A feud ends, a feast is prepared and:
"That night the northlights came out in such splendor that they covered half of heaven." (X, p. 184)
The chapter ends with "...heaven." If a feud had begun, then a storm would have come!
Chapter XI opens with a change of seasons:
"Summer had passed, fall come back." (p. 185)
Purple ling blooms, rowan flares, golden aspen trembles, wandering geese sing, breath smokes, puddles crunch, cloud shadows chase sunlight, wind is chilly and oaks sough beside a red-bricked building and a heath beyond. Across a lake, the sisters of Asmild Cloister see the cathedral and castle of the market town of Viborg. Riders approach and we return to the plot of the novel but might we prefer to linger with the autumnal scenery?
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I would find Viborg and its inhabitants more interesting after a while.
Ad astra! Sean
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