1899.[ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.]HAYMAN, CHRISTY AND LILLY, LTD.,HATTON WORKS, 113-115, FARRINGDON ROAD, LONDON, E.C.CONTENTSCHAPTERPAGEI.[Around the Viking House-fire]7II.[The Going Out of the Ice]17III.[The Launching of "The Sword"]22IV.[The Ship "The Sword" and the Ice King]37V.[The Unknown Thing]45VI.[The Fall of the Ice King]53VII.[The Living Sand]60VIII.[The Saxon Shore]75IX.[The Taking of the Trireme]86X.[The Great Sacrifice of the Druids]96XI.[The Passing of Lars the Old]108XII.[Svein the Cunning Jarl]119XIII.[Hilda of the Hundred Years]127XIV.[The Jew and the Greek]136XV.[The Storm in the Middle Sea]149XVI.[The Dead God in Africa ]165XVII.[The Murmuring of the Men]181XVIII.[The Evil Spirit on "The Sword"]193XIX.[In the Night and in the Fire]202XX.[Carmel and Esdraelon]214XXI.[The Rabbi from Nazareth]225XXII.[The Tomb Song of Sigurd]240XXIII.[In a Place Apart at Night]255XXIV.[The Passing of Oswald]266XXV.[The Messenger of the Procurator]276XXVI.[The Cunning of Julius]284XXVII.[The Lion and the Tiger]296XXVIII.[ The Jarl and the Rabbi]307XXIX.[Beautiful as Aphrodite]318XXX.[The Javelin of Herod]330XXXI.[The Places of Sacrifice]340XXXII.[The Mob of Samaria]348XXXIII.[The House of Pontius the Spearman]359XXXIV.[The School of Gamaliel]371XXXV.[In the Court of the Women]382XXXVI.[The Secret Messenger]399XXXVII.[The House of Ben Ezra]411XXXVIII.[The Son of Abbas]422XXXIX.[The Passover Feast]438XL.["A Little While"]448ILLUSTRATIONS