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Forkbeard

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	195	"Ivar Forkbeard".	10
19	214	"I see now," smiled Sarus, "that Ivar Forkbeard, of Torvaldsland, was sane".	10

Book 9. (498 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	172	Honey Cake, like many shy, introverted, timid girls, fearing her own sexuality and fearing that of men, sensing them in terror as her natural masters, was the mistress of secret, incredible depths of repressed sexual emotion and feeling; the Forkbeard, of course, a rude barbarian, was not in the lea...	10
8	206	"Never, never," she said, "let me fall into the hands of Ivar Forkbeard!" "I am Ivar Forkbeard," said Forkbeard.	10
10	94	Sometimes, in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see tarn races, or games, or song-dramas; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side, is a companion, or being courted for the companionship; only he and she know that the...	10
10	317	The Forkbeard had brought one thrall with him, the young man, Tarsk, who, even now, followed in the retinue of the Forkbeard; it was thought that if the Forkbeard should purchase a crate of sleen fur or a chest of bog iron the young man, on his shoulders, might then bear it back to our tent, pitched...	10
13	424	There was not a man in the hall but knew that his kinsman, a distant cousin, Finn Broadbelt, whom the Forkbeard had slain, had fallen in fair duel, and that wergild should not have been levied; and there was not a man in that hall but knew that the Blue Tooth had decreed, even were such justified, a...	10
2	350	The eyes of the Forkbeard opened, and Ivar Forkbeard grinned at him.	10
4	1	The Forkbeard and I Return to Our Game Ivar Forkbeard, leaning over the side of his serpent, studied the coloring of the water.	10
5	23	"No," laughed the Forkbeard, delighted, "an enemy!" I saw the men of the Forkbeard grinning, one to the other.	10
6	1	Ivar Forkbeard's Long Hall There was a great cheer from the men of Ivar Forkbeard.	10
6	175	"The Forkbeard has new prizes, fresher meat to chew!" Gunnhild, angrily, with two hands, jerked her kirtle to her waist, and stood straight, proudly before the Forkbeard, her breasts, which were marvelous, thrust forward.	10
6	517	Ivar Forkbeard stood up; both bondmaids looked up at him, touching him; "Run to the furs," said Ivar Forkbeard, "both of you!" Both girls quickly fled to his furs.	10
7	40	An Ahn later the Forkbeard, accompanied by Ottar, keeper of his farm, and Tarl Red Hair, now of Forkbeard's Landfall, inspected his fields.	10
9	97	"You have taught me to heel," she said, "Ivar Forkbeard, but you have not taught me to obey!" "Strip her," said the Forkbeard to the bondmaids.	10
10	301	"When we return to Forkbeard's Landfall," said the Forkbeard, "they will be better, for having looked, and having been looked upon".	10
10	440	Behind the Forkbeard were myself, his men, those bondmaids who had accompanied us, and the thrall, Tarsk, who had been brought along, should the Forkbeard have made any heavy purchases.	10
10	649	The gift of a female is sufficiently trivial that the honor of the Forkbeard as my host would not be in the least threatened; further, this was a desirable wench, whose cuddly slave body would be much relished by the Forkbeard and his crew; further, being trained, she would be a rare and exquisite t...	10
13	49	"Seize him!" screamed the Blue Tooth, and had himself clearly intended to lay rude hands on the innocent Forkbeard, but his men had, forcibly, restrained him, they glaring at Ivar Forkbeard with ill-disguised disapproval.	10
13	195	"The trick," said the Forkbeard, winking, but not thereby much reassuring me, "is to walk back out again!" "You have some intention, then," I asked, "of emerging from this escapade alive?" "That is a portion of my plan," acknowledged the Forkbeard.	10
13	308	From the doors to the hall, swung wide, now approaching, came four figures, Ottar, who had accompanied the Forkbeard to the Thing, two of the Forkbeard's men, with spears, and, between them, clad in rich robes of concealment, such as are worn in the south, even to the veils, the figure of a girl.	10
13	425	Then, to the astonishment of all Torvaldsland, and most to that of Svein Blue Tooth, the Forkbeard, redoubtable, after earning six talmits in the contests, delivered to his hall the very wergild no man had supposed it possible to pay, and had then, arrogantly, before the high seat of the Blue Tooth ...	10
18	528	Then, eyes terrified, she regarded Ivar Forkbeard, of Forkbeard's Landfall.	10
21	72	"Outlawry," said he, "once proclaimed by the hall of Blue Tooth against the person of Ivar Forkbeard, he of Forkbeard's Landfall, is herewith, in this hall, in this place, in the name of Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland, lifted!" There was a great cheer.	10
21	90	"Know this, that from this day forward, Ivar Forkbeard stands among the Jarls of Torvaldsland!" We stood and cheered the fortune, the honor, that the Blue Tooth did unto the Forkbeard.	10
21	119	"Ivar!" called Svein Blue Tooth, when the loot was distributed, pointing to Hilda, who, in her collar, stripped, cuddled at the Forkbeard's side, "are you not, too, going to give away that pretty little trinket?" "No!" laughed the Forkbeard.	10
2	46	Ivar Forkbeard was dead.	10
2	53	But now the Forkbeard was dead.	10
2	55	It would thus indicate that he, Forkbeard, if not in life, had in death acknowledged the error of his ways and embraced the will and wisdom of the faith of Priest-Kings.	10
2	127	There had been much fear in Kassau when the ship of Ivar Forkbeard had entered the inlet.	10
2	141	Forkbeard's ship, or serpent, as they are sometimes called, was approximately eighty feet Gorean in length, with a beam of some ten feet Gorean.	10
2	236	Ivar Forkbeard, in death, if not in life, was making pilgrimage to the temple, that his bones might be anointed at the hands of the High Initiate, would he so graciously deign to do so.	10
2	241	Ivar Forkbeard, the unregenerate, the raider, the pirate, he who had dared to make the fist of the hammer over his ale, would come at last, in death if not in life, humbly to the temple of Priest-Kings.	10
2	283	Twelve of them had gone down to the ship, with candles, to escort the body of Ivar Forkbeard to the temple.	10
2	288	Ivar Forkbeard, I thought to myself, must have been a large man.	10
2	292	So this is the end, I thought to myself, of the great Ivar Forkbeard.	10
2	295	Somehow I regretted that Ivar Forkbeard was dead.	10
2	298	Behind the platform of crossed spears, heads down, filed the crew of Forkbeard.	10
2	313	It was incredible honor that was being shown to these men, that they might, themselves, on the platform of crossed spears, carry the body of Ivar Forkbeard, in death penitent, to the high steps of the great altar.	10
2	318	Ivar Forkbeard's body was not anointed as it was carried through the gate in the rail.	10
2	321	The four men of Torvaldsland carried the huge body of Ivar Forkbeard up the steps of the altar, on the crossed spears.	10
2	325	When the High Initiate finished his prayer, the other Initiates began to sing a solemn hymn, while the High Initiate, at the altar, his back turned to the congregation, began to prepare, with words and signs, the grease of Priest-Kings, for the anointing of the bones of Ivar Forkbeard.	10
2	326	Toward the front of the temple, behind the rail, and even at the two doors of the temple, by the great beams which close them, stood the men of Forkbeard.	10
2	329	Such men, these, would be the hardest of the hard, for only the largest, the swiftest and finest might win for themselves a bench on the ship of a captain, and the man great enough to command such as they must be first and mightiest among them, for the men of Torvaldsland will obey no other, and tha...	10
2	330	But Ivar Forkbeard had come in death, if not in life, to the temple of Priest-Kings, betraying the old gods, to have his bones anointed at last with the grease of Priest-Kings.	10
2	340	At his feet lay the body of the Forkbeard.	10
2	347	He bent down, on one knee, the tiny, rounded, golden box containing the grease of Priest-Kings in his left hand, and drew back with his right hand the long, white shroud concealing the body of Ivar Forkbeard.	10
2	351	With a roar of laughter, hurling the shroud from him, to the horror of the High Initiate, and other Initiates, and the congregation, Ivar Forkbeard, almost seven feet in height, leaped to his feet, in his right hand clutching a great, curved, single-bladed ax of hardened iron.	10
2	358	Ivar Forkbeard stood on the high altar.	10
3	1	I Make the Acquaintance of Ivar Forkbeard And Book Passage on His Ship Screaming pierced my ears.	10
3	15	From the high altar, standing upon it, Ivar Forkbeard directed his men.	10
3	33	"Gather loot!" cried Forkbeard.	10
3	40	"Rollo!" cried out Forkbeard.	10
3	43	"The battle is done!" called out Forkbeard.	10
3	50	"Those who would live," called out Forkbeard, "lie on your stomachs".	10
3	57	"Why do you not lie beneath the ax, Stranger?" called out Forkbeard.	10
3	59	Forkbeard laughed.	10
3	62	"You are of the warriors?" asked Forkbeard.	10
3	64	"I shall see," said Forkbeard.	10
3	68	I turned and swept to the guard position, in the instant seeing the man's distance, and spun again to strike from my body, before it could penetrate it, the hurled spear of Ivar Forkbeard.	10
3	72	He pulled up short, and looked to Ivar Forkbeard.	10
3	73	I turned again to face the Forkbeard.	10
3	80	"He remains standing," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
3	82	"Hurry!" called the Forkbeard to his men.	10
3	84	Ivar Forkbeard leaped down from the altar and began, angrily, to hurl vessels of consecrated oils against the walls behind the sanctuary.	10
3	87	The Forkbeard then leaped over the rail of the sanctuary and strode among the people lying on their stomachs, the wall facing the Sardar being eaten by fire, illuminating the interior of the temple.	10
3	94	Ivar Forkbeard, in the light of the burning wall of the temple, quickly examined the line of women.	10
3	105	I admired the taste of Forkbeard.	10
3	114	"Go to the bondmaid circle," said Ivar Forkbeard, indicating the circle he had drawn in the dirt.	10
3	126	"It is true!" cried a man, the burgher in black satin, whose chain of office Forkbeard had torn from his neck.	10
3	127	"One hundred pieces of gold," said Forkbeard to him, observing the girl.	10
3	130	"Yes!" "Five nights from this night," said Ivar Forkbeard, "on the skerry of Einar—by the rune-stone of the Torvaldsmark".	10
3	137	"Go to the bondmaid circle," said Ivar Forkbeard to the large girl, "but do not enter it".	10
3	139	"The wall of the temple will not last much longer," said one of the men of the Forkbeard.	10
3	140	Forkbeard looked then at the younger, blond, more slender girl, she with her hair now loose, the snood of scarlet yarn ripped away, in her red vest and skirt, and black shoes.	10
3	147	"Go to the circle and enter it," said Ivar Forkbeard to the girl.	10
3	152	I shall first choose death!" "Very well," laughed the Forkbeard.	10
3	161	Ivar Forkbeard laughed and reached down and pulled her up by the arm, his great fist closed about her arm within the white woolen blouse, and thrust her stumbling well within the circle.	10
3	164	"Bondmaids," ordered Ivar Forkbeard harshly, "strip!" Crying out the girls removed their garments.	10
3	168	I envied the Forkbeard his catch.	10
3	169	"Fetter them," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
3	182	Ivar Forkbeard regarded Aelgifu.	10
3	187	"Coffle the females," said Forkbeard.	10
3	195	"Utilize the bondmaids," said the Forkbeard, angrily.	10
3	205	"Be silent, bondmaid," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
3	207	"We shall see," laughed Ivar Forkbeard.	10
3	215	Standing on the broken fragments of the circle, Ivar Forkbeard cried out, his ax lifted, and his left hand, too, "Praise be to Odin!" And then, throwing his ax to his left shoulder, holding it there by his left hand he turned and faced the Sardar, and lifted his fist, clenched.	10
3	228	"Less mad I expect than Ivar Forkbeard," I said.	10
3	238	Of all those in the temple, I think only I, and Ivar Forkbeard, and the giant, he of incredible stature, who had fought with such frenzy, did not seem anxious.	10
3	241	"I, too, am skilled at the game," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
3	244	"True," said Forkbeard.	10
3	256	"Open the other gate!" cried Ivar Forkbeard.	10
3	262	"Now let us leave," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
3	272	Swiftly, down the dirt street to the wharves from the temple, striding, but not running, moved Ivar Forkbeard with his men, and his loot, both that of female flesh and gold.	10
3	286	Ivar Forkbeard then took Aelgifu by the hair and turned her, so that those following might see.	10
3	289	The Forkbeard, his left hand in her hair, his right hand just below the head of the ax, grinned at Gurt.	10
3	291	"Do not fight them! Let them go!" Ivar Forkbeard released Aelgifu and thrust her rudely, stumbling, ahead of him.	10
3	292	"Hurry!" called Ivar Forkbeard to his men.	10
3	300	"You see," cried the blond girl, delightedly, "my bondage is short!" "Citizens of Kassau!" called out Ivar Forkbeard cheerily.	10
3	301	"Greetings from Ivar Forkbeard!" The men looked at him, tense, hunched over, weapons ready, angry.	10
3	302	Forkbeard then, grinning, slung his ax over his left shoulder, dropping it into the broad leather loop by which it may be carried, its head behind his head and to the left.	10
3	313	Ivar Forkbeard reached out his hands and took from one of his men the bowl of coins which the poor had brought as their pitiful offerings to the temple of Kassau.	10
3	320	Then, with a great, sweeping gesture, Ivar Forkbeard emptied the bowl of coins, scattering them in a shower of copper and iron over the men.	10
3	328	We brushed through the scrabbling workers and saw before us the wharf, and the serpent, sleek and swift, of Ivar Forkbeard, at its moorings.	10
3	335	The men of Ivar Forkbeard threw their bulging cloaks, filled with gold and plate, into the ship.	10
3	336	Ivar Forkbeard looked back.	10
3	342	"Do not delay overlong," suggested Ivar Forkbeard.	10
3	364	"Do not fire," called Ivar Forkbeard to his bowmen.	10
3	368	"Cast off," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
3	379	It seemed Aelgifu, proud and rich, would go barefoot, like a peasant wench or a stripped bondmaid, by the will of Ivar Forkbeard, until her ransom was paid on the skerry of Einar five nights from this night, by the rune-stone of the Torvaldsmark.	10
3	381	Ivar Forkbeard went to the bondmaids.	10
3	392	Ivar Forkbeard reached down to the planking on the deck and picked up Aelgifu's shoes and hose, where they had been discarded when they had been removed and her ankles bound.	10
3	411	The men of Torvaldsland singing, the oars lifting and dipping, the serpent of Ivar Forkbeard took its way from the harbor of Kassau.	10
4	20	Ivar Forkbeard went to the mast.	10
4	27	"Tomorrow night," said Ivar Forkbeard to her, "I shall have your ransom money".	10
4	59	On the other hand, feeling my way on the board, I had lost the first two games to the Forkbeard.	10
4	63	The Forkbeard's game was much more varied, and tactical, than was that of, say, Marlenus of Ar, much more devious, and it was far removed from the careful, conservative, positional play of a man such as Mintar, of the caste of Merchants.	10
4	64	The Forkbeard made great use of diversions and feints, and double strategies, in which an attack is double edged, being in effect two attacks, an open one and a concealed one, either of which, depending on a misplay by the opponent, may be forced through, the concealed attack requiring usually only ...	10
4	65	In the beginning I had played Forkbeard positionally, learning his game.	10
4	71	"It is your move," said Forkbeard.	10
4	74	"Ah!" laughed the Forkbeard.	10
4	88	Forkbeard and I sat in the shade, under a tented awning of sewn boskhides, some thirty-five feet in length.	10
4	99	They knelt, with soft cloths and polishes, cleaning and rubbing to a high shine, which must please the Forkbeard, the golden trove of the looted temple of Kassau.	10
4	100	The men of Forkbeard, their oars inboard, the ship under sail, amused themselves as they would.	10
4	103	Two, like Forkbeard and myself, gave themselves to Kaissa.	10
4	106	Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on pars...	10
4	107	Only two of the Forkbeard's men did not rest, he at the helm, bare-headed, looking to sea, and the fellow at the height of the mast, on lookout.	10
4	116	Forkbeard put his First Singer to his own Ax Four, threatening my Ax.	10
4	126	"You should not have surrendered your Ax," said Forkbeard.	10
4	129	"You play the Ax well," said Forkbeard.	10
4	135	I knew, of course, that game context was a decisive matter in such considerations, but only now, playing Forkbeard, did I suspect that there was another context involved, that of the inclinations, capacities and dispositions of the individual player.	10
4	139	Then I noted, uneasily, the Forkbeard moving his Jarl to the now-freed Ax Four.	10
4	143	"Gorm," said the Forkbeard.	10
4	151	I recalled how disappointed she had been in the men of Torvaldsland, when, heads hanging, they had accompanied the Forkbeard to the temple at Kassau.	10
4	157	He then gestured that she, kneeling, should lift her fettered wrists to him; she did so; he, with a key from his belt, opened the fetters which held her; he thrust them in his belt; he then pulled her by the arm roughly to her feet and thrust her toward the Forkbeard.	10
4	169	For a clinker-built ship, the serpent of Ivar Forkbeard was extraordinarily tight.	10
4	176	"Bail," said the Forkbeard.	10
4	178	"Return to me," said the Forkbeard, harshly.	10
4	192	Once the Forkbeard went to her and taught her to check the scoop, with her left hand, for snails, that they not be thrown overboard.	10
4	202	"Your Hall is taken," said the Forkbeard.	10
4	205	"You should not have surrendered your Ax," said the Forkbeard.	10
4	211	She had performed her first task for her master, the Forkbeard, drying, as it is said, the belly of his serpent.	10
4	213	"Give Gorm back the scoop," said the Forkbeard, "and then carry water to my men".	10
4	215	The Forkbeard looked at her.	10
4	226	I noted the blondish girl, the water bag now, wet and heavy, over her shoulder, going to the men of the Forkbeard, to offer them drink.	10
4	230	"Let us have another game," said the Forkbeard.	10
4	244	"No!" Then she said, "If I am violated, he will not pay the ransom! Too he will bring with him a woman, that determination on this matter be made! Surely you wish my ransom!" "Yes," said the Forkbeard, putting down her ankle, "I do indeed want your ransom, and I shall have it".	10
4	250	"Then stay where you are," said the Forkbeard.	10
4	264	"Come here, Wench," called the Forkbeard.	10
4	266	"Feed her," said the Forkbeard, gesturing over his shoulder.	10
4	271	The slender, blondish girl, called Thyri, though now, actually, she had no name, not having been given one by the Forkbeard, did not respond to Aelgifu's taunt.	10
4	296	The Forkbeard looked up from his game.	10
4	301	The Forkbeard was using the Jarl's Ax's Gambit, a powerful opening.	10
4	303	Ivar Forkbeard approached Aelgifu with the small bowl of gruel.	10
4	307	"You will eat it," said the Forkbeard, "or you will be stripped and put to the oar".	10
4	309	"That will not violate you, my pretty," said the Forkbeard.	10
4	319	"Open your mouth, my large-breasted beauty," said the Forkbeard.	10
4	326	"Good," said the Forkbeard, studying the board.	10
4	334	The Forkbeard and I returned to our game.	10
5	1	Feed Her on the Gruel of Bondmaids It was at noon of the following day that the lookout cried out, "Serpent to starboard!" The Forkbeard looked up from the board, swiftly.	10
5	2	The men of Ivar Forkbeard, too, suddenly came alive.	10
5	5	"Benches!" called the Forkbeard.	10
5	7	"Do not disturb the arrangement of the pieces," said Ivar Forkbeard, leaving the board.	10
5	21	"It is the serpent of Thorgard of Scagnar," cried out Forkbeard, much pleased.	10
5	27	The Forkbeard then ordered the sail high reefed, set even to the spar.	10
5	31	"We have time," said Ivar Forkbeard, "for another move or two".	10
5	33	"Singer to Ax Two is not a strong move," said the Forkbeard.	10
5	35	"You intend to follow it, of course," said the Forkbeard, "with Jarl to your Ax Four".	10
5	37	"Interesting," said the Forkbeard.	10
5	42	I could see that the Forkbeard, though expecting the variation, given the preceding four moves, was delighted when it had materialized.	10
5	45	"Excellent," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
5	49	"He is an enemy," said Ivar Forkbeard, simply.	10
5	51	"The shipping of Port Kar," smiled Ivar Forkbeard, "is not uniquely distinguished in this respect".	10
5	53	"What is your name?" had asked the Forkbeard.	10
5	67	"The men of Port Kar, however," said the Forkbeard, "are respected in the north".	10
5	70	"You play Kaissa well," had said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
5	81	"Shall I get the great bow from my belongings?" I asked Ivar Forkbeard.	10
5	83	"No," said the Forkbeard.	10
5	85	"The serpent hunts us!" The Forkbeard and I played four more moves.	10
5	88	"What shield is at his mast?" called the Forkbeard.	10
5	90	"Raise no shield to our own mast," said the Forkbeard.	10
5	94	"It has a much higher freeboard area than this vessel," I told Ivar Forkbeard.	10
5	97	The Forkbeard nodded.	10
5	99	"That we will find out," said the Forkbeard.	10
5	101	"It has forty benches," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
5	106	"I would be a fool to do so," said the Forkbeard.	10
5	110	"When I engage Thorgard of Scagnar," said Ivar Forkbeard, "I shall do so to my advantage, not his".	10
5	117	Ivar Forkbeard went to him, as might have a father, and took his head in his hands, and held it against his chest.	10
5	121	"No battle now," repeated the Forkbeard, shaking the giant's head.	10
5	125	"Another time!" laughed the Forkbeard, giving the great head a shake, as though it might have been that of a pet hound or bear.	10
5	127	"She will approach astern!" "Swing to face her amidships," laughed the Forkbeard.	10
5	133	"That will encourage them to row their best," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
5	143	"Lower the wench from the spar!" called the Forkbeard.	10
5	144	"You on the starboard side, display now the loot of Kassau's temple!" Rowers of Ivar Forkbeard now took their place at the port side.	10
5	153	"Throw the loot over the bondmaids," called the Forkbeard.	10
5	155	"The awning!" called Forkbeard.	10
5	172	"Benches!" laughed Ivar Forkbeard.	10
5	180	The prow of the serpent of Ivar Forkbeard leaped from the water and its stern went almost awash.	10
5	181	"Stroke!" called the Forkbeard.	10
5	183	The serpent of Ivar Forkbeard leaped toward the line of the horizon.	10
5	189	Another javelin, and four more arrows, sped to the ship of Ivar Forkbeard.	10
5	193	The other two arrows struck, ringing, the plate of the temple of Kassau, and hung, broken, in the boskhide awning that covered the Forkbeard's loot, both that of gold and flesh, and then another javelin fell behind us, into the sea, and the bowmen returned to their benches.	10
5	194	For a quarter of an Ahn the Forkbeard himself held the helm of his ship.	10
5	195	But after a quarter of an Ahn, grinning, the Forkbeard surrendered the helm to one of his men, and came to join me amidships.	10
5	198	"A most interesting variation," said Forkbeard, returning his attention to the board.	10
5	200	"I think not," said Forkbeard, "but let us see".	10
5	201	After another quarter of an Ahn Forkbeard bade his men rest at their oars.	10
5	204	Under sail alone the serpent of Ivar Forkbeard, almost scornfully, left her behind.	10
5	214	"Take course," said Ivar Forkbeard, to his helmsman, "for the skerry of Einar".	10
5	217	It was there, at the rune-stone of the Torvaldsmark, that Ivar Forkbeard would receive her ransom.	10
5	219	"I did not think it would be," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
5	225	"That is the name of the daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
5	227	"The Hilda is my ship," said Ivar Forkbeard, "and the daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar will be my bondmaid".	10
5	230	There was silence on the ship of Ivar Forkbeard.	10
5	241	Gurt, I knew, if wise, would not attempt to cheat the Forkbeard.	10
5	258	"The worst," said Ivar Forkbeard, "is likely to be the coinage of Lydius".	10
5	271	"I have two pair of scales," admitted Ivar Forkbeard, grinning.	10
5	274	The Forkbeard fingered the silver chain of office, looped about his neck, which he had taken from the administrator of Kassau.	10
5	277	But now, with Gorm, and the men of Ivar Forkbeard, I waited, in silence, on his serpent.	10
5	278	"Should the Forkbeard not have returned by now?" I asked.	10
5	284	Then I saw the Forkbeard at the tiller.	10
5	292	"Yes," said the Forkbeard.	10
5	298	"Yes," laughed the Forkbeard.	10
5	303	The Forkbeard threw off the fur, revealing the proud Aelgifu, bound hand and foot, gagged, lying in the bottom of the boat.	10
5	306	The Forkbeard lifted her up to Gorm.	10
5	313	I helped the Forkbeard and his men lift the longboat to the deck.	10
5	316	"Free the serpent!" called the Forkbeard.	10
5	321	The men of the Forkbeard scurried to their benches.	10
5	326	"To sea!" called the Forkbeard.	10
5	328	"Stroke!" called the Forkbeard.	10
5	330	The Forkbeard stood angrily at the rail, looking back at the small flotilla of boats, dark in the night.	10
5	334	"We left them naked," said the Forkbeard.	10
5	341	Their bodies, bound, loot, prizes of the Forkbeard, lying in the darkness, among the glint of the gold taken in the sack of Kassau's temple, were very beautiful.	10
5	342	The Forkbeard freed Aelgifu of her gag.	10
6	9	The rowing song was strong and happy in the lusty throats of the crew of the Forkbeard.	10
6	11	Ivar Forkbeard, at the prow, lifted a great, curved bronze horn and blew a blast.	10
6	18	Soon, I gathered, we would be at Forkbeard's landfall.	10
6	19	"Put her," said Forkbeard, indicating the slender, blond girl, "at the prow".	10
6	26	Again Ivar Forkbeard winded the great bronze horn.	10
6	40	Forkbeard waved back to him.	10
6	66	It would be holiday, I gathered, at the hall of Ivar Forkbeard.	10
6	67	The Forkbeard himself now, from a wooden keg, poured a great tankard of ale, which must have been of the measure of five gallons.	10
6	73	Then the Forkbeard himself drained the remains of the tankard, threw it to the foot of the mast, and then, to my astonishment, leapt from the ship, onto the moving oars.	10
6	75	The Forkbeard then, to the delight of those on the bank, who cheered him, as the serpent edged into the dock, addressed himself delightedly to the oar-dance of the rover of Torvaldsland.	10
6	77	Ivar Forkbeard, crying out, leaped from moving oar to moving oar, proceeding from the oars nearest the stem on the port side to the stern, then leaping back onto the deck at the stern quarter and leaping again on the oars, this time on the starboard side, and proceeding from the oar nearest the ster...	10
6	82	The serpent of Ivar Forkbeard, gently, slid against the rolls of leather hung at the side of the dock.	10
6	85	Men on the dock cried out with pleasure, looking on the harshly roped beauty of the slender, blondish girl, so cruelly fastened, back bent, at the prow of the Forkbeard's serpent.	10
6	86	"I have eighteen others!" called Ivar Forkbeard.	10
6	88	"Heat the irons!" called the Forkbeard.	10
6	92	"Bring the anvil to the branding log!" said the Forkbeard.	10
6	102	The slender, blond girl, the hand of Ivar Forkbeard on her arm, was thrust to the head of the gangplank.	10
6	104	Gorm then stood beside Ivar Forkbeard.	10
6	111	"Drink," said Ivar Forkbeard, thrusting the cup into the hands of the slender, blond girl, she who had, so long ago, in the temple of Kassau, worn the snood of scarlet yarn, with twisted golden wire, the red vest and skirt, the white blouse.	10
6	116	"Drink," said the Forkbeard.	10
6	120	She felt the knife of the Forkbeard at her belly.	10
6	125	"Send her to the branding log," said the Forkbeard.	10
6	127	One by one, the prizes of Ivar Forkbeard, even the rich, proud Aelgifu, were forced to down the slave wine.	10
6	129	Ivar Forkbeard then, followed by Gorm, and myself, and his men, descended the gangplank.	10
6	134	"Fair," admitted the Forkbeard.	10
6	137	"This is Tarl Red Hair," said the Forkbeard.	10
6	154	"Ottar enjoys sport," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
6	159	Ottar, in the absence of Ivar Forkbeard, kept his cattle, his properties, his farm and accounts.	10
6	160	"He plays excellent Kaissa," said the Forkbeard.	10
6	171	The Forkbeard shook her head with his great hand.	10
6	181	Then the Forkbeard turned his attention to the serpent, and the disembarkment of its riches, which, on the shoulders of his men, and others, were carried, amid shouts of joy and wonder from those gathered about, to the palisade.	10
6	182	When this was done, I accompanied the Forkbeard to a place behind, and to one side, of a forge shed.	10
6	194	"She first," said the Forkbeard, indicating the slender, blond girl.	10
6	198	"Please, my Jarl," she cried, "do not mark your girl!" At a sign from the Forkbeard, the iron was pressed deeply into her flesh, and held there, smoking for five Ihn.	10
6	209	The brand used by Forkbeard is not uncommon in the north, though there is less uniformity in Torvaldsland on these matters than in the south, where the merchant caste, with its recommendations for standardization, is more powerful.	10
6	211	The brand used by the Forkbeard, found rather frequently in the north, consisted of a half circle, with, at its right tip, adjoining it, a steep, diagonal line.	10
6	236	"Next," called out the Forkbeard.	10
6	239	The Forkbeard, with the heel of his boot on the ground, drew a bondmaid circle.	10
6	242	"Remove your clothing, my pretty one," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
6	253	"Run to the iron, wench," suddenly commanded Ivar Forkbeard, harshly.	10
6	294	"Hurry, Bondmaids!" cried Ivar Forkbeard.	10
6	296	* * * * Ivar Forkbeard roared with laughter, his head back.	10
6	303	"Splendid!" cried the Forkbeard.	10
6	307	"Your hall," said I to the Forkbeard, "is scarcely what I had expected".	10
6	310	The hall of Ivar Forkbeard, I learned, to my surprise, was of a type much more common.	10
6	318	The hall of Ivar Forkbeard was a longhouse.	10
6	343	With his belt knife, thrusting Pudding and Gunnhild back, Ivar Forkbeard addressed himself to the cutting of the meat.	10
6	350	"Well," said Ivar Forkbeard to me, "I am an outlaw".	10
6	368	"Why did you come to Torvaldsland?" suddenly asked Ivar Forkbeard.	10
6	371	"They are dangerous," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
6	430	"He was my Jarl," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
6	432	The Forkbeard looked at me, and grinned.	10
6	441	"And the weight of a full-grown man in the sapphires of Schendi," said the Forkbeard.	10
6	447	I did not mention to the Forkbeard that it had been I, as Bosk of Port Kar, admiral of the city, who had been responsible for the incarceration of Chenbar.	10
6	451	"Now," laughed Ivar Forkbeard, "I expect that these nights Svein Blue Tooth rests less well in his furs".	10
6	473	"I think, soon," said he, "his daughter might be fetched to the hall of Ivar Forkbeard".	10
6	482	The Forkbeard took from her the horn of mead and, together, we drained it.	10
6	489	"Feast!" called Ivar Forkbeard.	10
6	491	Though the hall of Ivar Forkbeard was built only of turf and stone, and though he himself was outlaw, he had met me at its door, after I had been bidden wait outside, in his finest garments of scarlet and gold, and carrying a bowl of water and a towel.	10
6	492	"Welcome to the hall of Ivar Forkbeard," he had said.	10
6	498	I surmised to myself that the help of the Forkbeard might, in the bleak realities of Torvaldsland, be of incalculable value.	10
6	500	Most importantly, the Forkbeard was a mighty fighter, a brave man, a cunning mind; in my work in the north I was grateful that I might have so formidable an ally.	10
6	506	I looked to the Forkbeard.	10
6	524	Gunnhild thrust out her left ankle; the Forkbeard fettered her; a moment later Pudding, too, had thrust forth her ankle, and her ankle, too, was locked in a fetter of the north.	10
6	525	The Forkbeard threw off his jacket.	10
6	526	There was a rustle of chain as the two bondmaids turned, Pudding on her left side, Gunnhild on her right, waiting for the Forkbeard to lie between them.	10
6	562	I turned to look to the Forkbeard's couch.	10
6	565	She sat on the furs, her left ankle clasped in the iron fetter, which chained her to the log at the foot of the Forkbeard's couch, her wrists fastened behind her with her father's chain of office.	10
6	566	She looked at the Forkbeard with fear.	10
6	568	"Do not forget Gunnhild," whined Gunnhild, pressing her lips to the Forkbeard's shoulder.	10
7	2	In the mornings, under the eye of Ottar, keeper of the Forkbeard's farm, I learned the ax.	10
7	47	"Good," said the Forkbeard.	10
7	51	Sa-Tarna is the major crop of the Forkbeard's lands, but, too, there are many gardens, and, as I have noted, bosk and verr, too, are raised.	10
7	52	Ottar dug for the Forkbeard and myself two radishes and we, wiping the dirt from them, ate them.	10
7	53	The tospits, in the Forkbeard's orchard, which can grow at this latitude, as the larma cannot, were too green to eat.	10
7	65	"Take it to the kitchen," said the Forkbeard.	10
7	71	She watched fearfully as the Forkbeard bit into one.	10
7	88	"It is not bad bread," said Ivar Forkbeard to me, when she had disappeared from sight.	10
7	91	It was really quite good, but, as the Forkbeard had said, it could have used a dash more salt.	10
7	93	They worked well, and stood beautifully, under the eyes of the Forkbeard.	10
7	132	"You have seen," said Ottar, to the Forkbeard, "that he has been bold with a bondmaid, the property of free men".	10
7	138	"Would you have touched her?" asked the Forkbeard.	10
7	144	"Let it be as Red Hair suggests," said the Forkbeard.	10
7	150	"Fifty strokes," said the Forkbeard.	10
7	152	"The lash," said the Forkbeard, "will be the snake".	10
7	168	"Go, Ottar, to the forge shed," said the Forkbeard, grinning.	10
7	174	"And Ottar," said the Forkbeard, "see that the thrall returns to his work in the morning".	10
7	176	"I hear, Red Hair," said Ivar Forkbeard, "that your lessons with the ax proceed well".	10
7	178	"I, too, am pleased that he should think so," said Ivar Forkbeard, "for that is indication that it is true".	10
7	183	"That we are pleased to feast," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
7	208	"Red Hair!" called Ivar Forkbeard.	10
7	210	In moments, ax in its sheath on my back, I joined the Forkbeard.	10
7	213	"Lead us to what you have found," demanded the Forkbeard.	10
7	215	Then, on a height, from which we could see, far below, the farm and ship of Ivar Forkbeard, we stopped.	10
7	225	"Do you not know," asked Ivar Forkbeard, "of what animal this is the work?" "No," I said.	10
7	229	"We must find it," had said the Forkbeard.	10
7	230	"It must learn it cannot with impunity hunt on the lands of Forkbeard".	10
7	236	There might, for all we knew, be somewhere in the lands of Ivar Forkbeard one of the Kurii.	10
7	241	"It may have been driven from its own kind," said the Forkbeard, "one too vicious even to be tolerated in its own caves".	10
7	248	"No," said the Forkbeard.	10
7	271	"Torches!" cried the Forkbeard.	10
7	274	Then in the light of a torch, lifted by the Forkbeard, lit from being thrust beneath the ashes of the fire pit, we saw it.	10
7	280	"Weapons!" cried the Forkbeard.	10
7	298	He did not seem in a frenzy; nor did he seem human; he had struck, when others, Gautrek, Gorm, I, even the Forkbeard, had been unable to do other than look upon it with horror.	10
7	300	"No!" cried Ivar Forkbeard.	10
7	304	"Get it out of here," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
7	313	"This is a small Kur," said the Forkbeard.	10
7	318	"No," said the Forkbeard.	10
7	322	"Kurii," said Ivar Forkbeard, "are fond of human flesh".	10
7	325	The Forkbeard shrugged.	10
7	330	"Kill it," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
7	332	"No," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
8	58	The perfumes I was displaying to her had been taken, more than six months ago, by the Forkbeard from a vessel of Cos.	10
8	127	Ivar Forkbeard quickly pulled the bracelets and rings from her wrists and fingers.	10
8	144	"While Thorgard roves at sea," said the Forkbeard, "we rove in Scagnar".	10
8	153	The Forkbeard's dagger's point thrust slightly into her throat.	10
8	157	At a gesture from the Forkbeard, I released her mouth.	10
8	160	The Forkbeard was looking about the room.	10
8	164	"You are fools! You will never get me past the guards!" "I have no intention of getting you past the guards," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
8	178	"Remove, and swiftly," said she, "these disgusting fetters!" Ivar Forkbeard went to the door of her room and, silently, slipped the two beams into place, in their iron brackets.	10
8	187	Ivar Forkbeard then bent to the girl's feet and pulled away her golden shoes, and, his hands at her legs, she, her eyes closed, removed from her, too, her scarlet, silken hose, of the style of Ar.	10
8	205	"What is that?" asked Ivar Forkbeard.	10
8	211	The Forkbeard then lifted her from her feet, lightly.	10
8	215	"I cannot swim!" The Forkbeard then hurled her from the window and she fell, twisting and crying out, some hundred feet to the black waters below.	10
8	218	Then the Forkbeard stood on the sill of the tall window, poised, and then he dived into the darkness; after about an Ehn, giving him time to surface and swim to the boat, I followed him.	10
8	219	In less than another Ehn, soaked and cold, teeth chattering, I had crawled over the bulwark of the longboat and joined the Forkbeard.	10
8	222	The Forkbeard then bent to the soaked, shuddering captive.	10
8	226	The Forkbeard then threw Hilda the Haughty face down in the longboat, and, from Gorm, took the tiller.	10
8	228	"Shhh!" said the Forkbeard.	10
8	242	The Forkbeard kicked her with his boot.	10
8	246	"Go closer," said the Forkbeard.	10
8	258	I heard, too, the intake of breath of the Forkbeard, and of Gorm, and the oarsmen.	10
8	266	The Forkbeard looked at me.	10
8	270	But the beast we had seen was not an isolated, degenerate, diseased beast, of the sort we had encountered at Forkbeard's Landfall.	10
8	273	"What has Thorgard of Scagnar to do with such a beast?" smiled Ivar Forkbeard.	10
8	275	"Doubtless it means nothing," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
8	278	"I have an appointment with Svein Blue Tooth," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
8	291	It seemed to me not unlikely that the Forkbeard's speculation might be true.	10
8	307	"Let us go," said I to Ivar Forkbeard.	10
9	1	The Forkbeard Will Attend the Thing "My Jarl!" cried Thyri, running into my arms.	10
9	6	Ivar Forkbeard crushed to his leather Pudding and Gunnhild, kissing first one and then the other, as each eagerly sought his lips, their hands, too, those of bondmaids, eager upon his body.	10
9	7	Other bondmaids pressed past me to greet favorites among the oarsmen of Forkbeard's serpent.	10
9	8	Behind Forkbeard, and to his left, her head high, disdainful, stood Hilda the Haughty, daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar.	10
9	10	She stood behind the Forkbeard, and to his left.	10
9	13	Her dress of green velvet, trimmed in gold, she still wore; it was torn back from the collar, as the Forkbeard had done in Scagnar, revealing the whiteness of her throat, hinting at the delights of her bosom; the gown, however, now, was discolored, stained and torn; much of the trip she had been fet...	10
9	15	She was what the Forkbeard had sought; she was his prize.	10
9	19	She stood proudly on the arm of the Forkbeard, the white kirtle split to her belly, the black iron at her throat.	10
9	25	The Forkbeard turned about and, one arm about Pudding, the other about Gunnhild, started from the dock.	10
9	29	The Forkbeard stopped.	10
9	34	The Forkbeard started off again, and then again stopped.	10
9	40	On his ship the Forkbeard had taught her, though a free woman, to heel.	10
9	44	On the second day, it had been thrust up only that the spike of a water bag could be thrust between her teeth, and then replaced; on her third day the coverlet was torn away and, with the scarf, thrown overboard; Ivar Forkbeard, on that day, watered her and, with a spoon, fed her a bit of bondmaid g...	10
9	54	"Put her to the oar," had said the Forkbeard.	10
9	68	For a time the Forkbeard watched her, leaning on his elbows, on the rail, but then he left the rail.	10
9	73	She had not been on the oar for half an Ahn when she had begun to beg her release; a few Ehn later, she had begun to beg to heel the Forkbeard.	10
9	76	The Forkbeard said nothing to her, but, the next day, when the sun was hot on the deck, and he released her for her exercise, and he walked about the deck, she, though a free woman, heeled him perfectly.	10
9	80	Ivar Forkbeard left the dock, his arms about Pudding and Gunnhild, who leaned against him.	10
9	89	The Forkbeard turned about.	10
9	93	"Remove your clothing," said the Forkbeard.	10
9	99	In moments the proud girl, naked, was held before the Forkbeard.	10
9	106	She had a fair throat, good shoulders; she was marvelously breasted; her waist was such that one could get his hands on it well; she might have been a bit broad in the beam but I had no objection to this; in the north it is called the love cradle; it was well adapted to cushion the shocks of an oars...	10
9	108	Then Hilda stopped struggling and, held, head high, regarded the Forkbeard.	10
9	115	"How dare you place me in this position, Ivar Forkbeard!" she demanded.	10
9	116	"I am a free woman!" "Bring the five-strap slave slash," said Ivar Forkbeard to Gunnhild.	10
9	121	The lash was placed by Gunnhild in the hand of Ivar Forkbeard.	10
9	124	The Forkbeard touched her back with the whip; his fist held the handle and, too, beneath his fist, folded back, were the five straps.	10
9	127	"Please, no!" We fell back to give the Forkbeard room, and he shook loose the straps and drew back his arm.	10
9	130	"I will obey you!" Ivar Forkbeard, experienced in the disciplining of women, did not deliver the second stroke for a full Ehn.	10
9	149	She looked up at the Forkbeard in misery.	10
9	150	"Bring her clothing," said the Forkbeard.	10
9	152	"Garb yourself," said the Forkbeard.	10
9	159	"Gather the clothing," said the Forkbeard.	10
9	163	"Yes, Ivar Forkbeard," she said.	10
9	167	"Tonight we feast," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
9	170	"And serve it," said the Forkbeard.	10
9	172	"Yes," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
9	175	"Yes," said she, "Ivar Forkbeard".	10
9	195	"Mead!" called Ivar Forkbeard, from across from me.	10
9	200	Hilda the Haughty, daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar, as stripped as any bondmaid, from a large bronze vessel, poured mead for the Forkbeard.	10
9	204	Mighty insult had thus been wrought upon Thorgard of Scagnar, enemy of Ivar Forkbeard.	10
9	207	Rich was the pleasure of Ivar Forkbeard.	10
9	210	The Forkbeard looked upon her, amused.	10
9	215	"Do not misunderstand me, Ivar Forkbeard," whispered Hilda.	10
9	226	"Do you find men of interest?" asked the Forkbeard of Hilda.	10
9	243	"Silence!" called out Ivar Forkbeard.	10
9	245	"What," asked Ivar Forkbeard of Hilda, "if I should order you to the furs?" "I would obey you immediately," she said.	10
9	253	"Ottar, Gorm," said the Forkbeard.	10
9	278	Late and fully were we feasting when the thrall-boy, tugging on the sleeve of Ivar Forkbeard, said to him, "My Jarl, the wench in the ice shed begs to be freed".	10
9	279	"How long has she begged?" asked the Forkbeard.	10
9	282	"Good boy," said the Forkbeard, and tore him a piece of meat.	10
9	287	"Red Hair, Gorm," said the Forkbeard.	10
9	290	"Gorm," said the Forkbeard.	10
9	302	"Please," she wept, piteously, "I beg to be permitted to run to the furs of Ivar Forkbeard".	10
9	317	I lit the way with the torch, and we took her to the hall of the Forkbeard.	10
9	319	The Forkbeard was sitting on the end of his couch, his boots on the floor.	10
9	320	Gorm threw her, on her knees, at the feet of the Forkbeard.	10
9	326	"Who are you?" demanded the Forkbeard.	10
9	333	"I beg to share your furs, Ivar Forkbeard," she wept.	10
9	342	"Mead!" called Ivar Forkbeard, returning to the table.	10
9	344	"Please come to my side, Ivar Forkbeard!" wept Hilda.	10
9	347	The Forkbeard, laughing, drained the horn.	10
9	350	After this second horn of mead the Forkbeard, wiping his mouth with his arm, turned about and went to his furs.	10
9	353	"Hold me, Forkbeard!" she wept.	10
9	354	"Hold me please!" "Will you serve me well?" asked the Forkbeard.	10
9	356	"Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" But the Forkbeard did not make her serve him then but, firmly, held her body, locked in his arms, that of his prisoner, to his, warming her.	10
9	361	I bet on Ivar Forkbeard.	10
9	362	Within an Ahn, Hilda the Haughty, to the jeers of men, the taunts of bondmaids, on her hands and knees, head down, hair falling forward, crept to the circle of the bondmaid, which Ivar Forkbeard had drawn in the dirt of the hall floor, between the posts.	10
9	367	"I am yours, Ivar Forkbeard," she said.	10
9	370	Gunnhild had been given by the Forkbeard to Gorm for the night.	10
9	372	This night her ankle would be held by his fetter, not that of the Forkbeard.	10
9	373	The Forkbeard had offered me Pudding, but, generously, thinking to have Thyri, I had, after using her once, given her for the night to Ottar.	10
9	374	Even now she was, kneeling on his furs, being fettered by the keeper of Ivar Forkbeard's farm.	10
9	378	I had no special claim on the pretty little bondmaid, no more than any other among the Forkbeard's men.	10
9	472	In one Ahn Ottar and the Forkbeard would be up, arousing the men.	10
9	475	Ivar Forkbeard, not wisely perhaps, was determined to attend the Thing.	10
10	25	I turned about and saw the Forkbeard.	10
10	37	It is not unusual for the men of Torvaldsland to wear them, though none of Forkbeard's men did.	10
10	43	Sometimes I wondered if the Forkbeard might be mad.	10
10	50	He had done less well in the singing contest, though he much prided himself on his singing voice; he thought, in that one, the judges had been against him; he did not score highly either in the composition of poetry contest nor in the rhyming games; "I am not a skald," he explained to me later; he d...	10
10	63	Ivar Forkbeard, or Thorgeir of Ax Glacier, as we might call him, had won, all told, counting the swimming talmit, six talmits.	10
10	66	"Let us, this afternoon," said Ivar Forkbeard, "give ourselves to strolling".	10
10	69	But soon I, following the Forkbeard, together with some of his men, pressed in among the throngs of the Thing.	10
10	72	The Forkbeard, too, and his men, were armed.	10
10	90	The Forkbeard had brought with him, too, some bondmaids.	10
10	92	Their eyes were bright; their steps were eager; they had been long isolated on the farm; rural slave girls, the Forkbeard's wenches, they were fantastically stimulated to see the crowds; they looked upon the Thing-Fields with pleasure and excitement; even had they been permitted, some of them, to lo...	10
10	112	"High-farm girls!" she whispered, as she passed the bondmaids of Ivar Forkbeard.	10
10	122	The bondmaids of Ivar Forkbeard laughed delightedly.	10
10	123	The Forkbeard reached out and seized Pudding by the back of the neck.	10
10	130	"Please, no, my Jarl!" "Perhaps," mused the Forkbeard, "I shall have it done to the batch of you upon my return.	10
10	133	The Forkbeard turned then, and we continued on our way.	10
10	134	The Forkbeard whistled.	10
10	137	There was only one of the Forkbeard's wenches who did not sport and laugh.	10
10	141	"Let us watch duels," said the Forkbeard.	10
10	180	"Why do you not challenge a baby?" asked Ivar Forkbeard.	10
10	205	"I am!" called the Forkbeard, striding into the area of hazel wands.	10
10	207	I looked at the Forkbeard.	10
10	209	The Forkbeard sputtered.	10
10	213	"Ineptness!" thundered the Forkbeard.	10
10	216	I had, I thought, hoisted the Forkbeard by his own petard.	10
10	285	"Boy!" cried the Forkbeard.	10
10	287	The Forkbeard threw him a golden tarn disk.	10
10	288	"Buy a bosk and sacrifice it," said the Forkbeard.	10
10	290	"My thanks!" There was cheering from the men about, as I, the Forkbeard, some of his men, and some of his bondmaids, left the place of dueling.	10
10	293	"He is proving that he has told the truth," said the Forkbeard.	10
10	295	I noted that the bondmaids of Ivar Forkbeard attracted more than their expected share of attention.	10
10	300	The girls wore their kirtles as they did not simply that the riches owned by Ivar Forkbeard might be well displayed, the better to excite the envy of others and brighten his vanity, but for another reason as well; the female slave, knowing she is slave, finds it stimulating to be exposed to the insp...	10
10	311	"Buy me!" The Forkbeard grinned.	10
10	321	Forkbeard's girls shrank away from them.	10
10	327	"To the platform!" roared Ivar Forkbeard.	10
10	338	"Smile, you she-sleen!" roared the Forkbeard.	10
10	345	"I do!" called the Forkbeard.	10
10	347	Many were the bids on Gunnhild, shouted from the crowd, but the Forkbeard waved such offers aside.	10
10	351	"Kirtle yourself, wench," said the Forkbeard to Gunnhild, throwing her her kirtle.	10
10	353	At the foot of the steps leading down from the platform, the Forkbeard stopped, and bowed low.	10
10	377	Forkbeard did not respond to her, but regarded her with great deference.	10
10	378	"These females," she said, indicating the Forkbeard's girls, who knelt at her feet, their heads to the turf, "could be better employed on your farm, dunging fields and making butter".	10
10	385	"But I am of Ax Glacier," said the Forkbeard.	10
10	388	The free woman, I could see, was not much pleased with the Forkbeard's response.	10
10	390	"Thorgeir of Ax Glacier," said the Forkbeard, bowing.	10
10	391	"And what," asked she, "would one of Ax Glacier need with all these miserable slaves?" She indicated the kneeling girls of Forkbeard.	10
10	392	"In Ax Glacier country," said the Forkbeard, with great seriousness, "the night is six months long".	10
10	403	"Kirtle your shame!" cried the Forkbeard.	10
10	410	"He should put her in a collar," said the Forkbeard.	10
10	415	"Drop your kirtles, and hitch them up!" Laughing, once more proud of their bodies, the girls of the Forkbeard insolently slung their kirtles low on their hips, and hitched them high over their calves, even half way up their delightful thighs.	10
10	416	Then, we again continued on our way, leaving the place of the platform, the place of Gunnhild's triumph, where she had received a pastry, and where her master, the Forkbeard, had made a silver tarn disk on her beauty.	10
10	424	Dagmar had, two months ago, stolen a piece of cheese from Pretty Ankles; she had been beaten for that, at the post, fastened there by Ottar and switched by Pretty Ankles, until Pretty Ankles had tired of switching her; too, she had not been found sufficiently pleasing by several of the Forkbeard's o...	10