EN202.06 Reintia
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Z. Era of Askar
Reintia’s Dream
202.06 No sooner had news of Askar's glorious deeds reached the Danes — who had long prided themselves as sea warriors superior to all other navigators — than they grew envious; to such a degree that they sought to wage war across the sea and over his lands.
See here how he managed to avoid war:
Amidst the ruins of the destroyed burg Stavia, a shrewd burgmaid yet resided with some maidens. Her name was Reintia, and her wisdom was of great renown. This maid offered Askar help on the condition that he would have the burg Stavia restored. When he had promised to do so, Reintia went with three maidens to Hals.[1] By night she traveled, and by day she spoke at all the markets and in all the mead halls.
Wralda, she said, had called to her by thunder that all Frya’s folk must become friends, united as sisters and brothers. Otherwise, Finda’s folk would come and eradicate them all from the face of the earth. Following [203] the thunder, Frya’s seven watch maidens had appeared in her dreams over the next seven nights. They had said: “Disaster hovers over Frya’s lands, lurking with yoke and chains. Hence, all tribes sprung of Frya’s blood must cast aside their various names and call themselves only ‘Frya’s children’ or ‘folk’. Further, they must all rise and expel Finda’s folk from Frya’s domain. If they refuse this calling, they shall come to wear slave collars around their necks. The foreign masters will abuse their children and have them lashed until their blood seeps into your graves. Then shall the specters of your ancestors come to disturb your slumber and bewail your cowardice and carelessness.”
The naïve folk, who, under Magyar influence, had become accustomed to such folly, believed all that she said, and the women clutched their children to their breasts.
When Reintia had wrought unity between the king of Hals and all other people, she sent messengers to Askar and herself continued along the Baltic Sea. From there, she visited the ‘Lithauers’ (Lithuanians), or ‘face-hewers’, named for their habit of aiming at their enemies’ faces. (These are fugitives and exiles of our own folk [204] who live in the Twisklands and wander about. Their wives were nearly all kidnapped from the Tartars. The Tartars are a branch of Finda’s bloodline, and thus named by the Twisklanders for their habit of never wanting peace and always starting fights.)
Then she went beyond the Saxonmarks, right through the other Twisklands, spreading ever the same message. After two years, she came homeward along the Rhine.
Among the Twisklanders, she had pretended to be Mother and promised they could return as free and sovereign people under the condition that they would cross the Rhine and expel the Gola-Followers from Frya’s southern lands. If they did that, she had told them, her king Askar would cross the Scheldt and reclaim the land.
The Twisklanders had adopted many bad habits from the Tartars and Magyars, but many of our customs remained. Hence, they still have maidens who teach the children and advise the old. At first, they resented Reintia, but eventually she was heeded and shown deference by them and supported whenever it was useful or necessary.
Notes
- ↑ ‘Hals’ (HALS) — meaning ‘neck’; presumably (approximately) corresponding to Holstein, which can be seen as the ‘neck’ of Denmark.
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Chapter Z: Sandbach 1876