The Modern Vikings

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Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. The Modern Vikings

THARALD’S OTTER

BETWEEN SEA AND SKY

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MIKKEL

I. HOW MIKKEL WAS FOUND

II. HOW MIKKEL DISGRACED HIMSELF

III. HOW MIKKEL MAKES HIS FORTUNE

THE FAMINE AMONG THE GNOMES

HOW BERNT WENT WHALING

THE COOPER AND THE WOLVES

MAGNIE’S DANGEROUS RIDE

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II

THORWALD AND THE STAR-CHILDREN

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BIG HANS AND LITTLE HANS

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A NEW WINTER SPORT

THE SKERRY OF SHRIEKS

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FIDDLE-JOHN’S FAMILY

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Отрывок из книги

Tharald and his brother Anders were bathing one day in the lake. The water was deliciously warm, and the two boys lay quietly floating on their backs, paddling gently with their hands. All of a sudden Tharald gave a scream. A big trout leaped into the air, and almost in the same instant a black, shiny head rose out of the water right between his knees. The trout, in its descent, gave him a slap of its slimy tail across his face. The black head stared out at him, for a moment, with an air of surprise, then dived noiselessly into the deep.

Anders hurried to shore as rapidly as arms and legs would propel him.

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Half a dozen other fishermen who were sauntering down the hill-sides saw their comrade fall, and rushed into the water to rescue him.

One man, bolder than the rest, sat astride a floating log and rode out into the seething current. Now he was thrown off; now he scrambled up again; at last, as his drowning comrade appeared for the third time, with an arm extended out of a whirling eddy, he caught him deftly with his boat-hook, and pulled him up toward the log.

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