The Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish Conquest
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High adventure among the Norsemen in a special two volume setHistorical adventure fiction is so popular today that only readers of a certain vintage can remember the time (not so long past) that it had all but disappeared from the catalogues of publishers. Tales of Romans, knights, warriors and soldiers of every nation and period now abound, but the current trend is but a return to a literary genre that has been always had its enthusiasts and indeed its specialist authors. The author of this two volume collection of Viking adventures, Ottilie Liljencrantz, was an American but-as her name sugge...
Chapters (36)
- The Ward of King Canute
- A Romance of the Danish Conquest
- Acknowledgment
- Foreword
- CHAPTER I. The Fall of the House of Frode
- CHAPTER II. Randalin, Frode’s Daughter
- CHAPTER III. Where War-dogs Kennel
- CHAPTER IV. When Royal Blood Is Young Blood
- CHAPTER V. Before The King
- CHAPTER VI. The Training of Fridtjof The Page
- CHAPTER VII. The Game of Swords
- CHAPTER VIII. Taken Captive
- CHAPTER IX. The Young Lord of Ivarsdale
- CHAPTER X. As The Norns Decree
- CHAPTER XI. When My Lord Comes Home From War
- CHAPTER XII. The Foreign Page
- CHAPTER XIII. When Might Made Right
- CHAPTER XIV. How The Fates Cheated Randalin
- CHAPTER XV. How Fridtjof Cheated The Jotun
- CHAPTER XVI. The Sword of Speech
- CHAPTER XVII. The Judgment of The Iron Voice
- CHAPTER XVIII. What The Red Cloak Hid
- CHAPTER XIX. The Gift of The Elves
- CHAPTER XX. A Royal Reckoning
- CHAPTER XXI. With The Jotun as Chamberlain
- CHAPTER XXII. How The Lord of Ivarsdale Paid His Debt
- CHAPTER XXIII. A Blood-stained Crown
- CHAPTER XXIV. On The Road to London
- CHAPTER XXV. The King’s Wife
- CHAPTER XXVI. In The Judgment Hall
- CHAPTER XXVII. Pixie-led
- CHAPTER XXVIII. When Love Meets Love
- CHAPTER XXIX. The Ring of The Coiled Snake
- CHAPTER XXX. When The King Takes a Queen
- CHAPTER XXXI. The Twilight of The Gods
- CHAPTER XXXII. In Time’s Morning
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