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قراءة كتاب Frey and His Wife
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FREY AND HIS
WIFE
BY
MAURICE HEWLETT
Author of "The Forest Lovers," etc.
WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED
LONDON, MELBOURNE AND TORONTO
1917
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I | Who and What was Ogmund Ravensson, and why called Ogmund Dint | 7 |
| II | How Ogmund Dint did Nothing, and presently sailed Home to Thwartwater; and what Battle-Glum thought about it all | 25 |
| III | Of King Olaf Trygvasson; and of Sigurd Helming and Gunnar, his Brother | 39 |
| IV | Ogmund Dint comes again to Norway, and meets Gunnar on the Hard of Drontheim | 55 |
| V | Ogmund Dint satisfies Himself, and sails Home | 67 |
| VI | The Hue-and-Cry for Halward Neck | 75 |
| VII | Gunnar crosses the Mountains | 87 |
| VIII | Gunnar in the Forest hears tell of Frey and his Wonders | 97 |
| IX | Gunnar meets with Frey. Concerning Frey's Wife | 115 |
| X | Talk between Gunnar and Sigrid | 129 |
| XI | Gunnar turns Frey about against Frey's Will | 145 |
| XII | The Winter Feasts | 159 |
| XIII | Frey makes Ready to go his Rounds | 171 |
| XIV | Frey Starts on his Rounds | 187 |
| XV | The Snowstorm | 195 |
| XVI | Marriage of Sigrid | 205 |
| XVII | Morrow of the Storm | 211 |
| XVIII | News of Frey reaches Norway | 225 |
| XIX | Sigurd in Sweden. The Battle of the Ford | 233 |
| XX | The End of the Tale | 247 |
WHO AND WHAT WAS OGMUND RAVENSSON, AND WHY CALLED OGMUND DINT
CHAPTER I WHO AND WHAT WAS OGMUND RAVENSSON, AND WHY CALLED OGMUND DINT
It's hard to tell why men could not get along with Ogmund Ravensson; but so it was, and something must be said about it. He was of thrall-origin, it is true, for Raven, his father, who became very rich and lived in the North, in Skaga Firth, had been a thrall. Glum, of Thwartwater, who was better known as Battle-Glum, had owned him, and had given him his freedom. More than that, he had taken in fostership his son Ogmund, and brought him up with his own son, Wigfus, and made much of him, putting him in a fair way to gain money and renown on his own account. When Wigfus went out to Norway and took service with Earl Haakon things stood better than ever for Ogmund; for Glum was ageing and had no other young man so much in favour about him. A thrall for your father was not thought well of; but it had not so far stood in Ogmund's way with Glum, and there must have been more against him than that. Indeed, the tale says that his mother was related by blood to Battle-Glum, and that would be more than enough to cover the taint on his father.
He grew up