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«Live, live, my sweet flower! and if you entertain a wish, the accomplishment of which can cure you of your destructive
«home — sickness, I swear by Odin, it shall not be denied you.» —
At these words, my handsome, pale mother bent her knees respectfully before the august ruler, and implored him in
moving accents, that he would enable her soon to die in peace, and render it possible for her to bless him in her last
agony, by promising her, that, when she should be no more, he would send back her dear and only daughter to her
own country ; «Give her » she added entreatingly, «give her, my dowry for her inheritance, and permit her to go,
«attended by faithful servants, to my family, lest the sweet bud should be nipped by the rigour of this uncon-
«genial climate.8
Having ceased speaking, Ingiald extended his sinewy hand to his lady, as a token of his assent, taking me on his
knee, and viewing me attentively for the first time from my birth, said, as if reluctantly affected: «Yes, these locks
«too are already assuming an auburn tinge, and black eye-lashes overshadow your violet eye. You are not a plant that
«is fit for these forests ; you may, therefore, depart for those regions, where Odin is not adored, and pray your God
«too, that he will let me chastise my ennemies.» —
Having said this, he called up one of his guests, who had not long since arrived at his court from the highest North,
a grey headed old man, of a fiery, though benign, aspect, whose polish at all times had inspired me with more
confidence, than all the savagely beautiful forms 1 daily saw, with ever equal fear, in my father's halls. «Wredmar!»
my father said, «I confide Welleda henceforward to thy care. Thou hast heard, what I have vowed to her mother;
«thine age allows thee more room than I have, to make good my promise; neither art thou ignorant of the enterprize
«which I am at present revolving in my mind. Stay, therefore, with these here in my well - defended castle. I am
«going to march towards the heaths of Upsala, and shall take my other women with me, who, being natives of the
«rigorous North, can more firmly encounter scenes of terror.» Here the king pressed my mother and myself to his
valiant bosom, and departed to rest with his pot-companions.
Never did my mother from that moment behold again her lord's dreadfully beautiful countenance; for on the
subsequent morning the trampling of horses awoke us in our solitary chamber, and we saw already the warriors moving
along the wa^s of granite into the deep valley. Alauda had already frequently seen her lord set out on his excursions;
but this lime she called after him, amidst a torrent of burning tears, an ominous, eternal farewell, which was carried
away by the cold blast.
The hoary "Wredmar had staid with us, and Alauda's breaking heart, being dissolved in silently cherished grief,
opened itself to him in unreserved confidence. It almost should appear, as if the kind soul had been waiting only for
the decision of her child's fate, to soar up to better regions of freedom from the prison of a perishable body. Hourly
she drew
gain her i
greatly al
My d
summer j
orange gr
to speak t
repentant
wantonly
«but, whi
comprehe
good imp
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deliverer,
broke it;
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lay. He
they were
all the Nc
in groves
Alauda's £
even alio
«thou wi]
she groan
«Only tal
«convulse
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«Live, live, my sweet flower! and if you entertain a wish, the accomplishment of which can cure you of your destructive
«home — sickness, I swear by Odin, it shall not be denied you.» —
At these words, my handsome, pale mother bent her knees respectfully before the august ruler, and implored him in
moving accents, that he would enable her soon to die in peace, and render it possible for her to bless him in her last
agony, by promising her, that, when she should be no more, he would send back her dear and only daughter to her
own country ; «Give her » she added entreatingly, «give her, my dowry for her inheritance, and permit her to go,
«attended by faithful servants, to my family, lest the sweet bud should be nipped by the rigour of this uncon-
«genial climate.8
Having ceased speaking, Ingiald extended his sinewy hand to his lady, as a token of his assent, taking me on his
knee, and viewing me attentively for the first time from my birth, said, as if reluctantly affected: «Yes, these locks
«too are already assuming an auburn tinge, and black eye-lashes overshadow your violet eye. You are not a plant that
«is fit for these forests ; you may, therefore, depart for those regions, where Odin is not adored, and pray your God
«too, that he will let me chastise my ennemies.» —
Having said this, he called up one of his guests, who had not long since arrived at his court from the highest North,
a grey headed old man, of a fiery, though benign, aspect, whose polish at all times had inspired me with more
confidence, than all the savagely beautiful forms 1 daily saw, with ever equal fear, in my father's halls. «Wredmar!»
my father said, «I confide Welleda henceforward to thy care. Thou hast heard, what I have vowed to her mother;
«thine age allows thee more room than I have, to make good my promise; neither art thou ignorant of the enterprize
«which I am at present revolving in my mind. Stay, therefore, with these here in my well - defended castle. I am
«going to march towards the heaths of Upsala, and shall take my other women with me, who, being natives of the
«rigorous North, can more firmly encounter scenes of terror.» Here the king pressed my mother and myself to his
valiant bosom, and departed to rest with his pot-companions.
Never did my mother from that moment behold again her lord's dreadfully beautiful countenance; for on the
subsequent morning the trampling of horses awoke us in our solitary chamber, and we saw already the warriors moving
along the wa^s of granite into the deep valley. Alauda had already frequently seen her lord set out on his excursions;
but this lime she called after him, amidst a torrent of burning tears, an ominous, eternal farewell, which was carried
away by the cold blast.
The hoary "Wredmar had staid with us, and Alauda's breaking heart, being dissolved in silently cherished grief,
opened itself to him in unreserved confidence. It almost should appear, as if the kind soul had been waiting only for
the decision of her child's fate, to soar up to better regions of freedom from the prison of a perishable body. Hourly
she drew
gain her i
greatly al
My d
summer j
orange gr
to speak t
repentant
wantonly
«but, whi
comprehe
good imp
she was a]
deliverer,
broke it;
in an ent<
lay. He
they were
all the Nc
in groves
Alauda's £
even alio
«thou wi]
she groan
«Only tal
«convulse
Havi
shoulder,
The'
ber sudd<