Contents

Epigraph

Map

Cast of Primary Characters

Chapter 1

In the year of Grace 1150, when the ungodly Saracens,…

Chapter 2

King Sverker’s son Johan died as he deserved. King Sverker…

Chapter 3

The winter held Arnäs in an iron grip. All roads…

Chapter 4

So often things turn out much differently than people had…

Chapter 5

On Christmas Day in the year of Grace 1144, the…

Chapter 6

Monasterio Beatae Mariae de Varnhemio became the name of the…

Chapter 7

Dean Torkel was a practical man and scrupulous with money,…

Chapter 8

Herr Magnus was in a bad mood as he sat…

Chapter 9

For anyone who did not know, it might look as…

Chapter 10

Like a stormy wind in the fall, Knut Eriksson, the…

Chapter 11

Magnus and Eskil were sitting by themselves in the accounting…

Chapter 12

It was Cecilia’s goodness that plunged them both into the…

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