After the Battle at the Spile With the Sweon survivors of the Battle of the Spile fleeing into the interior of Bardsey Island, Wiglaf gathers together his jugath – the young, lightly armed element of his host – to mount a pursuit. His gesith, Heathwulf the Swift, puts them in order and splits them into […]
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2 – The Golden Bull
By nick.crouch@ncrouch.plus.com on December 19, 2018 in Deeds of the Geats, Deorwulf, Gadd, Lytelman
Gadd, the Weather-Geatish Woden-priest is in Sigiston contemplating a parting of the ways with his comrades from the Fat-Belly, as it prepares for its homeward voyage. He meets Deorwulf, a West Geat, handy with a bow, and the short but fierce Lyttleman, an East Geat with a war axe but little else to his name. […]
1 – Woden’s Price
By nick.crouch@ncrouch.plus.com on December 19, 2018 in Cuthbert, Deeds of the Geats, Gadd, Godwine, Morkere
It is spring when the grim tidings of Beowulf’s death come to the Isle of the Geats. With it comes the summons to a great midsummer folkmoot at Earnaness in the heart of the Geatlands, where all might agree upon a new king from amongst the atheling families of the Geats. Many Weather Geats think […]