1899.


[ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.]

HAYMAN, CHRISTY AND LILLY, LTD.,

HATTON WORKS, 113-115, FARRINGDON ROAD, LONDON, E.C.


CONTENTS

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

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