499 Session 8 - Group 1

A Chronicle of the Year of Broken Trust,

Four-hundred and Ninety-Nine

Of Feasting, Suspicion and a Champion Laid in the Dorset Dust

Session Summary

• The three knights attended Countess Ellen's great feast at Sarum, seated by glory — Euric near the high table, the others further from the salt.
• Euric charmed the learned Eloise of Oxford into mutual admiration; Drusilla lost a drinking contest and was escorted out; Emma lost a strongman bout and took it in good humour.
• Cerdic of Wessex addressed the court, flattering each knight by name and lineage with unsettling precision. All three signed his treaty of alliance.
• Cerdic immediately called in the debt: Dorset was pressing his southern border and Salisbury's l ...