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Title: The Thrall of Leif the Lucky

Author: Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

Posting Date: August 14, 2009 [EBook #4581]
Release Date: October, 2003
First Posted: February 11, 2002

Language: English

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THE THRALL OF LEIF THE LUCKY

A Story of Viking Days

By Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
Where Wolves Thrive Better than Lambs

CHAPTER II
The Maid in the Silver Helmet

CHAPTER III
A Gallant Outlaw

CHAPTER IV
In a Viking Lair

CHAPTER V
The Ire of a Shield-Maiden

CHAPTER VI
The Song of Smiting Steel

CHAPTER VII
The King's Guardsman

CHAPTER VIII
Leif the Cross-Bearer

CHAPTER IX
Before the Chieftain

CHAPTER X
The Royal Blood of Alfred

CHAPTER XI
The Passing of the Scar

CHAPTER XII
Through Bars of Ice

CHAPTER XIII
Eric the Red in His Domain

CHAPTER XIV
For the Sake of the Cross

CHAPTER XV
A Wolf-Pack in Leash

CHAPTER XVI
A Courtier of the King

CHAPTER XVII
The Wooing of Helga

CHAPTER XVIII
The Witch's Den

CHAPTER XIX
Tales of the Unknown West

CHAPTER XX
Alwin's Bane

CHAPTER XXI
The Heart of a Shield-Maiden

CHAPTER XXII
In the Shadow of the Sword

CHAPTER XXIII
A Familiar Blade in a Strange Sheath

CHAPTER XXIV
For Dear Love's Sake

CHAPTER XXV
"Where Never Man Stood Before"

CHAPTER XXVI
Vinland the Good

CHAPTER XXVII
Mightier than the Sword

CHAPTER XXVIII
"Things that are Fated"

CHAPTER XXIX
The Battle to the Strong

CHAPTER XXX
From Over the Sea

CONCLUSION

FOREWORD

THE Anglo-Saxon race was in its boyhood in the days when the Vikings
lived. Youth's fresh fires burned in men's blood; the unchastened
turbulence of youth prompted their crimes, and their good deeds were
inspired by the purity and whole-heartedness and divine simplicity of
youth. For every heroic vice, the Vikings laid upon the opposite scale
an heroic virtue.