3 days later

So here we are now. On our long march to God knows where in the north, we weren’t even given proper weapons. They told us to use whatever tools we already had in our workplace. So I brought my faithful old axe which is really a hand-me-down in my family. It hasn’t got blunt for over the fifty years it has been in use.
Now we are slowly marching our way up a couple of hills and hopefully should get sight of the sea soon. Apparently, the king got news from one of his spies there and he was told that they could faintly see Vikings arriving in their long boats.
That vile Harald Hadraada who is leading the Vikings has been trying to get the throne ever since good king Edward died. Now he intends to kill king Harold Godwinson.. But ofcourse no loyal English citizen will accept some Scandinavian to take over the throne. The only reason he has any right to the throne is because he is a direct descendant to some rotting old king who died an age ago. We will surely crush him.
My other worry is that Duke William of Normandy. He claims that king Edward had promised the throne be him to repay an old debt. The Duke is a rather ambitious man who will try anything to get to the top if you ask me. My friends are contemptuous about my opinions and say that if I continue talking like this then they will have serious doubts about my sanity, but I think different. Even if he didn’t have any claim to the throne, he could still come here and forcefully take the throne. But now we have to fight….…