Saxon 5 - The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell

Author:Bernard Cornwell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780060888763
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-12-31T06:00:00+00:00

“We have to give him food, lord,” the priest said.

“And men,” one of the villagers added.

“Men?”

“The young men go to him, lord. They serve on his ships.”

“They go willingly?”

“He pays silver,” a villager said grudgingly.

“He takes girls too,” the priest said.

“So he pays his men with silver and women?”

“Yes, lord.”

They did not know how many ships Skirnir possessed, though the priest was certain he only had two the size of Seolferwulf. We heard the same things the next night when we stopped at another village in another creek on that treeless shore. We had rowed all day, the mainland to our right and the islands to our north and west. Skade had pointed to Zegge, but from our distance it looked little different from any other island. Many of them had mounds, the terpen, but we were so far off that we could see no detail. Sometimes only the shimmering dark shape of a terpen showing at the sea’s edge betrayed that there was an island just beyond the horizon.

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