Eric Brighteyes

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1st World Publishing, Dec 20, 2006 - Fiction - 372 pages
There lived a man in the south, before Thangbrand, Wilibald's son, preached the White Christ in Iceland. He was named Eric Brighteyes, Thorgrimur's son, and in those days there was no man like him for strength, beauty and daring, for in all these things he was the first. But he was not the first in good-luck. Two women lived in the south, not far from where the Westman Islands stand above the sea. Gudruda the Fair was the name of the one, and Swanhild, called the Fatherless, Groa's daughter, was the other. They were half-sisters, and there were none like them in those days, for they were the fairest of all women, though they had nothing in common except their blood and hate. Now of Eric Brighteyes, of Gudruda the Fair and of Swanhild the Fatherless, there is a tale to tell.
 

Contents

DEDICATION
5
INTRODUCTION
7
1 HOW ASMUND THE PRIEST FOUND GROA THE WITCH
11
2 HOW ERIC TOLD HIS LOVE TO GUDRUDA IN THE SNOW ON COLDBACK
20
3 HOW ASMUND BADE ERIC TO HIS YULEFEAST
31
4 HOW ERIC CAME DOWN GOLDEN FALLS
41
5 HOW ERIC WON THE SWORD WHITEFIRE
51
6 HOW ASMUND THE PRIEST WAS BETROTHED TO UNNA
67
18 HOW EARL ATLI FOUND ERIC AND SKALLAGRIM ON THE SOUTHERN ROCKS OF STRAUMEY ISLE
202
19 HOW KOLL THE HALFWITTED BROUGHT TIDINGS FROM ICELAND
212
20 HOW ERIC WAS NAMED ANEW
222
21 HOW HALL OF LITHDALE TOOK TIDINGS TO ICELAND
233
22 HOW ERIC CAME HOME AGAIN
242
23 HOW ERIC WAS A GUEST AT THE WEDDINGFEAST OF GUDRUDA THE FAIR
252
24 HOW THE FEAST WENT
260
25 HOW THE FEAST ENDED
270

7 HOW ERIC WENT UP MOSFELL AGAINST SKALLAGRIM THE BARESARK
77
8 HOW OSPAKAR BLACKTOOTH FOUND ERIC BRIGHTEYES AND SKALLAGRIM LAMBSTAIL ON HORSEHEAD HEIGHTS
90
9 HOW SWANHILD DEALT WITH GUDRUDA
101
10 HOW ASMUND SPOKE WITH SWANHILD
111
11 HOW SWANHILD BID FAREWELL TO ERIC
121
12 HOW ERIC WAS OUTLAWED AND SAILED AVIKING
132
13 HOW HALL THE MATE CUT THE GRAPNEL CHAIN
145
14 HOW ERIC DREAMED A DREAM
155
15 HOW ERIC DWELT IN LONDON TOWN
172
16 HOW SWANHILD WALKED THE SEAS
182
17 HOW ASMUND THE PRIEST WEDDED UNNA THORODS DAUGHTER
193
26 HOW ERIC VENTURED DOWN TO MIDDALHOF AND WHAT HE FOUND
279
27 HOW GUDRUDA WENT UP TO MOSFELL
289
28 HOW SWANHILD WON TIDINGS OF ERIC
300
29 HOW WENT THE BRIDAL NIGHT
312
30 HOW THE DAWN CAME
327
31 HOW ERIC SENT AWAY HIS MEN FROM MOSFELL
338
32 HOW ERIC AND SKALLAGRIM GREW FEY
346
33 HOW ERIC AND SKALLAGRIM FOUGHT THEIR LAST GREAT FIGHT
355
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
367
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