Chaining The Beast

Introduction

When I was in Alnwick, I bought this book from Oxfam, and the cover picture seemed to want to tell me a story. On the cover, this is the description:

Man with a chained monster, perhaps Tyr binding the wolf.

The music I have included is "Bring The Hammer Down" by The Screamin' Lords, and the cover design was a picture of mine with the text by the band.

Chaining The Beast

The Gods had tasked him with chaining the beast, the beast who had terrorised the villages and killed people and animals, leaving blood and corpses in the fields and streets.

He always listened to the Gods and the Holy Men and set out with chains and an axe to capture the beast. The assumption was that the beast was a wolf or a large dog.

Finally, after a week of tracking it, he confronted the beast in the local churchyard, and it was neither wolf nor dog. It attacked him with its vicious beak and savage claws. The beast was a bear with a vulture's head.

The fight lasted all night, and eventually the beast was chained, and he was bloodied but victorious. He stunned the beast with hammer blows and then chained it and dragged it to the church crypt, where the beast was taken by the Gods.

Peace returned to the villages and he awaited his next call from the gods.