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TWO
From -- A video interview with Ilse in the botanical conservatory on the eve
of the vernal equinox, Deep Harbor, New Home, A.C. 781. By Lateefah Fourier

LF: Intriguing, to have grown up that way. But before I go, our viewers will
never forgive me if we donтАЩt talk about your husband, the Ingling. Did I say
that correctly? The Ingling?

Ilse: Approximately. ItтАЩs more precise, however, to say the I sound with the
lips rounded. Yngling. The Y is like the umlauted U in German.

LF: Yngling. There! How did I do that time?

Ilse: Quite well.

LF: But тАЬYnglingтАЭ is not his name, right? His name is Nils J├дrnhann.

Ilse: ThatтАЩs right. As a child he was known as Nils Hammarsson, because his
father, an Ironsmith, is called Hammar. Which means hammer, as you might
suspect. J├дrnhann is his warrior name, given him when he completed his sword
apprenticeship. It means Ironhand. While still a sword apprentice, and not
fully grown, he killed a man, a warrior, with a blow of his fist.

LF: The Northman culture certainly seems violent.

Ilse: ItтАЩs a controlled violence. The warriors are violent, the rest of the
culture not particularly so. The Northmen have a system of laws that contain
most of the violence within the warrior class. The ordinary freeman is less
subject to violence from within his culture than in my own country, Germany.

LF: And ingling -- Yngling -- is a title, right?

Ilse: In a sense, yes. Long ago, тАЬynglingтАЭ simply meant a youth in their
language. Anciently, Anglic had a cognate, тАЬyoungling.тАЭ All three Northman
tribes share a legend of a young man who appeared in a time of danger perhaps
two hundred years ago, when constant warring threatened to destroy them. They
had no warrior class then; all men fought. The southern tribe, the J├╢tar, had
gained the upper hand, and it seemed they would kill or enslave the Svear. And
probably the Norskar as well.

Then an yngling appeared among the Svear, to become a great raid leader and