Aboard the Mavis : it is told in this book how five boys and five girls cruise in the schooner "Mavis" about the east end of Long Island, and how, in (1880)
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s of the island were thicklypeopled. They were, as I have said, a race of warriors. Their reli- WITH ODIN AT VALHAL. 25 gion made them so. The hero who died in battle went straightto live with Odin, at Yalhal. Here the roof was made of thegolden shields of heroes; and the time passed in stirring… … AN ICELANDIC HAKBOR. The Vikings recounted their valorous deeds in chants afterthis fashion : — Hewed we with the hanger,When I young was;East in Eyras channel,Outpoured we blood for grim wolves. 26 THORFINN THE SKULLS PLITlER. The very names that some of them carried — such, forinstance, as…
American Revolution (1775-1783) · Young men · Young women · Sailing · Seafaring life · Vikings · Ship captains
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