Miska returns from a night-time scouting trip to Sicvarp with the news that it is abandoned by the Eowan. The Corn King and Queen agree with Wistan that they will help the Geats in the hope that there will be less bloodshed. They free their bodyguards from ensorcelment. They awake and remember nothing from the […]
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29 – Defence of Forchafn
By nick.crouch@ncrouch.plus.com on August 16, 2020 in Deeds of the Geats, Herefrith, Herewulf, Hrothgar, Lytelman, Tohrwulf, Wistan
The Next Day The next day passed in relative calm. There was much discussion about next steps but the general consensus was that yesterday had been their best shot and the only viable course of action was to make themselves as safe as possible in Forchafn, await events and the return of the Blue Fish. […]
28 – Forchafn
By nick.crouch@ncrouch.plus.com on July 21, 2020 in Deeds of the Geats, Herefrith, Herewulf, Hrothgar, Lytelman, Tohrwulf, Wistan
Forchafn The day dawns with the raucous cawing of a bright-eyed raven sitting upon the roof of the hall in Forchafn where most have snatched a precious few hours rest. Some guess it to be the fetch of Saeric Raven’s Cloak, the Woden Priest from the Osprey. Their suspicions are confirmed when it takes flight […]
27 – Landfall at Forc-hafn
By nick.crouch@ncrouch.plus.com on June 16, 2020 in Deeds of the Geats, Herefrith, Herewulf, Hrothgar, Lytelman, Tohrwulf, Wistan
Looking around, the exhausted Geats can see five abandoned Eowan ships. There is the debris of a sixth, smashed by the Black Pig, floating around them. Two more Eowan ships are adrift near where the Spearhafoc was taken – both empty and damaged. Of Eowan oar-slaves there are three dozen or so, slumped upon their […]
26 – Thegn Osgar Gives Battle
By nick.crouch@ncrouch.plus.com on June 9, 2020 in Herefrith, Herewulf, Hrothgar, Lytelman, Tohrwulf, Wistan
Osgar and his Brimwisas decide to take the attack to the Eowan. They sail to intercept their fleet at what they estimate to be roughly halfway along their column. The four ships set off together but a series of fumbles from the sailing crew (a man down after the events of last night) mean that […]
25 – All at Sea
By nick.crouch@ncrouch.plus.com on April 23, 2020 in Deeds of the Geats, Herefrith, Herewulf, Hrothgar, Lytelman, Tohrwulf, Wistan
Some New Faces When he sees the largesse expended upon the Black Pig by Thegn Osgar-Lytelman, Eorl Sighere gifts him the ship outright. Thus Sighere enhances his reputation as a good and generous Eorl, while putting Lytelman publicly in his debt; while Osgar enhances his status as an independent Thegn who has not only arrived […]
24 – The Long Haul
By nick.crouch@ncrouch.plus.com on March 10, 2020 in Deeds of the Geats, Herefrith, Herewulf, Lytelman, Tohrwulf, Wistan
To ensure Thegn Osgar’s return to Gefndene by the most direct route, Eorl Sighere provided two of his own Gesiths as guides. He also furnished the Thegn and his party with horses. To the surprise of the Gefndeners it took but two days to reach Gefnhame thus mounted. Before the end of the first day […]
23 – Osgar’s Oaths
The auspicious month of Eostre brought warmth, joy and happiness to all in Gefndene, for it marked the wedding of Thegn Osgar Lytelman and Nothgyth the Fair. All were present and all rejoiced at this harbinger of peace, prosperity and happier times as their Thegn swore his love to the Priestess of the Goddess and […]
22 – Thunor’s Oak
As if repenting its mildness in the early part of winter, the weather of Aefter-Geolla was as furious as any man or woman of Gefndene could remember. The land lay so blanketed in ice and snow that keeping doors and compounds clear so that folk could mind their beasts in their byres and pens was […]
21 – Gromscatha
By nick.crouch@ncrouch.plus.com on September 15, 2019 in Herefrith, Herewulf, Lytelman, Tohrwulf, Wistan
Early in the month of Aerra Geola came great wonder to the settlement of Gefnhame. For out of the winter murk and mists (the snows being uncommonly late this year) came striding figures of legend: the giant, Humfrith, with him his son, also Humfrith, his two great cattle-dogs and a huge bull-aurochs, led quite as […]