{"id":204,"date":"2023-05-17T09:20:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/?page_id=204"},"modified":"2023-05-17T21:56:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T01:56:03","slug":"consulting-an-elder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/a-viking-adventure\/story-ship-and-slaughter\/consulting-an-elder\/","title":{"rendered":"Consulting an Elder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You see an old man, Stig, watching the growing crowd of people. You stop and ask what\u2019s the matter. You think to yourself that these cries sound like those you heard from your brother the night after mother died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t you see, my boy?\u201d Stig responds. \u201cThat ship left with sixty men months ago. How many do you see now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You count maybe thirty men, realizing that your brother might well not be on that ship. You run, ready to scream his name, but the steersman\u2019s eyes meet your own. \u201cYour brother \u2026,\u201d he begins.<\/p>\n<p>You know you should not be sad or upset, but your lip starts to tremble anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHush, boy. He didn\u2019t die on the ship but on the battlefield. The valkyries have him. You should be proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You \u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/a-viking-adventure\/story-ship-and-slaughter\/the-steersmans-offer\/\">agree with the man.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/a-viking-adventure\/story-ship-and-slaughter\/an-unexpected-encounter\/\">run back home.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You see an old man, Stig, watching the growing crowd of people. You stop and ask what\u2019s the matter. You think to yourself that these cries sound like those you heard from your brother the night after mother died. \u201cCan\u2019t you see, my boy?\u201d Stig responds. \u201cThat ship left with sixty men months ago. How<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/a-viking-adventure\/story-ship-and-slaughter\/consulting-an-elder\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4492,"featured_media":0,"parent":197,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-nosidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-204","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204\/revisions\/244"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}