glimmering lake
white vapours
chill weather
scudding gray clouds
leaden overcast
barren mountain slopes
harsh silver grass
eroded pinnacles
sheer scarp
a gap to the wold
savage towns
troll stench
caves
burrows
rocky defile
heavily armed, barking hillmen
Holger intimidates the hillmen by blowing smoke at them, a trick learnt from A Connecticut Yankee..., we are infomed.
The hillmen flee and we turn to the next chapter although not necessarily this evening.
2 comments:
Smoking would be startling to pre-Columbus Europeans...
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
IIRC the mounted cavalry of Cortes was probably at least as startling/terrifying to the Aztecs when first encountered by them.
Ad astra! Sean
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