Chapter I: Front Matter

ULRIC THE JARL:

A Story of the Penitent Thief.

BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.

LONDON:

CHARLES H. KELLY, 2, CASTLE STREET, CITY ROAD, E.C.;

AND 26, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.

1899.

[ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.]

HAYMAN, CHRISTY AND LILLY, LTD.,
HATTON WORKS, 113-115, FARRINGDON ROAD, LONDON, E.C.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

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

ILLUSTRATIONS

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"The token of Hilda!" Frontispiece

"Go forth into the sea, O sword!" 31

"Let him win it or perish!" 176

"O companion of Hilda!" 263

"O thou Jesus, of the sons of the gods!" 313

ULRIC THE JARL.