Thoralf

And, as always, Thoralf and his son Thorgils were with us.

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

Klerkon deemed Thoralf over old for a thrall, and, seeing no work in him, slew him and flung him overboard, but he had the lads away with him, and sold them into slavery.

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

This that I tell you was taught to me by Thorgils, my foster brother, who is the thrall of Biorn the merchant; and he can tell you more than I know, for he is older than I, and the son of our faithful Thoralf.

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

Then was Olaf parted from his mother, and the captain of the vikings, an Esthonian named Klerkon Flatface, got him along with Thoralf and Thorgils.

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

Thoralf had held little Olaf by the hand as they stood apart on the ship's deck, and Klerkon had come up to them and roughly separated them, flinging Olaf across to where young Thorgils stood.

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

Thoralf never left her, but guarded her always most faithfully, while other trusty men of hers went about spying for tidings of her foes.

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

An Esthonian named Klerkon Flatface got me as his portion, along with Thoralf and Thorgils.

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

Klerkon deemed Thoralf over old for a thrall, and could not see any work in him, so he cruelly slew him before our eyes and cast his body into the sea.

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

The old man Thoralf had fallen to Klerkon's share in the dividing of booty.

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

“O Thoralf, dearest Thoralf, if that your meaning be, —

0 1001. Thoralf and Synnov by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 1900