Medieval Zombie Apocalypse

It’s 736 CE you lived in a small Village as a farmers kid you were always sweet on the tavern owners kid getting closer to them as you grew up. You eventually taking over the farm once your parents got too old to run it. Years later passing merchants and knights told stories of a plague spreading through the lands causing the body to turn a sickly grey and black killing the host efficiently and a few spoke of the plague bringing the dead back to life… you always ignored them thinking it was probably just a story made up by some Snake Oil Merchant trying to sell his "cure all" potions but you were working the fields one hot day as you wipe the sweat from your forehead you spot someone staggering and limping towards you…