The weather is getting colder, and as for the daily fishing operations in the sea with the Ross tribe, fishing has to be suspended due to the cold.
For them, whose food is mainly fish, when the temperature is still acceptable, the tribal fishermen dare to sweep across the entire Gulf of Bothnia. They were unwilling to go to the southern seas, because not only were their allies' fishing grounds there, they might also encounter hostile Danes.
Even with the addition of some Novgorod women, the population of Rosberg was only 7,000 to 8,000.
Every year, some people leave their tribes with their wives and children forever and go south to integrate with allied tribes in order to seek a better life. Coupled with deaths from various causes and babies being born every year, the tribal population has remained at this number.
The tribe still has more men than women.
Because, compared with their southern allies, the men of the Ross tribe do not have to bear the huge fighting pressure of those allies. Only the southern tribes are on the front line of competing with the Danes for pasture and farmland. To put it bluntly, because the probability of conflict is low, fewer able-bodied men die in war.
On the contrary, it is the women of the tribe, whose childbirth is to pass through the gate of hell.
The medical technology of the Ross tribe is extremely poor. There are no pure healers here. Only the priests of the tribe have mastered some herbal brewing technology. If you encounter a patient with a serious illness, you can only pray for Odin's mercy. As far as results go, "Odin's Mercy" is extremely rare.
The locals were also very relieved. According to Villa's romantic explanation, the dead men and women were all recruited to Valhalla.
This explanation somewhat calms people's grief, because life goes on.
Based on these completely witch doctor-like medical technologies, any childbirth completely depends on the physical fitness of the expectant mother. It is best to give birth to the baby safely. Dystocia means death!
The reality is that only by freeing the women of the tribe from worries and developing medical technology can the tribe prosper.
This problem has actually been plaguing various ethnic groups in ancient times. Because the living environment was more extreme, the problems of the residents of Roseburg became even more extreme.
After all, the tribe's population is still growing slowly, but they simply cannot afford a large population loss in one battle. After a defeat, the tribe was almost inevitably in ruins.
The Ross tribe is so fragile, and leader Otto clearly sees this.
Therefore, in the Svealand area a hundred kilometers away (this level of land distance is already very elite), the tribal alliance of the Siyan people there strategically gathered together due to the continued increasing military pressure from the Danes.
They have already criticized their brother tribe in the far north, the Rus, and denounced them as "the Rus just want to be fishermen in the Gulf of Bothnia until the dusk of the gods."
Those fishermen who have stopped fishing are sitting together in their longhouses, repairing fishing nets made of hemp rope.
In ancient times, the most cost-effective fishing net material that ordinary fishermen could obtain was probably flax rope. The nets used for fishing all over the world were basically like this.
Throughout the long winter, fishermen have a lot of time to repair their fishing nets and make spare nets.
The weaving work is often done by the wives and daughters of the family, who assume important logistical support for the fishing industry.
The women of the Rus tribe had to learn the skills of weaving linen and sewing animal skins. They can weave cloth themselves, and weaving fishing nets is actually easier than weaving cloth.
In addition to long-distance activities such as the Sorgon voyage, the men of the tribe spend most of their time fishing and hunting. The Gulf of Bothnia is rich in gifts, and fishing alone is enough to sustain everyone's livelihood.
But the Ross tribe has never given up on exploring onshore resources.
Roseburg is located with a large number of mountains and hills, as well as rivers in mountain streams. The hills are always covered with pine and oak trees, as well as small moors in some areas.
The life of the Nordic reindeer has not been excessively disturbed by humans, and they still roam throughout Scandinavia. They breed throughout the warm seasons, and into winter they push through the snow and continue to eat hay on the ground.
The Ross tribe, who migrated to Rossberg Fjord, has hunted all the reindeer near their homeland in a matter of decades.
The tribesmen are good at throwing short spears to hunt and making traps.
The entire Rus tribe is seriously short of bows and arrows, so only a few people can use bows and arrows for hunting.
Even the entire Viking population lacked bows and arrows during its manifestation stage, because there was no local yew wood to make bows and arrows! The tribe only has about twenty shabby bows, but there are no excessive requirements for using various types of wood for arrows. The number of bows is indeed very small. They are all bought at high prices through the trade network and allies in the south.
Because the Danes began to have contact with the Franks further south very early, during various trades and conflicts, the yew bows lost by the Franks were immediately acquired by the Danes.
Or because of the conflict, the Siiya Tribe Alliance always gets some yew bows that have been transferred to three hands, and the defective ones are sold to the Ross tribe in the north, so what the Ross people get is really bad fourth-hand goods. , then don’t think about how high quality it is.
Fortunately, spear throwing is also a game among boys. When they grow up, some elites can become excellent spear throwing hunters.
In terms of power, short spears are always more powerful than arrows. As long as they hit the reindeer, they can basically kill it.
The men of the Ross tribe decided to go to the far north to hunt a group of large beasts before it got colder. This action took a short time.
It seems that after completing the tribal collective wedding, Otto spent his days staying in his residential area of Roseburg, just like a groundhog hiding in a burrow, waiting for the weather to get warm again.
Of course this is not the case!
The nephew becomes a real adult after the wedding, and the nephew's wife will soon become pregnant. Now, he no longer has to worry about his nephew's future. Arik has become a great man.
What Otto needs to focus on now is his biological son Rurik, but the situation has also changed now.
He didn't know whether to be happy or worried. Recently, Rurik had obviously gotten too close to those priests!
In terms of performance, Rurik is willing to go to Viglia to learn some knowledge. Otto is particularly worried that because of these studies, Rurik is afraid that under Viglia's "careful teaching", Rurik will not be able to become a real fighter. Instead of becoming a warrior in the tribe, he became a rare male priest in the tribe? !
Completely due to the limitations of concepts, Otto did not want his son to master too much knowledge, because the tribe respected male power, so what was the use of having so much knowledge? An excellent leader must have excellent fighting ability. Only in this way can he conquer the crowd quickly.
It is because of this that after Otto learned some knowledge thirty years ago, he declined the invitation of the still relatively young attendant Vilia to stay. He hopes to develop a set of excellent fighting skills as soon as possible in order to win the competition for the leadership position and gain everyone's recognition.
After all, no matter how many ambitions and ideas I had, I became a loser in the arena, and all my ideals became empty talk.
Otto certainly understood his son's lofty ambitions and the amazing dominance he was now showing. Dozens of children have identified him as the leader. All the children are only seven or eight years old. They are all too weak.
Otto was a smart man. Now he kept his concerns in his heart and did not rudely order his son not to study with Vilia.
