Ragnar The Just (Ragnar The Dane #3) - Plot & Excerpts
Most men left their pregnant wives to get on with it, but he wanted to help, to show his former violent ways were now in the past. As he left their house, he paused to look around the village he had so nearly forsaken. The buildings were situated around the central area used as the training ground for the Huskarls and the gathering place for the village to discuss important matters at the Thing. Furthest away from the corner where he lived, on the north side of the village, was the hall of the Jarl, the most impressive building in the village. Next to this were the barracks for the unmarried Huskarls. Along the western side, running from the Huskarls’ barracks to the southern corner, was the alehouse, closest to the Huskarls’ hall so that the villagers were not disturbed by the drunken soldiers on their way to bed, then there was the bakery, the houses of the bone and leather workers and the carpenter’s workshop. The eastern and southern sides of the village contained the houses for families, married Huskarls, farmers and artisans. A gate was set in the defensive perimeter wall at the centre of the southern side, facing the Jarl’s hall. Kjartan’s house was where the southern wall joined the western one, not the most popular spot as it was close to the leather worker’s house, which often gave off foul smells.
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