Time always goes by slowly and sometimes for a long time in places like Iceland.
In the summer, Icelanders will find that the day is over again during their busy work. For a child like Olaf, in addition to playing, he learns the fishing and hunting skills taught by his ancestors every day. Of course, if the family has the conditions, he will also Go to church school to learn a little writing and mathematics.
The dozens of poor words in Olaf's father's stomach have long been learned by Olaf. He also learned the regular Danish language and simple Latin at the small church school on the peninsula. He had already completed his homework, so These days I stopped going to school, but started to wonder if I could find a better way to deal with the Siegforth family's means to destroy their happy life.
Olaf used his wisdom and all the knowledge of his previous life, even though he thought of a way to break the situation, he could not use it due to his age and reality, so he could only sigh.
In a blink of an eye, Saturday morning, because his father Hadar hadn't returned yet, Olaf told his mother Katrin during breakfast that he was going to visit the elders of the church in Dagang South. The reason was that he wanted to go to the church school in Dagang to accept it. Higher education.
After asking questions, Katrine knew that it was the godfather of Sollac's child in his village, so she was relieved, took out some English shillings, probably worth half a silver shilling, and gave it to Olaf, and said: "This is your tuition, how? Can you go empty-handed? Your father is not at home, and I can't accompany you, so let Jot take you there and ask him to say hello to Elder Amiye on my behalf!"
After Katrin went out to find Yot, the red-haired Tom followed Katrin in a while, and he winked and smiled: "Olav! I also want to meet you with the world, my father said, what if If I can stay in Dagang with you and Sollac as classmates, he will let my brother inherit the family business and become a coachman!"
Olaf laughed and left the house with the red-haired Tom with a little burden on his back. First, he went to find Sollac. Then, amidst the nagging voice of Sollac's sister, the three teenagers were sitting on Uncle Yot's carriage. Leaving the village of Herut in the white hazel forest, walked towards the northeast.
Yotte's grandfather was still a serf of Olaf's family. He later became a free farmer and walked very close to Olaf's family. So he intimately spread a layer of sheepskin on the car plate so that Olaf slept in the softest and most comfortable place. Warm place, then Solrak and Redhead Thom.
Therefore, the last time Sollac and his son went to the Dagangnan District Church, it was Yot who drove a car, so he was familiar with the road.
Olaf and the three talked on the swaying carriage for a while and fell asleep. When they woke up at noon, they got up and looked at the unfamiliar surroundings. Olaf asked, "Uncle Yot! Where are we going? How far is it from Dagang?"
Yotte shook his whip, turned his head and smiled and said, "Olav, are you awake? Now you are at Niushe Bend. You will arrive at Dagang after six or seven miles. It is estimated that you will be there four hours ago, if you are hungry. Just eat some jerky!"
The wrinkles of Yoot's eyes were squeezed together, and he opened a hidden compartment from the front seat, took out a deerskin bag, and handed it to Olaf.
Olaf took it and opened it and saw a silver-plated round tin kettle. There were a few pieces of smoky jerky beside the kettle, weighing about four or five pounds (a pound is less than 500 grams, about nine taels). ).
At this time red-haired Tom and Solrak also woke up one after another, Tom shouted: "Daddy! I want to pee!"
"stop!"
Yotra pulled the reins, waited for the carriage to stabilize, and said, "Go pee!"
The three children all got out of the car and took a pee on the side of the road. Then they sat back in the carriage. Thom took out a piece of smoked venison and broke it in half, and handed it half to Olaf.
Olaf pointed to Solrak and said, "You give it to Solrak, I will take it myself!"
After speaking, Olaf took a piece by himself, broke it in half, ate one piece by himself, and handed the other piece to Yot.
After eating about half a pound of smoked venison, Olaf felt a little salty, so he took a small copper kettle out of his bag and drank a few sips of water, and then lay down again.
Thom and Sollac, who were full of food and drink, could not sit still, and yelled at the occasional Arctic fox, Arctic wolf, and reindeer animals in the scenery on both sides of the road.
Olaf conceived the words of how to persuade Amiye, the elder of the Southern District Church, with a burden in his head.
When the carriage entered the villages and towns of Dagang, the sky was already dimmed, and the barking of dogs from far and near could be heard clearly.
After a while, Yotte's carriage stepped onto a gravel road. Amidst the hooves of horses, he pointed to a church not far away and smiled and said, "The Southern District Church is here!"
Iceland gave up its belief in Nordic polytheism in the tenth century and changed to Catholicism. This is a manifestation of the northern barbarians and Vikings moving closer to civilization.
Later, Iceland became a dependency of the Kingdom of Norway, and after the merging of the Kingdom of Norway and the Kingdom of Denmark, it also became a place of the Kingdom of Denmark.
More than 30 years ago, because the Danish king gave up Catholicism and believed in Protestant Lutheran in order to strengthen the rights of the monarchy, Iceland also expelled the Catholic bishops with the efforts of the governor at that time. More than ten churches on the island were all Christians. Took over.
It stands to reason that the abolition of the Catholic faith is tantamount to the complete abolition of the "tithe tax." The people of Iceland should be richer than before. However, the various miscellaneous taxes levied by the governor on behalf of the kingdom have also increased, and the people of Iceland are still suppressed. Can barely live.
The Southern District Church, an old Catholic church with a history of 300 years, is now the seat of Protestantism.
As it was approaching the night, a candle was lit in the church of , and Yotte drove the carriage to hear that three children jumped down in front of the church with their burdens on their backs.
A fifteen or six-year-old boy walked out of the church with freckles on his face and deep but brown eyes. He was wearing the costume of a church official and asked: "It's dark, I want to pray and come back tomorrow!"
Sollac smiled and shouted: "Brother Yiluki! I am Sollac!"
"Oh? Solrak is here? The elder was still talking about you just now."
The young priest Yi Luji squinted and smiled, looked at Olaf and Thom, and asked, "Is this your friend?"
"This is the son of the leader of my village, my good friend Olaf Hadarsson! We all call him the blonde Olaf, this is my good friend Redhead Lixstrom, and this Uncle Yurt is his father ..."
Solrak hurriedly introduced everyone to everyone. After everyone shook hands and greeted everyone, Yi Luji walked into the church with four people. When he reached the hut behind the church, Yi Luji knocked on the door and whispered: "Elder! Solrak is here. ."
A magnetic voice came out: "Bring him in. Poor boy, I'm afraid I'm exhausted!"
Yi Luji opened the door, walked in with four people, and then stood aside after introducing them one by one.
The room was covered with blankets woven by Eastern Slavs. Behind a pine table sat a middle-aged man with thin hair. He was wearing a priest's uniform and was reading a Bible. When the four of Olaf came in, he smiled and nodded.
"Sit down quickly."
Several people sat on the wooden chairs, Solrak told Olaf and Thom's intentions, and then Yotte got up and expressed his devotion to the Lord, then presented two bags of silver coins, and said with a smile: "Amiye Elders! We are willing to let our children serve the Lord Jesus! I hope you can accomplish it."