The days flew by. Biorn grew bigger and needed new clothes. Spring turned to summer and the barren fields began to show green shoots. Thegn Alric had been buried and Lord Ædmunde was now the new Thegn.
The summer was ideal, enough rain and sunshine for a good harvest. Helgha watched as Mildrethe"s belly began to swell with the child she conceived shortly after her wedding to Lord Ædmunde. The girl glowed with happiness, and the jealous feelings Helgha had about Dagmar began to rise. Why could she not be married to Lord Ædmunde and carrying his child?
That it would be possible for her to still have his child did not enter her thoughts. Or if it did, she crushed such ideas. She could never go through the jealousy and hatred from a wife again. But would it be possible for her to do somethin
