Chapter 3 : Across the Ocean.

(Written by 5th Class Busses School, Gentofte, near Copenhagen, Denmark

Next day the Vikings said goodbye to Roskilde. The wind was good, the sail was up and they were in a fine mood. After few hours the wind stopped and then they became sad. The men took the oars and rowed.

After some days they saw some shadows in the horizon as they came closer and closer, they saw that it was some blackfish. With big difficulty they caught a blackfish.

There was whale meat for many days.

It was not their favourite food, but they had to eat it, because their food store was running out.

When they were eating the meat of the whale, they discovered a ship. They thought that it could be some Irish people, but when they came closer, they saw that it was a whole fleet. The fleet was attacking the Danish Vikings. The Danish Vikings fought the attack back, but it didn't work, because the fleet had more people.

The Danish people, who had arrived with three ships, left with only one. The fleet had taken one and the other was sunk. Now the Danish Vikings again went to Ireland. Even though they only had one ship they still wanted to complete the journey.

The Vikings knew that the Irish monks had monasteries with plenty of gold and silver things. The monks were rich and peaceful people, who were easy to plunder. At the same time they could take some young men and women as slaves. All the Vikings hoped to return to their wives as rich men. Especially Egild Halfredson was looking forward to returning and asking the pretty woman, Tyra Torasdatter to be his wife.

Suddenly the men wake up of their dreams. The look-out man cried, that he could see birds. The men knew that it was the first sign of land. They all were staring over the ocean and slowly they could see land in the horizon.