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The Sea of Trolls
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Chapters 7-12Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, mental illness, illness, suicidal ideation, and death.
Chapter 7 Summary: “The End of Days”
By the time Jack reaches the village, everyone has already gathered outside the chief’s home to discuss the raiders’ approach. The men have few weapons, so they’re armed with hunting bows and farming tools. When Jack sees his father carrying a scythe, thoughts of the approaching bloodshed make him feel faint. The boy enjoys the respect the villagers accord him now that he’s training to be a bard, and he dreads losing that esteem when the chief asks which direction the pirates are approaching from. Before Jack has to admit his ignorance, the Bard arrives and reveals the raiders’ location. Although the chief and the other men of the village want to fight, the old man convinces all of the Saxons to hide in the woods.
As the villagers hastily gather their belongings and livestock, Jack and the Bard spot a wounded monk limping toward the village. Brother Aiden reveals that the Holy Isle was attacked by raiders who left “nothing […] but smoking ruins and corpses” in their wake (61). Weeping, the villagers hurry into the woods with the injured monk. The Bard tells Jack that he anticipated the raid and instructed the women in this village and the neighboring ones to prepare for an emergency months ago.
