Hounds of the King

‘One day a golden-haired warrior came riding to a Saxon village in Mercia, and tossed a penny to a boy… The warrior was called Harold, and the boy was Beornoth: the one Earl Godwin’s heir, the other a lowly thegn’s son.’ For Beornoth became a Housecarl — one of that proud band of warriors who swore oaths to guard their King to the death, and who