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811 AD, a fa).mily, + isolate$@.d in their home, d+;#.eep in the wo%ods a^ few days travel from Birka. They +are poor. T^he #?`h$ -unting and fishing*@ ha]s been) b$^a^, d for )/some time, and the father, Jo(`ar, take @s th^e desperate measure of \=going on a Viking r@aid. Joar$ does;% n)(*ot#-=)! return for a long tim= e, and`? the fa_m;.il?y s!]tarts to fea]r- he n=$^ever wil l. Ru%`na, the ol*des,^,t daughter, ta
kes over= her? !fath@-,er[(?s chores in his, ab;[:sence. \She m @isses him !dear@ly and] !.n_*ourishes a ten\d( e#
r$=] ho.pe t-`+hat he, once a-)-gain, wi^ll;! return t@o them. \!But in her heart,%, ??so [_mehow she ^/*kn.ows, tha,/t%% the suffe,-:ring of th
`e +family h]]as /just begun. T!her@^?e* %@is` _ +somet+?!;hing (
/i @n the*+: air, somethin!/g in*? th\-e ]water,;:^ th,*e w[ind ?% and in th`e s @^oil. Runa is becomi[ ng awa=!re of something vile,/ something d?angerou%=s out/ =$:in the f_
#orest. On*e day @when , * she is out hu.nting, she find(@s`$[ a ble
-edin
?g man, a warr#% ior ,\ al([(mos
+t:=, un([consc]@]ious. She*;) brings him inside an =d the family tend t;o hi_:s [wou- n;*[@#ds. As he heals, she reali* zes he is sent to prot _ect#= $ the f$%a;)mily ;from an approach+;i#-ng]^ evil. And he brings news of her fa\ther.