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Hammarson became Nils J├дrnhann, "Iron Hand."
2.
Neovikings. The neovikings were members
of a primitive, post-plague Terran culture that
evolved in Sweden and Norway after the Great Death
that left less than 10-4 of the pre-plague population
alive. They consisted of three tribes: the Norskar in
southern Norway, the J├╢tar in southern Sweden, and
the Svear in central Sweden. ...
The term "neovikings" was applied to them
by the post-plague psionic culture known as the
"kinfolk." In some respects neoviking was not an apt
term, for they were not sea rovers. They were
primarily herdsmen, although hunting and fishing
rivalled livestock in their economy and they
practiced some agriculture. Perhaps their outstanding
cultural feature was their unusually martial
orientation, and in this they did somewhat resemble
the medieval vikings. Tribe warred against tribe, and
clans carried on bloody feuds.
They increased despite their love of
bloodshed, however. Taboos, tribal laws and
intertribal agreements restricted the causes of
fighting, its circumstances and practices. . . .
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History. . . . The rapid climatic
deterioration finally became critical. They found it
necessary to store increasing quantities of forage as
the season of pasturage became shorter. Crops became
poorer, and some lands that had been farmed became
too waterlogged and cold to grow crops. Had this
happened three or four centuries earlier, they might
have lapsed into a purely hunting and fishing
culture, but they had become too numerous and
sophisticated for that. A coastal clan, familiar with
fishing boats, began to build vessels large enough to
carry effective raiding parties to other parts of
Europe. A rather close analog of the medieval viking
culture might have developed, had not. . . .
(From the New School Encyclopedia,
copyrighted A.C. 920, Deep Harbor, New Home.)
3.
It was no fishing boat, but a broad
cargo ship made for the open sea and a full thirty
meters long. The prow turned upward, and the end was
carved and painted in the likeness of a sea eagle
with wings partly folded. The water was choppy, and a
brisk southwest wind blew. The ship's course being
southwesterly, the sail was furled and the crew