Chapter  7: The End of the Raid – The Vikings’ viewpoint.
(Written by 5th Class Busses School, Gentofte, near Copenhagen, Denmark

We left Wexford and started the trip home. Everybody was satisfied with the raid, even if they had lost two ships and some of their Viking companions.

Big Harald, who was on his first raid, thought the bloody attack over. In his thoughts he still could see the scared monks and the burning houses, and he still could hear their screams for mercy.

What if someone burned his house down or killed his family? That would be terrible. He regretted more and more what they had done. He closed his eyes and tried to think of something else, but the pictures came back over and over again.

He turned to the person sitting next to him, and said: "Don't you ever regret what you are doing with these poor monks?" The Viking next to him said: "Regret? Not at all! Beware that Egild Halfredson does not hear you." They didn't discuss it further. But the rest of the trip Big Harald was sitting in deep thoughts.




When they arrived at the Viking town they were not meet as usual. Something strange was going on.

Later they found out, that while they were on their raid, some men of the church had arrived at the Viking town. They had not been able to defend themselves, and the strangers had demanded them to believe in a new God. Worst of all was, that Tyra Torasdatter had married a Christian stranger and Egild Halfredson couldn't beat him.

It was the end of the period of Vikings!