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XXIV. PEACE, AND FAREWELL.

PREFACE.

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CHAPTER I. GRIM THE FISHER AND HIS SONS.

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CHAPTER II. KING HODULF'S SECRET.

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CHAPTER III. HAVELOK, SON OF GUNNAR.

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CHAPTER IV. ACROSS THE SWAN'S PATH.

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CHAPTER V. STORM AND SHIPWRECK.

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CHAPTER VI. THE BEGINNING OF GRIMSBY TOWN.

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CHAPTER VII. BROTHERHOOD.

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CHAPTER VIII. BERTHUN THE COOK.

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CHAPTER IX. CURAN THE PORTER.

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CHAPTER X. KING ALSI OF LINDSEY.

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CHAPTER XI. THE COMING OF THE PRINCESS.

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CHAPTER XII. IN LINCOLN MARKETPLACE.

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CHAPTER XIII. THE WITAN'S FEASTING.

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CHAPTER XIV. THE CRAFT OF ALSI THE KING.

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CHAPTER XV. THE FORTUNE OF CURAN THE PORTER.

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CHAPTER XVI. A STRANGEST WEDDING.

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CHAPTER XVII. HOW THE BRIDE WENT HOME.

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CHAPTER XVIII. JARL SIGURD OF DENMARK.

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CHAPTER XIX. THE LAST OF GRIFFIN OF WALES.

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CHAPTER XX. THE OWNING OF THE HEIR.

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CHAPTER XXI. THE TOKEN OF SACK AND ANCHOR.

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CHAPTER XXII. KING ALSI'S WELCOME.

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CHAPTER XXIII. BY TETFORD STREAM.

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CHAPTER XXIV. PEACE, AND FAREWELL.

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PREFACE.

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      If any excuse is needed for recasting the ancient legend of Grim the fisher and his foster-son Havelok the Dane, it may be found in the fascination of the story itself, which made it one of the most popular legends in England from the time of the Norman conquest, at least, to that of Elizabeth. From the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries it seems to have been almost classic; and during that period two full metrical versions --- one in Norman-French and the other in English --- were written, besides many other short versions and abridgments, which still exist. These are given exhaustively by Professor Skeat in his edition of the English poem for the Early English Text Society, and it is needless to do more than refer to them here as the sources from which this story is gathered.

      These versions differ most materially from one another in names and incidents, while yet preserving the main outlines of the whole history. It is evident that there has been a far more ancient, orally-preserved tradition, which has been the original of the freely-treated poems and concise prose statements of the legend which we have. And it seems

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