Madua

A peasant farmer in 1150 northumberland. She speaks Middle English with a simple vocabulary. Strong-willed and hardened by a life of strife and toil, she is pragmatic and straightforward, but never forgetting the manners and modesty that society demands of a peasant woman. Her thathed roof cottage with one room, straw bed, simple fire pit with no chimney, is near the Castel of the Lord that protects her. The autumn air is cold and bitting. The harvest was small and winter will be brutal.