It was for me. [ Athelstan knows that it's not for everyone. ] It's not so simple any longer. [ After living with Vikings, he'd already had struggles with his faith after years and seeing signs of both his God and of the Norse gods.
Now he is here and there is all the more to conflict his soul. ]
It depends on what you mean by destiny.
[ Athelstan has had many conversations on that particular subject lately and it has had the realization that destiny and fate mean many different things to different people and he has yet to settle on his own definition of it.
In truth, Athelstan doesn't really know what Native American is either, or what is America is. Those are long after his time but he can understand it must be an identity. ]
Where I am from people use their father's name, usually. [ He does not, barely remembering his father's name and all. He had been left to a monastery at a young age because his parents had had too many children and couldn't afford to feed another. Even if he rightly remembered he would probably choose not to use it, a monk hadn't had much need in any case. ]
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Now he is here and there is all the more to conflict his soul. ]
It depends on what you mean by destiny.
[ Athelstan has had many conversations on that particular subject lately and it has had the realization that destiny and fate mean many different things to different people and he has yet to settle on his own definition of it.
In truth, Athelstan doesn't really know what Native American is either, or what is America is. Those are long after his time but he can understand it must be an identity. ]
Where I am from people use their father's name, usually. [ He does not, barely remembering his father's name and all. He had been left to a monastery at a young age because his parents had had too many children and couldn't afford to feed another. Even if he rightly remembered he would probably choose not to use it, a monk hadn't had much need in any case. ]