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The world of the Viking in the early medieval period was still a pagan society that where the gods of Asgard held sway. It was far from the ridged society of Christian Europe with its squabbling Kings, dukes and earls. It was a world of the Thing. Every free man had a duty to meet at the Thing’s common-meetings. Also, women and handicapped people could attend the Thing. Among other items, the Vikings elected their King at the Thing. These common-meetings might last several days, therefore the Thing was also an occasion for a large marketplace and festival and the halls of the Thing followed freely with mead. It was were the "lovsigemann" the law reader, the man recited the law so no man could make a law unto himself. It included everybody as citizens, except the slaves and those exiled from society - the outlaws.
Yet the governing principle of the Viking worlds was honor and along with honor revenge. In the Viking world’s old adage: "A slave takes revenge at once, a fool never takes revenge", a good man, however, simply waited. He left his victim unaccosted for a long time, up to several years. Then, just as retaliation seemed to be forgotten, one day he would suddenly attack his enemy with a masterful stroke - hard and inexorable. It was that concept of revenge that Lothar held for the Irish. They had defeated his father and had sullied the honor of his family. He would make of their chaste daughters "trells", slaves, as the Vikings called them, they were not mentioned in the law because they were not protected by the law. The slave was owned by his owner in the same way the owner owned his domestic animals.
He would take one of their chaste young daughters and first make her a threll and then his skjoldmø, “Shield girl”. Yet Lothar came from the small village of Strand in the Thing of Ragland. He would have to find men that wished to go a Viking. He knew the Danes had settled in Zetland Islands, Shetland Island, as the Britons called them and others in the Orkney Island. These same Danes had even threatened Ragland itself. He knew that they looked on Ireland as their own to raid and to occupy as their settlement a Waterford made quite clear. And yet a strike at the Irish, and the Danes would be a delicious revenge on both and would go far to restore his family’s honor.
When Lothar sailed he sailed with but a single dragon ship and one supply ship for the treasures and slaves he would bring back. Irish slaves to toil as threll on his eighteen farms, and Irish girls to warm his bed trough the long Scandinavian winter nights. The journey across the fog shrouded North Sea. A Watched set in the prow of the dragon ship, The steersman kept a close eye on the little shard of the stars that had fallen to earth that always pointed to the North star its home in the sky weather you could see it or not. It had been three weeks of enduring the fury of the North Sea before the lookout in the prow called Land Ho as the coast of the fabled emerald Isle came into view through the shifting fog.
The broad mouth of Donegal Bay opened before them and like a ghost upon the seas they silently slid through the great bay and the little settlement of Sligo that huddled around the convent of Saint Mary Magellan. Lothar and his men descended on the little settlement in an irresistible wave from the sea, a wave that left death in its wake for all those that resisted. It washed up against the walls of the convent, battered at its gate and flooded into the sanctuary. Battle lust had seized the Vikings and the older nuns were butchered, the younger nuns raped, and the youngest of the novices herded into the chapel to await death or ravishment.
The world of the Viking in the early medieval period was still a pagan society that where the gods of Asgard held sway. It was far from the ridged society of Christian Europe with its squabbling Kings, dukes and earls. It was a world of the Thing. Every free man had a duty to meet at the Thing’s common-meetings. Also, women and handicapped people could attend the Thing. Among other items, the Vikings elected their King at the Thing. These common-meetings might last several days, therefore the Thing was also an occasion for a large marketplace and festival and the halls of the Thing followed freely with mead. It was were the "lovsigemann" the law reader, the man recited the law so no man could make a law unto himself. It included everybody as citizens, except the slaves and those exiled from society - the outlaws.
Yet the governing principle of the Viking worlds was honor and along with honor revenge. In the Viking world’s old adage: "A slave takes revenge at once, a fool never takes revenge", a good man, however, simply waited. He left his victim unaccosted for a long time, up to several years. Then, just as retaliation seemed to be forgotten, one day he would suddenly attack his enemy with a masterful stroke - hard and inexorable. It was that concept of revenge that Lothar held for the Irish. They had defeated his father and had sullied the honor of his family. He would make of their chaste daughters "trells", slaves, as the Vikings called them, they were not mentioned in the law because they were not protected by the law. The slave was owned by his owner in the same way the owner owned his domestic animals.
He would take one of their chaste young daughters and first make her a threll and then his skjoldmø, “Shield girl”. Yet Lothar came from the small village of Strand in the Thing of Ragland. He would have to find men that wished to go a Viking. He knew the Danes had settled in Zetland Islands, Shetland Island, as the Britons called them and others in the Orkney Island. These same Danes had even threatened Ragland itself. He knew that they looked on Ireland as their own to raid and to occupy as their settlement a Waterford made quite clear. And yet a strike at the Irish, and the Danes would be a delicious revenge on both and would go far to restore his family’s honor.
When Lothar sailed he sailed with but a single dragon ship and one supply ship for the treasures and slaves he would bring back. Irish slaves to toil as threll on his eighteen farms, and Irish girls to warm his bed trough the long Scandinavian winter nights. The journey across the fog shrouded North Sea. A Watched set in the prow of the dragon ship, The steersman kept a close eye on the little shard of the stars that had fallen to earth that always pointed to the North star its home in the sky weather you could see it or not. It had been three weeks of enduring the fury of the North Sea before the lookout in the prow called Land Ho as the coast of the fabled emerald Isle came into view through the shifting fog.
The broad mouth of Donegal Bay opened before them and like a ghost upon the seas they silently slid through the great bay and the little settlement of Sligo that huddled around the convent of Saint Mary Magellan. Lothar and his men descended on the little settlement in an irresistible wave from the sea, a wave that left death in its wake for all those that resisted. It washed up against the walls of the convent, battered at its gate and flooded into the sanctuary. Battle lust had seized the Vikings and the older nuns were butchered, the younger nuns raped, and the youngest of the novices herded into the chapel to await death or ravishment.