I got away with it Kiya <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I am pretty sure I was using 1.42 at that point too...
Did you leave the village by trying to enter BF, though? If you run out of the village and get summoned, you can enter and exit the BF properly. At least in earlier versions, leaving the village by trying to enter the BF, getting summoned and then entering and exiting the BF would return you to the village, rather than the abbey.
I was trying to enter the Battlefields when I was summoned. I remember thinking this was a very cool looking new Battlefield, in fact <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
I was carrying a ton of stuff I needed to sell, and one of the first things I did from the Abbey was go into the Battlefields. When I returned, I was back in the Abbey, not the village.
So - for me at least! - that section of the game worked just fine <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
