At present, the calendar transmitted by the Eastern Romans to the Baltic Sea region through the ancient northern trade route is still very accurate, so Villa can very accurately determine the day from which the sun will disappear for a long time, and how long it will take for the dawn to disappear. Return to the earth.
Villa even learned a little bit of the astronomical knowledge mastered by Eastern Rome, which made her, an ancient woman, full of curiosity and respect for the unknown southern people.
The knowledge she gained was so profound that she regretted that the young people in the tribe were dismissive of her. She was even more distressed that the successor she had trained, Bona, did not have much curiosity about those "Roman knowledge".
Perhaps, all of his worries will be broken by the leader's son Rurik, a rare child eager for knowledge.
On the night before dawn, all the tribesmen reveled all night long, drinking and singing to welcome the new sun and the beginning of the new year.
The tribal collective wedding was so lively that many families drank more than half of their reserved wine that night!
Hanukkah is destined to be drink-less this year.
After a complicated ceremony, newly married Arik and Peravina once again put on thick fur coats. Traditionally, the groom's immediate family personally escorts the couple back to their new home. Usually, it is the groom's biological father who serves as a witness to prove that the newlyweds did return to their residence and stayed until dawn the next day.
Arik's home was not far from Otto's. Otto didn't want to leave for a long time after sending his nephew there. He wandered around outside the house until he heard those sounds, and he finally laughed out loud with a sullen face.
In this way, Arik became a complete adult in every sense of the word. Pelavina, who came from Novgorod to marry far away, also completely became a woman.
It was another cold start to the new day. The sun rose late today, but the atmosphere in Roseburg was actually fiery.
Early in the morning, Otto put on a loose fur coat, and his close associates also gathered there.
Rurik rubbed his sleepy eyes, wondering what the people outside were shouting about.
"Dad! Are you and those people going out? Boating?!"
"No! I'm going to see your brother and your sister."
"Ah. Then I'll go take a look, too?" Rurik got up smartly.
"That's fine." Otto waved to his son to have something to eat and came out immediately. Then he told him, "I want to visit other families. I want to confirm something."
"Is it about something after the wedding?"
"You are so smart." Otto rubbed his son's head with satisfaction and signaled to his wife Niya: "Don't go, hurry up and sew the clothes. Arik and his wife need it very much."
Niya watched as her husband held his son's little hand, and there were more than ten people following behind him. She watched quietly for a while, and then returned to the warm house with satisfaction, and took the time to make new animal skin clothes with the maid who came to help.
The newly made clothes are all given to the newly married Arik family. Emotionally speaking, Niya has long regarded Arik as her biological son.
If his previous son had not died accidentally, he would have been at Arik's age.
Ryuri held his father's hand. He still didn't know exactly what his father wanted to confirm.
When the group of people arrived at Arik's house, there were already some children watching the excitement gathered at the door.
Rurik found the familiar figure without hesitation.
"Ah! Kanuf, what are you looking at at the door of my brother's house?"
Kanuf hurried over: "Hey, of course I'm waiting for you!"
"You should wait for me on the hillside. I guess it's because of my sister's beauty?" Rurik said casually, and then saw his father driving away the idle people.
Otto loudly ordered: "Aric, you and your wife come out and let me make sure!"
After a while, the animal skin curtain of confinement was opened.
Arik looked high-spirited and walked out holding his somewhat embarrassed wife's hand.
Indeed, Peravina has changed a lot from her previous image. Rurik opened his eyes wide and saw that his sister-in-law had braided her hair again, fully understanding the symbolism of this braid.
Arik deliberately pushed his wife in front of his uncle, looking completely arrogant.
Otto chuckled: "I know everything, you already finished it yesterday."
"Yes! When the weather turns cold next year, I will be the father." As he said that, Arik did not forget to rub Rurik's face. He naively thought that his brother didn't understand anything. "Rurik, did you know? Next winter, you will also be an uncle."
"Yes! I understand." Rurik said calmly, "I hope it's a boy. We need more warriors, don't we?"
A child said something very pragmatic, and everyone onlookers were amused. I'm afraid that at this moment, Otto's heart is more filled with emotion for his son. A seven-year-old child actually fully understands the significance of a tribe's men who are good at fighting to the entire tribe.
Peravina felt the change in the atmosphere at this moment. She lowered her head shyly, looked at her husband's brother, and stroked her belly: "I really hope it is a boy. If possible, I like more boy."
"Hey, at least there must be a beautiful girl like you." Arik took the opportunity to coax his wife, and the atmosphere became more joyful.
The Ross tribe always needs more people, whether they are men or women! They lack the opportunity to use barbaric methods to plunder the population from outside, so they simply began to use peaceful means to ask for the marriage of girls from other tribes this year, and in this way raise more people of their own tribe.
The girl Peravina has fully recognized her new identity. Otto is absolutely sure that what she said is true. She wants to be the heroic mother of the tribe.
At this point, Otto said to Peravina in a deep and fatherly tone: "You are a beautiful girl, and the White Tree Villagers you once belonged to are also a group of smart people. You will become a great mother, I sincerely Thank you."
"Thank you...Thank you, Mr. Chief." Peravina seemed very flattered, but she felt that the praise given to her was appropriate.
Otto nodded: "Live a peaceful life. You don't have to worry about anything. You are not leaving your girl forever. In the autumn of next year, we will go to your girl regularly. By then, you and your children I will visit Mr. Baishu and see your parents again."
Hearing this, Peravina's dark blue eyes couldn't help but burst into tears.
She once simply thought that leaving with the Varyag people meant saying goodbye to her hometown. Now that the leader has made a promise with honor, she actually still has the opportunity to visit her relatives!
She began to look forward to the future. First, she needed to prove her great value - giving birth to healthy children, whether boys or girls.
For this goal, it seems that I can reasonably live a leisurely life for a long time?
It seems that the women of the Rus tribe are good at preparing meals and sewing clothes in the warm longhouse. If only this was the case, it would be simple.
In her distant hometown of Novgorod, girls like Peravina had to go to barren lands with their families to cultivate and sow seeds with simple wooden plows, always living a life of hardship and poverty. Her native family is a very ordinary small family of Baishu Villager. They are so poor that they have no money to buy even bronze tools from the blacksmith. The ironware is the treasure of the clan leader of the village.
Any metal utensils are precious. As a result, after marrying to Roseburg, a Varyag, she had to accept the fact that people here had already used metal utensils on a large scale.
There are always bursts of black smoke coming out of the tribe's fjord settlements. What is that?
The husband answered his curiosity, that is, the blacksmith was burning ore to smelt copper, or even using more complicated methods to burn stone to smelt iron. Although smelting metal is hard work, the benefits are huge. They enjoy it and even cut down trees on a large scale to make charcoal in order to smelt metal!
There is even some fate here. The Swedes, the current tribal alliance of Siyan people, have particularly high-quality iron ore in their living area. They use these ores to smelt and arm themselves, and also enrich their lives.
The people of Roseburg were one of them, so ironware was not a luxury in their lives.
Although Peravina will no longer plow the fields, her diet will lack wheat but will be full of fish, and she will completely become a Varyag.
She is also very smart to realize that she must be completely dependent on her husband, and this is also part of the Varyag people's life, and it is also the common fate of Varyag women. But no one wants to change all this, just because no one thinks there is anything to change.
Even the tribe’s blacksmiths didn’t bother to upgrade their smelting and forging techniques because they had enough.
Because life in Roseburg, under the governance of Chief Otto for more than ten years, is indeed getting better and better.
