Chapter 67 - Heart’s Dominion

A few days had passed since Ragnar visited the sulking King Horik, and he was currently sitting on the high seat of the Governor's Palace in York, where Leif the Lesser rushed in and handed him a logistics report. The report contained the joint public denunciation of the Church's trade blockade by Princess Judith of Wessex and the Merchant Guild of Mercia. The southerners were quite gutsy in their rebuking of the Bishop. They even went so far as to declare that the Church was interfering with the "Free Market" and the prosperity of the realm, as such this event caused quite a stir in the Saxon world, as a proclamation by a Princess condemning a Bishop turned into quite the scandal as there were plenty of minor lords, knights, and traders who agreed with the two factions and their joint declaration.