Alvilda

Castine offered not only the local legend of the drummer-boy ghost, but proximity to the ocean and the pull of Alvilda, pirate Queen.

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You have suffered much and have avenged your wrongs, and now Odin has granted my prayer that Alvilda shall stay by you for the rest of your life, and when you die she shall carry you in her arms to the country of

The Book of Romance Andrew Lang 1878

Swanvite, Alvilda, and Alruna are sent by the Norns,

The Book of Romance Andrew Lang 1878

'Arise, my husband,' said Alvilda, 'and go straight to the Court of Nidud.

The Book of Romance Andrew Lang 1878

When he woke Alvilda was indeed there, and he seemed to catch glimpses of his brothers amid the leaves of the trees.

The Book of Romance Andrew Lang 1878

'Eyr the physician has healed me,' cried Wayland, and the fairies took him in their arms and bore him across the waves to a bower in the forest, where he dreamed that Alvilda and Slagfid and Eigil were all bending over him.

The Book of Romance Andrew Lang 1878

At last he grew tired of making armour, and hammered a number of gold rings, which he strung on strips of bark, and as he hammered he thought of Alvilda his wife, and how the rings would gleam on her arms when once she came back again.

The Book of Romance Andrew Lang 1878

Wayland saw that she who wore the red garment was really Alvilda.

The Book of Romance Andrew Lang 1878

So Wayland went back to Alvilda, and they went into another country, where he became a famous smith, and he lived to a good old age; and when he died he was carried in Alvilda's arms to Walhalla, as Freya had promised.

The Book of Romance Andrew Lang 1878