The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow

by Allen FRENCH (1870 - 1946)

Chapter XII - Of the Trial of Skill at Tongue

The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow

Rolf, a youth in early Christian Iceland, loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to the schemes of a greedy neighbor. Outlawed from Iceland, Rolf travels abroad, meeting with shipwreck, enslavement, Viking berserkers, and many other dangers and adventures. All the while, Rolf searches for a way to prove his father was killed unjustly and win back his own property and freedom. Even more difficult, Rolf must end the cycle of enmity, vengeance, and pride that hangs like a curse over his family. - Summary by Erin Schellhase


Listen next episodes of The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow:
Chapter XIII - Of That Robber , Chapter XIV - How Rolf and Einar Summoned Each Other , Chapter XIX - Now Men Are Shipwrecked , Chapter XV - Of Suits at the Althing , Chapter XVI - The Act of Distress , Chapter XVII - Rolf and Frodi Fare Abroad , Chapter XVIII - How Those Two Came into Thraldom , Chapter XX - How Rolf Won His Freedom , Chapter XXI - How Rolf Won the Viking's Bow , Chapter XXII - Now Kiartan Returns , Chapter XXIII - Of the Coming of Earl Thorfinn , Chapter XXIV - Now Rolf and Grani Quarrel , Chapter XXIX - Of the Trial of Grani's Pride , Chapter XXV - Here Rolf Comes to Cragness , Chapter XXVI - Of Grani's Pride , Chapter XXVII - Odd Doings at Cragness , Chapter XXVIII - Of That Harvest Feast , Chapter XXX - Of the Saying of Those Two Words