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Title: The Ward of King Canute

Author: Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

Posting Date: February 28, 2009 [EBook #3323]
Release Date: July, 2002

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Produced by A. Elizabeth Warren

THE WARD OF KING CANUTE

A Romance of the Danish Conquest

By Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

Acknowledgment

For the facts of this romance I have made free use of the following
authorities: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; The Venerable Bede's
Ecclesiastical History of England; Ingulph's History of the Abbey of
Croyland; William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England; The
Chronicles of Florence of Worcester; Lingard's History and Antiquities
of the Anglo-Saxon Church, and Lingard's History of England; Dean
Spencer's The White Robe of Churches; Collier's Ecclesiastical History
of Great Britain; Montalembert's Monks of the West; Thrupp's Anglo-Saxon
Home; Hall's Queens Before the Conquest; Kemble's Saxons in England;
Ridgway's Gem of Thorney Island; Brayley and Britton's History of the
Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament; Loftie's Westminster
Abbey and Loftie's History of London; Allen's History and Antiquities
of London; Lappenberg's History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings;
Sharon Turner's History of the Anglo-Saxons; Knight's Old England;
Hume's History of England; Green's Conquest of England; Thierry's
History of the Conquest of England by the Normans; Freeman's History of
the Norman Conquest.

For the translations of Ha'vama'l, etc., used at the beginnings of the
chapters, I am indebted to Professor Rasmus B. Anderson and Mr. Paul du
Chaillu.

O. A. L.

Chicago, April 1, 1903.

Contents

Chapter

I. The Fall of the House of Frode

II. Randalin, Frode's Daughter

III. Where War-Dogs Kennel

IV. When Royal Blood is Young Blood

V. Before the King

VI. The Training of Fridtjof the Page

VII. The Game of Swords

VIII. Taken Captive

IX. The Young Lord oi Ivarsdale

X. As the Norn