#torgärd

[timetravelingpenguin1066]

My Mother's People

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Instead of being taken captive in Winchester, Stiorra leaves for Irland with a friend of her father’s. There she meets Sigtryggr, a Dane, the grandson of Ivar the Boneless.

Series: Of Irland, More to come!!

Characters: Stiorra, Drifa, Finan, Uhtred, Asgard, Sihtric, Hæfnir, Jomar,Sigbjorn, Ingemar, Osferth, Thora, Frida, Mœid, Ivar, Rognvaldr, Hrok, Sigtryggr, Gudrid, Aldis, Stein, Swein, Arlo, Sigurd, Torgärd, Jezekel, Asfrid, Brígh, Faolán, Anlaf, Agapios, Conall, Eanna, Niall, Naos, Guðrøðr, Tofi, Kori, Erik, Aisling, Anlaf Guthfrithson, Orm, Skoll, Ingilmundr Warnings: Attempted Sexual Assault, Explicit Language, Minor Character Death, Drunkenness, Hangover, Blood, Canon-Typical Violence, Period Typical Attitudes, Period-Typical Sexism, Nudity, Insults, Slow Burn, Permanent Injury, Medicinal Drug Use, Eventual Romance, Eventual Sex

Chapter 1 \\ Chapter 2 \\ Chapter 3 \\ Chapter 4 \\ Chapter 5 \\ Chapter 6 \\ Chapter 7 \\ Chapter 8 \\ Chapter 9 \\ Chapter 10 \\ Chapter 11 \\ Chapter 12 \\ Chapter 13 \\ Chapter 14 \\ Chapter 15 \\ Chapter 16 \\ Chapter 17 \\ Chapter 18 \\ Chapter 19 \\ Chapter 20 \\ Chapter 21 \\ Chapter 22 \\ Chapter 23 \\ Chapter 24 \\ Chapter 25 \\ Chapter 26 coming soon...

[viking-chaos]

My Mother's People

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Instead of being taken captive in Winchester, Stiorra leaves for Irland with a friend of her father’s. There she meets Sigtryggr, a Dane, the grandson of Ivar the Boneless.

Series: Of Irland, More to come!!

Characters: Stiorra, Drifa, Finan, Uhtred, Asgard, Sihtric, Hæfnir, Jomar,Sigbjorn, Ingemar, Osferth, Thora, Frida, Mœid, Ivar, Rognvaldr, Hrok, Sigtryggr, Gudrid, Aldis, Stein, Swein, Arlo, Sigurd, Torgärd, Jezekel, Asfrid, Brígh, Faolán, Anlaf, Agapios, Conall, Eanna, Niall, Naos, Guðrøðr, Tofi, Kori, Erik, Aisling, Anlaf Guthfrithson, Orm, Skoll, Ingilmundr Warnings: Attempted Sexual Assault, Explicit Language, Minor Character Death, Drunkenness, Hangover, Blood, Canon-Typical Violence, Period Typical Attitudes, Period-Typical Sexism, Nudity, Insults, Slow Burn, Permanent Injury, Medicinal Drug Use, Eventual Romance, Eventual Sex

Chapter 1 \\ Chapter 2 \\ Chapter 3 \\ Chapter 4 \\ Chapter 5 \\ Chapter 6 \\ Chapter 7 \\ Chapter 8 \\ Chapter 9 \\ Chapter 10 \\ Chapter 11 \\ Chapter 12 \\ Chapter 13 \\ Chapter 14 \\ Chapter 15 \\ Chapter 16 \\ Chapter 17 \\ Chapter 18 \\ Chapter 19 \\ Chapter 20 \\ Chapter 21 \\ Chapter 22 \\ Chapter 23 \\ Chapter 24 \\ Chapter 25 \\ Chapter 26 coming soon!!

[norsesuggestions]

Old Norse Names

when speaking about the meaning of names i do want to mention the meaning of my characters name!

so during the norse iron age, people had names that were totally understandble words for other old norse speakers. people are named things like these:

masculine names

Grimulv [grim wolf], Torbjörn [Thors Bear], Sten [Stone], Ingvar [Frey/Freyas Warrior], Östen [happy stone].

feminine names

Ingeborg [Freyas/Freys Fortress], Torgärd [Thors protected], Astrid [divine beauty], Ragnhild [the gods warrior].

my characters name  

Helga simple means holy/blessed. this is also obvious for any swedish speaker, cause the word helga is still in use in modern swedish, and is a grammatical form of holy/blessed (swedish speakers: think when some of us prounance the lyrics in the psalm Stilla Natt as “oh helga natt” forexample).

Therefore the Saint Olga, Olga being a version of the name Helga, is indeed called Holy Holy when you call her Saint Olga.

Helga is therefore named blessed. i picked the name for the blog cause irl me is named Olga. so i just picked what i would be called if i lived during the norse iron age!

sometimes i call her Helga Ulvsdotter. This is cause her father name is Ulf. which as discussed in previous post, is the old norse word for wolf. dotter=daughter.

Helga also lives in Svitjod. Svitjod was the old norse word for sweden (Svitjod is though not the same thing as the modern kingdom of sweden. sweden as a nation did not exist, but the old norse language did have an expression, Svitjod, for the region east of the Scandinavian Mountains on the Scandinavian Peninsula. but it a geographic term, not a term for a nation).

also she is the chief of Stuvsta. Stuvsta is the name of a real place in modern day sweden, and the name most likely is of norse iron age origin. The village is entiraly fictional though.

Click here for my source, in swedish, of norse iron age names

[norsesuggestions]

norse iron age problems: winter

I can’t visit anybody by travelling by land. There is too much snow in the way! the baltic sea has frozen over. so i can’t use boat.

Therefore the only humans around here is me and the people in the four other households in the village. we are getting bored. there is a limit to how many times I can listen to the same story from Torgärd.

If the snow don’t melt soon I do not know WHAT I am gonna do. Make up a new story about the norse partheon perhaps? desperation has NO law