VANDRAD THE VIKING - A Norse Saga - The Feud and the Spell

J. Storer Clouston

Summary

Long after King Estein had joined his fathers on the Little Holm beyond Hernersfiord, and Helgi, Earl of Askland, had become but a warlike memory, the skalds of Sogn still sang this tale of Vandrad the Viking. 

It contained much wonderful magic, and some astonishingly hard strokes, as they told it; but reading between their lines, the magic bears a strong resemblance to many spells cast even at this day, and as for the sword strokes, there was need for them to be hard in Norway then. For that was the age of the making of many kingdoms, and the North was beginning to do its share........

TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I . THE WEST SEA SAILING
CHAPTER II. THE BAIRN-SLAYERS
CHAPTER III. THE HOLY ISLE
CHAPTER IV. THE ISLAND SPELL
CHAPTER V. ANDREAS THE HERMIT
CHAPTER VI. THE HALL OF LIOT
CHAPTER VII. THE VERDICT OF THE SWORD
CHAPTER VIII. IN THE CELL BY THE ROOST
CHAPTER IX. THE MESSAGE OF THE RUNES
CHAPTER X. KING BUE'S FEAST
CHAPTER XI. THE HOUSE IN THE FOREST
CHAPTER XII. THE MAGICIAN
CHAPTER XIII. ARROW AND SHIELD
CHAPTER XIV. THE MIDNIGHT GUEST
CHAPTER XV. THE LAST OF THE LAWMAN
CHAPTER XVI. KING ESTEIN
CHAPTER XVII. THE END OF THE STORY

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