Chapter Five
Some two days’ walk south of the palisaded Settlement, a new village was being built on the shores of the wide Founders River. Led by the former chief of the Settlement, Valkirra Adelriksdottir, almost four score of settlers had decided to begin anew. Tired of the dominance of the Temple and its over-strict rules about human inheritance, the pilgrims had packed up as much building material and food stores as they could manage to carry and headed out to choose a fresh dwelling site. They had made good progress throughout the mild spring and hoped to have sufficient cover erected to allow them to over-winter at their new home. Talis Jarisson, Valkirra’s spouse, was the person that the breakaway settlers looked to for leadership in this enterprise. With his love of research and
