Rise of Rurik

Because of the "Classic Nordic Forest Axe" made by the Vikings, the end of its axe blade is processed to extend out deliberately, and a sharp spike is formed, and the whole is also shaped like a hook.

Yes, the axe is designed in this way to be more stable on the belt, so that the rower's axe will not easily fall out in rough seas.

Otto soon saw these so-called valuable captures, and of course the results were not satisfactory.

"It's really bad. I thought I would find any gold, but it's just some junk made of bones and stones."

"Leader, at least we got five bows!" A bowman wanted to introduce the value of bows to the leader now.

Because although these bows are only made of ordinary oak, there are no real bow-making experts in Roseburg, only the people who have bows have heard some bow maintenance skills. man with bow.

Otto didn't listen much, he ordered: "Since the bow is very important, keep it all. As for the other bones and stones, throw them all away. But these two axes?!"

He squatted down and checked the seized long-handled axe, and he saw a few rune letters.

These letters are transliterated in the Roman alphabet, which is "".

"Harford, who is this person? It shouldn't be our blacksmith. No, will there be any situation here?!"

Otto suddenly had an idea, and he shouted in the crowd: "Someone's name is Haraford, or someone's name is Harafordson."

Because of the obvious traditions of the tribe, there is no clear surname in the tribe. Some heads of the family are too lazy to give their sons a clear name, so they directly add a suffix to their own name and give it to their son, which means "son of so-and-so".

Otto shouted again several times. He didn't have much hope, because everything was just a possibility. As a result, a young man approached Otto with great strides.

The young man said proudly: "Chief, I know Harafordson."

"It's you! I know you. You are Kawhi, the son of the blacksmith Kravason."

"Yes, it's me, great leader, thank you for remembering my name."

"Haha, of course, my child." Otto laughed and held up his bloodstained sword: "The hilt of my sword was decorated by your father, of course I know you. I can't think of you. Not only have you grown up, but you have not continued to learn to smelt iron at your father's blacksmith shop this winter, yet you have to be a brave hunter."

"Well..." The young man explained slightly shyly: "Because my father needs a new hand-push blower, he needs at least one deerskin. He didn't want to buy it himself, so he ordered me to bring back at least one. Skin."

"Ah! I see. Do you recognize our writing? Do you know who Haraffordson is?"

"Of course I know." The young man explained proudly: "My name is Kawi, my father's name is Caravason, my grandfather's name is Carava, and my grandfather's father's name is Harafordson."

"Is this true?!" Otto was taken aback, and almost instantly he thought of another possibility, "So your grandfather's grandfather is called Harford? I remember that your family has always been a professional in the tribe. Iron. Many of our axes are from yours. So..."

Otto picked up the trophy axe and handed it to the young Kawi.

"Look, this is probably from your grandfather's grandfather."

Kawei looked at the inscription on the axe himself, and he was not good at making judgments. As a future professional blacksmith, he is also very willing to engrave his name on the axe according to his own tradition. Because iron axe is an important production tool for people, smelting ore into axe, one axe can make a small profit, then engraving the maker's name has the meaning of trademark and advertising.

In fact, the concept of a Western trademark was first developed by a group of blacksmiths and beer hall owners in Europe.

Otto didn't expect an immediate answer from the young man, and shook his head: "There must be something strange here, anyway. For I have learned from the priest Villia that we were in contact with many deer keepers before we entered our Rosberg. Perhaps , these axes were exchanged with us for deerskins and bearskins at that time."

Thinking of this, Otto felt that the possibility became very huge.

He turned around to check the prisoners again, and saw an old man, but unfortunately this old woman was dying.

This man was hit on the chest by the collapsed wooden pole. After all, the bones of the elderly are fragile. Although there is no special change in the fur coat, in fact, the man's ribs were broken and his lungs were also injured.

If the old man's life can be completely saved according to the medical technology of a thousand years later, now she can only wait for death slowly.

Otto thought of many people, and he wanted to know something before the old woman died.

He first wiped the blade and put it back into the scabbard, then squatted in front of the old woman who could die at any time, and took the captured axe in his left hand.

"Tell me, why do you have such an axe?"

Otto was questioning in Norse language, and he was very worried that these guys didn't understand his own words at all.

As a result, his question was actually answered by the old woman.

The old man feebly responded in stammering Norse: "I...I know who you are. Rus... Russ."

"You actually know our language, soon. Your axe..."

"You are... you are hateful wolves." The old woman didn't answer Otto's words at all. She was on the verge of dying to criticize the barbarity of Otto's group.

However, before she died, she still revealed a lot of meaningful information through the abuse in Norse.

"You robbed our home, killed our people, and robbed our deer. We fled far away to be safe."

"After all these years, you still attacked us, killed our people, and robbed our deer."

"I've been running away from you all my life, and I didn't expect to be killed by you."

"Damn Russ, don't be happy about it. You robbed our home and killed our people. After all... your home will be destroyed, and your people will die... this is... this is The result of you beasts."

The old woman just took her last breath and said what Otto sounded particularly piercing.

Before she died, she uttered a curse that Rosberg would end at some point in the future.

Otto's heart was very uncomfortable. He basically believed that the deceased old man was probably the leader of these deer breeders, and this man actually had a relationship with the Ross tribe.

Otto didn't know the details of what happened decades ago. After all, it was the tribe that attacked the fjord where the deer breeders lived, and many deer breeders left their belongings and fled.

Perhaps at that time, the dead old woman was still a child, so the other captives were descendants of this person.

Not only did Otto look up, he saw the dazzling northern lights in the sky through the cracks in the forest.

A sense of desolation arises spontaneously, as if the words the old woman said before she died were also heard by the parade Valkyrie.