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Klaus Hansen was, unequivocally, the most powerful person that had ever set foot in this village. Not long ago, the presence of such a man would have been enough to fill every heart with a religious shudder, but under the present circumstances, it wasn't considered advisable to let him go so much as his own length without a bodyguard of four men, besides Jóhann Bogesen.