![]() ![]() ![]() Ronia gives herself to the Borkas so she must be exchanged, but as a result, her father disowns her and refuses to acknowledge her as his daughter. Later that year, Birk is captured by Ronia's father. They get very close but both know that they cannot tell their families. Ronia brings food to Birk through a secret passageway. The following winter is long and cold and although Matt's robbers are well fed, their counterparts are suffering on the other side of the chasm. Ronia saves him, and they eventually become friends. He engages her in a game of jumping across, which does not end until Birk almost falls down. ![]() He is the only other child she has ever met, and so she is sorry that he is a Borka. ![]() One day, Ronia sees Birk Borkason, the only son of Borka, idling by the chasm. Ronia grows up with Matt's clan of robbers as her only company, until a rival robber group led by Borka moves into the other half of the castle, exacerbating the longstanding rivalry between the two bands. Their castle, Matt's Fort, is split into two parts by a lightning bolt on the day of Ronia's birth. As the only child of Matt, the chief, she is expected to become the leader of the clan someday. Ronia is a girl growing up among a clan of robbers living in a castle in the woodlands of early-Medieval Scandinavia. ![]()
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