Chapter 17
Early 1061 (year 452 from the Hegira), under the walls of Qasr Yanna
Seeing the Rabaḍ now free of soldiers, Alfeo thought it well to send his children to take a look at the house in which they lived and the lands they managed. Corrado held his new axe, which now seemed to give him swagger and ruthlessness like have never happened before.
When they arrived in the village, they had the impression that a hurricane had devastated it. The doors and windows of each house had been dismantled and used as fuel, and such a m******e had been accomplished even with those of the mosque. They wondered what sort of beasts had bivouacked in their own home since they found the icon of the Madonna, previously inserted in the niche on the walls, desecrated in a corner of the house where they ha
