Rise of Rurik

After all, Villa is a woman, not to mention that when she was young, she didn't like the fighting that men were keen on. Look at this girl with a heart-to-heart, her family must have died at the hands of the people led by Otto. Villa has no guilt at all. The weak will be attacked by the strong. To avoid such a result, only by becoming stronger, and Attack potential enemies, because everyone thinks this is the most normal life.

She regretted the girl's experience and became an orphan at a young age. Perhaps the only thing that the girl can be thankful for is Rurik. The biggest difference between him and other people is that he pays attention to the rules.

Villa clenched her face, and saw her appearance, as well as the restless eyes.

Suddenly, Veria muttered something strange to the girl, Otto didn't understand, Rurik didn't understand, only the girl reacted violently to the old priest's words.

The apprehensive girl was obviously greatly stimulated. She was sitting cross-legged. After listening to the words, she fell on the animal skin mat while trembling, and then staggered up again, her face full of incredible.

The girl crawled back with a startled expression and continued to sit in front of Villa.

Vilia was very satisfied with the girl's extreme performance, and she muttered some more words. She was a dumb and trembling girl, tears welling up in her eyes.

Such a dramatic performance really surprised Rurik.

Otto even asked, "Priest, you can still control her emotions and make her cry with just a few words? What exactly are you talking about?"

Villa smiled and said, "It's the language of the deer breeders. Can't you think of my leader? Hahaha, it's been too long. I learned the language of the deer breeders at an age like Rurik. Thought I completely forgot. I did forget a lot and even wondered if the pronunciation was correct, obviously it was. This girl absolutely understood me."

At this moment, Rurik really felt that Villa was really a fairy!

Her existence in the Ross tribe is not as simple as a priest. She has mastered too much knowledge, and she even knows the language of the deer breeders.

"Then, Grandma Priest, ask me what her name is. I still like to call her by her own name."

"Okay, I'll ask her some more questions. Hopefully I can understand most of the deer breeder's language."

Villa settled down and heard the girl's name bluntly in the face of the girl.

After asking several times in a row, the girl finally responded weakly.

Rurik kept listening, and he got the key syllables, which sounded like "" or something.

Is that the name? Like a name a woman would have.

He estimated that most ethnic groups would give their boys some names that sounded domineering, while girls would pick some names that sounded eloquently.

Rurik asked suddenly, "Grandma, is that her name??"

"That's the name."

"What means?"

Villa thought for a while, she herself couldn't fully understand the girl's language, but fortunately, the key words could be understood. As for the original meaning of the girl's name, she thought about it again.

"Well, it's probably a gift from Snow."

"Snow's gift? A very nice name." Rurik nodded, looked at the flattered girl again, and showed a child's sweet smile: "I understand,

, which is your name. "

The girl immediately said something, her face was full of doubts.

"What did she ask again?" Rurik asked.

Villa frowned and estimated: "She is probably asking who we are. Why does anyone understand her language. Rurik, I am afraid that these things need to be answered by me."

Villa was very old, and his voice became hoarse and relatively slow.

She was still fluent in the Norse language of her own family, and it was a little hard to tell the girl what she meant.

She is trying her best to tell the girl not to be afraid, as long as she is obedient, she will eat and drink.

While speaking, Villa deliberately pointed at Rurik and introduced that this boy is the most honorable person, the only person the girl can rely on in the future, and the person who cannot disobey orders.

The above words are indeed warnings and threats. After all, this girl is Rurik's servant. Not only that, the girl will continue to take care of the deer, and those deer are related to future sacrificial activities.

Villa sternly issued a warning, meaning "If you don't obey, I will dig a big hole in the frozen sea and throw you in."

The threatening words were finished, and the fear on the girl's face convinced Vilia that the other party understood her words.

That being the case, she also logically explained why she knew the language of the deer breeders.

Never thought that his explanation would actually resonate strongly with the girl.

The girl suddenly muttered a lot of words again, she seemed very urgent, and the words became more and more intense.

"What did she say again?" Rurik asked hastily.

Villa waved her hand, and she continued to frown and listen attentively. What she heard was the accusation of the girl.

The girl said a lot of words, and finally suddenly became quiet, and the whole person also silently hooked her head, as if shaking out all the words in her heart.

Whether it is Rurik or Otto, both of them are staring at the clever priest Willia, and only one of them is the translator.

"Now I understand..." Villa paused and looked at his leader Otto: "My leader, I have understood. This girl is accusing us of robbing their home, she told me here It used to be her grandmother's home, and now she's back home as a servant. It's not fair, she said."

"Fair?" Otto, who had listened to it for a long time, only thought it was very absurd, so he shook his head, "Fair with this child? She's not even a man. Great priests, in my opinion, those men who keep deer are also a bunch of cowards. They They are all cowards! She should feel honored for a coward to be a servant to the strong. After all, we will also give the servant food to eat. If she is not willing to be a servant at ease, we should throw her out and let it fend for itself."

Villa shook his head: "It's up to you. We also have to figure out the girl's attitude."

A servant should look like a servant.

Villa felt that there had to be some way of making the girl prove that she would be a loyal servant.

"Rurik!"

"Grandma Priest?"

"You stand up! Stand up immediately."

Rurik didn't understand, but he got up anyway.

"!" Suddenly, Villa sternly called the girl's real name, "Climb over and kiss his boots to prove your loyalty."

The words were spoken in the language of a deer breeder, and Rurik couldn't understand. He first saw the girl hesitate, saw her embarrassed brow, and then he fully understood what was going to happen.

Rurik opened his eyes wide and saw that the girl had pressed her face to her furry hide boots. In an instant, the classic image of a servant that Rurik could think of in his mind has now become a reality.

He wasn't happy at all, only apprehension in his heart.

This girl called the Deer Breeder was actually kissing her own boots, which Rurik didn't want at all, because what he needed most was not a servile servant, but a reliable helper, or a friend.

Wanting to understand these things, he immediately squatted down and directly supported the girl's shoulders and pulled her up.

"Rurik!" Wilia felt uncomfortable in her heart when she witnessed this scene, and she asked sharply, "What are you doing? Do you want this servant or not?"

"Of course I need it!" Rurik replied simply.

"But you..."

"I don't need her to show her allegiance in this way. Doesn't she want a fair deal? Okay! I'll let her stand up, and I'll make her my servant willingly. I'll make it, if I As a leader, the tribe will not only be stronger in my hands, but I will be an even bigger leader. Maybe one day, I will be the leader of all deer breeders, and more."

The child's ambition is very big, and Villa and Otto are also very happy to hear it. Is it suitable for such an occasion?

No matter how they looked at it, they felt that Rurik had more thoughts about this girl who was older than him.

Rurik continued to hold the girl's shoulders. He was a little shorter than the girl, but of course he was stronger.

He looked into the girl's eyes with a sincere expression: "You, I will call you lumia in the future. I like your name very much, but I will obey us when we get here. I am Rurik, whether others admit it or not, I will Admit that you are one of us. I admit that you are my clan! You...you are like my sister."

The words were spoken in Norse, and Otto was really displeased.

He snarled: "Enough! My child, how much do you long for a sister? She's just a servant! You don't have to give her too much favor, after all, she's just a servant."

"No!" Rurik turned his head and looked serious: "Dad, she is my servant, you told me, I have the right to decide her future. Now I have decided, she is my servant, Also my family. I don't want to use her as a deer tool, I want to make her one of ours.

Since we can accept those women from Novgorod as our clan, why do you object to my promotion of my servant to clan?

Dad, life has changed! Since we accepted the Novgorod marriage this year, everything has changed.

Everything has changed! Everything has just begun!

You are the leader of our Rus tribe, and when I become the leader, I want to be the leader of all the deer breeders and the Novgorods. At that time, I wanted everyone to sincerely admit that I was the leader, and we became a little different and stronger. Dad, my ambitions have always been lofty. "

A glorious declaration made Otto speechless. He already felt that many of his actions this year were already very radical, and whether his son was inspired by his actions, he became even more radical.

Either way! Either way.

Villa coughed a few times, interrupting the possible quarrel: "Listen to what I said. I support Rurik. Since this is his servant, Rurik can do whatever he wants."

"Thank you, Grandma," Rurik went on: "Help me tell her that I'm going to call her lumia, and that's her new name to join our tribe, and I admit she's my family, my sister. Please tell me She, I also have to learn the language of the deer breeders."

"Well, since you insist."

Villa slowly informed the girl about Rurik's attitude, which undoubtedly had a strong mental impact on the girl.

Upgrade from servant to family?

The girl is fully aware that she has been given a new name "lumia", which does not seem to be much different from the original name.

In fact, in Rurik's view, if the girl accepted her new name, it was more convincing than the act of kneeling.

lumia, which is "Rumia", Rurik gave her such a name, which is also a name related to snow.

In this era, the Sami people were separated from the Finns not long ago. They were a tribal group that spoke the same ancient language. The Sami people were a group of Finns who migrated all the way north to the Arctic Circle. In the desolate Arctic tundra, raising reindeer is an important way of life for the Sami people, and the Rus naturally call them deer breeders.

Once, the Sami people expanded to the entire Scandinavia, with a large number of Germanic people entering here, the Sami people were attacked and had to return to the Arctic Circle. With the migration of the Rus tribes, the Sami were further evacuated, and if the attack continued, the Sami would one day flee back to the Urals where they originated.

Everything seems to be fate, the deer Sami people have not disappeared in the long river of history, but they have lost the possibility of establishing their own country since they broke away from the Finnish ethnic group.

Because their population is too small, they have maintained a population of less than 100,000 since ancient times, and they are generally scattered in the form of small clan settlements with less than 50 people, so they are attacked by huge ethnic groups with millions of people in the region. And powerless to resist, they really can't resist. But they hid in the extremely cold Arctic Circle, and finally hid for a thousand years when humanistic thought became the mainstream, and no one wanted to hurt and plunder them again.

But in this barbaric age, the way of survival for the weak is to lead a horse and whip to the strong, be a submissive servant, and live on the rewards of the strong.

Rurik knew what his father's attitude was, and he was absolutely dissatisfied with his hasty decision.

As an interpreter, Veria told the girl what Rurik meant. No doubt the girl was greatly touched.

Tears flowed from the corners of the girl's eyes. She lightly hooked her head and looked at the little boy in front of her, saying some words that others could not understand.

Language, in addition to conveying abstract meanings, can also express the emotions of the speaker.

Looking at her face, Rurik felt no discomfort at all. He felt that the girl not only fully understood her words, but also responded very positively.

Villa immediately translated: "Rurik, my child. Your servant has accepted his new name, Rumia. She told you that she would listen to you. She also said, to hurt you, She's sorry about that."

"Ah! Rumia..." Looking up at the girl in front of him, Rurik showed a reassuring smile.

And this girl didn't care about the tears on her face. Not long ago, she entered this huge wooden house with a look of hesitation and helplessness. Now she has more peace of mind, and the safety she most urgently needs.

Seeing her sincere smile, Rurik knew that his servant was not only a servant, but also a friend and sister.

For the foreseeable future, she will always follow her own words.

Therefore, for this older sister who seems to be a little older than herself, the best thing she should do is not to raise deer, but to study.

Somewhere, Rurik had a hunch that this girl, Rumia, would eventually be very important to him.

Youdao is any noble, and his servant at the beginning is very likely to become a lifelong confidant. If this were to be the case, then this Rumia first had to learn Norse.

Once she's fluent in Norse, that's a real Roth clan. But she had to learn not only Norse, but also the Slavic language of the Novgorod people.

Not only herself, Rurik herself has also made up her mind that she must learn the Slavic language within a few years. Since she met this Rumia, she also needs to learn the Sami language of the deer breeder.

In his opinion, this will not be a particularly complicated process. Of course, it is to learn two languages. He has to learn Cyrillic from his sister-in-law Peravina, and learn Sami from priest Veria and this Rumia. .

This is bound to be simpler than learning modern English a thousand years from now.

Why? Because in this era, most of the concepts do not exist, and tens of thousands of new terms have also been invented in later generations. In the ninth century, Rurik also noticed that the Norse language he used had about 500 common words, and I am afraid that there were less than 1,000 uncommon words.

The same is probably the case with Old Slavic and Old Sami.

So this cold winter is still long, even if the days are getting longer and longer after Hanukkah, it is still too early for the frozen sea to thaw!

The training for the clan's stinky boys had to be suspended, and Rurik, who was in the cold weather, didn't want to go out and risk getting sick. .

It is best to spend a long time learning. The poor Ross tribe has only a handful of historical knowledge of their ancestors, and they have already learned it.

You can't be in a daze every day when you are bored, and learning other languages ​​is the most important thing.

Learning the ancient Slavic language, learning the ancient Sami language, Rurik decided, this is the task that he must complete!