They had cut a large hole in the side amidships, for the purpose of carrying off the ornaments and other valuables by which the dead viking was surrounded, in the chamber constructed for his body right in the centre of the boat.
Viking Spacecraft had taken every precaution to make sure that nobody stole their pet.
I got up and got dressed and took the tubeway to Viking Test Area Four, where McGuire was the ruler of the roost.
Thurston's outfit is trying to oust Ravenhurst from the managership of Viking and take over the job.
Baedecker, on the other hand, didn't give a care about Viking Spacecraft.
The robotocists atViking Spacecraft had decided to take another tack.
And except for the Government Reservation, Viking Spacecraft owned Ceres, lock, stock, and mining rights.
The robotocists at Viking tell me that, in order to prevent any further .
I'll expect to be paid weekly; if Viking goes broke, I don't want to lose more than a week's pay.
He was introduced as the head of the Viking robotics staff, and he shook hands firmly when he said he was glad to meet me.
The general public didn't know how shaky Viking Spacecraft was, and neither, presumably, did the robotics staff.
He'll need it if Viking is to have enough financial leeway to go on with this project.
Baedecker Metals & Mining Corporation, which is managed by Baedecker himself, wants to forceViking out of business so that BM&M can take over Ceres for large-scale processing of precious metals.
I have been banking on the McGuire-type ships to put Viking Spacecraft ahead of every other spacecraft company in the System.
Viking cannot stand any more of that kind of drain on its financial resources.
Thurston wanted to take over Viking as a going concern--a little under the weather, perhaps, but still functioning.
He was superbly indifferent to his surroundings, gazing straight before him with the eyes of a Vikingwho searches the far horizon.
He threw a gay malicious glance towards the bridge, where Larpent stood like a grim Viking looking down upon the scene.
The Viking Ship at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, 1893 opp.
Glad am I to have seen the place," said Ulric, and every viking shouted for joy that he had looked upon the greatest battlefield of the broad world.
It had been a disgrace to any viking to interfere, even if the lion should slay the Greek, but Svip, the son of Leiknar went forward wrongfully, lifting his spear.
The viking who blew was better used to his war horn, and he knew not that instead of a peaceful greeting he had sounded the notes that bid a Roman legion close with an enemy, to win or die.
They celebrated the deeds and exploits of heroic men of the early Viking age.
Although this ancient type of boat is fast dying out, the traveller will yet find a number of them in Nordland, and these are still more like the Viking ships of old, having also high pointed sterns.
Of textile fabrics from the Viking age fragments only have been found, and these in most cases were discoloured from contact with metallic objects and by the moisture from turfy soil.
I asked in as low a voice, for I had not been a viking for naught.
One thing only I wished, and that was that I had the axe which Lodbrok made for me, for then, I told the man, I should feel as a Viking again, and that pleased him.
So my boyish dreams were like to come to pass, for I was thus a viking indeed.
For when the ships are gone a-viking we are weak in men, so needs must have strong walls to keep out all comers from over seas.
And viking ways had taught me to go fasting for two days, if need be, given a good meal to start upon.
At that the viking stared at me, and one of his men said: "When did Danes take to trading on this coast?
The viking dropped his axe on the deck and seized my hand, gazing at the ring and the runes graven thereon.
Now though that saying pleased me, I could not wish for the wildviking as husband to our gentle Eadgyth, though I loved him well as my own friend.
Many of our old vikingcrew are here with me, for they would fain find land in our country, and I gave them the deserted coast lands that lie to our northward, round the great broads.
Now as this coast consists merely of a small strip south of the river Goetaelv, it is argued that the Goetar could not be the maritime Geatas of Beowulf, capable of undertaking a Viking raid to the mouth of the Rhine.
The swords of the Schleswig moss-finds are almost all thus adorned with a variegated surface, as often are the later Viking swords; but those of the Anglo-Saxon graves are not.
After the Angles had crossed the North Sea, however, this close intimacy ceased, till the Viking raids again reminded Englishmen, in a very unpleasant way, of their kinsmen across the sea.
Homer and Beowulf: a literary parallel, Saga-Book of the Viking Club.
At a later date the "Danes" became the controlling power in the North Sea; but in the centuries before the Viking raids began, the Frisians appear to have had it all their own way.
And forthwith it became known that Halfred had armed the best of his house churls, and his followers, with good weapons, to set forth as a Viking to conquer, and as a Skald to sing.
But to carry her back, himself, through the snow, to her mother, that would no Viking have done that I know; above all when he was tired and hungry.
On all the pillars of the walls were hung curiously interlaced weapons, which the Viking had gathered from boarded ships, stormed castles, and victorious battlefields.
And thus had Halfred now, for many years, roamed about as a Viking and as a Skald, and had won fame and red gold; and once more he again celebrated the Yule feast at home in his hall.
Many a Viking would only, from compassion, have thrust her deeper in the snow; the best would have given her to one of his followers to carry to the hall.
After a photograph of the Viking Ship at Sandefjord, Norway.
All is as misty concerning that Viking voyage as the legends of old Norse gods.
In the grave of the Viking warrior were buried his horn and armour in order that he might enter the halls of Valhalla fully equipped.
Old ballads of his native isles, with their haunting Gaelic rhythms and idioms and their frequent reminiscences of the Norse viking and the Danish summer-sailor, were often in his ears.
Tempest on the great sea-borders, Hear my tale, ye viking sworders!
From the Maglemosian boat the Viking ship was ultimately developed; the unprogressive Victoria Nyanza boatbuilders continued through the Ages repeating the design adopted by their remote ancestors.
In Egil's Saga (Chapter XXXII) the hero Bjorn "was sometimes in Vikingbut sometimes on trading voyages".
Her Viking blood could not color her cheeks, but her Viking courage found her a whisper in which to offer her plea for the "sun-browned boy-bred wench.
Flaring crimson under her brown skin, Randalin's Viking blood leaped to answer the call.
Once she came upon a brawnyViking employing his huge fingers to twine a golden chain around a white throat.
Frode's daughter had Viking blood, but she hid her face with a cry.
For an instant an edge of his Viking savagery made itself felt through his voice; then faded as quickly into cold courtesy.
Suddenly it seemed that a hand had awakened the Viking blood which slumbered in her veins; it fired her cheeks and flashed from under her lashes.
But the boy viking and his Norsemen were there for a purpose, and were not to be driven back by stones or spears or arrows.
Impetuous as ever, and impatient of obstacles, the young viking said: "How?
The wild and stern experiences of his viking days lived again even in his attempts to reform and benefit his land.
As if in league against this bold young viking the storm winds came rushing down from the mountains of Norway and the cold belt of the Arctic Circle and caught the two war-ships tossing in a raging sea.
But the soil of the "Lucky Isle" was largely clay, moist and slippery, and as the eager young viking climbed the bank his right foot slipped, and he would have fallen had not he struck his left foot firmly in the clay and thus saved himself.
The boyviking stood by his dragon-headed prow, and shook his clenched fist at the obstructed sea-strait and the Swedish spears.
So King Ethelred won back his kingdom, and the boy viking was honored above all others.
So young Olaf and old Rane put their heads together, and decided to wreck the bridge by a bold viking stroke.
They were Viking cruisers, on their way to plunder some coast town; and the old Emperor's prophecy was verified when the Norman, who was a civilized Norseman, became for a while the conquering race of Europe.
The battle that followed is the most famous in Viking story.
With the "Crane" as his flagship, Olaf sailed northward to attack the Viking Raud, pirate and magician, who held out for the old gods and the old wild ways.
It is remarkable that, though it proved useful at the battle of Svold, the armed bow found no regular place in Viking warfare.
When Nelson destroyed and captured the Danish fleet at Copenhagen, the Danes consoled themselves by saying that only a leader of their own blood could have conquered them, and that Nelson's name showed he came of the Viking line.
Andersen had a crew of eleven men in the Viking ship.
Manoeuvring appears to have had small part in most Viking fights.
The Viking blood in his veins gave him no rest until he himself became a Viking leader, like the Normans from whom he was descended.
The proud Viking would not bow down to the king, but laid hold of the latter’s feet and lifted them up to his mouth, whereat the king, amidst the laughter of the spectators, tumbled down.
It's my Viking they want," laughed she: "they take his mouse in for the sake of securing him.
Then out of Norway, with a mighty host, came Harold Hardraade, taller than all men, the ideal Viking of his time.
In 897 nine of the new ships fought in action with six Viking vessels in a Devonshire estuary, of which the Chronicle gives what almost reads like the official account.
The Vikings were led this year by Thorkil ‘the Tall,’ of Jomsborg, a famous Viking settlement on the Baltic coast of Germany.
In 842 a great Viking fleet sailed into the Channel, and, apparently separating into detachments, attacked Quentovic in Picardy, London, and Rochester.
But in the summer the main Viking fleet--three hundred and fifty ships under a chief named Rorik--came up the Thames.
Alfred entrenched himself midway between the two Viking armies, and soon reduced Hæsten to straits, perhaps by the aid of a fleet from London.
In 853 a Viking force entrenched itself in Thanet and defeated an attempt of the Kentishmen to dislodge them, but then abandoned the isle and sailed to fields where plunder was more easily gained than among the obstinate Englishmen.
Hardrada, having picked up Tosti and the remains of his expedition, proceeded southward along the coast of Northumbria, landing and ravaging in the old Viking fashion.
Hæsten at Bemfleet had been joined by the mainViking fleet, and was wasting Mercia with part of his force, the rest being left to guard the camp.
