Gudrid The Fair - Maurice Hewlett - Kirjat - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781518775505 - maanantai 26. lokakuuta 2015
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Gudrid The Fair

Maurice Hewlett

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Gudrid The Fair

Excerpt: ..."I am very drunk. That is just what I am." "Come you with me," said Leif, "and you shall be no more drunk." Then it was that Dirk said, "Let us sit down. I'll tell you where I've been." So they sat down together in the moonlight. Then Dirk told him that he had outwalked the others and passed out of the forest belt and reached a ridge of low hills. When he came to them he found that they were a tangle of wild vines. "And I know what vines are very well," he stopped to say, "for in my country there is no lack of them." Now these vines, he said, were loaded with grapes, some still ripe, but mostly over-ripe and fallen; and in a hollow of the rocks he had come to a pool of water wherein the grapes had fallen and fermented. "There," said he, "was my wine-vat, and there was I. The rest, master, you know." "Can you take me to that place to-morrow?" Leif asked him. Dirk said that he could. "Well," Leif said, "here is our work then. We will collect what we can of your grapes, and load our ship with timber. That will fill up the winter for us; and in the spring we will go home." And that was the way of it. The timber which they got was fine wood, and fit for building. They stored what grapes they could, and having a good-sized meal-tub on board, they made wine in it. They had samples of self-sown grain, too, and the skins of animals which they had trapped or shot with bows. When the spring came, they loaded their ship and sailed out of the lake into the open sea; but they left on shore the huts which they had made, meaning to return. At parting Leif said: "That country deserves a good name, and shall have one. I call it Wineland the Good." XV Leif in after days had his name of The Lucky, not for the great country which he had explored, nor for what he brought back from it, nor for the good passage home which he made, but for another reason altogether. It was the fact that the wind never failed them from the day they set out until that one on which they first...

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Julkaisupäivämäärä maanantai 26. lokakuuta 2015
ISBN13 9781518775505
Tuottaja Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Sivujen määrä 104
Mitta 152 × 229 × 6 mm   ·   149 g
Kieli English  

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