The Ward of King Canute

A Romance of the Danish Conquest

by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

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Contents

Acknowledgment

Foreword

CHAPTER I. The Fall of the House of Frode

CHAPTER II. Randalin, Frode’s Daughter

CHAPTER III. Where War-dogs Kennel

CHAPTER IV. When Royal Blood Is Young Blood

CHAPTER V. Before The King

CHAPTER VI. The Training of Fridtjof The Page

CHAPTER VII. The Game of Swords

CHAPTER VIII. Taken Captive

CHAPTER IX. The Young Lord of Ivarsdale

CHAPTER X. As The Norns Decree

CHAPTER XI. When My Lord Comes Home From War

CHAPTER XII. The Foreign Page

CHAPTER XIII. When Might Made Right

CHAPTER XIV. How The Fates Cheated Randalin

CHAPTER XV. How Fridtjof Cheated The Jotun

CHAPTER XVI. The Sword of Speech

CHAPTER XVII. The Judgment of The Iron Voice

CHAPTER XVIII. What The Red Cloak Hid

CHAPTER XIX. The Gift of The Elves

CHAPTER XX. A Royal Reckoning

CHAPTER XXI. With The Jotun as Chamberlain

CHAPTER XXII. How The Lord of Ivarsdale Paid His Debt

CHAPTER XXIII. A Blood-stained Crown

CHAPTER XXIV. On The Road to London

CHAPTER XXV. The King’s Wife

CHAPTER XXVI. In The Judgment Hall

CHAPTER XXVII. Pixie-led

CHAPTER XXVIII. When Love Meets Love

CHAPTER XXIX. The Ring of The Coiled Snake

CHAPTER XXX. When The King Takes a Queen

CHAPTER XXXI. The Twilight of The Gods

CHAPTER XXXII. In Time’s Morning