The Modern Vikings; Stories of Life And Sport in the Norseland
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Their long flaxen braids hung down their backs, and their tight-fitting scarlet bodices and white sleeves gave them a picturesque appearance. The cattle were lowing against the sky, answering the call of the horn. The bells of cows, goats, and sheep were jangled in harmonious confusion ; and the noise of the bellowing bulls, the bleating sheep, and the neighing horses was heard from all sides over the wide plain. The three brothers were received with great cordiality by the maids, and they spen...t the evening, after the sup- per was finished, in listening to marvellous stories about the ogres who inhabited the mountains, and the hunting adventures with which Bjarne Sheepskin's life had been crowded, and which he related with a sportsman's usual exaggerations. The beds in one of the saeter cottages were given up to the boys, and they slept peacefully un- til about "four o'clock in the morning, when Grim aroused them and told them that everything was ready for their departure. They swallowed their breakfast hastily, and MAGNIE'S DANGEROUS RIDE.
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