Sydne And Juls In Herjolt's The Vykings

Sydne and Juls are two siblings in a family of traveling performers, they spend their winters in the town of Osso Wisoff and the rest of their year traveling and performing. The young children have talents of juggling, walking on their hands, singing and acting out stories. However the family’s act is broken up when the Vykings plow through the town of Osso Wisoff. The Vykings, under control of Kronghengst, take Juls and Sydne as slaves to Linkbing, Denmark. When Kronghenst’s father dies, Kronghengst assembles a plan to kill his older brother, Herjolt, but before he seizes the chance, he dies himself of what was assumed to be a heart attack. Thorolf, Kronghengst’s uncle, has taken over and begins his own plot against Herjolt. The two young children who have been taken as slaves have nothing to call their own, even there one possession, a piece of glass stained jerusalem blue, has been taken from them. Each night the children would practice their juggling and acrobatics to keep from losing their skills. The two discover that the whole time they have been trailed by Herjolt’s young son, Thyri, who is “brainstruck”. Thyri frightens Sydne and makes
No one had never heard a noise like that before but everyone knew what it was. The Vykingr had come. The animals from the north had fallen on them.” This quotation is simply the beginning to an unpleasant journey for Sydne and Juls. The quotation demonstrates the fear that the two experienced from the beginning of this treacherous kidnapping. The quote implies how dramatic this scene is in the book and foreshadows the hardships that the siblings will encounter together through this horrifying experience. In Medieval History, we study the raids of the Vikings. How their ships had incredible, advanced designs. We also discuss how their raids were terrifying and brutal to the towns they