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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409618" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga of King Olaf XVII. -- King Svend Of The Forked Beard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Loudly the sailors cheered<br>Svend of the Forked Beard,<br>As with his fleet he steered<br>Southward to Vendland;<br>Where with their courses hauled<br>All were together called,<br>Under the Isle of Svald<br>Near to the mainland. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">After Queen Gunhild's death,<br>So the old Saga saith,<br>Plighted King Svend his faith<br>To Sigrid the Haughty;<br>And to avenge his bride,<br>Soothing her wounded pride,<br>Over the waters wide<br>King Olaf sought he. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still on her scornful face,<br>Blushing with deep disgrace,<br>Bore she the crimson trace<br>Of Olaf's gauntlet;<br>Like a malignant star,<br>Blazing in heaven afar,<br>Red shone the angry scar<br>Under her frontlet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft to King Svend she spake,<br>'For thine own honor's sake<br>Shalt thou swift vengeance take<br>On the vile coward!'<br>Until the King at last,<br>Gusty and overcast,<br>Like a tempestuous blast<br>Threatened and lowered. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon as the Spring appeared,<br>Svend of the Forked Beard<br>High his red standard reared,<br>Eager for battle;<br>While every warlike Dane,<br>Seizing his arms again,<br>Left all unsown the grain,<br>Unhoused the cattle. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Likewise the Swedish King<br>Summoned in haste a Thing,<br>Weapons and men to bring<br>In aid of Denmark;<br>Eric the Norseman, too,<br>As the war-tidings flew,<br>Sailed with a chosen crew<br>From Lapland and Finmark. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So upon Easter day<br>Sailed the three kings away,<br>Out of the sheltered bay,<br>In the bright season;<br>With them Earl Sigvald came,<br>Eager for spoil and fame;<br>Pity that such a name<br>Stooped to such treason! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Safe under Svald at last,<br>Now were their anchors cast,<br>Safe from the sea and blast,<br>Plotted the three kings;<br>While, with a base intent,<br>Southward Earl Sigvald went,<br>On a foul errand bent,<br>Unto the Sea-kings. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thence to hold on his course,<br>Unto King Olaf's force,<br>Lying within the hoarse<br>Mouths of Stet-haven;<br>Him to ensnare and bring,<br>Unto the Danish king,<br>Who his dead corse would fling<br>Forth to the raven!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q>
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Svend of the Forked Beard,
As with his fleet he steered
Southward to Vendland;
Where with their courses hauled
All were together called,
Under the Isle of Svald
Near to the mainland. 

After Queen Gunhild's death,
So the..."></div>
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