Time Travel and Viking Danger in Angenga

A relic opens another time

A gift from an old friend sends Rick Hughes toward an excavation site in John Broughton’s Angenga. There he finds a portal into eighth-century England, arriving amid a Viking invasion. An object from his present has placed him inside an immediate danger from another time.

Arriving in the eighth century places Rick among people whose lives and immediate concerns are far removed from his own. The invasion creates a danger he cannot observe at a comfortable distance. Whatever he understands about his destination, he must respond to the threatened community in front of him.

Intervention and explanation

Rick discovers a disturbing connection with his own time and decides to try to save the village. He also wants a scientific account of how the journey is possible. The two aims give him different problems: helping the people around him and understanding the event that brought him there.

Rick wants more than a way through the adventure: he wants an explanation for the portal. Helping the village and investigating the journey pull his attention toward different kinds of problem. One demands action in the immediate crisis; the other requires him to understand how his present has become connected to this distant time.

A traveler with people to protect

Angenga will interest readers who want a modern traveler to become involved in the fate of a threatened community. Whether Rick can help his new friends and survive the attempt remains the question carrying the adventure forward.