While the King is away on one of his adventures, the Queen and her son are on their way to Egershavn by ship. The Queen has a small escort including a couple of the palace guard and two of her female hearthguard, also with her is Beornwulf the Bold and his dog Enar (recently returned from Angleland).
Nogbad, the Kings uncle, has something in mind (he is always planning something nefarious)..
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All is apparently quiet at Egerhavn....
Something is going on though, Nogbad the Bad is informed by one of his cronies that all is in place ....
The Queen and her son, with escort, have arrived and are on their way up to the small settlement... the Queen has come to visit the shrine of St Walpurga at the church.
A couple of Nogbad's men watch from the edge of a wood...
The commander of the ship guard senses something, or maybe unhappy about the amount of unprotected ground between the ship and the settlement moves forward slightly ....
and then takes two men to the halfway point between the ship and the settlement....
The Queen and her escort nears the entrance to the settlement... her son runs on slightly ahead with Beornwulf's dog... Beornwulf catches a glimpse of something on the edge of the wood, he checks he is close to the little prince and looks cautiously ahead.....
Nogbad's band of miscreants are in position ready to make their move ....
Enar the dog snarls and barks, Beornwulf warns the others to be cautious...
The attackers spring their trap and are moving in on them ....
Beornwulf picks up the young prince and gets him over the wattle fence near to his mother, the others stand ready..
The Queen, prince and escort fall back towards the boat as their attackers move in on them; Beornwulf stays behind to hold off some them as best he can... ....
Beornwulf forces one back back, while his dog savages another....
The Queen and the prince run as fast as they can can back to the ship as their escort fights the attackers..
The attackers press home as the escort gives ground; Beornwulf cuts down one man and then crosses sword with another ...
The Queen and the prince reach the safety of the ship...
The escort has had to give more ground and fighting is hard ....
The attackers keep up the pressure, but their numbers are dwindling ....
The attackers fail, those who are left standing make a run for it....
The remaining escort return to the ship, which moves out into the river to start the journey home
Nogbad's scheme to kidnap the prince has failed....
