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Title: Viking Tales

Author: Jennie Hall

Illustrator: Victor R. Lambdin

Release Date: March 12, 2008 [EBook #24811]

Language: English

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VIKING TALES

[Decoration]

[Illustration: _A map showing the journeys of the Vikings_]

VIKING TALES
_by_
JENNIE HALL
_The Francis W. Parker School_
_Chicago_

[Illustration]

ILLUSTRATED
_by_
VICTOR R.
LAMBDIN

RAND McNALLY & CO

_Chicago_ _New York_
_London_

_Copyright, 1902,_
By JENNIE HALL

[Device]
Made in U.S.A.

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Diacritical marks, found in the _Pronouncing Index_, are represented
as follows:

[=x] any character with upper macron
[)x] ... with upper breve
[.x] ... with upper dot
[x:] ... with lower diaeresis
[~x] ... with upper tilde
[+x] ... with upper up tack

_The_ Table _of_ Contents

PAGE
_A List of the Illustrations_ 8
_What the Sagas Were_ 9

PART I.

_IN NORWAY_

The Baby 15
The Tooth Thrall 19
Olaf's Farm 27
Olaf's Fight with Havard 40
Foes'-fear 47
Harald is King 53
Harald's Battle 62
Gyda's Saucy Message 71
The Sea Fight 81
King Harald's Wedding 89
King Harald Goes West-Over-Seas 95

PART II.

_WEST-OVER-SEAS_

Homes in Iceland 103
Eric the Red