Chapter 52
Winter 1062 (454 from Hegira). Tragina.
The frost, the one that crushes the bones and withers everything, took Tragina in its grip. The Normans, although accustomed to greater cold, had warmed up by burning everything, and now only the clothes they wore to protect them. Roger and Judith huddled under the same cloak, trembling and begging the Lord to give them back at least the sun. Instead of food, they deceived hunger pangs by drinking rainwater and snow. Moreover, having no more forage, the animals already succumbed, and this made it even more difficult to attempt a definitive sortie. As the physicist was withering away, the mind began to show the first signs of hysterical impatience. The terrible belief that they would not have survived that winter began to make its way dur
