorg had many children.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV.     Frithiof King in Sogn.
+
+Now those kings of Sogn, the brethren of Ingibiorg, heard these tidings,
+how that Frithiof had gotten a king's rule in Ringrealm, and had wedded
+Ingibiorg their sister. Then says Helgi to Halfdan, his brother, that
+unheard of it was, and a deed over-bold, that a mere hersir's son should
+have her to wife: and so thereat they gather together a mighty army, and
+go their ways therewith to Ringrealm, with the mind to slay Frithiof,
+and lay all his realm under them.
+
+But when Frithiof was ware of this, he gathered folk, and spake to the
+queen moreover: "New war is come upon our realm; and now, in whatso wise
+the dealings go, fain am I that thy ways to me grow no colder."
+
+She said: "In such wise have matters gone that I must needs let thee be
+the highest."
+
+Now was Biorn come from the east to help Frithiof; so they fared to the
+fight, and it befell, as ever erst, that Frithiof was the foremost in
+the peril: King Helgi and he came to handy-blows, and there he slew King
+Helgi.
+
+Then bade Frithiof raise up the Shield of Peace, and the battle was
+stayed; and therewith he cried to King Halfdan: "Two choices are in
+thine hands now, either that thou give up all to my will, or else
+gettest thou thy bane like thy brother; for now may men see that mine is
+the better part."
+
+So Halfdan chose to lay himself and his realm under Frithiof's sway;
+and so now Frithiof became ruler over Sogn-folk, and Halfdan was to be
+Hersir in Sogn and pay Frithiof tribute, while Frithiof ruled Ringrealm.
+So Frithiof had the name of King of Sogn-folk from the time that he gave
+up Ringrealm to the sons of King Ring, and thereafter he won Hordaland
+also. He and Ingibiorg had two sons, called Gunnthiof and Hunthiof, men
+of might, both of them.
+
+
+AND SO HERE ENDETH THE STORY OF FRITHIOF THE BOLD.
+
+
+
+
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