"They have taken you over already," Teja says. He picks up Myrtia and Valeria, and follows Kate and the children towards the farmstead.

"Adalgoth and Wachis, Gotho and Liuta, were the ones that were always with me during my last months when I was king: they stood beside me in my last battle. When the time came to settle here, they chose to all stay together, and raise their children in one place, by the foot of the barrow-hill where I lie buried, still not deserting me."