Before he can claim her hand, however, the headstrong and naïve noble makes a fateful mistake that will wrench him from his love and send him to a foreign warto the Holy Land to battle infidels for twenty years. And, when Arn meets the lovely Cecilia, he discovers this new and dangerous world holds other surprises too.
The murder of a king has brought Western Götaland into a whirlwind of intrigue, and cunning lords from East and West are vying for power. Yet his family soon discovers that Arn has learned more than poetry and farm work, and he proves himself useful at a time when he is needed most.
Returning home, Arn finds his monastic habits at odds with his clan's old and tested ways. Observing the boy's extraordinary talent with horse, sword, and bow, Father Henri, trusting in God's will, sends his charge into the world to fulfill a destiny that lies beyond the cloister walls. However, grammar, math, and logic are not the only lessons: Brother Guilbert, the monastery blacksmith and former Knight Templar, finds Arn adept at training of a very different kind. The epic story of one mans fight for his love, his God and his country The Road to Jerusalem - Book 1 in the Crusades Trilogy. Arn, second-born son of Magnus Folkesson, will live his life in the service of Godsent from his family to do holy work and to prepare for a position in the priory.Īt Varnhem monastery, Arn comes of age under the tutelage of Father Henri, a Cistercian monk devoted to his aristocratic pupil's education. The Road to Jerusalem (Swedish: Vgen till Jerusalem) is the first book in Jan Guillous The Knight Templar book series. When the boy inexplicably recovers after falling from the parapet of his ancestral home, his mother finds herself beholden to a promise made in a moment of prayer. Born in 1150 to a noble family in the Kingdom of Western Götaland, young Arn Magnusson is marked early on by a miraculous and fateful event.
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