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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quite so," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, Colonel, said Fitz," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To whom, my clear Fitz? It would take a week to get the clerk of the co'te to look through the records. Nobody at Bar-hour's knows." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Does Miss Nancy know?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You mean, Colonel, de hill whar we cotch de big coon?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Jedge Barbour's niggers always said dat de coon was dere coon, 'ca'se he was treed on dere lan', and we 'sputed dat it was our...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Chad, said the colonel," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wat's dis blue wiggle lookin' like a big fish-wum?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's the Tench River." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Scuse me till I run down to de kitchen an' git my spec's. I can't see like" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, take mine!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dis yer's de ribber;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dat's de road;" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I was down dar, Marsa George, jes a minute, I could tole ye, 'ca'se I reckelmember de berry tree whar Marsa John had de spyglass sot on its legs. I held de pole on de rock way up yander on de hill, an' in dat berry rock Marsa John done cut a crotch." }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mawnin', Major; fust fox out de hole, is yer? Lawd a massey, ain't I glad ter git back to my ole mist'ess! Lan' sakes alive! I ain't slep' none all night a-thinkin' ober it. You ain't seen my Henny? Dat was her sister's chile rubbin' down de flo'. She come ober dis mawnin' ter h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dat's enough roses to bury up de dishes. Rub yo' nose down in 'em. Ain't dey sweet! Now, come along wid me, Major. I done tole Henny 'bout you an' de tar'pins an' de times de gemmen had. Dis way, Major; won't take a minute, an' ef ye all go back to-night,--an' I yerd Mister Engl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Henny, de major made a special p'int o' cumin' to see ye 'fo' he gits his break-fas'." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mawnin', marsa. I ain't much ter see, I'm so ole an' mizzble wid dese yer cricks in my back an' sich a passel o' white folks. How did my Chad git alon...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Welcome, my dear Major, called the colonel;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jes cast yo' eyes, suh, --this to the agent,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is the coal in that range?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, suh; the coal is behind us on an outlyin' spur. I will take you there after breakfast." }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There comes the jedge, said the colonel, pointing to a cloud of dust following a two-wheel gig," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(They had both been dropped outside their respective garden gates the night before.)" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, gentl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oak and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rock" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Before we find out, Colonel Carter, to whom this coal belongs, which may take some valuable time, I want to examine the quality of the vein itself. I would like to go now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By all means, suh; and my people shall go with us," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Fitz--diamonds?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; black ones at that. He was almost breathless." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Solid bed of bituminous! Clear down to China! Don't breathe a word yet, for your life!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Deed--John Carter to E. A. Barbour," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Chad, we will fust find the tree, said the judge, looking around for his map-bearer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's that nigger? Chad!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eve'ybody come yer!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It tallies to a dot. Now, Chad, the rock! the rock!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you know it is the rock with the crotch in it? Speak, you grinning lunatic!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was dar dis mawnin' by daylight." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's it marked? said Fitz, catching him by both shoulders." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Fitzpatrick, said the agent," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have spent an hour with Judge Kerfoot going over the title of this property, and I am prepared to make a proposition for its purchase. I have reduced it to writing, --picking up a half-sheet of foolsca...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If this is accepted, I presume, suh, you will not look any further into my road?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are right. My instructions cover only the purchase of this deposit. I have room for only one operation." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait until I return," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nancy, an investigation begun in New York by my dear friend Fitz, and completed here to-day, results in the discov'ry that what you have always considered as slight outcroppin's of coal, and wuthless, is really of vehy great value. The colonel here unbuttoned his coat, and threw...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This will of course still leave you, Nancy, this house and about half of the farm property transferred to you by me at the fo'closure sale." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What shall I do, Mr. Fitzpatrick? It seems to me a grave step to sell any part of the estate." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Nancy wants de colonel." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I sent for you, she began," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall rebuild the barns and cabins, and lay out a new lawn. The po'ch --looking up--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's dis, Marsa George?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A thousand dollars, Chad." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Golly! Monst'ous quare kind o' money. Jes a scrap. Ain't big enough to wad a gun, is she? An' Misser Englishman gib ye dis for dat ole brie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Chad, for you and me. There's no hard work for you any mo', old man. Go and tell Henny." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, gentlemen, they have done mo'. The colonel's feet now barely touched the floor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They have enabled me to provide for one of the loveliest of her sex,--she who graces our boa'd,--and to enrich her declinin' days not only with all the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Transactions of the Somerset Archaeological Society" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eadmund, the modern and familiar forms of the names have been used in preference to the constantly-varying forms given by the chroniclers. Bridgwater has no Saxon equivalent, the town being known only as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Bridge" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "King Alfred's Viking," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Coward and nidring art thou, Rognvald, who dared not meet Vemund, my husband, in open field, but must slay him thus. Ill may all things go with thee, till thou knowest what a burning hall is like for thyself. I rede thee to the open hillside ever, rather than come beneath a roof...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We cannot fight Norway, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is a thunderstorm about," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay--listen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Odin defend us! the jarl said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jarl, he said, almost under his breath," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was it so ill made that it needs tending?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was well made, jarl; but rain and frost and sun on a new-made mound may have wrought harm to it. Or maybe ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know more of these matters than I, Thord, Einar answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it possible that Sigurd could work this?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who knows what a dead chief of might cannot work? Thord said." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then, I will take boat and go to Sigurd's mound and see if he ails aught. Will any man come with me, however?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will be with you, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will not Thord come also?" }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Two men to row the boat will be enough, jarl, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kolgrim yonder will come with us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, the jarl answered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have no fear for us, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Doubtless my brother needs somewhat, and calls me. I am going to find out what it is and return." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sigurd--my brother!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are we flying from? there was nought to harm us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is ill for us to stay here. The dead jarl is very wroth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I saw nought to fray us; the cry we heard was but that of a loon." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The mound was freshly opened, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw earth crumbling even yet from the broken side. The blow we felt was that which Sigurd struck when he broke free." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have left my brother unhonoured...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think we should have waited to ask Sigurd that," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would you have us return?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why not? said I." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If the great jarl has called us as it seems, needs must...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bide here for two hours, jarl, and maybe I will return in that time, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Farewell." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Kolgrim, will you come also?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You shall not go alone, Ran...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Almost do I fear to go nearer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Put fear away, comrade, said I;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where you go I go, he answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The next best thing to not being afraid is to be afra...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jarl Sigurd, here is one, a friend's son, who will learn what you will." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It seems that I must go even to the door, and maybe into the mound," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not inside," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bide here, and I will go at least to the door," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho, Jarl Sigurd! what would you? Why have you opened your door thus?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sigurd of Orkney--Sigurd, son of Rognvald--I am the son of Vemund your friend. Speak to me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think that the mound has been rifled, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sigurd would have us know it and take revenge." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No man has dared to go near that doorway till you came, Ranald Vemundsson, Kolgrim answered." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What can I do? he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know no runes that are of avail. It would be ill to disturb this place with idle sounds." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whet your sword edge sharply, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is a sound a hero loves, for it speaks of deeds to be done." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, that is no idle sound," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you need me, ca...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jarl Einar, your brother, bids me ask for sword Helmbiter, great Sigurd. Let me take it, that he may know how you rest in peace." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jarl Sigurd, I thank you. If my might is aught, the sword will be used as you would have used it. Surely I will say to Einar that you rest in peace, and we will come here and close your mound again in all honour." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Skoal to Jarl Sigurd; rest in peace, and farewell." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kolgrim," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Master, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O master I thought you lost--and I dared not follow you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have met with no peril, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "More than two hours, master, have you b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jarl Sigurd has given me the sword!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us go back to Jarl Einar; he will fear for us," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Master, said Kolgrim," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well have you won these gifts. My brother is in peace in his resting place now. I hold that he called for you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Call me not 'master,' Kolgrim, my comrade, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Master of mine you are, Ranald the king, since the day when you dared more than I thought man might, while I lay like a beaten hound outside, and dared not go within that place to see w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Therefore we are comrades, not master and man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay, but master and man--lord and thrall," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nevertheless, said Thiodolf," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would not advise you to sail in Halfdan's ship, for that might wake angry thoughts, and trouble would come especially as Halfdan took her without leave when he was outlawed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So, Ranald Vemundsson, you are worthy of your father. It may be that you bear me ill will on his account, but I would have you forget the deeds done that Norway might be one, and the happier therefor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Had my father been slain in fair fi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Overmuch make you of that matter, scald," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One has to fill in what a warrior will not tell of himself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Overpaid am I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are the first who has ever sung of me, I answered;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not so much need for haste but that you can bide here for a day or two, Harald said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will not have you complain of my hospitality hereafter. And Thiodolf and Harek here want to learn more about Sigurd's sword and its winning." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sigurd is stronger now that he is dead than when he lived. We felt that stroke even here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So shall I lie some day in a grave mound. It is passing strange to think on. I would that if one comes to my side he may step gently as you, Ranal...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was an unlucky speech of your comrade's just now. No man dares name himself king in Harald's presence--not even his own sons. It is the one thing that he will not bear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So it seemed, said I;" }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here are fine doings, said Kolgrim, as the men swarmed on board." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is on hand now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is not done with yet, said a man:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me on board, King Ran...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold on, said Thord;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These are gifts from Harald to Einar's foster son, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He bids me say that you have done your errand well, and that this is to prove it. Also he says that Ranald, son of Vemund, may need mail to keep his kingship withal, and so he ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your going has spoiled a plan that Eric, the king's son, had made. He wanted your sword, and thought also that to rid himself now of Vemund's son might save him trouble when the crown came to him, as it will. You were to be set on as you came from the feast tonight to the guest ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose that if I have a scald of my own, King Harald will blame me for overmuch kingship. However, he is angry enough already, and maybe a good friend will balance that to me. So if you will indeed cast in your lot with me, I am glad!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now must you go your own way, son Ranald, for Harald is too strong for us. Maybe that is best for you, for here shall I bide in peace in Orkney; and that is not a life for a king's son--to sit at a jarl's table in idleness, or fight petty fights for scatt withholden and the like...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here comes Rolf Ganger back from Valland, said Kolgrim." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has gathered any vessels he could get together, and is going to land in England." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We will even head out to sea from across their cour...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho, men, I said, when I saw that," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us keep on our course, I said to Kolgrim." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will see if we cannot weather on these ships, and anyway shall fight them better apart from the rest. It is a fine breeze for a sailing match." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is witchcraft about those great hulks, he growled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are neither Norse, nor Frisian, nor Danish, but better than all three put together." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have sailed in ships, and talked of ships, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must out oars now if we are to weather on them," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Men, I said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Out oars, men! Keep them swinging, but put no weight on them. Let them pull after us and tire themselves. I have a mind to see how our dragon looks on yonder high stem head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maybe they beat us in sailing, king; we can teach them somewha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Better are they at sailing than rowing," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who knows what tongue he talks? I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I cannot make him out rightly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "said an old warrior from the waist." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He asks who we are and what is our busine...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What will you? here am I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am no foe of Alfred's, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not know, therefore, why I should fight you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you not for the Danes?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate them more or less, and I have n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are all like that, Saxon, he said cheerfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maybe there is a head or two broken; 'tis mostly what we call seasickness, however." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It comes into my mind, he said," }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you will indeed fight for us, you must trust to Alfred to give you fitting reward. I do not know what I might say about that, having thought of no such chance as this. But there is no man who can complain of him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stay here and speak with me, Odda said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now we must get back to the fleet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have come in good time, King Ranald, Odda said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see what state we are in; can you better it for us?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Many things I can see that need strengthening, I answered." }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is a gale coming, said Kolgrim, looking at the sky and the whitening wave crests." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We had best get our ships into this haven while we can." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That they would not, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should have blundered past this place in the night, and so lost the Danes altogether; or if I had not done that, they would soon have found ou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There were twelve thousand Danes in Wareham, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If that had been possible, not one would have seen the morning's light, I answered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall you march on Wareham and scatter them, or will they fall on us here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would that I knew what they thought of this business, he answered;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These ships were hurt in the storm of lest week, the fisher said, as we drifted past them;" } ]