Erling the Bold
Chapter I. IN WHICH THE TALE BEGINS SOMEWHAT
FURIOUSLY.
Chapter II. INTRODUCES, AMONG OTHERS, THE HERO AND
HEROINE, AND OPENS UP A VIEW OF NORSE LIFE IN THE OLDEN TIME.
Chapter III. SHOWS HOW CHIEF FRIENDS MAY BECOME
FOES, AND CROSS-PURPOSES MAY PRODUCE CROSS CONSEQUENCES, INVOLVING
WORRY AND CONFUSION.
Chapter IV. DESCRIBES WARLIKE PREPARATIONS, AND A
NORSE HALL IN THE OLDEN TIMETELLS ALSO OF A SURPRISE.
Chapter V. THE VIKING RAIDALRIC'S ADVENTURE WITH
THE DANEERLING'S CUTTER, AND THE BATTLE IN THE PASS.
Chapter VI. EVENING IN THE HALLTHE SCALD TELLS OF
GUNDALF'S WOOINGTHE FEAST INTERRUPTED AND THE WAR CLOUDS THICKEN.
Chapter VII. THE TALE RETURNS TO THE SPRINGS
DESCRIBES A GREAT LAND FIGHT, AND TELLS OF A PECULIAR STYLE OF
EXTENDING MERCY TO THE VANQUISHED.
Chapter VIII. TELLS OF DISCUSSIONS AND EXCITING
DEEDS AT ULFSTEDE.
Chapter IX. SHOWS HOW THE ANCIENT SEA-KINGS
TRANSACTED NATIONAL BUSINESS.
Chapter X. PROVES THAT THE BEST OF FRIENDS MAY
QUARREL ABOUT NOTHING, AND THAT WAR HAS TWO ASPECTS.
Chapter XI. DESCRIBES OUR HERO'S INTERVIEW WITH
JARL RONGVOLD AND KING HARALD HAARFAGER.
Chapter XII. DESCRIBES A TERRIFIC AND UNEQUAL
COMBAT.
Chapter XIII. SHOWS THAT ELOQUENCE DOES NOT ALWAYS
FLOW WHEN IT IS EXPECTED, AND THAT GLUMM BEGINS A NEW COURSE OF ACTION.
Chapter XIV. IN WHICH ALRIC BOASTS A LITTLE,
DISCOVERS SECRETS, CONFESSES A LITTLE, AND DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF
GREATLY.
Chapter XV. TREATS OF ANCIENT DIPLOMACY AMONG THE
NORSEMEN, AND SHOWS HOW OUR HERO TURNS THE TABLES ON A WOULD-BE
ASSASSIN.
Chapter XVI. RELATES TO SUCH ELEMENTARY MATTERS AS
THE A B C, AND TOUCHES ON LOVE-MAKING IN THE OLDEN TIME.
Chapter XVII. IN WHICH GLUMM TAKES TO HUNTING ON
THE MOUNTAINS FOR CONSOLATION, AND FINDS IT UNEXPECTEDLY, WHILE ALRIC
PROVES HIMSELF A HERO.
Chapter XVIII. SHOWS WHAT SOME OF THE MEN OF OLD
COULD DO IN COLD BLOOD, AND TREATS OF HEATHEN FESTIVITIES AT HARALD'S
COURT, MINGLED WITH PLOT AND COUNTER PLOT.
Chapter XIX. TELLS SOMETHING OF THE DOINGS OF
SOLVE KLOFE AND OTHERS, AND TREATS OF A FEW OF THE MARVELLOUS
ADVENTURES OF GUTTORM STOUTHEART.
Chapter XX. IN WHICH THE SKY AGAIN BECOMES
OVERCASTTHE WAR-TOKEN IS SENT OUTALRIC GETS A SURPRISE, AND A
BERSERK CATCHES A TARTAR.
Chapter XXI. GLUMM GAINS A GREAT PRIVATE VICTORY
THE DALESMEN ASSEMBLE TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOMTHE FOE APPEARS, AND THE
SIGNAL OF BATTLE IS SOUNDED.
Chapter XXII. DESCRIBES A GREAT SEA FIGHT AND ITS
CONSEQUENCES.
Chapter XXIII. THE END OF AN OLD SEA-KING.
Chapter XXIV. HOPES AND FEARSTHE BURNING OF
HALDORSTEDE, AND ESCAPE OF THE FAMILY.
Chapter XXV. IN WHICH IS DESCRIBED A DESPERATE
ATTEMPT AT RESCUE, A BOLD LEAP FOR FREEDOM, AND A TRIUMPHANT ESCAPE.
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