When dawn broke, they consigned the bodies to the waves. It was a gloomy ceremony, the gathered sailors still and bleak-eyed, Damian and Begga once more intoning their words of ritual and parting. ...
2022-06-19 17:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe Draugr Coast came into ever greater relief as Ulfarr guided their ship closer to the shore, until the smudges broke apart into separate peaks. Their lower halves were serried with thick pine fo...
2022-06-19 17:04:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe ship grew steadily larger. Lethargy befell the ship’s crew, and everybody stood at the gunwale, watching, waiting.
“If it comes to a fight,” said Biolfr quietly by Skadi’s side. ...
2022-06-19 17:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe four Skrímslaeyjan sailors huddled at the prow, soaked and dispirited. Skadi took up Natthrafn and approached. They flinched when they met her gaze and looked away.
What had they seen th...
2022-06-19 17:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostDamian’s gasps resembled those of a dying man, sharp and spasmodic. His hands shook, he swayed, and when the golden light faded he burst backward, scooting across the deck until he fetched up aga...
2022-06-19 17:02:57 +0000 UTC View PostSkadi fell upon the four men like a bolt from the roiling heavens. She felt lithe and limber, infused with power, raw and burning with hatred.
The four sailors cried in alarm, tried to draw b...
2022-06-19 17:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe Skrímslaeyjan longship slid away from the dock into the deep waters of the fjord. The traitors manning the oars hailed from Sanda. Huddled in the belly of the boat, Skadi watched them pull exp...
2022-06-19 17:01:47 +0000 UTC View Post“It tears my heart to see you all so cruelly treated,” said Jarl Leifr, his voice rich with sorrow. He stood before the prisoners, resplendent in a black, fox fur coat, his broad belt gleaming ...
2022-06-19 17:01:16 +0000 UTC View PostPatroclus favored big, dramatic swings of his blade. Stepping onto the trestletable was an invitation for him to hew at her legs - and he took it. Gliding forward smoothly, he slashed at her knees,...
2022-06-19 17:00:34 +0000 UTC View PostHer friends and family were sitting in a line against the longhall’s rear wall, backs pressed to the familiar tapestries. Riki lay with his head in their mother’s lap, still unconscious. A half...
2022-06-19 16:59:56 +0000 UTC View PostSkadi dropped upon the captain without a sound. Her seax flashed silver as she stabbed it where his neck met his shoulder, two fisted, her falling weight behind the strike to drive the point all th...
2022-06-19 16:59:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe air was brutalized by screams and shouts, the bright clangor of weapon meeting weapon and the first hints of burning thatch.
Skadi half-crouched, her two-inch blade held before her, the w...
2022-06-19 16:58:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel.”
Fate goes ever as fate must.
~ Beowulf
“Heppnin er hugrakkur.”
Fortune favors the bold.
~ Common apho...
2022-06-19 16:57:54 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
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