The long ships hit the soft shallows directly, and now the reeds have sprouted, and soon the muddy land will be lush.

The oak keel was deeply gnawed in the soil, and a sturdy figure jumped up against the wooden railing, calmly and gorgeously stepping on the soil of Novgorod.

Rurik finally returned to his richest agricultural area, to the queen's natal home, and the best place to live for all the old Rus.

He was smiling, his beard quivering.

He opened his arms, his golden ponytail was blown elegantly by the warm south wind, and the golden laurel wreath glittered in the sun.

Behind him, the soldiers who returned from the expedition were either carrying or carrying them on their shoulders, jumping down with large bags of trophies. Many people jumped down and fell to their knees without being able to stand still because the loot was too heavy, and their knees slammed heavily on the mud.

People who come up like this can judge the results of their expedition with the naked eye.

"Isn't the spoils of war so hard for a strong man to carry? How much wealth is this?!"

Old Otto couldn't help thinking in his heart. He saw that everyone had made a lot of money, and it must be immeasurable wealth pouring into this place. He really exhausted his life's achievements and plundered more than the war launched by his son.

The golden Otto walked with the assistance of the two strong men. His sturdy cowhide belt served as a good handle. Tozai marched forward in this heavy armor by his own strength.

This scene frightened Rurik, and he really thought that his old father was brave again.

There was only a cheering crowd around, and a large number of girls holding children were talking and laughing.

There were more and more onlookers on both sides of the river, and some boats fishing on the lake hurriedly floated to watch when they heard the roar of the city.

When the fishermen found out that Master Wang arrived at the port, some of them turned their boats and headed straight for Mstisk and Youth City in the east of the lake, just to pass on the good news.

Novgorod is destined to be crowded, welcoming relatives, trying to buy trophies, and even just looking at the fun, and they flock here for various purposes.

For Otto, the scene in front of him was puzzling.

His son probably won't grow taller. His body was a little thin in the past, but now he seems to be getting stronger and stronger. He saw the shadow of his past, when he arrived in Novgorod for the first time at his age. However, Rus was still weak at that time. For the Slavic people of Yinermen Lake, they were essentially a group of pirates who broke in to ask for tribute.

Times have changed and all the locals are cheering their king.

The world suddenly became bizarre, suddenly unreal.

Otto blinked hard to wake himself up, and finally walked up to his son and hugged him with great strength.

He didn't need to say a word, he just hugged and patted Rurik on the back so hard that it was worth a thousand words.

And Queen Niya was so excited that she burst into tears. She ran over with a wooden staff, her white hair flowing in the wind, and hugged her son fiercely.

People continued to cheer and continued to make huge noises, and the people who were booing shouted strangely like apes, just to make the atmosphere of triumph more enthusiastic.

For a moment, people ignored sacrifice and the cruelty of war.

Anyone with long eyes can tell that Ross has really gained a lot from this war by the large number of sackcloth that can not be quickly unloaded on the dense longboats. War always kills people and often many people die. Compared with war, death in peacetime in winter cold, accidental injuries, diseases, death in war is not a very tragic way to die. What's more, people believe that a good person or a warrior will have a beautiful destination for the soul after death and enjoy eternal happiness.

The unique post-war security system determined that the main labor force would not collapse if a family died in the war. In Rurik's hands, Ross determined the national policy of giving equal importance to sea power and land power. In terms of single livelihood, farming is not the only means of survival. Engage in other economic activities to earn benefits, and then convert them into food to continue living.

At least the women of the old Rus who rule the basic board and the women of the White Tree Manor basically do not have nothing to do in the slack season. The people have been organized to engage in handicrafts, and the long winter has become a production period. The most important production activity is making leather products. and cotton and linen products. They needed a lot of raw materials to produce a lot of output, and each farm became a "village factory", the people earned labor costs, and the king opened the market for the final product.

The extremely swollen sacks on the beach longboats were stuffed with wool from the Flanders region that had been trampled and compressed as much as possible. The wool is rolled into yarn, and then a series of processing is carried out with the craftsmanship of processing linen, and finally the textile. The hand-rolled wool is much thicker and longer than the linen thread, and the method of knitting a sweater can be done by hand spinning with two wooden needles.

After a brief and warm welcome at the pier, Rurik has decided to gather the local Boyar nobles and property owners after the carnival is over.

Ross must repair the damage caused by this war, but also use the spoils to quickly expand the scale of the economy and so on.

However, what made him staggered was his large group of flamboyant women. They wore beautiful and even dazzling floral fabrics, mostly with loose or straight or curly hair, and beautiful head ropes strung with glass beads and amber wrapped around their foreheads. This is a very standard Slavic woman's dress, these are the concubines who have the lowest level of their votes. On the contrary, they all hold their children, and they all look like stinky brats.

"Can't I have another daughter?"

Soon, when all Rurik's wives and concubines were gathered in the lobby of the Novgorod Palace, all he could see were the little boys of Yiya.

and an astonishing number of wives and concubines.

No wives and concubines are as noble as Queen Svetlana, and she has more charm when she is fatter. Because she lived with Rurik prematurely, she lived a high-protein and high-calcium life, often eating meat and fish. She is much taller than her sister Lilia, with delicate facial features and fleshy cheeks.

The queen held the two-year-old prince Osborneslav, and held Oleg, who was about to be three years old.

Each wives and concubines hold one.

Carlotta, Duchess of Ostara, with her four-year-old son Karl, and her own sister Ella, also hold a little one.

The lobby was filled with the chirping voices of women, as well as the children's yee-yah, and even some children who were frightened or saw birth, cried earth-shatteringly.

Such a lively scene was like a dream for Otto and Nia. The old couple was delighted to hear the crying of a large group of children. The louder the voice, the more the boys had a bright future.

Rurik knew that all of this came from his own crazy work more than a year ago. This body is both young and strong, and it is no problem to deal with a group of wives and concubines in a short time, but now it becomes a problem to look at them.

They wouldn't come rushing up with their children in their arms, sitting side by side on the cushion with their children, looking at their man with a smile on his face, everyone had a thousand words, eager to talk to the king a few more times. sentence.

They also maintain their duty. As a king, a woman can get a lifetime of food and clothing, prosperity and wealth, and the price is that she can't enjoy the favor of a man alone, and she can't betray her own man. They will seize every opportunity to be close to the king to compete for beauty, which is really human.

Ross's palace is still rudimentary, and the hierarchy of the harem has long been established.

After all the wives and concubines experienced the bloodshed in their hometown of Roseburg, they were each other's sisters.

According to the rules, when the king returns, he must stay with his wife, the queen, for a long time. After all, each concubine will be divided into distant places because of their own sons, and they will become nobles of different sizes.

First, the wives and concubines must have their own sons.

"You've seen it all!" Old Otto's voice was hoarse and couldn't hide his joy: "It's Freya's blessing and Odin's gift together. They all gave birth to sons."

Old Otto's words were very shocking, the chattering wives and concubines were all quiet, so that his voice actually echoed in the lobby.

Rurik, who was sitting in the middle of the hall, was surprised and delighted, and said bluntly: "I saw it all, it's all my son."

"Indeed. Go cheer! Rurik, my son! I won't ask you about your expedition today, but you'll be sure to write it down and post it. It's just our family business now."

"Housework?"

Old Otto looked around again at the women present. "Rurik, take official names for your sons. It is your right and your duty."

"Huh?! They don't have names yet?"

"Only unofficial nicknames. It's like you gave your maids a brand new name, they gave you a son, and the task of naming it was yours."

Rurik suddenly looked embarrassed, his eyes turned to his wives and concubines, thinking that the mother should name the child first and then confirm the matter afterwards, wouldn't it? Just as Noren and Bejahir gave birth to their children during the war, they were all named by their mothers.

It's not random for parents to name their children.

In countries that believe in God, such as Frank, priests baptize children. Just flip through the scriptures and use the name of the first person as the child's name. The name without this ritual process can only be regarded as an informal nickname.

Ilmenslav also pays attention to it. Parents choose a good day as their son's naming day. However, the tradition here is to give the son an official name. The girls in the family often have no names, and they often use the Mohu appellation that means "eldest daughter" and "second daughter" and a little modification to become the name. Only families with noble status and a lot of wealth will be very particular about their daughters' names.

The Old Rus and other Viking tribes did not have to choose an auspicious day to name their children, but they certainly chose good words for their names. They treat their children equally in naming their children. Perhaps it is in the traditional old Viking life that the social division of labor between men and women is still unclear.

More than ten years ago, when Rurik got ten maids, the status quo was doomed. He cherished the group of obedient girls at hand, taught them knowledge and made them special craftsmen.

It is only natural for the master to give the slave a name today, and those girls didn't have a proper name in their hometown, and it was a gift for Rurik to give them a name.

But the so-called given name is also defined according to the order of the Roman alphabet, and find a suitable catchy word starting with the corresponding letter.

Anna is A, which means elegance. Bella is B, which means white, which means purity. Sisia C, meaning more heavyweight, one of Caesar's favored slave girls called this. Diana is D, named after the Roman goddess. Ekaterina is E, taking this for the fifth is purely Rurik's bad taste. Finna is F, which is Norse finnr with a feminine suffix. She is a Slavic woman whose name refers directly to Finland, and Rurik just took it because it sounded good.

Greta is G, from the old Norse word, meaning full of energy. Helena is H and Yinlia is I, both from Greek goddess names. Yulia is J, and the masculine name is directly Yuri, which is really a tailor-made name for Ross.

They all gave birth to healthy boys, whether in Slavic or Rus custom, boys must have a good name.

Rurik also understood the situation today.

He scratched his ears, and a strong Nordic man suddenly became hesitant.

"Father, is today the children's naming day?!" he had to ask.

"Exactly." Old Otto continued in a hoarse voice, "I have decided that it is good to have a naming day. In the future, every child will have a naming day, which is as important as the birth date. Rurik, for your sons Name them! Today is their naming day! After that, all the children will be sent to the temple in the city, and Freya will give them health, and Odin will give them courage. Oh, and the Slavic **** of fire here, It will also give children special strengths.

When the old father spoke, the gods suddenly started talking, and these words should have been said by a priest.

Either way. Rurik continued to scratch his face. He couldn't give his sons random names to save them from complaining about their father in the future, but today was the naming day, and it was wrong not to be able to quickly complete the "proposition composition".

Simply, just follow the naming routine of their mother's name! The first is for the boys born to the ten lowest-ranking maid wives and concubines.

Then there are the sons of Ella and Seporava. The two have high status. If they have already named a child, they will admit it immediately.

Now that it's a naming ceremony for a child, things should be done more well.

Ella still has a gentle appearance, even if she becomes a mother, her personality does not change. She is not suitable to be a nobleman of the frontier, but it is more suitable to be a scribe.

Ella's son Mingming didn't mention it beforehand, and now she quickly brought the paper and quill to record the king's arrangement.

Everything is in place, and it can be seen that Ella is ready to write records.

"Anna!" Rurik said suddenly, turning his face to the side.

This sound made Anna flattered: "I... I'm here."

Rurik spoke loudly: "Your son's name is Alexander. Aleksanda, spell it like this."

Well, he looked at Bella again, "Your son's name is Boris, Boris, spell it like this." It was a Slavic word meaning "to fight", and Bella understood it perfectly and was immediately satisfied.

Followed by Siva Ceva, Dmitri Dmitri, Evgeni Evgeni, Feodor Feori, Heracles Heracles, Ignat Ignat, Yuri Juri.

Most of the children's names have been heavily Slavic in Rurik's cognition, that is, the origin of the names comes from Slavic, Norse, Latin and Greek.

At least the children's names retain their own characteristics. After all, they are born princes, and the name should be as unique as possible. Also because their bloodlines are all mixed blood, their motherhood is lower, and the child's name must also be clearly distinguished from that of the high-ranking prince. For example, the names of these children do not have the v suffix.

Ella and Suborava have named their sons.

Ella's son was named Amberman, which means the man of Amber.

Seporava's son was named Bouba, which means treasure in Finnish Kowen dialect.

The two named them like this, and Rurik could conclude that they negotiated and described their son as precious as a gem~www.mtlnovel.com~ In this way, there was no need to change the names for the two cubs.

The naming day had a happy outcome, and all the princes' names were completely different, which tested Rurik's own cognitive limits.

What has always been criticized by him is this set of naming habits in the Western world, which makes the probability of duplicate names always high. This problem is extremely prominent in the Viking world, full of Bjorn, Harald, Harold, Eric, Carl, and their variants.

Rurik knew that his name was also a special variant of "Eric". Like his cousin Aric, the name is a direct variant of "Eric".

So every man wants to have a domineering nickname. I don't know because it represents the honor of a man. On the other hand, it is also distressed that parents always lack imagination. They have good words for their children, but good words are aimed at them. There are only a few poor literary cognitions, so that the names are always highly concentrated in a dozen or two.

It's an obvious problem for children alone, it's time to make a change!

Starting from the royal family, it was the first to introduce Greek, Latin, Slavic words, and even some syllables that seemed meaningless but were particularly catchy as names.