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Book 6. (6 results) Raiders of Gor

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10 216 I did not go as far south as Anango or Ianda, or as far north as Hunjer or Skjern, west of Torvaldsland.
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10 310 I had projected voyages for them to Ianda and to Torvaldsland.
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11 248 "And," I said, "Farnacium, and Hulneth and Asperiche! And Anango and Ianda, and Hunjer and Skjern and Torvaldsland.
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11 325 I gazed upon the Ubars: squat, brilliant Chung; narrow-faced, cunning Eteocles; tall, long-haired Nigel, like a warlord from Torvaldsland; and Sullius Maximus, who was said to write poetry and be a student of the properties of various poisons.
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13 512 By the end of the second month the flag of Bosk, carried by one ship or another, was known from Ianda to Torvaldsland, and from the delta of the Vosk to the throne rooms of Cos and Tyros.
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17 14 Lastly, I was pleased, though astonished, to accept the service of thirty-five ships of two of Port Kar's Ubars, twenty from the squat, brilliant Chung, and fifteen from tall, long-haired Nigel, like a war lord from Torvaldsland.
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Book 7. (5 results) Captive of Gor

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7 15 Indeed, the preceding fall, at the fair of Se'Kara, near the Sardar Mountains, he had contracted with a marauder, Haakon of Skjern, for one hundred northern beauties, to be taken from the villages north of the Laurius and from the coastal villages, upward even to the edges of Torvaldsland.
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8 100 No one knows how far they extend to the east, and they go north as far as Torvaldsland.
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8 229 Life, even by Gorean standards, is primitive in the region of the Laurius, and northward, to the great forests, and along the coast, upward to Torvaldsland.
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8 332 They were girls taken by the raiders of Haakon of Skjern, in the villages to the north of the Laurius, and from the coastal villages, upward even to the borders of Torvaldsland.
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11 1275 It lies west of bleak, rocky Torvaldsland, substantially above even the vast, green belt of the northern forests.
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Book 8. (23 results) Hunters of Gor

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3 11 I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e...
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3 46 Three with which I was familiar from various voyages, were Tabor, Teletus and, to the north, offshore from Torvaldsland, Scagnar.
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3 109 Those of Lydius pretend to much civilization, and are fond of decorating their houses, commonly of wood, with high, pointed roofs, in manners they think typical of Ar, of Ko-ro-ba, of Tharna and Turia, but to settle points of honor they commonly repair to a skerry in Thassa, little more than forty f...
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3 195 The other, sitting cross-legged with him, was the broad-shouldered, blond giant from Torvaldsland whom I had seen earlier.
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3 201 Kaissa is popular in Torvaldsland, as well as elsewhere on Gor.
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3 204 The big fellow was of Torvaldsland.
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4 21 To one side, the Player and the fellow from Torvaldsland, with the ax, were still engaged in their game.
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7 329 It is also played frequently in Torvaldsland.
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12 104 There were various jarls in Torvaldsland who had daughters but these, generally, were ignorant, primitive women.
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12 105 Moreover, no one jarl held great power in Torvaldsland.
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12 204 I recalled, with savage understanding, with an understanding as sudden and terrible as that of a lightning flash over Torvaldsland, that this Hesius, this tavern keeper of Laura, had, free of charge, as a gesture of good will, included wine with the shipment of girls to my camp.
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18 31 Yet on the trackless beaches, lining the western edge of the great northern forests for hundreds of pasangs, below the bleakness of Torvaldsland, it would not be easy to make rendezvous.
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18 452 The much smaller craft of the men of Torvaldsland, clinker built, with overlapping, bending planking, are more seaworthy.
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18 456 The men of Torvaldsland, however, do not find this limitation with respect to cargo a significant one, as they do not, generally, regard themselves as merchants or traders.
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18 467 It is, for example, extremely difficult to ram a ship of Torvaldsland.
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18 471 The men of Torvaldsland are rovers and fighters, and sometimes they turn their prows to the open sea with no thought in mind other than seeing what might lie beyond the gleaming horizon.
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18 477 In the legends of Torvaldsland, man has a different origin.
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18 483 The god, and all the gods, could not catch it, and it became, it is said, the father of the men of Torvaldsland.
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19 182 "Men of Torvaldsland," he said.
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19 194 "Who of Torvaldsland," I asked, "dared to free Chenbar of Tyros?" "A madman," laughed Sarus.
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19 202 "All those of Torvaldsland are mad," said Sarus.
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19 214 "I see now," smiled Sarus, "that Ivar Forkbeard, of Torvaldsland, was sane".
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22 863 Perhaps she would be sold south to Schendi or Bazi, or north to a jarl of Torvaldsland, Scagnar or Hunjer, or across Thassa to Tabor or Asperiche, or taken up the Vosk in a cage to an inland city, perhaps eventually to find herself in Ko-ro-ba, Thentis or Tharna, or even Ar itself.
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Book 9. (208 results) Marauders of Gor

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10 314 We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever...
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1 632 If Samos were correct that 'Kurii' was a Gorean corruption of the name of such animals for themselves, and that the word was used in Torvaldsland as a designation for beasts, then it seemed not unlikely that such animals were not unknown in Torvaldsland, at least in certain areas, perhaps remote one...
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3 134 Indeed, some of the men of Torvaldsland regard Torvaldsland to be wherever their ships beach, as they took their country, and their steel, with them.
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10 46 Lastly, his coloring, though his hair was dark, was surely not that of the far north, but, though swarthy, more akin to that of Torvaldsland, particularly western Torvaldsland.
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10 62 There are various forms of ball game enjoyed by the men of Torvaldsland; some use bats, or paddles; in the winter, one such game, quite popular, is played, men running and slipping about, on ice; whether there is any remote connection between this game and ice hockey, I do not know; it is, however, ...
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10 624 I did not wish, incidentally, even if I could, to give him a gift commensurate with what he had, in his hospitality, bestowed upon me; the host, in Torvaldsland, should make the greatest gifts; it is, after all, his house or hall; if his guest should make him greater gifts than he makes the guest th...
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17 285 It seemed first a ghastly infection, a plague; then it seemed like a fire, invisible and consuming; then it seemed like the touching of these men by the hands of gods, but no gods I knew, none to whom a woman or child might dare pray, but the gods of men, and of the men of Torvaldsland, the dread, h...
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1 630 "In Torvaldsland," said Tab, "that word means 'beasts'".
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1 634 It would, presumably, follow the coast north, perhaps above the forests, perhaps to the bleak coasts of forbidding Torvaldsland itself.
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2 17 Kassau is the seat of the High Initiate of the north, who claims spiritual sovereignty over Torvaldsland, which is commonly taken to commence with the thinning of the trees northward.
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2 19 The men of Torvaldsland, on the whole, I knew, while tending to respect Priest-Kings, did not accord them special reverence.
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2 47 I knew this man of Torvaldsland only by reputation.
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2 70 Torvaldsland, though not treeless, is bleak.
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2 75 The men of Torvaldsland are skilled with their hands.
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2 76 Trade to the south, of course, is largely in the furs acquired from Torvaldsland, and in barrels of smoked, dried parsit fish.
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2 77 From the south, of course, the people of Kassau obtain the goods they trade northward to Torvaldsland, and, too, of course, civilized goods for themselves.
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2 286 Four huge men of Torvaldsland, in long cloaks, clasped about their necks, heads down, bearded, with braided hair, entered, bearing on their shoulders a platform of crossed spears.
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2 302 They were not as I had expected the men of Torvaldsland to be.
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2 303 "Are those truly men of Torvaldsland?" asked the blond girl, of the older woman, obviously disappointed.
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2 311 Another Initiate, sleek, fat, his shaved head oiled, shining in the light of the candles, carrying a small golden vessel of thickened chrism went to each of the four men of Torvaldsland, making on their foreheads the sign of the Priest-Kings, the circle of eternity.
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2 321 The four men of Torvaldsland carried the huge body of Ivar Forkbeard up the steps of the altar, on the crossed spears.
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2 329 Such men, these, would be the hardest of the hard, for only the largest, the swiftest and finest might win for themselves a bench on the ship of a captain, and the man great enough to command such as they must be first and mightiest among them, for the men of Torvaldsland will obey no other, and tha...
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2 332 I noted one of the men of Torvaldsland.
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2 356 I saw the cloaks of the men of Torvaldsland hurled from them and saw, gripped in their two hands, great axes.
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2 357 I suddenly saw the large man of Torvaldsland, he of incredible stature, seem to come alive, eyes wild, screaming, veins prominent on his forehead, mouth slobbering, striking about himself almost blindly with a great ax.
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2 359 "The men of Torvaldsland," he cried, "are upon you!".
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3 10 I heard the harsh war cries of Torvaldsland.
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3 20 I saw two men of Torvaldsland loading their cloaks with golden plate and vessels from the sanctuary, hurling them like tin and iron into the furs.
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3 22 One of the men of Torvaldsland raised his ax to strike him.
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3 24 The warrior of Torvaldsland looked at me, startled.
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3 30 I released the ax of the man of Torvaldsland, and removed my blade from his throat.
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3 31 "Do not strike him," I told the man of Torvaldsland.
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3 44 Two men of Torvaldsland then held the giant by the arms, and lowered his ax, and, gently, turned him away from the people.
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3 56 The men of Torvaldsland turned to face me.
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3 61 "Are you of Torvaldsland?" "No," I told him.
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3 67 Suddenly behind me I heard a war cry of Torvaldsland.
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3 78 It was a salute of Torvaldsland.
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3 83 "Hurry! The people of the town will gather!" Swiftly, tearing hangings from the walls, prying loose sheets of gold, pulling down even lamps from their chains, filling their cloaks with cups and plates, the men of Torvaldsland stripped the temple of what they could tear loose and carry.
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3 100 The men of Torvaldsland are fond of such women.
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3 116 To enter the circle, if one is a female, is, by the laws of Torvaldsland, to declare oneself a bondmaid.
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3 119 Howsoever she enters the circle, voluntarily or by force, free or secured, she emerges from it, by the laws of Torvaldsland, a bondmaid.
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3 132 It is taken by many to mark the border between Torvaldsland and the south.
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3 133 Many of those of Torvaldsland, however, take its borders to be much farther extended than the Torvaldsmark.
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3 171 Two of the men of Torvaldsland had, from their left shoulder to their right hip, that their right arms be less impeded, a chain formed of slave bracelets; each pair of bracelets locked at each end about one of the bracelets of another pair, the whole thus forming a circle.
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3 193 The men of Torvaldsland struggled to lift their burdens.
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3 223 "I want passage to Torvaldsland," I said.
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3 279 None of them cared to rush upon the axes of the men of Torvaldsland.
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3 304 All men of Torvaldsland, incidentally, even if otherwise unarmed, carry a knife at their master belt.
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3 361 I had booked better passage to Torvaldsland.
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3 391 The men of Torvaldsland began to sing at the oars.
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3 399 The men of Torvaldsland sang with great voices.
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3 411 The men of Torvaldsland singing, the oars lifting and dipping, the serpent of Ivar Forkbeard took its way from the harbor of Kassau.
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4 8 Without it, much of Torvaldsland, bleak as it is, would be only a frozen waste.
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4 9 Torvaldsland is a cruel, harsh, rocky land.
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4 16 There is often not enough food under any conditions, particularly in northern Torvaldsland, and famine is not unknown.
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4 18 It is not strange that the young men of Torvaldsland often look to the sea, and beyond it, for their fortunes.
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4 19 The stream of Torvald is regarded by the men of Torvaldsland as a gift of Thor, bestowed upon Torvald, legendary founder and hero of the land, in exchange for a ring of gold.
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4 30 The men of Torvaldsland sometimes guide their vessels by noting the direction of the waves, breaking against the prow, these correlated with prevailing winds.
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4 35 The men of Torvaldsland do not use it.
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4 39 Even fog banks, and the feeding grounds of whales, and ice floes, in given seasons, in their own waters, give the men of Torvaldsland information as to their whereabouts, they utilizing such things as easily, as unconsciously, as a peasant might a mountain, or a hunter a river.
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4 40 The ships of the men of Torvaldsland are swift.
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4 44 It was a board made for play at sea, and such boards are common with the men of Torvaldsland.
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4 49 The Kaissa of the men of Torvaldsland is quite similar to that of the south, though certain of the pieces differ.
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4 58 It did not take me much time to adapt to the Kaissa of Torvaldsland, for it is quite similar to the Kaissa of the south.
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4 67 His wiliest tricks, of course, I knew, he would seldom use, saving them for games of greater import, or perhaps for players of Torvaldsland.
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4 69 In the long winters of Torvaldsland, when the snow, the darkness, the ice and wintry winds are upon the land, when the frost breaks open the rocks, groaning, at night, when the serpents hide in their roofed sheds, many hours, under swinging soapstone lamps, burning the oil of sea sleen, are given to...
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4 77 The sun, for Torvaldsland, was hot.
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4 85 The Spring Equinox, incidentally, is also used for the New Year by the Rune-Priests of the North, who keep the calendars of Torvaldsland.
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4 149 As he approached the bondmaids they shrank back from him, fearing him, as would any bondmaid one of the men of Torvaldsland.
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4 151 I recalled how disappointed she had been in the men of Torvaldsland, when, heads hanging, they had accompanied the Forkbeard to the temple at Kassau.
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4 154 She now saw the men of Torvaldsland in their mightiness, in their freedom, and strength and power, and she, a stripped, fettered bondmaid, coffled, feared them.
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4 172 The average ship of Torvaldsland is, by custom, bailed once a day, even if the bilge water does not necessitate it.
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4 174 Many such ships, however, are sailed by the men of Torvaldsland, particularly late in the season, when the ship is less tight from months of the sea's buffeting.
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4 222 The men of Torvaldsland had not sought the whales.
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4 314 When food is low it is not unknown for the men of Torvaldsland to use a bondmaid, if one is available on the ship, for bait in such a manner.
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4 318 It is regarded as second only to the five-lash Gorean slave whip, used also in the south, and what among the men of Torvaldsland is called the whip of the furs, in which the master, with his body, incontrovertibly teaches the girl her slavery.
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5 34 Twice yesterday, in long games, until the Torvaldsland gulls had left the sea and returned inland, I had failed to meet the gambit.
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5 55 "It is a name of Torvaldsland," he said.
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5 56 "Are you not of Torvaldsland?" "No," I had told him.
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5 66 "The men of Torvaldsland," I assured him, "are not overly popular in the south".
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5 68 "The men of Torvaldsland," I told him, "are similarly respected in the south".
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5 169 Their shields, like those of Torvaldsland, are circular, and of wood.
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5 242 I had less confidence in the weights of the man of Torvaldsland.
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6 8 Men of Torvaldsland reefed it high to the spar.
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6 56 I surmised, as is common in Torvaldsland, most of the cattle had been driven higher into the mountains, to graze wild during the summer, to be fetched back to the shed only in the fall, with the coming of winter.
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6 75 The Forkbeard then, to the delight of those on the bank, who cheered him, as the serpent edged into the dock, addressed himself delightedly to the oar-dance of the rover of Torvaldsland.
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6 209 The brand used by Forkbeard is not uncommon in the north, though there is less uniformity in Torvaldsland on these matters than in the south, where the merchant caste, with its recommendations for standardization, is more powerful.
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6 312 In Torvaldsland, fine timber is at a premium.
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6 314 If a man of Torvaldsland must choose between his hall and his ship, it is the ship which, invariably, wins his choice.
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6 317 It was filled with the mead of Torvaldsland, brewed from fermented honey, thick and sweet.
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6 322 This reduces its exposure to the north wind, which is particularly important in the Torvaldsland winter.
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6 329 Ventilation is supplied, as it is generally in Torvaldsland, by narrow holes in the roof.
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6 368 "Why did you come to Torvaldsland?" suddenly asked Ivar Forkbeard.
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6 397 The Kurii, of course, with which the men of Torvaldsland might have had dealings, might have been removed by as much as generations from the Kurii of the ships.
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6 402 It was usually regarded as quite sufficient, even by the men of Torvaldsland, to drive one of the beasts out of their own district.
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6 425 Svein Blue Tooth was the high jarl of Torvaldsland, in the sense that he was generally regarded as the most powerful.
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6 434 "And thus," said I, "that your outlawry would remain in effect until you were apprehended or slain?" "He hoped to drive me from Torvaldsland," said Ivar.
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6 448 Yet I admired the audacity of the man of Torvaldsland, though his act, in freeing Chenbar to act against me, had almost cost me my life last year in the northern forests.
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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...
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6 498 I surmised to myself that the help of the Forkbeard might, in the bleak realities of Torvaldsland, be of incalculable value.
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6 530 She was kicking and laughing, trying to push back from her body the pressing jackets of fur of the men of Torvaldsland.
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7 38 The ax of Torvaldsland is one of the most fearful of the weapons on Gor.
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7 108 "Did you think in Kassau," he asked, "that you would one day be dunging the fields of one of Torvaldsland?" She said nothing to him.
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8 140 She saw that we wore the leather and fur of Torvaldsland.
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9 346 There was much laughter, and most from the beautiful, nude slaves of the men of Torvaldsland, hot, collared, and eager in their brawny arms.
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9 380 I heard the movements of chain, the moans of the bondmaids in the arms of their masters, men of Torvaldsland.
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9 424 I discarded the leather and fur of Torvaldsland.
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9 476 He had there, in his opinion, an appointment to keep, with Svein Blue Tooth, a great Jarl of Torvaldsland, who had outlawed him.
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10 6 He was Ketil, of Blue Tooth's high farm, champion of Torvaldsland.
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10 33 Thorgeir, it so happened, of course, was the only man of the Ax Glacier country, which is usually taken as the northern border of Torvaldsland, before the ice belts of Gor's arctic north, who was at the Thing-Fair.
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10 37 It is not unusual for the men of Torvaldsland to wear them, though none of Forkbeard's men did.
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10 50 He had done less well in the singing contest, though he much prided himself on his singing voice; he thought, in that one, the judges had been against him; he did not score highly either in the composition of poetry contest nor in the rhyming games; "I am not a skald," he explained to me later; he d...
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10 73 Blows are not to be struck at the Thing, but not even the law of the Thing, with all its might, would have the temerity to advise the man of Torvaldsland to arrive or move about unarmed.
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10 74 The man of Torvaldsland never leaves his house unless he is armed; and, within his house, his weapons are always near at hand, usually hung on the wall behind his couch, at least a foot beyond the reach of a bondmaid whose ankle is chained.
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10 80 A man in direct fee with the Jarl is, in effect, a mercenary; the Jarl himself, from his gold, and stores, where necessary or desirable, arms the man; this expense, of course, is seldom necessary in Torvaldsland; sometimes, however, a man may break a sword or lose an ax in battle, perhaps in the bod...
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10 87 They wore them, always, as is common in Torvaldsland, in such a way that the right arm, the sword arm, is free.
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10 94 Sometimes, in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see tarn races, or games, or song-dramas; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side, is a companion, or being courted for the companionship; only he and she know that the...
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10 109 The silk girl was heeling her master, a captain of Torvaldsland.
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10 113 In the south the southern slave girl commonly regards her northern counterparts as bumpkins, dolts from the high farms on the slopes of the mountains of Torvaldsland; she thinks of them as doing little but swilling tarsk and dunging fields; she regards them as, essentially, nothing more than a form ...
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10 142 The duel is a device by which many disputes, legal and personal, are settled in Torvaldsland.
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10 173 "I do not care much for the making of women of Torvaldsland bond," said Ivar.
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10 175 "They are of Torvaldsland!" "Where is the boy's father?" I asked one who stood next to me.
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10 186 "She is of Torvaldsland," said Ivar.
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10 315 If the thrall had been nothing in Torvaldsland before, he was now less than nothing; his status was now, in effect, that of the southern male work slave, found often in the quarries and mines, and, chained, on the great farms.
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10 317 The Forkbeard had brought one thrall with him, the young man, Tarsk, who, even now, followed in the retinue of the Forkbeard; it was thought that if the Forkbeard should purchase a crate of sleen fur or a chest of bog iron the young man, on his shoulders, might then bear it back to our tent, pitched...
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10 383 At her waist she wore a jeweled scabbard, protruding from which I saw the ornamented, twisted blade of a Turian dagger; free women in Torvaldsland commonly carry a knife; at her belt, too, hung her scissors, and a ring of many keys, indicating that her hall contained many chests or doors; her hair w...
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10 576 The ship fell to four raiding vessels of Torvaldsland.
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10 632 She was naked, except for the Torvaldsland collar of black iron on her neck, with its projecting ring, and the heavy chain padlocked about her right ankle; the chain was about a yard long; it secured her, by means of a heavy ring, to the block.
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10 649 The gift of a female is sufficiently trivial that the honor of the Forkbeard as my host would not be in the least threatened; further, this was a desirable wench, whose cuddly slave body would be much relished by the Forkbeard and his crew; further, being trained, she would be a rare and exquisite t...
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10 665 It was, of course, quite unusual in Torvaldsland.
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11 45 "Men of Torvaldsland," it called, "I speak to you".
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11 69 The men of Torvaldsland, in the assembly field, looked to one another.
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11 90 He wore beneath his cloak yellow wool, and a great belt of glistening black, with a gold buckle, to which was attached a scabbard of oiled, black leather; in this scabbard was a sword, a sword of Torvaldsland, a long sword, with a jeweled pommel, with double guard.
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11 107 The men of Torvaldsland seemed stunned.
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11 151 The men of Torvaldsland looked at one another.
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11 171 This was the staple crop in Torvaldsland.
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11 174 "What will you pay us to cross our land?" asked one of the free men of Torvaldsland.
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11 180 I, in this time, had come to understand that Torvaldsland stood, in effect, as a wall between the Kurii and the more southern regions of Gor.
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11 191 I had little doubt but what the Kurii, perhaps organized by Kurii from the steel worlds, were to begin a march in Torvaldsland, which might extend, in a generation to the southern pole of Gor.
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11 201 The Kurii, I gathered, did not wish to fight their way to more fertile lands south, but to reach them easily, thus conserving their numbers and, in effect, cutting Torvaldsland from the south.
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11 202 There was little to be gained by fighting an action the length of Torvaldsland, and little to be lost by not doing so, which could not be later recouped when power in the south had been consolidated.
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11 214 It was possible, of course, that the Kurii would attack Torvaldsland when well within it, without large forces marshaled against them.
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11 242 But I did not expect men of Torvaldsland to give up female slaves.
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11 248 The blood of the men of Torvaldsland began to rage.
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11 272 "I shall take this to my camp," it said, "as a token of the good will of the men of Torvaldsland".
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11 286 "Do we, free men of Torvaldsland," called out Svein Blue Tooth, "grant permission to the Kurii to traverse our land?" "No!" cried one man.
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11 310 "In the legends, it is said that Torvald sleeps in the mountain," smiled Ivar Forkbeard, "to awaken when, once more, he is needed in Torvaldsland".
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12 7 The men of Torvaldsland have in common a code of sound signals, given by the horns, consisting of some forty messages.
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12 12 There are shield signals, too, however, it might be mentioned, in Torvaldsland, though these are quite limited.
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12 13 Two that are universal in Torvaldsland are the red shield for war, the white for peace.
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12 14 The men of Torvaldsland, hearing the blasts on the bronze horns, were silent.
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12 31 Svein Blue Tooth was of Torvaldsland himself.
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13 13 The men of Torvaldsland, thus, look across the table at one another, not one down upon the other.
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13 28 Salt, incidentally, is obtained by the men of Torvaldsland, most commonly, from sea water or from the burning of seaweed.
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13 30 The red and yellow salts of the south, some of which I saw on the tables, are not domestic to Torvaldsland.
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13 44 Another tapestry, showing numerous ships, in a war fleet, dated from the time of the famine in Torvaldsland, a generation ago.
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13 96 In honor such a high jarl must set an example to the men of Torvaldsland.
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13 108 Then Svein Blue Tooth, as high jarl in Torvaldsland, one by one, tied about the forehead of Ivar Forkbeard the six talmits.
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13 115 "I frown upon you, and would not let you within the doors of my hall," said Svein Blue Tooth, "because you are the greatest scoundrel and rogue in Torvaldsland!" I could see that this compliment much pleased the Forkbeard, who, a vain fellow, was jealous of his reputation.
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13 123 I knew then, surely, that he was of Torvaldsland.
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13 143 Svein Blue Tooth, high jarl of Torvaldsland, followed by his woman, and high officers and counselors, and other followers, then took his way from the dais.
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13 153 This is common in the halls of Torvaldsland.
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13 164 In the far distance, the moonlight reflected from its snowy heights, I saw, too, the Torvaldsberg, in which the legendary Torvald was reputed to sleep, supposedly to waken again if needed once more in Torvaldsland.
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13 183 "If you are washed and readied," said a young thrall, collared, in a kirtle of white wool, "it is permissible to present yourselves before the high seat of the house, before my master, Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland".
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13 229 The girls, though collared in the manner of Torvaldsland, and serving men, were fully clothed.
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13 237 I suspected this might have accounted somewhat for the ugliness of the men with the entertainers, not that the men of Torvaldsland, under any circumstances, constitute an easily pleased audience.
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13 270 It is one thing to cheat one not of Torvaldsland, quite another to attempt to defraud one of one's own country, particularly one's Jarl.
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13 276 "I did not think there were such riches in all of Torvaldsland," whispered Bera.
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13 279 With such riches there would be no Jarl in Torvaldsland who could even remotely compare to him.
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13 281 But the men of Torvaldsland are not easily pleased.
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13 351 "Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland, meet Hilda, daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar," said Ivar.
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13 352 "Hilda, daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar, meet Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland".
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13 425 Then, to the astonishment of all Torvaldsland, and most to that of Svein Blue Tooth, the Forkbeard, redoubtable, after earning six talmits in the contests, delivered to his hall the very wergild no man had supposed it possible to pay, and had then, arrogantly, before the high seat of the Blue Tooth ...
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14 3 The wooden shields of Torvaldsland no more stopped the great axes than dried skins of larma fruit, stretched on sewing frames, might have resisted the four-bladed dagger cestus of Anango or the hatchet gauntlet of eastern Skjern.
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14 134 "Attack! Are you docile tarsk that you dare not attack? Men of Torvaldsland, attack!" But no man moved.
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14 185 His garments were half torn from him but, still, about his neck, on its chain, was the tooth of the Hunjer whale, dyed blue, by which men in Torvaldsland knew him.
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14 221 "Are you of Torvaldsland?" he asked.
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15 66 In just the past few days we had encountered, even in far Torvaldsland, two Earth females, suitably collared, Peggy Stevens of Connecticut, Honey Cake, and the girl, Leah, of Canada.
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15 245 The trap, laid for an enemy by a boy of Torvaldsland many years ago, was still effective.
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16 160 The men of Torvaldsland, unlike most Gorean men, do not permit themselves tears.
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16 191 From among the weapons at the foot of the couch, from one of the cylindrical quivers, still of the sort carried in Torvaldsland, I drew forth a long, dark arrow.
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16 230 I am not even of Torvaldsland, but it was I who was present when the arrow of war was lifted, at the side of the couch of Torvald, deep within the living stone of the Torvaldsberg.
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17 53 I wondered if I myself, this morning, in Torvaldsland, in bleak light, would die.
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17 101 They had failed, several days ago, in the Thing Assembly, to intimidate the men of Torvaldsland into furnishing them provisions for their march.
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17 105 During this time, a hundred pasangs to the south, Svein Blue Tooth had set the rallying point of the men of Torvaldsland.
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17 252 I saw then Svein Blue Tooth, the mighty jarl of Torvaldsland, lift his own head, but it did not seem, then, to be him.
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17 330 The thousands of the men of Torvaldsland, on either side of the valley, made ready.
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17 337 "The men of Torvaldsland," they cried, "are upon you!".
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18 10 Any girl found remaining in the pen by a man of Torvaldsland, seeking her own safety, unless she had been ordered there by a free attacker, was to be summarily slain.
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18 11 I was pleased to note that the women feared more the men of Torvaldsland than even sleen and Kurii.
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18 44 I saw the huge, little-known man of Torvaldsland, who had joined the host late, calling himself Hrolf, from the east, who had come from the direction of the Torvaldsberg.
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18 174 Almost as one the girls, crying out, flung themselves to their bellies among the bodies and the charge of the men of Torvaldsland, missing not a step, took its way over them, striking the startled Kurii with an unimpeded impact.
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18 378 Thyri would wear her collar well for a master such as Wulfstan, once of Kassau, now of Torvaldsland.
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18 381 Ivar Forkbeard, followed by Tarl Red Hair and Wulfstan of Torvaldsland, heeled by the bondmaid, Hilda, picked his way toward the burned, looted tents of Thorgard of Scagnar.
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18 578 Too, of course, the weight of such blows, particularly with the long, heavy swords of Torvaldsland, take their toll from the striking arm, as well as the fending arm.
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18 629 Arrows of Torvaldsland found the slaughter pleasing".
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18 632 "Several," he said, "but I think the men of Torvaldsland now need fear little the return of any Kur army".
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18 635 They had learned, and so, too, had the men of Torvaldsland, that men could stand against them.
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20 172 With him were Gorm, Ottar and Wulfstan of Torvaldsland.
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21 5 The girl, in her need, pressed herself against the coarse woolen tunic of Torvaldsland.
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21 27 She now had new tasks to which to address herself, cooking, and churning and carrying water; the improvement of her own carriage, and beauty and attractiveness; and the giving of inordinate pleasure in the furs to her master, Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland; if she did not do so, well she kne...
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21 72 "Outlawry," said he, "once proclaimed by the hall of Blue Tooth against the person of Ivar Forkbeard, he of Forkbeard's Landfall, is herewith, in this hall, in this place, in the name of Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland, lifted!" There was a great cheer.
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21 90 "Know this, that from this day forward, Ivar Forkbeard stands among the Jarls of Torvaldsland!" We stood and cheered the fortune, the honor, that the Blue Tooth did unto the Forkbeard.
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22 33 "Tarl Red Hair," had said he, "with this talmit accede to Jarlship in Torvaldsland!" I had been lifted on the shields of shouting men.
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22 38 I had lifted my hands to them, standing on the shields, a Jarl of Torvaldsland, one who might now, in his own name if need be, send forth the arrow of war, summoning adherents; one who might, as it pleased him, command ships and men; one who might now say to the rough, bold seamen of the north, as i...
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22 60 Wulfstan, once of Kassau, now of Torvaldsland, in charge of supplying the ship, leaned over the rail.
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22 89 But, somehow, in the north, in Torvaldsland, I had changed.
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Book 10. (13 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 15 I could see, high on the map, Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hunjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and, lower, Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius, and, lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of the Vosk, and Port Kar, and, in...
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1 41 "Kurii, Others," I said, "following the failure of the northern invasion of native Kurii, halted in Torvaldsland, have been quiet, have they not?" "Beware of a silent enemy," said Samos.
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1 255 The invasion of native Kurii from the north, survivors and descendants of ship Kurii, for generations, had been stopped in Torvaldsland.
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1 331 Once before, in the ruins of a hall in Torvaldsland, surmounting a stake, he had seen the head of such a beast.
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1 597 I had, two months ago, returned from Torvaldsland, where I had attended to certain matters of the sword.
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1 782 It had been stopped in Torvaldsland.
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1 790 The failure of the Torvaldsland probe might have had great impact in their councils.
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3 211 The heads of four of the men had been torn from them; the heads of two others had been half bitten from them; one man's throat looked as though it had been struck twice with parallel hatchets; I was familiar with the spacing of the wounds; two men had lost arms, one a leg; one of the men without an ...
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5 751 But when, long later, after I had learned the lessons of Torvaldsland, I ridded myself of the poison in the cleansing delirium of the antidote, I had not cried out, in weakness, for her love, begging it, but rather, in strength, laughing, had collared her, putting her to my feet and making her my sl...
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13 61 Whereas salt may be obtained from sea water and by burning seaweed, as is sometimes done in Torvaldsland, and there are various districts on Gor where salt, solid or in solution, may be obtained, by far the most extensive and richest of known Gor's salt deposits are to be found concentrated in the T...
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21 293 After the failure of the major probe in Torvaldsland, it seemed not unlikely a given party or tribe might have fallen from power.
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26 1217 What then could be the next step? The uprising of native Kurii had been foiled in Torvaldsland.
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26 1218 I had been in Torvaldsland at the time.
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Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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8 143 They are common off the coast of Torvaldsland, and further north.
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16 227 The ship might, of course, be of Port Kar, or of one of the northern ports, or even of Torvaldsland.
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22 90 It might be noted, however, if it is of interest, that the swift, square-rigged ships of Torvaldsland are single ruddered, and on the right side.
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Book 12. (28 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 588 "They follow this route," he said, "emerging from the forest here, skirting Torvaldsland here, to the east, and then moving west above Torvaldsland, to the sea.
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1 232 I stood now upon the couch, the ax of Torvaldsland in my hand.
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1 420 I reached to the great ax of Torvaldsland.
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2 581 "And Torvaldsland, northwards," he said, "and Ax Glacier".
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2 585 The herd of Tancred winters in the rims of the northern forests south and east of Torvaldsland.
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3 50 "Where are the merchant tables," I asked a fellow from Torvaldsland, with braided blond hair and shaggy jacket, eating on a roast leg of tarsk, "where the odds on the Kaissa matches are being given?" "I do not know," he said.
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3 67 The man of Torvaldsland bit a large chunk from his leg of roast tarsk.
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3 85 "The nearest," I told the fellow from Torvaldsland, pointing down a corridor between pavilions and booths, "lies some quarter of a pasang in that direction, beyond the booths of the rug merchants.
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3 104 "Is there Kur activity in Torvaldsland?" "No," said he, "no more than an occasional stray.
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3 107 The Kurii were not active in Torvaldsland.
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3 114 Over his shoulder hung the great ax of Torvaldsland.
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3 149 I hoped the fellow from Torvaldsland would be able to buy a good piece of meat at the market.
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6 388 "In Torvaldsland," I said, "it is said the women of Kassau make superb slaves".
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6 399 "Is it true," she asked, "what they say in Torvaldsland, that the women of Kassau make superb slaves?" "Yes," I said.
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6 494 I recalled that the men of Torvaldsland regarded the women of Kassau as superb slaves.
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10 78 "Who would have thought there would be tarnsmen north of Torvaldsland," said Ram.
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10 266 New thousands arrived each day, from the paths east of Torvaldsland.
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10 339 Its sound carried clearly in the clear, cold air north of Torvaldsland.
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11 339 There were few white girls this far north, above Torvaldsland, at the brink of Ax Glacier.
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12 216 They are, generally, very shallow-drafted, which permits them to come much closer to such ice without the danger that would threaten deeper-keeled craft; too, the Gorean ship, because of the shallow draft, can occasionally run up on such ice, sliding onto it, rather than breaking apart when it strik...
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12 227 Would a white trader not pay more to rent one if she could understand his commands? The nose of the sled tipped upward and then fell to the level on the glacial pebbles, and Ax Glacier, like the broad blade of a Torvaldsland ax, lay behind us.
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12 230 There are tiers of mountains, interlaced chains of them, both east of Torvaldsland and north of her.
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12 364 It is played not only by the red hunters, but in Hunjer and Skjern, and in Torvaldsland, and as far south as the villages in the valley of the Laurius.
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17 43 "North of Torvaldsland," he said, "I saw one once, some years ago.
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17 55 Some years ago Imnak had seen a Kur north of Torvaldsland.
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38 104 "Properly trained, you might make an excellent gift for one of Torvaldsland," I said.
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38 111 She might then be sent, formerly of Kassau, now trained, perfumed and silked, to one of the fierce Torvaldsland rovers.
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38 126 Why should she herd verr and churn butter in Torvaldsland? Let her serve naked and loving, bangled, perfumed, made-up, on the multicolored tiles of some southern domicile.
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Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

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32 511 "They are worn in Torvaldsland and in other areas, generally in the northern latitudes".
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53 317 They were not the mighty axes and heavy shields of Torvaldsland.
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Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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4 66 Statistical deviations in large numbers from this type occur only in Torvaldsland and in certain other areas in the northern latitudes.
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Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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30 98 I had heard it on the rocky slopes of Torvaldsland, on the sands of the Tahari, in the jungles of the Ua.
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Book 20. (12 results) Players of Gor

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1 42 Squat, brilliant Chung and tall, long-haired Nigel, like a warlord from Torvaldsland, had fought with us against the fleets of Cos and Tyros, participating with us in the victory of the Twenty-Fifth of Se'Kara, in Year One of the Council of Captains; they remained in Port Kar as high captains, admir...
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1 892 "Late in Se'Var," said Samos, "a Torvaldsland voyageur, Yngvar, the Far-Traveled, bought paga in the Four Chains".
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1 922 Presumably this had happened after the time I had gone to Torvaldsland, or, I suppose, I would have heard of it while there.
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1 925 I went to Torvaldsland in the Rune Year 1,006.
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1 926 Years, in the chronology of Torvaldsland, are counted from the time of Thor's gift of the Stream of Torvald to Torvald, the legendary founder and hero of the northern fatherlands.
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4 168 "It is now abandoned, is it not?" "It is not now in use," he said, "though it is occasionally reopened when there is an overflow of folks from Torvaldsland, come for the fair".
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4 279 Tarl, for example, my name, tends to a familiar one on Gor, particularly in the northern areas, such as Torvaldsland and its vicinity.
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5 65 The men of Torvaldsland sometimes chain naked bond-maids in such a place.
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5 326 "In such a fashion," I told her, "the men of Torvaldsland sometimes secure their bond-maids.
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5 333 "But perhaps you are not interested in the lore of Torvaldsland," I said.
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15 141 Perhaps, too, she recalled how she had been left to be discovered by Flaminius at the Inn of Ragnar, her men strewn about, drugged, she chained naked, hand and foot, beneath a feasting table, in the fashion of a bond-maid in Torvaldsland, such things, various things.
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22 133 "As long as you are my master," she said, "I would wear it joyfully in Torvaldsland or Schendi".
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Book 21. (10 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 190 , in the night evacuation of Keibel Hill, when I had been in Torvaldsland, and who had been the victor in the battles of Rovere, Kargash, Edgington, Teveh Pass, Gordon Heights, and the Plains of Sanchez.
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4 9 We were now within the laager of Genserix, a chieftain of the Alars, a nomadic, wandering herding people, and one well-known, like the folks of Torvaldsland, for their skills with the ax.
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4 236 I had learned its use in Torvaldsland.
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4 278 He must be clear that I had not brought my handle back, under the blow, slashing upward to his neck, a blow that can, with the Torvaldsland ax, at least, cut the head from a man.
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15 540 She could not have been more helpless had she been staked out in the Barrens, lashed to an oar in Torvaldsland, chained as a prize to the stirrup of a war tharlarion on the Vennan road, kneeling buckled, hand and foot, waiting, in a slave harness on Tyros, fastened to a pleasure rack in a dingy, hal...
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25 1227 "It is a northern name, is it not?" "It is common in the north," I said, "particularly in Torvaldsland".
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25 1228 "Men from Torvaldsland frighten me," she said.
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25 1230 You are not from Torvaldsland, are you?" "No," I said.
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25 1231 To be sure, I had been in Torvaldsland, and I felt that I knew as much as any fellow there about what to do with a woman at his feet.
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25 1233 Indeed, although the men of Torvaldsland are fine and strong masters, they are generally rather direct and straightforward about what they are doing.
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Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

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8 544 But I had recovered, fully, receiving even the antidote for the poison in Torvaldsland.
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16 521 Where was Aemilianus! How dispirited seemed the defenders! How listlessly they stood! How resigned to their fate! What preparations did they make for the towers? Did they think they now faced only fellows on ladders, fellows climbing ropes, the clinging, climbing, creeping, shouting swarms, stinging...
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24 826 I recalled Torvaldsland.
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Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 291 So, too, are some of the folks in the more northern islands, interestingly, such as Hunjer and Skjern, west of Torvaldsland.
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4 58 Many are named "Tarl," for example, particularly in Torvaldsland, and, generally, in the northern latitudes of Gor.
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19 1231 Does a thirsting man in the Tahari concern himself with the feelings of the water with which he at last slakes his thirst? Does a starving man in Torvaldsland concern himself with the feelings of the viands on which he at last feasts? I continued to hold her, tightly.
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27 336 For example, being put on her belly over a table, her wrists tied to the opposite legs of it, is a very different experience for her than being fastened down on the wave-washed deck of a Torvaldsland serpent, subject to the attentions of its crew.
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28 103 To find truly different cultures one might have to travel to Torvaldsland, to the Tahari, to the Barrens, to the Land of the Wagon Peoples, to the interior, east of Schendi, and so on.
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Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 881 I had once won one myself, in Torvaldsland, in archery.
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27 812 "I received the antidote in Torvaldsland," I said, "brought to me from far-off Tyros, and, interestingly, as a matter of honor".
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Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

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11 452 "Michelle?" "To Torvaldsland, as a bondmaid, for a keg of salted parsit fish".
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Book 28. (5 results) Kur of Gor

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26 83 "How else do you suppose ten thousand small villages from Torvaldsland to Turia, from Thentis to Schendi, have retained the liberty of their Home Stones for centuries?" "We are not peasants," said Peisistratus.
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36 43 In Torvaldsland, the arrow is sometimes spoken of as the jard feeder".
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45 32 "That is common in certain areas on Gor," said Cabot, "for example, in the north, in Torvaldsland".
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74 115 It is popular too, I understand, in certain areas on Gor, particularly in the north, toward, and in, Torvaldsland.
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77 271 Whereas Cabot was familiar with the ax, from Torvaldsland, he was uncertain of his ability to withstand the onslaught of the mighty ax of the Kurii, which a human could scarcely lift, in the grip of a Kur.
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Book 29. (11 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 14 To be sure, I knew we were somewhere in the vicinity of the northern forests, north of the Tamber gulf, east of Thassa, well south of Torvaldsland.
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2 260 "It is a name not unknown in Torvaldsland," I said.
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2 381 In Torvaldsland the common sail is square.
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23 112 When a great deal of food is involved, particularly in the open, or in large halls, as in Torvaldsland, the fires are almost always narrow, and long, as this increases the amount of food which can be simultaneously prepared, and allows easy access to it, from both sides of the fire.
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28 125 Their ships remain in port, and, in Torvaldsland, even the slim, open dragons of the Torvaldslanders, as resilient and supple as they are, remain in the sheds.
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28 327 My own first name, 'Tarl', for example, was quite common in Torvaldsland.
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30 20 The dragons of Torvaldsland, for example, are square-rigged.
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30 33 The dragons of Torvaldsland are clinker-built.
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30 40 Many Gorean pilots are reluctant to venture beyond the sight of land, and open-sea voyages of more than a few days are rare, except in Torvaldsland.
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30 114 This was not a long ship, or a dragon of Torvaldsland.
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38 14 The larma does not grow naturally in Torvaldsland, but certain hard fruits do, which, happily, will serve a similar purpose.
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Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

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2 37 In Torvaldsland, and to the north, it is common to use a single rudder, and a single sail, square-rigged.
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4 45 It suggested Torvaldsland.
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7 169 The long ships are commonly open to the weather, like the dragons of Torvaldsland, and the round ships, larger and slower, are commonly decked, this to shelter passengers, if there be passengers, and protect cargo.
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8 27 In the land of the Red Hunters, farther north, north even of Torvaldsland, it was said that night would reign unremitting for weeks, from passage hand to passage hand, and to passage hand again, as in their summer, oddly, Tor-tu-Gor would never set.
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8 322 It was feared that some men might leave the ship, to try to cross the ice east, in the half darkness, perhaps to Torvaldsland.
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8 399 "Perhaps," she said, "but one could flee anywhere, to Torvaldsland, to the deeper recesses of the formidable Voltai, to the vast Barrens, to the long Valley of the Ua, anywhere.
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9 44 As it turned out, however, the weapon room had been stormed earlier by a number of disaffected crew members, in effect, mutineers, who were intent on freeing tarns, and risking a flight which might lead to land, a flight presumably to the east, where lay Torvaldsland.
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9 45 I knew little of tarns, the control of such monsters, their dispositions and habits, their ranges of flight, and such, but it seemed improbable, given our conjectured position, so far west of even the farther islands, that one might reach land, say, Torvaldsland, before the tarn might, even with the...
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9 520 "Yes," said Cabot, "it is a warm current, a river in the sea, so to speak, pasangs wide, which keeps Torvaldsland from being ice locked in the winter".
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9 522 The ice, then, even in winter, would not reach Torvaldsland.
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Book 31. (6 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 1407 Turia in the south was different, as well, and surely, so, too, would be those of Torvaldsland, in the north.
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8 1437 Long tables are commonly used in the eating houses, with benches, rather as in Torvaldsland.
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9 350 Some are north, in Torvaldsland".
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10 817 To be sure, given all the veiling of free women, and the dispersal of the population, who can speak practically of such things? Perhaps the most beautiful woman on all Gor is in some tiny village in Torvaldsland or herding bosk on the plains of the Wagon Peoples.
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10 1164 If you do, you will be placed on a slave ship for Torvaldsland or Schendi.
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52 453 I have dealt with men from Torvaldsland, from Bazi, Schendi, and Turia.
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Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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6 122 What might be in the northern forests, or Torvaldsland, to warrant this mighty movement of men and supplies? Do they think to found a city at the mouth of some far river, say, the Laurius or the remote Alexandra? Such locations would seem remote and inauspicious.
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38 154 "One hunts women where there are women, where game is plentiful, in cities, towns, even peasant villages, on traversed roads, on caravan routes, on pilgrimages to the Sardar, and such, not in the wilderness of the northern forests, not on the scattered, rocky skerries of Torvaldsland, not in the fro...
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Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

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10 16 I once saw one in Torvaldsland disembowel a Kur, before the ax half severed its head and the Kur began to feed, one paw thrusting its intestines back into its body, holding them in place.
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16 120 It was a scent, and a sort of scent, with which I was hitherto well acquainted, from various venues, from the delta of the Vosk outside Port Kar, from the hills of bleak Torvaldsland, the wastes and oases of the Tahari, the expanses of the Barrens, the jungles of the Ua, such places, even from the d...
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37 18 "Yes," I said, "and as Thassa, as fields of Sa-Tarna, as the crags of the Voltai, the skerries of bleak Torvaldsland, the steaming flower-strewn basin of the Ua, beyond Schendi, the gleaming stars of the sky".
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Book 34. (5 results) Plunder of Gor

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27 12 Many are the markets of Gor, and some are supplied by contraband merchandise, of dubious origins, and evasive of taxes and harbor fees, such as rogue silver from the mines of Tharna, to be exported to Cos and Tyros, and the Farther Islands, even to the World's End; the beans from which Black Wine is...
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32 102 "From farther than Torvaldsland, from farther than Schendi?" said the voice.
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34 221 In Torvaldsland, jarls give rings and places at table, some above the salt.
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54 124 It is almost certain to fall within the perimeters of permissible weaponry, knives, swords, pikes, spears, staffs, axes, and such, and most likely axes, for Kurii, like the men of Torvaldsland, are fond of the ax".
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61 263 This contempt, on the other hand, is not always justified, as Kurii have learned, in Torvaldsland, the Tahari, the jungles of the Ua, and elsewhere.
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Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

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29 21 In the north, muchly distant, in the vicinity of Torvaldsland, and in the waters of Torvaldsland itself, small, isolated, uninhabited skerries are often used as dueling places.
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6 130 Brundisium is a major port, her mighty harbor berthing vessels from a thousand ports, vessels large and small, square-rigged and lateen-rigged, clinker built and carvel built, ships mercantile and naval, round ships and long ships, come from as far as Schendi in the south, and Torvaldsland to the no...
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29 27 That name is one familiar in Torvaldsland.
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29 28 Indeed, some claim there is an actual, historical Skerry of Lars off the coast of Torvaldsland.
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34 105 "We could change your name and lose you in any one of a hundred markets, markets as far south as Schendi, as far north as Torvaldsland".
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38 114 One conjecture was that Bosk of Port Kar was off to Brundisium, on a trading venture, dealing with amber; another was that he had gone to Torvaldsland, to the north, to buy furs; other conjectures had him inspecting the arsenal reserve in the great northern forests, establishing a trading station at...
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Book 36. (4 results) Avengers of Gor

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1 259 "Yes," said he, "where lies a citadel of ruthless cunning, of envy, violence, wrath, murder, and greed, of arrant ambition, a lawless, bestial port, feared from Torvaldsland to Schendi, a port the scourge of turbulent Thassa, a den of thieves and cutthroats, a lair of pirates, near whose walls fish ...
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26 30 The dragonships of Torvaldsland, far to the north, are square-rigged and single-ruddered, the rudder, or 'steering board', usually on the right side, presumably because most human beings are right-handed.
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50 17 Most Gorean vessels south of Torvaldsland are double-ruddered.
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63 156 "She was sought by a thousand bounty hunters," I said, "sought in hovels and sheds, in palaces and citadels, from rocky Torvaldsland to the jungles of the Ua, even to the World's End".
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