Chapter 2
The marriage of SaxbergaKing Anna looked gravely down upon the mutilated bodies of three Mercian soldiers that had been laid proudly at his feet as he entered Garbaldisham.
‘I would rather these men were alive,’ he said quietly.
‘My lord,’ protested the young man who brought them to him, ‘they killed my mother and my wife.’
The king nodded sadly.
‘They kill your family, so you kill them. Their family must kill you in revenge for their death, and your kin must kill their kin in revenge for your death. And so it goes on. When will the killing stop if we do not stop it now? Why do we speak of being born again into a new life, if we do not change our ways?’
‘But my lord, my wife and mother must be avenged!’
‘“Vengeance is mine,” said the Lord. “I will repay”,’ the king murmure
