Rise of Rurik

Peravina is not very tall. After taking off her burlap hat, she instantly shows her huge golden braids and her delicate awl-shaped face that is white and slightly freckled.

She seemed to be very worried about her current situation. She kept her head slightly hooked and stood rigidly. The opposite of her cautiousness was Arik's smiling face.

"Haha! My dear brother, let me introduce to you, this is your new sister, Peravina. She is my new wife, and you and her will be a family from now on." Norse told his wife: "Peravina, say hello to my brother."

At this moment, Rurik finally understood that this girl, who was obviously much older than him, whom he had never seen before, was actually his sister-in-law!

Here in Scandinavia, there are very few generational terms available among people, including the absence of a clear concept of "sister-in-law".

People of the same generation are usually brothers and sisters, calling each other by their first names. Therefore, Peravina was obviously a woman of the same generation as Rurik, and naturally became his sister.

The girl still seemed very submissive. She was reluctant to marry the Varyags as his wife. For the safety of the family manor, she knew the importance of her mission.

Perhaps her husband, named Arik, was a kind man, but she had realized that she lived in the house of the chief of the Varangians, and that her husband was the chief's son.

Having been in contact with the Varangians for a long time, many people in Whitetree Manor know some Norse languages ​​more or less.

Peravina, in her broken Norse, used simple words to take care of Rurik, and didn't want to say any more after that.

Niya, who was watching the play, prepared some snacks and brought it over kindly: "Arik, maybe she is a silent person?"

"No! I think she's just a little scared. She also needs to learn our language." Arik laughed.

Niya nodded and approached Peravina with a plate of dried salted fish: "Eat some, child. Don't be nervous, I'll be your mother from now on."

"Mother?" Peravina raised her head slowly.

The moma appellation of "mother" seems to be shared by human beings, but later theories point out that the origin of the entire Indo-European language family and the entire Sino-Tibetan language family comes from the ancient Yenisei language family tens of thousands of years ago, and some of the core vocabulary It is common to all ethnic groups.

The cautious Peravina basically understood Nina's words, and she also understood that the old woman in front of her was the leader's wife.

It seems that the Varyags live strictly according to the rules of monogamy? If that's the case, your future isn't too difficult.

Peravina is also very clear about the meaning of "mother" now. More than ten days ago, according to the etiquette of her hometown, she was confirmed by the people of her hometown as the wife of the Varyag people. According to tradition, she has left the group of White Tree Manor. Left his family and became part of another family.

Her husband's mother naturally became her own mother, and she had to spend the rest of her Varyag life in accordance with the Varyag tradition.

As if everything was an irresistible fate.

Peravina was forced to choose to accept it, she slowly raised her hand, picked up a piece of dried salted fish and put it in her mouth.

In an instant, the salty and greasy happiness filled her entire mouth, and she subconsciously pushed the whole dried fish into her mouth, and then chewed it desperately. It's not over yet! A piece of herring dried up, and she hurriedly took another piece.

It wasn't until a plate of jerky was eaten that only half of it was left, and it seemed that he saw the surprised eyes of others, and then he stopped. A finger-sucking gesture inadvertently reiterated her love for dried fish.

Rurik was surprised to see the process of his sister-in-law eating dried fish, all the actions were simply incredible.

"Why does she like those salted fish that I'm getting tired of eating?!"

Driven by curiosity, Rurik got up with many questions,

Finally, she stood beside her sister-in-law Peravina.

At this time, he found through comparison that his height was less than his sister-in-law's chest, and he was really short.

Of course, compared with his elder brother Arik, the top of his head has just reached his elder brother's navel.

Rurik boldly asked in Norse language: "My dear sister, are you from Novgorod? What kind of place is that."

Mentioning the word "Novgorod" undoubtedly aroused Peravina's memories of the past.

Subconsciously, she muttered in Cyrillic.

No one knew what she was muttering, but Rurik could clearly see that there were tears in his sister-in-law's blue-purple eyes.

Her eyes are indeed different from the Ross clan.

Rurik had carefully observed himself facing the water, blue-white pupils, fair skin, and blond hair. If he was a girl, he must be that kind of natural Barbie doll?

This Peravina is different, her blue-purple pupils fully prove that she is completely different from the blood of the Ross tribe.

In fact, in Europe, the relative geographical separation has made the so-called three northern barbarian systems of the Romans in the past: Germanic, Slavic and Baltic, all three are Indo-Europeans, and the body structure has been very subtle. , can only be identified by careful observation.

Strictly speaking, the Vikings and the Germans are the same ethnic group, but the former eroded Western Rome. Four hundred years later, the northern Germanic tribes who stayed in the north were forced by the reality of the colder climate in Europe. Acquired the title of Vikings and began to travel south on a large scale.

Rurik wanted to chat with her a few more words, but he didn't get a clear response after all.

However, Rurik knew a little bit of Russian after a thousand years, and Novgorod was an extremely ancient city in the Slavic world. Through Peravina's muttering, he completely heard the taste of Russian.

It's really different from the Norse language, the sister-in-law's muttering is really full of tongue snaps, extremely fast speech speed, and unique pronunciation under the action of the tip of the tongue and the nasal sound.

To be honest, she speaks quite nicely.

After failing to chat with Peravina, Rurik had to turn to his brother Arik for more information.

"Arik, now that you are married, are you going to move out soon?"

"Yeah! What? Are you reluctant?"

"No." Rurik shrugged. "I know our traditions."

"I'm going to move out soon." Arik patted his cousin's forehead subconsciously: "Rurik, you are the eldest son of my father, understand? You want to inherit this family, and I want to inherit mine. Everything about my biological father, Ogier. I'll be moving into my own home with my Peravina this winter! Honey, I'm married, it's proven that I'm grown up, hey, maybe by this time next year I'll be a father already."

Arik thought that his brother Rurik didn't understand, but Rurik actually understood everything.

He was in a very good mood and continued: "Novgorod has many beautiful girls. Rurik, when you grow up, you can also find your wife anywhere."

"Really? But I'm too young now."

Arik shrugged. "Soon, you'll grow up in a few years."

At this time, Niya interrupted Arik with a smile: "Silly boy, I know that you did a ceremony in Novgorod, but your marriage was not recognized by the tribe."

Niya's words reminded Arik, he leaned close to his new wife's ear and said in Norse: "She is right, you can't actually call her mother now. And the way you are now, I should untie you. You should let your hair loose, and you can tie it up again only after we have passed our wedding ceremony."

Peravina didn't understand very well, and now she has to completely obey this man's orders.

Soon, her blond hair spread out, and in Rurik's view, her sister-in-law became even more beautiful.

Hearing about his brother Arik again, he also understood that his sister-in-law was just eighteen years old, and he was actually the same age as Arik.

Although Peravina has such an age, she looks younger, maybe because the living conditions in Novgorod are not very good, men and women are not as tall and strong as the people of the Rus tribe? ! It must be so.

Rurik's thinking is not wrong. The staple food of the people of Novgorod is rye and wheat, and there are not many opportunities to eat meat. Although the Ross tribe has few opportunities to eat wheat, they eat a lot of fish meat and the meat of captured wild animals on weekdays.

When a person is growing up, the more meat he eats, the stronger he becomes.

Novgorod, a city of mixed manors and small villages, has a large population of inhabitants and how short they are.

There are not many people in the Ross tribe, and they are full of strong and strong people.

In ancient European barbarian fights, both sides always lacked tactics. At this time, whichever side is stronger, often has the ability to fight one against ten! Hundreds of berserkers from Rus gathered together can indeed overthrow the difficultly organized professional agriculture of the various villagers' families in Novgorod.

After a short contact, it was of course impossible for Rurik to understand the past of his sister-in-law, and even he did not understand the ancient Slavic meaning of the name "Peravina".

In this era, the Rus tribe of the Varangians did not accept the Eastern Orthodox Church in Eastern Rome, and the same was true of the ancient Slavic tribes. The names of these ethnic groups were varied, which seemed to be later generations. The only one for people to choose their real names is the one in the book. more than 400 choices.

Of course, like the Slavs, some inherent words to describe flowers have naturally continued, such as "Natasha", "Lilia" and "Katyusha", which have been used for at least two thousand years.

This "Peravina" is completely different, her name is very simple and straightforward.

The White Tree Manor in Novgorod has a population of as many as 2,000, and the interior is also divided into nuclear families and dependent families. It is the concept of "big family" and "small family", but they do not have a clear surname concept.

"Peravina" actually means "eldest daughter". She is the eldest daughter of a small family in Baishu Village. She was at the age of marriage, and her parents have already started to arrange marriage.

At the end of the autumn harvest, the Varyag people came again as promised. This time their leader took a lot of amber and asked Novgorod for the marriage of the Varyag young man.

For greater wealth, Peravina's parents decided to accept the Varyag's dowry.

She was a pretty girl, and of course Otto himself oversaw his own Arik's marriage, so that her family got a small packet of precious amber.

With this bag of amber, the family's identity in the manor has suddenly increased! Doing business with Amber and Smolensk in the south, the family quickly moved into what they knew was a rich life.

Perhaps the marriage was a win-win, though Peravina resisted at first.

Now she is finally appointed, especially since she can enjoy salted fish!

Because in Novgorod, that is "inland" in the purest sense! They do not have the ability to follow the rivers and enter the Arctic Ocean beaches to boil seawater to make coarse salt. In fact, they know very little about the far north, where priests claim that it is the residence of the gods of ice and snow, and that entering by mistake will bring death.

As for why the Varyags dared to come from the north, the priests of Novgorod claimed that the Varyags had made a deal with the ice body.

The inhabitants of Novgorod are extremely salt-deficient, but people have to eat salt. Eating sea fish and hunting wild animals, such hunters and fishermen do not have the problem of lack of salt. The inland peasants, who could not hope to grow rye to obtain enough salt in the soil, had to pay dearly to the smugglers of Eastern Rome.

In fact, as early as when the Roman Empire was prosperous, a trade route from the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea northward to Northeast Europe has always existed. On this trade route, coarse salt has always been a hard currency. Through this trade route, Eastern Rome obtained a considerable amount of precious animal skins, such as ferret skins, which became ornaments for noble clothing.

In Roseburg, even if the salinity of the sea is very low, people still get the coarse salt from the sea by burning a lot of firewood. They would love to do it just so they could marinate more jerky to get through the winter.

Peravina had eaten a lot of salt, so what was there to resist when her hair was let down, or she did something at her husband's orders?

Obviously, I will not starve, and my future life will not be very bad. The most important thing is that there is enough salt here!

Niya once again instructed the couple: "Aric, and Peravina, your marriage has not been approved for the time being. But I think the situation will change soon. On the next Frigid day, you will officially hold a ceremony. Wedding. Many people may have a wedding at the same time, and on our stone boat altar, Priest Willia will personally hold this event. When the time comes..."

Niya thought about it again and pointed to Arik's sword: "Your sword and your dagger..."

"Is it the sword-giving ceremony? I understand. Mom, don't worry, I'll take care of everything by then."

Niya smiled knowingly: "Child, you are still too simple. Take care of your wife these days. The day of your wedding is really approaching, and I will also be a witness at that time."