It was April 16th in the Julian calendar, a sunny day.
The climate in the morning was still very chilly, but as the sun rose, the climate immediately warmed up. During these days, all the tribesmen were surprised to find that the water would no longer freeze after nightfall, and the sea ice and snow would melt faster. The only annoying thing is that the road will stay muddy for a while, so everyone's boots are always stained with mud.
No different from previous spring festivals, this year’s festival is still held at noon.
Why? Just because it is warm at noon, it caters to people's desire for spring warmth.
Thousands of tribesmen have gone through a long period of hibernation, and each household does not have much food reserves. They urgently need to go to the sea to catch fish. In fact, some people who were not afraid of death had already done this, and the priests bought some big fish from the daring people as sacrifices.
Rurik followed his parents and became a member of the mighty army. All the tribesmen rushed to the stone boat altar. This time was slightly different from the Hanukkah sacrifice. For the Spring Festival, all the residents put down their work without exception and followed the Russians to the Russian altar.
The Spring Festival has exactly the same meaning to everyone living in Roseburg. Everyone also has the same beliefs and the same fear. It seems that if you don’t participate in the festival, you will encounter storms, sea monsters, robbers, and other disasters that will destroy ships and people when you go to sea in the new year.
What merchants fear most is the destruction of their ships and the death of people. Even Gould, who is very powerful, is not afraid of ordinary pirates at all.
He is afraid of storms and legendary sea monsters. Once the cargo sinks into the sea, it will be terrible.
However, in this sacrifice, a few more reindeer were not slaughtered as sacrifices, which comforted Rurik deeply.
He led his servant Rumia and followed his parents to the stone ship altar early in the morning.
Here, the pine forests that were once covered with snow have completely changed. Not to mention that the snow is gone, and all the pine trees are sprouting buds. Many people like to pry off pine needles and use them to boil water. Their original intention is to add some flavor to drinking water or soup, and they also euphemistically call it "getting the vitality of spring."
Pine needle water has a bitter taste. Although its taste is not very good, at least you can get some valuable vitamins from it.
This behavior cannot be said to be bizarre. Rurik thought for a moment, don't Easterners also boil leaves to drink water? Even Rurik could be sure that the Vikings would not carry forward their culture of boiling pine needle water.
The empty place under the huge altar was bustling with people, and men and women were talking about all kinds of things.
Rurik listened carefully, and many of them were young warriors talking about running to Novgorod to find a beautiful wife, or going south to kill the Gotlanders to avenge their blood.
It was obvious that the tribe already had a long-cherished wish for future actions, and his father had no intention of getting involved. What would they do next?
Rurik only knows his cousin's decision best, and that is revenge!
Finally, he waited for the opportunity. Compared to taking his wife to Novgorod to visit his parents-in-law, Arik definitely didn't think it was more important than avenging his biological father's blood. His father died in battle, and he wanted to avenge his father. Rurik could completely understand his cousin Arik's mood, and he thought it was very reasonable.
Youdao means that the hatred between parents is irreconcilable, and Rurik hopes that if the Ross army really goes south, Arik will not be injured in the act of revenge.
Thinking of this, he always worried about his cousin who had grown up to be very strong.
In any war, people will always die. However, Rurik could not see any fear in the eyes of the young warriors in the tribe who were about twenty years old.
They have only two attitudes towards war, the rage for revenge and the desire for wealth. It can be said that the warriors who had relatives died at the hands of the Gotlanders in previous encounters have become so since a group of tribal elites suddenly began to promote the battle cry of "Revenge the Gotlanders and everyone will receive a hundred silver coins." The crowd was excited, and the hatred in the past was quickly stirred up. Everyone was eager for revenge, and even more eager for wealth.
Rurik has not noticed until now that the technique of making steel swords that he gave to the blacksmith Klavasen not only attracted other blacksmiths to run over and kneel down to pray for the skills to be taught so that they could make a lot of money together, but also attracted other blacksmiths.
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