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Freca proposed a union: Wulf would marry Héra, and in return, Freca’s lands would be merged with the crown, making Wulf the heir. Helm laughed, a sound like grinding stone. “You come with a beggar’s bowl and call it a crown? My daughter is not a prize for a wolf pup.”

With Wulf dead, the Dunlending army broke. They scattered into the mountains, and Rohan was saved. The Lord of the Rings- The War of the Rohirrim ...

With Helm dead, the lords of Rohan despaired. But Héra took command. “My father is gone,” she told the starving garrison. “But his name is a wall. Today, we make it a sword.” Freca proposed a union: Wulf would marry Héra,

Prologue: The Oath of the Mountain

He never returned. Dunlending archers found him at the fords. They sent back his shield, pierced by a black arrow. Héra wept in silence, then went to the armory and sharpened her grandfather’s sword. She was no longer the Shield. She was the Blade. My daughter is not a prize for a wolf pup

They fought on the broken stones of the ravine. Wulf was stronger, but Héra was faster. She remembered Léof’s lessons, her father’s fury. As Wulf overextended, she sidestepped, drove her blade through the gap in his shoulder plate, and pushed. He fell onto the frozen river, which cracked beneath his weight. The current dragged him under.

The attack came on the eve of winter’s deepest freeze. Wulf’s army—ten thousand strong, armed with black-sailed ships and fell axes—stormed the ford of the Isen. Edoras fell in a night of fire. Hama, the eldest son, died holding the gate against a Dunlending champion. Haleth was cut down defending the mead hall.