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THE WARD OF KING CANUTE A Romance of the Danish Conquest
by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

Acknowledgment
For the facts of this romance I have made free use of the following
authorities: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; The Venerable Bede's
Ecclesiastical History of England; Ingulph's History of the Abbey of
Croyland; William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England;
The Chronicles of Florence of Worcester; Lingard's History and
Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, and Lingard's History of
England; Dean Spencer's The White Robe of Churches; Collier's
Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain; Montalembert's Monks of the
West; Thrupp's Anglo-Saxon Home; Hall's Queens Before the
Conquest; Kemble's Saxons in England; Ridgway's Gem of Thorney
Island; Brayley and Britton's History of the Ancient Palace and Late
Houses of Parliament; Loftie's Westminster Abbey and Loftie's History
of London; Allen's History and Antiquities of London; Lappenberg's
History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings; Sharon Turner's
History of the Anglo-Saxons; Knight's Old England; Hume's History of
England; Green's Conquest of England; Thierry's History of the
Conquest of England by the Normans; Freeman's History of the
Norman Conquest.
For the translations of Ha'vama'l, etc., used at the beginnings of the
chapters, I am indebted to Professor Rasmus B. Anderson and Mr. Paul
du Chaillu.
O. A. L.
Chicago, April 1, 1903.

Contents
Chapter
I.
The Fall of the House of Frode
II. Randalin, Frode's Daughter
III. Where War-Dogs Kennel
IV. When Royal Blood is Young Blood
V. Before the King
VI. The Training of Fridtjof the Page
VII. The Game of Swords
VIII. Taken Captive
IX. The Young Lord oi Ivarsdale
X. As the Norns decree
XI. When my Lord comes Home from War
XII. The Foreign Page
XIII. When Might made Right
XIV. How the Fates cheated Randalin
XV. How Fridtjof cheated the Jotun
XVI. The Sword of Speech

XVII. The Judgment of the Iron Voice
XVIII. What the Red Cloak hid
XIX. The Gift of the Elves
XX. A Royal Reckoning
XXI. With the Jotun as Chamberlain
XXII. How