Timeline Sneak-peek: In the Land of Milk and Honey (working title)

The hall rang with laughter and the sound of clinking cups. Some of Baldwin II's Armenian knights were howling a drinking song, competing with Fulk's Angevins.

Baldwin and Fulk surveyed the scene from the raised dias, Fulk leaning over to speak to Baldwin, "Do you have any idea what your men are singing?"

"Not in the slightest, though I learned some of the language when I was in Edessa," Baldwin responded. "Leon!" He shouted at one of the singing Armenians, "What are you singing?"

"A song about a great victoy our people won over the Turks, sire," Leon slurred, "It is a good song, but the liberation of Damascus will be a far better one!" And with that he resumed the song . . . .
 
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