Ásdís was taken aback by those words. Forsaken? She was not forsaken! Surely she was untested...It was true...But only because no one had deemed her worthy of testing. That was purely a miscalculation on THEIR part, not hers!

Looking about she finally realized that many felt the same way as their Chieftain: that this was a gamble. Feeling her cheeks flush with displeasure Ásdís had the misfortune to look in the direction of her father and see the same discontented look in his features. 

Even he did not think she would succeed! 

Ásdís was spared the opportunity to speak out against the naysayers as a mother in the back finally cried out “And what of our children!? Who will tend to the fields if they do not return?” Many around the woman, more mothers, nodded in agreement.