had never formally been enrolled in the Church.
Unhappily, Olaf could not speak Cornish, and the
abbot was ignorant of the Norse tongue, so that
all communication had to go on through the interpreter, and Olaf did not receive much religious instruction. Nevertheless, as far as his lights went,
he was sincere.
Then he returned to Norway to proclaim his right to the throne.
"To avenge his fathers slain,
And reconquer realm and reign,
Came the youthful Olaf home,
Through the midnight sailing, sailing,
Listening to the wild wind's wailing.
And the dashing of the foam.
"To his thoughts the sacred name
Of his mother, Astrid, came ;
And the tale she oft had told
Of her flight by secret passes.
Through the mountains and morasses,
To the home of Hakon old.
"Then his cruisings o'er the seas.
Westward to the Hebrides,
And to Scilly's rocky shore,
And the hermit's cavern dismal,
Christ's great name and rites baptismal.
In the ocean's rush and roar."
S. Mary's is the largest of the islands, and it has a population of over 1600 people; Tresco is the second; then S. Agnes, pronounced S. Anne's; then S. Martin's; next Bryher; after this comes S. Sampson, no longer inhabited; and the remainder are very small. The original population was doubt-
