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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...a boundary wall across it, and a ' borg' which seems to be the strong enclosure of lava blocks (called Krossfold) near the farm, intended perhaps to protect cattle. On the day when the last stone was laid Asdis met them dressed in her gayest, and sweetly listened to their songs of triumph. No wonder they were in high spirits,--but when the Berserk fit went off, it left them all foredone and weaker than common men. Then Styr asked them into his new bath-house to bathe after their toil. It was in the manner of a Roman bath, with a furnace fed from without, a hot room, more or less underground, and a little ante-room, to which steps went down through a trap door,--the bath commonly used by the vikings, and no doubt imitated from the Irish. When they were safely in the bath, Styr fed the fire till it roared again, and closed the trapdoor with a raw hide and a great stone--and waited for the Berserks to be stifled. In spite of all they burst the hatchway; but one was knocked on the head, and the other thrust back into the death-trap. Then they took the bodies out and buried them "in a dale so deep that one can see nothing from it but the sky above." There is their cairn beside the path they made. Some years ago it was opened, and great bones were found in it. And for Asdis,--when he heard the news, Snorri the priest came and married her himself. The Berserks' road leads through the lava from Styr's Hraun to Bjarnarhofn, the haven of Bjorn. He was the son of the great Ketil Flatnose, who made himself ruler of the Vikings in the Hebrides in the later part of the gth century. This independence vexed King Harald Fairhair, who drove Bjorn from Norway in punishment for his father's treason. When Bjorn came to Scotland he found that his friends had become Chr...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130444910
- ISBN 13 9781130444919
- BindingPaperback
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