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| 6 | 494 | Then invited within I had been seated View more quotes about across">across from him in the place of honor. |
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| 6 | 491 | Though the hall of Ivar Forkbeard was built only of turf and stone, and though he himself was outlaw, he had met me at its door, after I had been bidden wait outside, in his finest garments of scarlet and gold, and carrying a bowl of water and a towel. |
| 6 | 492 | "Welcome to the hall of Ivar Forkbeard," he had said. |
| 6 | 493 | I had washed my hands and face in the bowl, held by the master of the house himself, and dried myself on the towel. |
| 6 | 494 | Then invited within I had been seated across from him in the place of honor. |
| 6 | 495 | Then from his chests, within the hall, he had given me a long, swirling cloak of the fur of sea sleen; a bronze-headed spear; a shield of painted wood, reinforced with bosses of iron; the shield was red in color, the bosses enameled yellow; a helmet, conical, of iron, with hanging chain, and a steel nosepiece, that might be raised and lowered in its bands; and, too, a shirt and trousers of skin; and, too, a broad ax, formed in the fashion of Torvaldsland, large, curved, single-bladed; and four rings of gold, that might be worn on the arm. |
| 6 | 496 | "My gratitude," said I. |
| 6 | 497 | "You play excellent Kaissa," had said he. |