The location of Roseburg is almost to the deepest part of the Gulf of Bothnia, and the people living here are too far away from Svealand, the main activity area of the Siyan people.
The geographical isolation has had a great impact. They all have common ancestors. Since the Ross tribe decided to move north nearly a hundred years ago, the people of Svealan have gradually forgotten that they still have a group of brothers in the far north.
Only the large-scale longships brought from the northern seas once or twice a year can prove to the ordinary people of Svealand that the north does have its own kindred, and they are quite powerful.
Isn’t it cold enough in Svealand? Could it be that besides the ice and snow, there is something else in the north that has great appeal, forcing some of the same people to insist on going north? !
The answer is yes!
That’s fur! Lots of animal pelts!
Stockholm, the future major city in Scandinavia, already had its first prototype in the ninth century AD.
The water of Lake Malaren flows into the Gulf of Bothnia, and some wandering tribes realized that this area had inherent advantages for developing trade. Because large lakes are conducive to shipping, the large number of islands at the mouths of rivers can easily be transformed into ports.
The people who settled in this area formed a residential community, and they were called Melalen people by other ethnic groups.
But in the ninth century, the powerhouse on the Baltic Sea was Denmark. The powerful Danish fleet took control of the island of Gotland and also occupied the grazing highlands south of Svealand.
The Siwea Tribe Alliance continues to grow and develop in the Svealand Plains. However, with their nearly primitive productivity, no matter how large the land area is, it will soon reach a bottleneck.
There is only one development path before the tribal alliance - to expand the living space.
They resented the Danes for taking over pastures that could have been theirs for grazing and arable land for growing wheat.
They also hated the occupation of Gotland by the Danes even more, because the loss of this island meant that the Danes basically locked up the possibility of the Siyans going south.
Although it is impossible for the Danes to guarantee that they will not miss any longship in the northern gulf, battles are bound to occur whenever they encounter them.
According to the cultural traditions of the Siweiya Tribe Alliance, young men need to leave their families and develop their own homes near their own tribe.
When a grown man marries a wife, he will not hesitate to start a big family. In order to feed their large population, the limited land was obviously not enough. Only by manipulating a long boat and plundering under the leadership of the leader could the family survive the winter without starving to death.
Over the centuries, Svealand's resources dwindled.
To make matters worse, they are also faced with the severe development problem of increasingly tight local resources, and they have also thought of solving the problem through robbery. The Danes and Swedes' predecessor, the Siiya Tribal Alliance, faced enemies of a level that can be It's just too different.
Since the Danes began their plunder of Britain, the problem of hunger was basically solved because they obtained a large supply of food from the "Island of Plenty".
Since all those involved in the plunder were young men eager for wealth, they forcibly abducted British Anglo women based entirely on instinct.
Danes and Angles, they are also close relatives of each other.
More food and more exotic women entered Danish society, and the population of Jutland expanded rapidly.
In ancient times, population was the best productive force. Even a child was an indispensable productive force for the family.
More and more Danes need more and more land for farming and grazing.
The main force of the Danes firmly controls the only exit from the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. The narrowest point of the Oresund Strait is only five kilometers. This also allows the Danes to easily log onto the Scandinavian Peninsula on the other side and enter Yot. Highlands.
Danes and Sewians met, and conflict ensued over grazing pasture.
One hundred years is long enough for two ethnic groups with the same language to evolve into two tribal groups full of conflicts.
The Danes were indeed more advanced than the Siewians, for they had to have various relations with the Frankish kingdom, with a string of small kingdoms in Britain, and even with an entirely different branch of the Wends.
Many cultural concepts from the hinterland of the European continent entered Jutland, making some tribal leaders no longer willing to be leaders.
They learned that the Frankish Kingdom, which was so huge that it was incomprehensible, was only a small existence at first. Because of the leader's bravery and resourcefulness, the Franks annexed small tribes one after another and eventually became a giant.
The Danes of this era had already felt the power of the Franks, because the Wende people bordering their activity areas had surrendered to the Frankish Kingdom.
Those Wende people were the Slavic ethnic group that survived in eastern Germany in later generations. They were one of the ancestors of the Poles. Because they were conquered by the Frankish Kingdom, they gave up their traditional Slavic beliefs, all converted to the Holy See, and accepted Frankish rule.
How to be as powerful as the Franks?
First, let your tribe become the leader of the alliance, then make your tribe have unshakable strength, and finally the leader becomes the real king.
Even though the Franks were powerful, the Danes never gave up their attempt to expand southward. However, due to the strong counterattack of the Franks, the Danish offensive was finally contained.
Many tribal leaders who were full of ideas for the future realized that only if the scattered ethnic groups united could they possibly compete with the Franks.
The south is warmer and the land there is easier to farm. And the best land is in Britain, where the natives are very powerful.
If you want to obtain greater benefits, your own strength is still not enough at this stage, so you can only implement sneak attacks and plunder. Indeed, no farmers are willing to settle down and develop farms in the plundered areas.
Except in the Götaland region.
Two tribal alliances fought over the ownership of the vast Jotaland region.
They are all Vikings! They are good at resolving conflicts through fighting! Moreover, the hungry bellies of the farmers and herdsmen who have entered this area are forcing their brains to attack another group of people who will rob their homes.
Even if the other party speaks the exact same language as you, as long as they are not your tribe or ally, they are sworn enemies.
The struggle began as early as the beginning of the eighth century AD, and for nearly a hundred years both sides grew in strength.
It is evident that here the Danes grew most significantly in power, not just in population but in their warfare technology. They began to learn horse galloping from the Franks, and unique bow and arrow techniques from the Britons.
Today's Danes are still elementary students in the use of these two important magic weapons that influenced ancient warfare, but their descendants will surely restore the Viking soul of their ancestors on horseback.
In the vast Yotalan, small-scale conflicts between farmers belonging to different tribal alliances occur frequently, and wars involving hundreds of people on land and at sea also occur from time to time.
Or because of the cultural tradition shared by the Vikings, if someone in the family is killed in battle, his brothers and heirs have the obligation to avenge him.
This has almost entered an infinite loop, and it has also led to small-scale wars inevitably leading to decisive battles at the strategic level.
Who is the master of Jotaland? !
