M IS FOR MISCELLANY
Basic Stats:
Name: Kongeriget Danmark
Year: Roughly mid-ninth century.
Physical age: Mid to late teens, ish. He's not keeping track, and these things work funny with nations.
Height: 175 cm
Weight: Heavy for his height, most of it muscle. On the top-heavy side, if you tripped him, he'd just drop.
Inventory: Or, the things He's Got On Hand at Any Given Time, or Nearby.
- 1 Handaxe | 50 cm long, metal with wood handle
- 1 Mjolnir pendant | stone on leather thong
- 1 Belt pouch | Undyed cotton, contains a little dried meat, some Amanita muscaria, and some coins (plus silver stolen obtained from young!England on part 105)
- 1 Winter tunic | Wool
- 1 Pair Pants | Cotton
- 1 Winter cloak
- 1 Belt knife | Iron blade, wood hilt wrapped in cord. For cleaning fish and game. Given to Young Hungary.
- 1 Gold coin, inscribed with a protective rune, from a witch on the meme
- A handful of "windsocks" (1 open, unrolled, unlubricated condom, several sealed)
- 1 star. science is for tools.
- 1 Apple of Discord, mistaken for an Apple of Immortality.
- 3 cans of beer, laced with Ritalin
- 1 flask, filled with Curacao Blue
- 1 gold alloy token with image of kissing valkyries (....yep. 9th century R-18.)
- 1 copy, Sadako's video tape
- 2 Hetalia doujin, R-18
Pets:
Sigrún-- dappledwings, with cat icon
Eír-- kitten given out on the meme
Marianne-- a goat (named by fem!France)
Bjarni-- a bear (from teaching Mongolia berserkergang)
Other:
Silver (obtained from little!England, part 105)
Sword (obtained from little!Prussia, part 106, returned)
Wolf skin, cleaned and tanned (for berserking) Burned in Prussian-Anon Aggression War
Viking Info and Links:
Some General Stuff | http://www.denmark.net/denmark-guide/danish-vikings.html
Some More General History |http://www.um.dk/Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap6/6-2.asp
Norse Paganism | http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/mythology/religion/text/practices.htm
Viking Age Textiles | http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/nalebind.html
Arms and Armor | http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_axe.htm
About Berserkers | http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/berserke.shtml
And More On Berserking | http://www.scribd.com/doc/3208892/Shapeshifting-Berserkergang-and-the-Cult-of-Othin-by-Stephen-Grundy
Daily Life of the Norsemen | http://www.arild-hauge.com/elife.htm
Seriating Norse Material Culture | http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/norse_art.htm
And now I know who he knows, and what he knows them as!
Text Sources:
The Vikings, Else Roesdahl
The Viking, Almgren et al (reviewed here by the society for creative anachronism: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/almcrit.html, apparently 20 years behind archaeological findings, but comprehensive no less)