Excerpt: ... "What shall be done with this Wulfric?" asked Hubba. "Let him go with Raud until I have spoken with Beorn," answered Ingvar, "then we shall be sure if he is friend or not." Hubba nodded, and he and I rose up and went out to the porch, where Raud and Rolf waited with the two guards. We passed them and stood in the courtyard. "I believe you, Wulfric," said Hubba, "for I know a true man when I see him." "I thank you, Jarl," I answered him, taking the hand that he offered me. I looked out over the sea, for the ...
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Excerpt: ... "What shall be done with this Wulfric?" asked Hubba. "Let him go with Raud until I have spoken with Beorn," answered Ingvar, "then we shall be sure if he is friend or not." Hubba nodded, and he and I rose up and went out to the porch, where Raud and Rolf waited with the two guards. We passed them and stood in the courtyard. "I believe you, Wulfric," said Hubba, "for I know a true man when I see him." "I thank you, Jarl," I answered him, taking the hand that he offered me. I looked out over the sea, for the frank kindness moved me, and I would not show it. There was a heavy bank of clouds working up, and the wind came from the north, with a smell of snow in it. Then I saw a great hawk flying inland, and wondered to see it come over sea at this time of year. It flew so that it would pass over the house, and as it came it wheeled a little and called; and then it swept down and came straight towards me, so that I held out my hand and it perched on my wrist. And lo! it was Lodbrok's gerfalcon; and pleased she was to see me once more, fluttering her wings and glancing at me while I smoothed and spoke to her. But Hubba cried out in wonder, and the men and Ingvar came out to see what his call meant. Then they, too, were amazed, for they knew the bird and her ways well. I had spoken of the falcon once or twice, telling the jarls how she had taken to me, and I think they had doubted it a little. Now the bird had got free in some way, and finding neither of her masters, had fled home, even as Lodbrok said she would. "Now is your story proved to be true," said Hubba, smiling gravely at me, but speaking for Ingvar's ear. "Aye, over true," answered his brother; "serve this man well, Raud and Rolf, for he has been a close friend of Jarl Lodbrok." "Then should he be in Lodbrok's house as a guest," said Raud stoutly, and free of speech as Danes will ever be. "Maybe he shall be so soon," said Ingvar. "I will bide with my first hosts," I said, not being willing to...
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