The day after Brand and his Uplanders departed, a small group of men from the northern and southern shires of More brought invitations to an assembly. Sigurd and Hakon gladly accepted. Leaving half their men on his estate, Sigurd and Hakon followed the More-men southward with the rest.
Bad weather hampered their progress. While Trondheimsfjord remained relatively calm, the spring rains and sour weather churned the seas into a frenzy of whitecaps and rolling mountains of water that turned the day-long trip to their meeting spot into a three day journey of heart-stopping peril. It was with a mixture of excitement and relief that Hakon looked upon the hump of land known as Fane, or Temple Island.
“Is that where we are to meet the More-folk?”
“Aye,” Sigurd replied.
Hakon studied the island
