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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Praise

Maps

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

PROLOGUE: How the shaven men fared in Skania in King Harald Bluetooth’s time

PART ONE: THE LONG VOYAGE

I: Concerning Thane Toste and his household

II: Concerning Krok’s expedition: and how Orm set forth on his first voyage

III: How they sailed southwards, and how they found themselves a good guide

IV: How Krok’s men came to Ramiro’s kingdom, and how they paid a rewarding visit

V: How Krok’s luck changed twice, and how Orm became left-handed

VI: Concerning the Jew Solomon and the Lady Subaida, and how Orm got his sword Blue-Tongue

VII: How Orm served Almansur, and how he sailed with St James’s bell

VIII: Concerning Orm’s sojourn among the monks of St Finnian, and how a great miracle occurred at Jellinge

IX: How King Harald Bluetooth celebrated Yule

X: How Orm lost his necklace

XI: Concerning the wrath of Brother Willibald, and how Orm tried his hand at wooing

XII: How Orm came home from his long voyage

PART TWO: IN KING ETHELRED’S KINGDOM

I: Concerning the battle that was fought at Maldon, and what came after it

II: Concerning spiritual things

III: Concerning marriage and baptism, and King Ethelred’s silver

IV: How Brother Willibald taught King Sven a maxim from the scriptures

PART THREE: IN THE BORDER COUNTRY

I: How Orm built his house and church, and how they named his red-haired daughters

II: How they planned a christening feast for King Harald’s grandson

III: Concerning the strangers that came with salt, and how King Sven lost a head

IV: How Orm preached to the salt-pedlar

V: Concerning the great christening feast, and how the first Smalanders came to be baptized

VI: Concerning four strange beggars, and how the Erin Masters came to Father Willibald’s assistance

VII: Concerning the King of Sweden’s sword-bearer, and the magister from Aachen and his sins

VIII: Concerning the sinful magister’s second sin, and the penance to which he was condemned for it

IX: How the magister searched for heifers and sat in a cherry-tree

X: Concerning the women’s doings at the Kraka Stone, and how Blue-Tongue’s edge became dented

XI: Concerning Toke Grey-Gullsson, and a misfortune that befell him; and of a foul gift Orm received from the Finnvedings

XII: Concerning the Thing at the Kraka Stone

PART FOUR: THE BULGAR GOLD

I: Concerning the end of the world, and how Orm’s children grew up

II: Concerning the man from the East

III: Concerning the story of the Bulgar gold

IV: How they planned to get the gold

V: How they sailed to the Gotland Vi

VI: How they rowed to the Dnieper

VII: Concerning what happened at the weirs

VIII: How Orm met an old friend

IX: Concerning their journey home, and how Olof Summer-Bird vowed to become a Christian

X: How they settled accounts with the crazy magister

XI: Concerning the great hounds’ chase

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