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Title: The olive fairy book
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
Subjects: Fairy tales Folklore
Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green

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tell him of the safety of his son, the kingcontented himself with adopting the baby, which wasbrought up with Geirlaug the princess. For a while things went well with the children, whowere as happy as the day was long, but at last therecame a time when the queen could no more run races orplay at hide-and-seek with them in the garden as she wasso fond of doing, but lay and watched them from a pile ofsoft cushions. By-and-by she gave up doing even that,and people in the palace spoke with low voices, and evenGeirlaug and Grethari. trod gently and moved quietlywhen they drew near her room. At length, one morning,they were sent for by the king himself, who, his eyes redwith weeping, told them that the queen was dead. Great was the sorrow of the two children, for they hadloved the queen very dearly, and life seemed dull withouther. But the lady-in-waiting who took care of them inthe tower which had been built for them while they were r>fflt&-^*lS-Tl^-->— — Jt~» ^ ,: V -_»—
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GEIRLAUG THE KINGS DAUGHTER 31 still babies, was kind and good, and when the king wasbusy or away in other parts of his kingdom she madethem quite happy, and saw that they were taught every-thing that a prince and princess ought to know. Thus twoor three years passed, when, one day, as the children wereanxiously awaiting their fathers return from a distant city,there rode post haste into the courtyard of the palace aherald whom the king had sent before him, to say that hewras bringing back a new wife. Now, in itself, there was nothing very strange ordreadful in the fact that the king should marry again,but, as the old lady-in-waiting soon guessed, the queen, inspite of her beauty, was a witch, and as it was easy to seethat she was jealous of everyone who might gain powerover her husband, it boded ill for Geirlaug and Grethari.The faithful woman could not sleep for thinking abouther charges, and her soul sank when, a few months afterthe marriage, war broke out with a country across the

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