Radegund: Captive, Queen and Saint - the serial: CAPTIVE (Erfurt)
© 2021, Jim Chevallier Erfurt No Roman would have called this a palace. The long rectangular building, covered with thatch, would at best have been a barn on a Roman estate. But the dark German forests provided more wood than stone, and the home of Hermanfred, king of the Thuringii, was built of wood and roofed with straw. Still, the polished planks that lined the walls, the gold hung about them, the silver plate set on shelves, gave some hint of his magnificence. No windows opened in the deeply sloping roof, but light entered at one end where the wall above the door stopped short of its peak. The half-light barely lit a stone altar, set along the wall, which held two crude wooden paddles, each painted with a face: Odin and Thor, the household gods. A girl of nine spooned millet gruel into a bowl before them. Her horse, one of the beautiful silver Thuringii horses, had hurt its leg, and so the child began to chant: The Fair and the Father traveled to the forest. Then was for Bald...