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1. About the Author

Draca. Geoffrey Gudgion

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Contents

4. Super Patrons

5. Figurehead Patron

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Chapter One: Arfræningr (Old Norse: one stripped of his inheritance) I: JACK

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II: JACK

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IV: HARRY

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Chapter Two: Bálför (Old Norse: funeral pyre)

From the Saga of King Guthrum , c a AD 875

I: GEORGE

II: GEORGE

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III: GEORGE

IV: HARRY

Chapter Three: Drekahōfuō (Old Norse: the dragon head on a ship’s bow)

From the saga of King Guthrum

I: JACK

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II: JACK

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Chapter Four: Haugbúi (Old Norse: ghost, undead man)

From the Saga of King Guthrum

I: GEORGE

II: JACK

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III: JACK

IV: Diary of Edvard Ahlquist, Volume 39

Chapter Five: Fǣgþ (Pron. ‘f-ay-th’. Anglo-Saxon: vengeance through generations; a blood feud waged against the kin of a murderer)

From the Saga of King Guthrum

I: HARRY

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II: Diary of Edvard Ahlquist, Volume 39

III: GEORGE

IV: GEORGE

V: Diary of Edvard Ahlquist, Volume 39

VI: HARRY

VII: Diary of Edvard Ahlquist, Volume 39

VIII: JACK

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IX: Diary of Edvard Ahlquist, Volume 39

X: JACK

Chapter Six: Gjálfrmarr (Old Norse: steed of the sea)

From the Saga of King Guthrum

I: JACK

II: GEORGE

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III: JACK

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I V: Diary of Edvard Ahlquist, Volume 39

V: GEORGE

VI: Diary of Edvard Ahlquist, Volume 39

Chapter Seven: Veizlu-fall (Old Norse: the failure of a feast)

From the Saga of King Guthrum

I: JACK

II: Diary of Edvard Ahlquist, Volume 39

III: JACK

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IV: HARRY

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V: Diary of Edvard Ahlquist, Volume 39

Chapter Eight: Eiðabrigði (Old Norse: the breaking of an oath)

From the Saga of King Guthrum

I: GEORGE

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II: JACK

III: HARRY

IV: JACK

V: GEORGE

VI: JACK

VII: GEORGE

VIII: GEORGE

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Chapter Nine: Djöfulóðr (Old Norse: possessed by spirits)

From the Saga of King Guthrum

I: GEORGE

II: JACK

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III: GEORGE

IV: JACK

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V: GEORGE

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Chapter Ten: Allfeigligr (Old Norse: having the mark of death plain on one’s face)

From the Saga of King Guthrum

I: HARRY

II: GEORGE

III: HARRY

Chapter Eleven: Dauða-dagr (Old Norse: a day of dying, or the day of one’s death)

From the Saga of King Guthrum

I: GEORGE

II: HARRY

III: GEORGE

IV: HARRY

V: JACK

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Chapter Twelve: Hēr kemr ā til sævar (Old Norse: literally ‘here the river reaches the sea’, but with the figurative or poetic meaning ‘this is where it ends’)

From the Anglo- Saxon Chronicle for AD 876 – 7

I. GEORGE

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1. Acknowledgements

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Geoffrey Gudgion served for over 10 years in the armed forces, and made his first attempts at writing fiction during quiet moments on deployment. He later stepped off the corporate ladder, in the midst of a career in marketing and general management, specifically to release time to write. Freelance consultancy paid the bills. His first novel, Saxon’s Bane, reached #1 in Amazon Kindle’s ‘Ghost’ category, and he now writes full time. When not crafting words he is an enthusiastic amateur equestrian and a very bad pianist.

All author r oyalties will be shared equally with the veterans’ mental health charity Combat Stress.

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‘ We got along OK . I wasn ’ t frightened of him. ’ Jack let Harry digest that for a while, and then waved the bowl of raspberries at him. Peace offering. Harry shook his head. Another long pause.

‘ Will you sell this place, Dad? ’ Jack would miss it, if he did. His father had no siblings to share the inheritance, and the cottage must have been worth a bit. Ten or twelve miles away by road, two across the water, Furzey was a playground of the rich, all smart yachts and apartment blocks. The same distance the other way, over the ferry at the narrow harbour entrance, was some of the most expensive real estate in the country. You ’ d pay more for a sea view round there than the average person would earn in a hundred years. Grandpa ’ s cottage was small, one half of a semi-detached pair, and too remote from the bright lights to command top prices, but it was the sort of place a City family would snap up as a holiday cottage, like the one next door. Plus there ’ d be a huge premium for a mooring in the only deep- water inlet on five miles of shoreline.

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