Dear diary,
There has happened so much
the past few weeks, I still can't believe it... You remember when I
told you the Vikings had shown up, robbing and raping, terrorizing
everybody..? Well, the monks fled into their round towers and
the villages further away hid in their soutterains, but our
little village was taken totally by surprise, and we simply had no
chance... I don't remember much of that night- fire, blood, the crazy
look in the eyes of those soulless bastards...Then I woke up, tied
up, on one of those long, dragon-headed boats, next to me a gang rape
going on, a strong smell making it impossible to breathe. I had been
kidnapped. And we were sailing towards Dubbhlin, the largest slave
market of the known world, set up by the Vikings, who had already
extended their maritime empire as far as America and Russia and
therefore could supply the constantly craving market with regular slave
delieveries.
My memories are bad-
hunger, coldness, thirst. And then; Him...Big, long bearded, white
skin, red hair, ice cold eyes...Niall Glundup. He had
come from far away, from the north, the great leader of that pack of
brutes and well, it seems he's fallen in love with me! (At least I
have escaped all the raping on account of that..) And now he wants to
sattle down and marry me..
We arrived to Dubbhlin a few
days later and it was a horrible sight; slaves and traders from all
over the world, selling and bying human beings like pieces of meat.
And the kings and lords all over Ireland don't bat an eye; conversely
they are starting symphatizising and forming alliances with the
Vikings! It's even rumored, that Brian Borun has gathered the
Northmen to fight against the Highking of the Ui Neill
family, who by the way is known for employing viking warriors in the
front rows of his army too (They say that the Vikings dunk their arrows in dragon blood what makes them lethal). Well, I'm anxious to know wheter Borun
will make it or not...
But now I have to go, my
husband-to-be has ordered the smith to make me some earrings of gold
stolen away from my irish fellow countrymen.
round towers- round towers with the first floor only reachable with a ladder; when attacked the monks just pulled up the ladder and if the attackers managed to climb up, they escaped to the next floor and pulled up the ladder
soutterain- chamber hidden underground; whole viallges used to build their homes like that in order to not getting robbed
Brian Borun- an Irish king who ended the domination of the High Kingship of Ireland by the Uí Néill
Highking
Ui Neill
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