Kolgrim

So he called Kolgrim, and he said that he would go with us, and went to get the boat alongside without more words.

King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884

Then I called Kolgrim, and we went out together into the moonlight and the wind, to find the fisherman we had spoken with already and get him to act as guide.

King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884

I suppose that Kolgrim had answered many such curious folk already; for when he came near and we could hear what he was saying, I was fain to laugh, for, as sailors will, he was telling the landsman strange things.

King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884

Harek and Kolgrim and this man Dudda with us, well armed and mounted and full of hope, across the southward ridge that looks down over the fens of the meeting of Tone and Parret, where they are widest and wildest.

King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884

So when I knew that this would please him, I chose Thord for my shipmaster, and Kolgrim for marshal, as we call the one who has charge of the ordering of the crew.

King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884

Then we changed the ranks quickly, and I and Kolgrim and Harek made the point of that wedge.

King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884

Thereafter Kolgrim and I went back to Einar, who yet waited for us.

King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884

Whereon they dismounted, and Kolgrim took his axe from his saddle bow, asking where the river was, while he wondered that such a simple matter as breaking a hole in the ice and dropping a line among the hungry fish, who would swarm to the air, had not been thought of.

King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884

My axe broke, and I took to sword Helmbiter, and once Kolgrim went

King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884

"Ay, for honest Kolgrim also," he answered; "but what of old Thord, my reprover?"

King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884