While waiting for spring, the days of Rurik are not as simple as sucking milk and sleeping.

In the first winter of his life, he received a gift from his mothera necklace with amber.

Moreover, it is not an ordinary necklace. The necklace is composed of five pieces of amber, each with a symbol carved out of it.

That is actually the Runic alphabet, which is written by the local residents of Scandinavia, but it is not purely written.

People believe that it was Odin who had acquired part of the power of Luen, the **** of wisdom, at the cost of an eye, and created this kind of writing. Therefore, it is a text with magical power.

It's a pity that in this age of ignorance, only a small number of people of any tribe have mastered this set of characters.

In the Ross tribe, only the elders and priests of the tribe know how to use it. It can even be said that often only when the tribe sacrifices, the elders will take out the "sacred objects" that the tribe treasures with the inscription of Luen, such as wooden boards inlaid with gold, in order to borrow the power of Odin and Luen. , To reach a prayer.

Of course, the only effect of this kind of prayer is to calm the people of the tribe and stabilize their emotions.

Niya put an amber necklace on his son's neck, which is a blessing to him.

The five ambers each have a letter, and they form a word together.

It is transcribed in Roman letters to become SIGEL, which originally means "sunshine", and by extension it has the meaning of light defeating darkness.

Lunwen is exactly the script of the Scandinavian ethnic group, but it is not a purely folk common script. It is controlled by the ruling elites of the tribe, especially the full-time priests, and it is basically not used by ordinary people in their daily lives.

If you really want to use it, it means embroidering the text on your clothes or carving it on the wooden beams of your house for safety.

In the past autumn, under the command of the leader Otto, all the preparations for the voyage to Sorgon were completed, such as pushing the necessary ships ashore and repairing them highly. Prepare food and fresh water for long-distance voyages, as well as materials for ship repairs on the way, as well as weapons for preventing enemy damage.

It can be said that Otto completed the Sorgon voyage very well.

The men were preparing for the voyage. The women of the tribe spent as long as two months in the longhouses in Roseburg, storing food for each family to spend the entire winter in peace.

Women have a huge say in storing supplies for the winter, and they are also experts in this area.

They make a lot of smoked fish and bacon by smoking and grilling.

They use wheat from trade or looting, add honey and dried cranberries to brew sweet but bitter wine.

They even use flour to make a lot of bread. Because the environment is dry, a lot of shelf-stable rusks are made in this way.

At the same time, they also go to the tailor to make clothes, shoes and hats, and other daily necessities.

The entire Scandinavia is indeed barren, but the barrenness here is only relative to other regions.

It has already formed a trade network around the Baltic Sea, and this trade network has not been damaged in any way because of the rise and fall of Rome.

is just a completely different trade network from the Mediterranean, which makes the surrounding ethnic groups have been developing rapidly.

The Baltic trade network was formed in BC. It was not until the Southern German cousins of the Viking tribes learned a lot of advanced technology at the end of Rome that Jutland and Scandinavia entered the "Iron Age".

Entering the winter of the long night slowly, all trade and combat activities have almost stalled. No matter how brave the sea fighters are, they need a warm home with a lot of food.

In other words, they desperately need a virtuous wife.

For those Viking warriors who are brave and good at fighting on the sea, once they lose the stable harbor behind them, and the women who have left the tribe, in the cold winter, no matter how brave people are, it will be difficult for them to live to the next spring.

It is this harsh natural environment that has forced the people of the Baltic Sea to migrate south intentionally. In the ninth century, the intention of migration was even stronger.

Inhabitants of Scandinavia and Jutland, they are actually relatives of the Germanic tribes in the south.

In ancient times, Rome stopped its strategy of expanding its territory in the north after experiencing the fiasco of the Teutonic Forest. Rome has finally declined, and it perished under the constant encroachment of the Germanic tribes. A considerable number of Scandinavians also participated in the huge ethnic migration.

Four hundred years have passed since the fall of Rome. The Germanic tribes have established large and small countries, and have stepped out of barbarism and become orderly.

Scandinavia has always been isolated. It has never been ruled by the Romans, but Rome loves the wealth of Northern Europe.

Is it possible that apart from a large number of animal furs in the icy and snowy northern Europe, is there anything else that the Romans in the Mediterranean region particularly love?

Of course there is! One of them is amber!

Niya personally gave Rurik, who was only a few months old, a pair of amber necklaces. Each of the five ambers was the size of an adult's thumb. It was too big to wear on a baby.

In the Ross tribe, quite a few people have their own necklaces, which are often made of shells and amber, or other precious stones.

In Scandinavia, amber is not a treasure. If a merchant can transport it to the Mediterranean, it will definitely make a fortune.

In ordinary days, most of the leading warships of the Ross tribe existed as trade transport ships, and the other thinking sub-tribe brothers in the south were their trading partners.

If life is basically stable, people in Scandinavia will be doing traditional maritime trade in the Baltic Sea for thousands of years, and maritime conflicts will inevitably occur, they will not wait to leave here.

But there is indeed a power in the dark, forcing them to leave this increasingly cold place.

The power of the dark is the climate.

Lurik was born in the early ninth century, and the climate in Europe began to turn cold when it entered the seventh century. Since then, the entire Europe has begun to face a cold period that lasted for four hundred years.

But people in this era, they just feel instinctively that their hometown is too cold.

Scandinavia, it is a divided world.

There are a large number of fjords and streams, and there are as many as 50,000 islands in the ocean. Sometimes those islands are refuges and sometimes settlements.

The traditional climates of the south and the north of Scandinavia are quite different.

For example, the settlement of Roseburg, currently occupied by the Ross tribe, is actually located in the Norge region in northern Scandinavia. There are a large number of mountains in this area, as well as fjords and small plains between the mountains. The land here is barren and the climate is the coldest. If it has any advantages, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. A stream runs through the entire Roseburg, giving them inexhaustible freshwater resources to settle on the coast.

One more thing, because Roseburg was backed by the rocks of the mountains, the artisans of the tribe discovered copper mines. Although artisans are not capable of large-scale smelting, after all, their demand for copper is not intense. Making bronze rivets in order to make more ships is completely capable of coping with it.

After all, the Ross tribe was also a member of the Mindish tribes, but the Nuoergai area was not the domain of Mindish for a time.

The ancestors of the Ross tribe used force to force the Ural people living here to move north, and occupy the place to build the Rose Fort.

The vast majority of the Mindlings settled in some plains in the south, known as the plains of Svealan, whose original meaning was "the land of Mindlings."

Svealand is a plain area, where the climate is relatively good for growing wheat, and it can also feed a large number of cattle and sheep.

Because the population of the Shouyazhong tribe is small, the natural resources here are enough to feed the people.

However, the population of Shouya people has been developing, and the various tribes have begun to border each other, and competition has started directly. In the competition, large tribes annexed small ones, and a movement to integrate the entire thinking sub-tribe is taking place. After all, they will inevitably form a countrySweden.

However, the only movement of the Mind Demi-Human merger did not include the Ross tribe.

Perhaps, the fate of the Ross tribe is not to merge into Svealand. uukanshu.com instead goes to another world to create a more magical future.

Whether it is the tribes of Svealand or the Rus tribe of the North Zoige region, they must now face the ever-expanding Danish power.

Northern Europe in the ninth century was too cold. Even the richest Danish peninsula, Jutland, where wheat used to grow vigorously, is not as good as before.

There are many Danish tribes in Jutland with a larger population. They are forced to attack each other because of their livelihoods, and they also have more frequent foreign trade.

Their expansion to the south was curbed by the powerful Frankish countries. Their attempt to expand northward allowed them to occupy the Gtaland region and succeeded in bordering the thinking demi people in the north, and conflicts immediately occurred.

Even the current Danes and Sihians would not have thought that they would fight for hundreds of years for the Gotaland region in southern Scandinavia.

The Danes went west again and began to trade and conflict with the Norwegians facing the North Sea until they crossed the North Sea and entered Britain.

The Danes of Jutland set the record for the first time, and in 794 AD started the plunder of Britain, thus opening the Viking era.

In the year of Rurik's birth, only 27 years after the raid, all the tribes around the Baltic Sea learned that they could cross the sea with swordsmen.

But it's a very interesting thing. The Ross people have long realized that they are in a remote place and are no match for the brave Danes. They desperately think about the western development of the ocean in order to seek opportunities for development.

It was the cold that forced the Ross tribe to do this until they entered a large lake and found a wide river. They encountered a group of people who spoke another language, were wealthy, and had moderate fighting strength.

There, it seems to be another world!