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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When was this done?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Since yesterday," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us go ashore and speak with some one, I said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is a flitting, said Kolgrim," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have fled from Poole, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is in the wind here? Are we to leave Wareham also?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you come from Poole, yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wareham will be empty tomorrow, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now we can go; we have learned enough." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is a chance for us, master, said my comrade, coming to a stand in the roadway." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must try to steal these horses for ourselves. If Danes are in the place, they have doubtless stolen them; and if Saxons, they will get them back." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stay not, master, Kolgrim said." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father, is this you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is it? she said again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can scarcely see for moon and wind in my eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Friends, lady," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where are my horses? Have you seen aught of our thralls, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is it that you have not fled, lady? I asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Surely you should have gone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay; but the thralls fled when they heard the news. Has not my father sent you back for me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think your father is kept in Wareham in some way. Does he look for you there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, surely, she answered; but there was a note as of some new fear in her voice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Has aught befallen him? Have t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My horses, two of them should be here, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I bade the thralls leave them when they fled." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must ride with us, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, is that so? Then my father is busy, she said, and then she faltered a little, and looked at me questioningly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot go without my nurse, and she is very ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me see your nurse, I said gently;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have some skill in these troubles." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The sleep is good, is it not?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is good, lady, I answered, taking off my helm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is the best sleep of all--the sleep that heals all things." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come again in a few minutes and say one word--'Saxons' I whispered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Saxons, master!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say you so?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lady, we must go quickly, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The dame is past all help of ours, and none can harm her. Come, I pray you." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lady, we are strangers, and know not to whom we speak nor to whom we must take you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am the Lady Thora, Jarl Osmund's daughter." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How goes the flight?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faith, master, I know not. I have slept well," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To his house, surely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not know the way from here, I answered;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I fear you must lead me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As you will, she said, wondering." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you tell me if I am heading you into danger?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What danger is possible? I answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There are no Saxons here yet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not one? she said meaningly." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will see you in good hands, Lady Thora, I answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who are these coming?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is my father," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me walk behind you as your servant, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If any heed me, I pray you make what tale you can for me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What can I say to you in thanks? she cried quickly, and letting go my hand which she ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho, comrade, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you flint and steel?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, master, and tinder moreover, dry in my cap." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then, take me to those ships we saw. I have a mind to scare these Danes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That will tell Odda that the Danes are flying. And maybe it will save Wareham town from fire, for they will think we are on them. So I have spoiled Jarl Osmund's supper for him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What will you do next in the matter of these Danes, however?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must chase them through the country till they are within the king's reach. He has the rest pent in Exeter, and there will be trouble if they sail out to join these. I must f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have done what we were called up for, and more also. Now may others take our places. What more would you have? We have won our victory, and the ships are not needed for a while." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do we pull up the anchor with? he was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, with yonder big rope that goes from masthead to bows. and he pointed to the great mainstay of our ship." }, { "from": "human", "value": "One must have a long purchase, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are those men doing, friend?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bending a sail," }, { "from": "human", "value": "So, said the Saxon, quite quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was in my mind that when a sail was bent to the yard it was ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My comrade has been well caught, thane, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Likely enough, the Saxon answered, laughing a little." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I asked to see the prizes and the vikings' ships, and he showed me more than I expected."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So long as Odda is satisfied it is enough, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I have helped him a little, I have helped a man who is worth it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said the thane," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall you do now--if one may ask?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know not. When I sailed from Wareham, I thought to have seen more sea service with Alfred your king. But now his men are going home, and in a day or two, at this rate, there will be none left to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Faith, answered the Saxon, with a grim smile," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I cannot tell when the war began, for that was when the first Danes came to the English shores. But if you mean the trouble that is on hand now, it is easily told. Ten years has this host be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have believed that all the Danes were as much one under Guthrum their king as are my folk under theirs. I cannot see the end of this war." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will end when Alfred the king is strong enough always to have men in the field to face every ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have a message for you, King Ranald, he said presently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some thanes have been to me from the king, and he bids me ask you to come and speak with him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I saw a thane here this morning who was...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Much good are these scratches to me, said I to Odda." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can you read them?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can read nought but what is written in a man's face," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is of no use, king...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am here, ealdorman, he said to Odda;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will read for King Ranald." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good my lord, I knew not that you were here among the crowd. I pray you come to the high seat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When will you remember that titles and high places are no longer pleasing to me? the man said wearily." }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is this strange man?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is Neot the holy, King Alfred's cousin," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is a strange dress for an atheling," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is foolishness; or will he not honour the king's guests?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is humbleness. He has put his rank from him, and will not be held as being above any man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe he can put his rank away among...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In good truth the old warrior is right, and I am foolish to hide here now I am known. Let me go and sit by him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks for that word in season, friend." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, ay, he growled;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot keep my voice quiet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is nothing private; shall I read aloud?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alfred the king to his cousin Ranald Vemundsson, greeting. Odda the ealdorman of Devon, and one Godred, have spoken to me of yourself--one telling of help given freely and without question of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How should I be? I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Odda is the first Christian man I have spoken with, to my knowledge. So, if I were likely to leave my own faith, I have not so much as heard of another." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So you are no...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell the king that we have spoken together, and give him this message if you will that I go to my place in Cornwall, and shall be there for a while." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good are words that come from an honest heart. I have learned a lesson tonight where I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Master, he whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush, I whispered;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, master--let me go--the king is Godred whom I jested with." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have no fear, he said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Skoal to Alfred the king." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Welcome to King Ranald. I am glad my letter brought you. My counsellor, Godred, feared you might not care to come." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The letter turned the scale, lord king, I said." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What honour is to be looked for by oath breakers?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are not oath breakers, King Alfred," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Once did the Danes swear to me on their holy ring, which seems to me to be their greatest oath, and th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So we shall have a good talk together, the ealdorman said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad you are not going back to the ships yet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What wills he? we have no traffic with Danes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He would speak with King Ranald," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it is Osmund the jarl, I think I know why he comes.--Let him come in here and speak before you, ealdorman." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I looked to find strangers, and was about to ask for King Ranald. However, Odda the ealdorman and I have met before, as I am certain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faith, we have, said Odda." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nor am I likely to forget it. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now have I met with two men whom I have longed to see, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So, laughed Odda." }, { "from": "human", "value": "When fought you twain, and which let the other go?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have not fou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This king, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am only one, I said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Kolgrim and Thord are in this also." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is for Kolgrim, your comrade, he said, half doubtfully," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can your king fight?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, with head as well as with hand, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "His skill in weapon play makes up for lack of weight and strength. He is maybe the best swordsman and spearman in England...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See! I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I pray you pay no heed, he said urgently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is the king's dark hour; he will be well anon." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Doubtless all know that our good king is troubled with a strange illness that falls on him from time to time. This is such a time. Have no fear therefore, for the pain he suffers will pass. He does not will that any should be less merry because of him." }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The king will speak with you now, King Ranald, if you will come," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My people are used to this, cousin, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought you poisoned, I said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, that has been the thought of others before this, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would ask you to winter with me, and set my ships in order. There will be work for you and all your men, for you shall give them such command in any ship of mine as you know they are best fitted for. I would ask you to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is a deep matter to be talked of, King Alfred, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It does not do to speak lightly and carelessly of such things. Nor am I more than your guest as yet, willing to hear what you would have me know. When winter has gone, and you ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now we must go back, I said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, where shall we seek Ethelnoth?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No good seeking him, said Harek." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We had better make our way back to the village." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let the horses take us home; they know better than we." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must be close to the village after all, I said, for my comrades were listening also;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some old dame has taken the broomstick to them, said Kolgrim." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They are hungry, and have put their noses...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us follow the brook and see what we can find, I said therefore." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These mists are chill, and I will confess that I am hungry. We cannot lose our way if we keep to the water, and the horses will be safe enough." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now it is plain whom we have come across, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is a camp of the Cornish tin traders, of whom the king told us. They are honest folk enough, and will put us on the great road. They must be close to it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, in Odin's name, is this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Somewhat uncanny, answered the scald." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let us get back to the horses and leave this place." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are friends, good people, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We mean no harm, and have but lost our way." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These be trolls, scald! Sing the verses that have power to scare them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These be mortal men, he said at last," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is a word I can understand, said Harek," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have a care, Harek, I cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Make a rush for the swords beyond the fire so soon as you are free." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am likely to be hove into the said fire, said the scald, very coolly." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No good; their arms are like steel about me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This cannot go on for long," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now will one know what a grip on the mainsheet is like!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Comrade, I cried in gladness," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought you were slain." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The good helm saved me, he answered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you badly hurt?" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sleep, master, said Kolgrim, when we had supped well;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will watch for a time." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho, scald! I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, and a bad dream also, he answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No dream, therefore, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it true that I was made to dance round yon fire till I wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These are but men, and not trolls as one might well think," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us be going, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These folk will come back and see to their dead." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Trust a sailor for never losing a chance of getting a new bit of rigging, said Harek, laughing; for he seemed none th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have heard the like of this before. Men say that the pixies dwell in the moorland, and will dance to death those who disturb them. What think you of those you have seen?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is what I think, he answered." }, { "from": "human"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is the magic of an honest franklin's cattle brand. I have seen it on beasts about the hills before now. The pixies have made a raid on the farmer's herds at some time." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Had the good king been in that place with us, he would have told a different tale altogether," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Many and wise words have you spoken, Father Neot. Hear now the song of Odin--the Havamal--and tell me if you have aught to equal it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sing, my son, the good man answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wisdom is from above,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is a wondrous song, and I could have listened longer. There is little therein that one may not be wiser in remembering." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is nought wiser; it is Odin's wisdom," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hear the words of the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sing now, my cousin, words that are wiser than those; even sing from the songs of David the king." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are there wiser things yet that you may sing?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, and that you may learn, my son, answered Neot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not now, my king, not now, I said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me more of this learning, he said, casting himself down on the grass at Alfred's feet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Scald have I been since I could sing, and nought have I heard like this." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some day, Neot said;" } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This must be Osmund, I suppose, the king said, smiling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have heard how you came to know him and his fair daughter at Wareham. It was well done, though maybe I should blame you for running over-much risk." }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bide here, jarl, I said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is somewhat strangely wrong," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Outlaws' work," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no plunder to be had, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you here? Whose men are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You should know that," }, { "from": "human", "value": "These be Saxons; cut them down." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is your luck, master," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, said I," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where has the other man gone? I had forgotten him for the moment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bide here and see if any poor farm folk a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be not a fool, jarl, he said angrily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here is your chance; let it not slip." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you that my word shall not be broken," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What say you, girl? the man...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe it is true, I answered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, then, you are one of Alfred's Norsemen! Now I warn you to get away from Chippenham, for it is unsafe, and there will be no king to pay you tomorrow. I think that you will say with me that it were bette...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guthrum thinks little of his friends' lives." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Guthrum! the Dane answered sneeringly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What then are you Hubba's men?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is in Wales. Think you that we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jarl, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am in a strait here. If you go back, your life is in Alfred's hands." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know it, he said, smiling faintly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a hard place maybe f...