King Alobar

King Alobar is the leader of a tribe in Bavaria. The custom of the tribe is to kill the king as soon as he begins to show signs of age. This is why Alobar panicked when he looked in the mirror and saw a grey hair. He plucked the hair. His wife Wren helps him to escape the tradition by giving him a bogus poison egg laced with belladonna and digs him up from his shallow grave, thus setting him free.

He meets Frol, who is pregnant with his children, and they settle in the village of Aelfric, where the twins are born and they all convert to Christianity. After a few years, Alobar is chosen King of the Bean. This means that he has twelve days of rule and then he is killed. He talks to the shaman about his past, and the shaman tells him...