The Rise of Iceland

Olaf is a typical second-generation rich and second-generation official in Iceland. His father Hadar has the right to lead the village of Herut in the White Hazel Grove, which was inherited from his ancestors. His ancestor Hroot was this hundreds of years ago. The owner and leader of a piece of land, the identity of the ancestor at that time was called Godi (holy person, meaning noble person, person close to God).

　　 Gody, large or small, owns the management rights and ownership of the local manor population and land resources, and also controls judicial interpretation and judgment. He is the administrator of Iceland.

　　 Therefore, Herut, known as the "Gray Cloak Jal", was a leader of the Icelandic people's self-made organization, Alting, who was responsible for ruling the Sertiana Peninsula.

　　 Later, Iceland was surrendered to the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway. The chiefs of Gody everywhere were just squires and landlords, and at most they held the positions of village chiefs, but their rights were greatly reduced.

Later, due to various reasons (mainly the black death caused the population to decrease, in order to attract farmers to pay rent and tax free people increased) in some European countries, serfs gradually disappeared and became free people. Although they can still be exploited, after all The identities are basically equal.

　　Iceland is also full of big landlords and free people. Of course, poor free people still have to work as servants and tenant farmers in the big landlord’s house, but they have a contract.

　　 For small landlords and small nobles, the power is getting smaller and smaller.

When Olaf’s ancestral leader position was passed to his father Hadar, there was only one village leader’s name. The original servants had already become free people. Most of them had their own land, but thinking about the old feelings, the village The people all respect Hadar.

If things are just like this, Olaf can still be a second-generation landlord, living a life of worry-free life, but when he was almost three years old, a huge change occurred in the family. Hadar controlled more than 300 "Villes". "Gert" (unit of land measurement) lost more than half of the land.

Hadar has three sisters and a younger brother. The younger brother Hagrid is stronger and taller than Hadar. Both brothers have practiced swordsmanship inherited from their ancestors and skills that qualified Viking pirates should master such as fighting, wrestling, and riding. But Hagrid Obviously more proficient than Hadar.

Hagrid has been better at fighting since he was a boy of two brothers, and he has also killed many merchant ship guards when he went to sea to plunder. His brutality and combativeness made him have no one dare to provoke him in Sertiana Peninsula. Reputation.

　　 This situation lasted until Olaf was more than two years old. Hagrid killed the opponent because of a duel with a woman. If the opponent was just a freedman or a small landlord, things would soon subside.

But the other party is the son of a great leader in the Great Port of Reykjavik. This great leader has hundreds of years of inheritance. His ancestors also came from the cardinals of Iceland, and his influence is ten times stronger than that of the Hadar family. Not only that, but what is even more frightening is that the deceased was the godson of the cardinal cardinal of the Icelandic diocese at that time. At that time, the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway had not yet converted to Protestantism, and the Catholic bishop in Iceland was very full.

　　 killed the bishop’s godson, and at the same time the opponent was a leader of Dagang. At that time, it was foreseeable that Hagrid’s fate could only be arrested by the governor of Iceland and then hanged in Dagang.

　　 At that time Hagrid fled back to Herut village in the white hazel forest immediately after the murder, and told his eldest brother Hadar that after discussing with the brothers, Hagrid decided to let Hagrid leave Iceland by boat.

At that time, the brothers chose the greenland Greenland. At that time, Norway and Denmark were not able to go. The Kingdom of Scotland on the British Isles was promoting Protestantism, hoping to get the support of neighbors. Therefore, they had good relations with the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenland is a land outside the law. Although it is also part of Denmark in name, Denmark cannot even send a governor to it, because there are few people and resources, and there is not much value.

　　 Olaf knew that the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway later followed the example of the British and other colonial powers and established the Greenland Company to colonize Greenland, so Hagrid’s escape was not a long-term safety.

　　 After thinking about it, Olaf decided to change the opinions of his father and uncle, but he was less than three years old. Even though they thought they were genius child prodigies, they would never listen to a child on major events in life.

　　 Thinking of the primitive Norse mythology that the Vikings still believe in, Olaf suddenly had an idea.

At that time, Olaf suddenly pushed in with a roll of sheepskin, and then sang a prelude to the ancient war hymn in his mouth. Then he put the sheepskin on his head and sang: "The God of Sleep avoided my eyes, the giant of the God of War The axe hangs in front of me, and the brave Herut is slowly awakening. In the spring, the sword drowned Hagrid in the green. I can’t accept it, so I also send you some advice..."

　　 Olaf's pretending to be a fool instantly stunned Hadar, the Catlins, Hagrid, and his eldest brother Ulav.

None of these people would worry about a two-and-a-half-year-old child pretending to be a ghost. Even if Olaf is smart, or if children are not in their world, adults cannot act like this. Everyone realizes that the ancestor Herut The heroic spirit revived on Olaf's body.

The heroic ancestors will be approached by the **** of war after their deaths. When the descendants of the family face great disasters, they will be revived in the best offspring. This is a myth and legend passed down by the Viking population. Hadar and Hagrid would never think of fairy tales. The story will come true.

　　 But Olaf's performance made them have to believe. They knew that if Hagrid went to Greenland, he would end up being killed, so they asked the ancestor Herut to point out the direction.

Olaf continued to sing in a desolate tune: "The farthest place the Vikings have been to-Wenlan, where is the glorious restoration of the family. I think of the fertile land of Wenlan, and I think of the native Skele of Wenlan. Lin Ren, that was the best slave. I remembered that before I went to Wenlan, I had to go to Britain. There were countless frustrated people there, all of whom were the best slaves, put on weapons..."

　　 After Olaf sang it more than ten times, Hagrid and others also understood the meaning of Olaf's lyrics.

They agreed that the ancestor Herut was to let Hagrid go to Wenland where the ancients had been to avoid disasters. That Wenland was in the southwest of Greenland, with countless treasures and primitive and ugly natives, as well as fertile land and animals. The ancestors asked Hagrid to go to Scotland to recruit the poor people who had confiscated land and farming opportunities to go to Vinland to capture indigenous slaves, plant and breed, and colonize, because in the last century, Spain, Portugal and other countries have made great fortunes by colonizing overseas. Hagrid and Hadar also knew that colonization was a risky but extremely rewarding business.

　　 With the prophecies of their ancestors, Hagrid and Hadar immediately changed their goals.

Hadar gave Hagrid the family’s largest commercial and robbery Brig mixed sailing ship, and at the same time gave Hagrid the family’s silver coins of more than 2,400 marks. The family used the most powerful servants. Hagrid and his eldest son Ulav also let Hagrid take them away. He only asked Hagrid to take root in Wenlan as his ancestors said, and manage it well.

After Hagrid took away the big boats and wealth accumulated by the family for several generations early the next morning, he went to the British Isles to recruit more than 100 young white farmers who had no arable land according to Olaf’s words. Seeing the nautical chart and the compass heading westward, he did reach Wenlan in the end, and had a stronghold, arrested hundreds of indigenous people as slaves to help farm the land, which was regarded as a heel.

　　 These things are all three years later when Hager sent Ulav sailed back to England and recruited a group of contracted white slaves. He went back to Iceland to tell Hadar and Olaf.

However, Ulav also told Hadar and Olaf one thing that Olaf did not know, that is, in fact, Vinland and even the Americas have already become colonies of other European powers such as Britain and France, but their focus is on the South American generation. At present, only France has a stronghold in North America, which is not a climate at all, and provides rare furs of some animals to the royal family at most every year.

Although Wenlan (that is, Newfoundland) has no stronghold, some British guys have declared their power over Wenlan many years ago. After Hagrid and Ulaf arrived in Wenlan, although they stood firm, UU read www.uukanshu.com but for the sake of Not being targeted by other countries such as the United Kingdom and France, but also expressed support for the United Kingdom to own Newfoundland, living here and dealing with French and British businessmen.

　　 The primitive society of the Americas needed a lot of capital and human input to colonize. The history of the development of North America in Britain relied on criminal garbage and Puritans. It took hundreds of years to clear out most of the natives from the soil of the United States.

　　 The current Britain does not have the energy to develop Vinland, so the emergence of Ulav made the British and even French colonists in North America happy to see it. Instead, they extended a certain helping hand.

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Olaf has truly gained the respect of his family’s elders with his two-and-a-half-year-old pretend, instead of looking at the appreciation and affection of smart children before, but treating Olaf as an adult. This is because Hadar and the others regard Olaf as the carrier of the heroic spirit of the ancestor Herut, and they also believe that Olaf is the best descendant selected by the ancestors.

It's just that these things and their thoughts are unknown to everyone except those who have experienced it. After all, when Catholicism and Christianity occupied the entire European religious market, no one dared to publicly publicize that their beliefs originated in Scandinavia. Religious beliefs in the Asian peninsula.

Note: Weierget: a unit of land measurement. 1 Weierget is approximately equal to 40 acres, and 40 acres is equal to 242 acres in China. During the Middle Ages, European agriculture was extremely underdeveloped, and there was a rotation of land every year, so about half the land of Weierget could feed According to the population of three to eight people, a farm household can feed a family between 10 acres (60 acres in China) and 20 acres (120 acres in China).

　　Mark: A unit of currency measurement, 1 mark is about 220-233 grams.

　　 Wenlan: Newfoundland.