Fitz-Urse

   The boy, Ulf, didn't see anything of Fitz-Urse, but after a few days of watching by the gate where Fitz-Urse would be likely to leave by, he saw him and followed him to the rivers edge.
   There, Fitz-Urse met with some men who talked with him in the Norman language from their boat.  Ulf didn't understand Norman and so he was not able to gather any more information beyond the fact that Fitz-Urse was up to something.
   To prevent this from happening again without him being able to know what they said, Ulf decided to ask Ulred (Osgod's father) to help him find someone who knew Norman.  (Ulf couldn't ask Wulf or Osgod to help him because they were away with the king.)  Ulred thought about the problem and decided that the best man to help who was loyal to the king and to Wulf and who knew Norman would be Beorn.
   Beorn was glad to help and together with Ulf they were able to find out where the people were hiding that had talked to Fitz-Urse.  They were in a boat in the bay, but were stuck and unable to get out because of the weather.
   Finally when the weather got better the boat set sail with Fitz-Urse in it.  Ulf, Ulred and Beorn decided to go and warn Wulf and Osgod so they could keep the king safe, as the men were probably heading for the king to kill him.  Ulred and Ulf rode on a boat to get to Wulf, and Beorn took his horse and raced to get there as fast as he could.
   Ulred and Ulf got there first and told Wulf what had happened.  Wulf said that he would think of a plan to save the king and they all went to bed.  
 

The Accident

       

  As they neared Polynesia it began to get warmer and warmer since they were very close to the equator.  This caused the water temperature to stay somewhere in the 80s.
   Also as they got nearer to Polynesia there began to be more storms and in one storm something awful happened.
   Herman (one of the men) had lost is sleeping bag in a big gust of wind and he went to the side of the raft to pick it out of the ocean, but he fell in!          Thor(the man who wrote the book) and another
of the men who saw it happen, shouted "man over board" and rushed to help.  A few of them hopped in the life boat and grabbed the life saving equipment and rushed out to save Herman.  Knut (another of the men) dived into the water and went after Herman.
   Before this had happened they found that if they lost something in the water and the thing got to a certain side of the boat, they would never be able to get it back.  Herman was on the wrong side.
   Knut swam as hard as he could toward Herman, but every time he got to where he thought Herman was, he saw him further off.  Finally after a great struggle, they both managed to swim toward each other and then together they were pulled on board the life raft.
   Rowing hard they were able to get the life raft back to Kon-Tiki and so Herman was saved.
   

Possible Assassain

 After Harold became king, Duke William requested that Harold come to his castle.  Since Harold had sworn allegiance to William, William now wanted to see what Harold's intentions were toward him.  Harold had tried to get someone else to be king instead of him, but the people wanted him to be king.  Now that he was king, there was no way that he could keep his vow to William without incurring the extreme displeasure of the people and everyone who had made him king.

   If Harold were to say that he didn't want to keep his vow to William, there would be trouble because William would tell the pope who could then excommunicate Harold for not keeping a vow that was made on the Holy Relics.

   While they were in Duke William's land, Wulf went to visit Guy and and his family.  Guy's father hinted that there may eventually be and assassin who would want to kill Harold to get him out of the way so that William could become king.  He didn't know for certain that there would be such and attempt, but it was a good possibility, since assassinations had happened before in Britain and there would probably be people willing to kill Harold to get a good standing in William's eyes.

   Wulf listened to Guy's father and so decided to stay in court with Osgod when they got back to Harold's castle.  When they were there for a few days they found that a man named Walter Fitz-Urse had come back to Britain after being away for a little while.  Fitz-Urse had been punished by Harold for something and so he had reason to dislike him.  Fitz-Urse also had a quick-temper and he was hotheaded.  Because of this Wulf decided to have someone watch the man to make sure he didn't attempt to kill Harold.  Osgod knew that at his father's forge there was a boy who was always up to tricks and didn't like forge work very well.  Because of this Osgod got him and Wulf told him what he wanted him to do.  The boy said he would do anything for his king and he seemed very trustworthy and so they had him do the job.  

   The boy would follow Fitz-Urse very carefully and he would be able to watch his every move so that Fitz-Urse would not be able to do anything bad.  

Terrifying Tug-of-War

   They got used to the sea and didn't fear it as much as they did when they started.  It was starting to seem less powerful and because they saw it every day for days on end they got used to it and weren't scared of it because they knew what it could do.
   They also got used to the sharks being around.  They still kept their distance from them when they were in the water, because of their razor sharp teeth.  Sharks could have from anywhere between 5 and 50 rows of teeth, although most of the time the men would see sharks with only 5 or 6 rows.   However, the men did think differently about the sharks than they did when they first set off on the voyage and sometimes the men would play tug of war with the them.
   They would take some dolphin meat or any leftovers and put it in a bag above the water, hanging on a pole.  The shark would come to the surface of the ocean and grab the meat and then slowly turn and swim away.  When it did this the men would grab the shark's sandpapery tail and pull the shark as far as they could up onto the raft.  When the shark realized what had happened, it would start to thrash around as hard as it could, which wasn't very hard for a shark which doesn't have the use of its tail can't really move.  After a few minutes the stomach of the shark would slide forward (a sharks stomach isn't fixed in one place, but can move around) to its head and it would then be paralyzed.
   If, however, they let go of the sharks tail, the shark would thrash around on deck and everyone would have to dive for cover so their legs wouldn't be snapped off.  Eventually the shark would thrash its way into the ocean and all would be peaceful again.
 
 

The Cup

The cup He held above His head

Was spilled out for our lives

He gave us all He could

Which meant He died...

for us.

He paid

the price

so we...

with Him...
could live!

For God so loved the world

He gave His Son to save us all.

The slug's Life

The slug
        is slimy as can be
                       he leaves a shiny trail.
                                      The people looking down on him,
                                                             try hiding with the snails.
The slug's life.
                                                                 
                                                                   

Two of my couplets

The Lord watches my step,

He does not let me stumble.

   My version of a Synonymous couplet

Give unto the Lord his due praise,

Give unto the Lord glory and honor.

   My version of a climatic parallelism