The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow

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French Allen. The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. OF THE LIGHTING OF THE BEACON

CHAPTER II. OF THE SOURSOPS, AND THE CURSE WHICH HUNG ON THEM

CHAPTER III. KIARTAN AT CRAGNESS

CHAPTER IV. OF EINAR AND ONDOTT

CHAPTER V. THE SUMMONING OF HIARANDI

CHAPTER VI. OF WHAT HIARANDI SHOULD DO

CHAPTER VII. HOW HIARANDI RECEIVED THE LESSER OUTLAWRY

CHAPTER VIII. OF SCHEMINGS

CHAPTER IX. OF THE OUTCOME OF ONDOTT'S PLOTTINGS

CHAPTER X. HOW ROLF NAMED WITNESSES FOR THE DEATH OF HIARANDI

CHAPTER XI. OF ROLF'S SEARCH FOR ONE TO SURPASS HIM WITH THE BOW

CHAPTER XII. OF THE TRIAL OF SKILL AT TONGUE

CHAPTER XIII. OF THAT ROBBER

CHAPTER XIV. HOW ROLF AND EINAR SUMMONED EACH OTHER

CHAPTER XV. OF SUITS AT THE ALTHING

CHAPTER XVI. THE ACT OF DISTRESS

CHAPTER XVII. ROLF AND FRODI FARE ABROAD

CHAPTER XVIII. HOW THOSE TWO CAME INTO THRALDOM

CHAPTER XIX. NOW MEN ARE SHIPWRECKED

CHAPTER XX. HOW ROLF WON HIS FREEDOM

CHAPTER XXI. HOW ROLF WON THE VIKING'S BOW

CHAPTER XXII. NOW KIARTAN RETURNS

CHAPTER XXIII. OF THE COMING OF EARL THORFINN

CHAPTER XXIV. NOW ROLF AND GRANI QUARREL

CHAPTER XXV. HERE ROLF COMES TO CRAGNESS

CHAPTER XXVI. OF GRANI'S PRIDE

CHAPTER XXVII. ODD DOINGS AT CRAGNESS

CHAPTER XXVIII. OF THAT HARVEST FEAST

CHAPTER XXIX. OF THE TRIAL OF GRANTS PRIDE

CHAPTER XXX. OF THE SAYING OF THOSE TWO WORDS

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In the time after Iceland had become Christian, and after the burning of Njal, but before the deaths of Snorri the Priest and Grettir the Outlaw, there lived at Cragness above Broadfirth a man named Hiarandi, called the Unlucky. And well was he so named, for he got a poor inheritance from his father, but he left a poorer to his son.

Now the farm of Cragness was a fertile fell, standing above the land round about, and girt with crags. Below lay Broadfirth, great and wide, and Cragness jutted out into it, a danger to ships. It had no harbor, but a little cove among the rocks, where Hiarandi kept his boat; and many ships were wrecked on the headland, bringing fortune to the owners of Cragness, both in goods and firewood. And all the land about once belonged to the farm. Rich, therefore, would have been the dwellers at Cragness, but for the doings of Hiarandi's father.

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Then Hiarandi said to Asdis: "No man has ever yet set beacons against shipwreck. All men agree to take the fortune of the sea; and what is cast on a man's beaches, that is his by old custom."

"Thinkest thou that is right?" asked Asdis.

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