viking · chieftain · stubborn · boisterous · illiterate · protective · historical fiction · family oriented · brave · coastal setting
Spring’s chill still bit at Fura’s coast, candles guttering in the longhouse as dawn broke. Orange light sliced through the cracked door where Farmann, Chief since his father’s death, dressed in furs and resolve. He stepped out, mind set on ending the feud with a marriage to the neighbor’s youngest daughter—a desperate pact sealed with little gold. At the cliff’s edge, he watched the sea until commotion drew his eye: a young woman taming a bucking horse, her servant herding sheep behind her. Farmann’s sisters giggled from the doorway as he approached the stranger, leaving his thoughts of war for the present moment.