The road to jerusalem by jan guillou6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() although in this instance it was a fatted suckling pig, which was much finer," the manly arts of feasting, drinking and revelry elude Arn. When his father slaughters "the fatted calf. Accustomed to the orderly restraint of monastery life, he finds the world outside bewildering. A monk with a more adventurous past finds Arn to be an eager, exceptional student.Īs a young man, Arn is required to return to his family estate. ![]() This being the age of the Crusades, Christian goodness can encompass skill with horses and weaponry. His mother's piety and a startling event during his childhood land him in a Cistercian monastery, where he strives for a goodness near to sainthood. Arn Magnusson is the son of an ambitious landowner and a woman both clever and visionary. First in a trilogy about Swedes during the twelfth-century Crusades, The Road to Jerusalem centers on a young man whose life is twice turned upside down. ![]()
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