Chapter 111: Chapter 111: The Winchester Restructuring

The Hostile Takeover of Winchester was swift and thermodynamically inevitable; the single-track assault on the capital of Wessex caught the Church completely off guard.

Ragnar gave no warning when he rolled the "Screaming Kettle" up to the city gates; as far as he was concerned, the contract signed by King Aethelred at the Thames had already transferred the property rights.

Due to the lack of notice Bishop Heahmund did not have time to raise a proper crusade, not even the ability to bless the pitchforks.