Peravina is not very tall. After taking off her linen hood, her huge golden braids and her delicate awl-shaped, fair and slightly freckled face are instantly revealed.
She looked very worried about her current situation. She kept her head slightly tilted and stood stiffly. The opposite of her caution was Arik's smiling face.
"Haha! My dear brother, let me introduce to you. This is your new sister, Peravina. She is my new wife. From now on, you and her will be a family." As he said, Arik said
In Norse, he told his wife: "Peravina, say hello to my brother."
At this moment, Rurik finally understood that this girl who was obviously much older than him, whom he had never seen before, was actually his sister-in-law!
Here in Scandinavia, there are very few words for referring to seniority among people, including the absence of a clear concept of "sister-in-law."
People of the same generation are usually brothers and sisters, and they call each other by their first names. Therefore, Peravina is obviously a woman of the same generation as Rurik, so she naturally becomes his sister.
The girl still seemed very submissive. She was not willing to marry a Varangian. For the safety of the family estate, she knew the importance of her mission.
Maybe her husband named Arik is a kind person, but she has realized that she lives in the house of the leader of the Varangians, and her husband is the son of the leader.
Having been in contact with the Varyag people for a long time, many people in White Tree Manor know more or less some Norse language.
Peravina used her broken Norse and simple words to take care of Rurik, and then she didn't want to say anything more.
While watching the show, Niya prepared some snacks and brought them over kindly: "Arik, maybe she is a silent person?"
"No! I think she is just a little scared. She also needs to learn our language." Arik smiled.
Niya nodded and approached Peravina with a plate of dried salted fish: "Eat some, child. Don't be nervous, I will be your mother from now on."
"Mother?" Peravina slowly raised her head.
The moma title of "mother" seems to be common to all human beings. However, later generations of theories pointed out that the entire Indo-European language family and the entire Sino-Tibetan language family originated from the ancient Yenisei language family tens of thousands of years ago, and some of its core vocabulary
It is common to all ethnic groups.
The cautious Peravina basically understood Nina's words, and she also understood that the older-looking woman in front of her was the leader's wife.
It seems that the Varyag people live strictly according to the rules of monogamy? If that is the case, my future will not be very uncomfortable.
Peravina is also very clear about the meaning of "mother" now. More than ten days ago, according to the etiquette of her hometown, she was recognized as the wife of the Varangians by the people in her hometown. According to tradition, she broke away from the White Tree Manor group.
He left his own family and became a part of another family.
Her husband's mother naturally became her own mother, and she had to live the rest of her life in the Varyang style according to Varyag traditions.
It seems that everything is an irresistible fate.
Peravina was forced to choose to accept it. She slowly raised her hand, picked up a piece of dried salted fish and put it into her mouth.
For a moment, a salty feeling of happiness filled her entire mouth. She boldly stuffed the whole dried fish into her mouth subconsciously, and then chewed it hard. It wasn't over yet! She ate a piece of dried herring, and she hurriedly took it again.
piece.
It wasn't until the plate of dried meat was gone that she seemed to have seen the surprised looks of others, and then she stopped. A finger-sucking gesture inadvertently expressed her love for dried fish again.
Rurik was surprised to see his sister-in-law eating dried fish, and everything he did was simply unbelievable.
"Why does she love eating those salted fish that I'm almost tired of eating?!"
Driven by curiosity, Rurik got up with many questions, and finally stood beside his sister-in-law Peravina.
At this time, he discovered through comparison that his height was less than his sister-in-law's chest, and he was indeed a short man.
Of course, compared to his brother Arik, the top of his head only just reached his belly button.
Rurik boldly asked in Norse: "My dear sister, are you from Novgorod? What kind of place is that?"
Mentioning the word "Novgorod" undoubtedly evoked Peravina's memories of the past.
Subconsciously, she began to mutter in Old Slavic.
No one knew what she was mumbling, but Rurik could clearly see that his sister-in-law's blue-purple eyes were filled with tears.
Her eyes are indeed different from those of the Ross tribe.
Rurik once carefully observed himself facing the water. He had blue-white pupils, fair skin, and blond hair. If he were a girl, would he be a natural Barbie doll?
This Peravina is different. The blue-purple pupils of her eyes fully prove that she is completely different from the Ross tribe.
In fact, in Europe, the relative geographical separation has led to what the Romans in the past called the three major barbarian systems in the north: Germans, Slavs and Baltic people. All three are Indo-Europeans, and their body structures have very subtle differences.
, which can only be identified by careful observation.
Strictly speaking, the Vikings and the Germans are the same ethnic group, but the former cannibalized Western Rome. Four hundred years later, the northern Germanic tribes who stayed further north were forced by the reality of the colder climate across Europe.
Obtained the title of Viking and began to move south on a large scale.
Rurik wanted to chat with her more, but in the end he didn't get a clear response.
However, Rurik knew a little bit of Russian from a thousand years later, and Novgorod was an extremely ancient city in the Slavic world. Through Peravina's muttering, he could completely hear the flavor of Russian.
It's really different from Norse. My sister-in-law's mumbling is really full of tongue flicks, extremely fast speaking speed, and unique pronunciation due to the work of the tongue tip and nasal sounds.
To be honest, she speaks quite nicely.
After failing to chat with Peravina, Rurik could only ask his brother Arik for more information.
"Aric, now that you are married, are you going to move out soon?"
"Yes! What? Are you a little reluctant to let go?"
"No." Rurik shrugged, "I know our tradition."
"I will move soon." Arik subconsciously patted his cousin on the forehead: "Rurik, you are my father's eldest son, do you understand? You are going to inherit this family, and I am going to inherit mine.
Everything about biological father Ogier. This winter I will move to my own home with my Peravina! My dear, I am married and have proven that I have grown up. Hehe, maybe by this time next year I will be a father
Already."
Arik thought his younger brother Rurik didn't understand, but in fact Rurik understood everything.
He was in a very good mood and continued: "There are many beautiful girls in Novgorod. Rurik, when you grow up, you can also look for your wife anywhere."
"Really? But I'm too young now."
Arik shrugged: "Soon, you will grow up in a few years."
At this time, Niya interrupted Arik with a smile: "Silly boy, I know you did the ceremony in Novgorod, but your marriage was not recognized by the tribe."
Niya's words reminded Arik. He leaned into his newlywed wife's ear and said in Norse: "She is right. You can't actually call her mother now. And with your current appearance, I should untie you."
You should let your hair hang loosely, and you can only tie it up again after passing our wedding ceremony."
Peravina didn't understand very well, so now she had to completely obey this man's orders.
Soon, her blond hair spread out, and in Rurik's view, her sister-in-law actually became more beautiful.
When his brother Arik heard the news again, he also understood that his sister-in-law happened to be eighteen years old, and she and Arik were actually the same age.
Although Peravina is such an age, she looks younger no matter how you look at it. Maybe it’s because the living conditions in Novgorod are not very good. Neither men nor women are as tall and strong as the people of the Rus tribe?! It must be that
Such.
Rurik is not wrong to think this way. People in Novgorod’s staple food is rye and wheat, and there are not many opportunities to eat meat. Although the Rus tribe does not have many opportunities to eat wheat, they usually eat a lot of fish and meat.
Captured beast meat.
When a person is growing up, the more meat he eats, the stronger he will be as he grows up.
Novgorod is a city that is a mixture of manors and small villages. It has a large population of residents, many of whom are short in height.
There are not many people in the Ross tribe, but they are filled with strong and powerful people.
In ancient European barbarian fights, both sides always lacked tactics. At this time, whichever side was stronger often had the ability to fight one against ten! Hundreds of Russian berserkers gathered together could indeed overthrow the various Novgorod warriors.
Professional agriculture organized by farmers' families with great difficulty.
Of course, it was impossible for Rurik to understand his sister-in-law's past after a brief contact with her. He even did not understand the ancient Slavic meaning of the name "Pelavina".
In this era, the Rus tribe of the Varangians did not accept the Orthodox Christianity of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the same was true for all the ancient Slavic tribes. The names of the people of these ethnic groups are all kinds of, which is not like that of later generations. The only ones for people to choose their real names are those in the book.
of more than four hundred choices.
Of course, like the Slavs, some inherent words for describing flowers have naturally continued, such as "Natasha", "Lilia" and "Katyusha", which have been used for at least two thousand years.
This "Peravina" is not like that at all, her name is very simple and straightforward.
The White Tree Manor in Novgorod has a population of up to 2,000 people. It is also divided into nuclear families and affiliated families. There are concepts of "large family" and "small family", but they do not have a clear concept of surnames.
"Peravina" actually means "eldest daughter". She is the eldest daughter of a small family in Baishu Village. She has reached the age of marriage, but her parents have already begun to arrange marriage arrangements.
When the autumn harvest was over, the Varyag people came again as promised. This time their leader took a large amount of amber and asked Novgorod for the marriage of the Varyag young man.
In order to gain greater wealth, Peravina's parents decided to accept the Varyag's betrothal gift.
She was a pretty girl, and of course Otto personally supervised his own Arik's marriage. In this way, her family received a small bag of precious amber.
With this bag of amber, the family's status in the manor suddenly increased! Using amber to do business with Smolensk in the south, the family quickly entered the wealthy life they knew.
Maybe this marriage is a win-win situation, although Peravina was resistant at first.
Now she is finally appointed, especially since she can eat salted fish freely!
Because in Novgorod, it is a purely "inland area"! They do not have the ability to follow the rivers and enter the Arctic Ocean beaches to boil seawater to make coarse salt. In fact, they know very little about the far north, where the priests claim that
The abode of the God of Ice and Snow, entering by mistake will bring death.
As for why the Varangians dared to come from the north, the priests of Novgorod claimed that those Varangians made a deal with the ice body.
The residents of Novgorod are extremely short of salt, but people need to eat salt. Hunters and fishermen who eat sea fish and hunt wild animals do not have a salt shortage problem. Those inland farmers cannot hope to obtain land by growing rye.
There was enough salt in it, so they had to pay a high price to buy it from private salt dealers in Eastern Rome.
In fact, as early as when the Roman Empire was prosperous, a trade route from the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea to Northeast Europe had always existed. On this trade route, coarse salt had always been the hard currency. Through this trade route, Eastern Rome gained considerable
Rich and precious animal skins, such as ferret, became decorations on the clothing of nobles.
In Roseburg, even though the salinity of the sea water is very low, people still burn a lot of firewood to obtain the coarse salt from the sea. They are happy to do this just to pickle more dried meat to survive the winter.
Peravina had eaten a lot of salt, so what could she resist if her hair was let down or if she had to do something under her husband's orders?
Obviously I won't starve, and my future life won't be too bad. The most important thing is that there is enough salt here!
Niya once again told the newlyweds: "Arik, and Peravina, your marriage has not been recognized yet. But I think the situation will change soon. On the next Frigg Day, your marriage will be officially held."
Wedding. Many people may want to hold weddings at the same time. It will be held at our stone ship altar. Priest Vilia will personally hold the wedding. When the time comes..."
Niya thought about it again and pointed at Arik's sword: "Your sword and your dagger..."
"Is it a sword-presenting ceremony? I understand. Mom, don't worry, I will take care of everything by then."
Niya smiled knowingly: "My child, you are still too naive. Take good care of your wife these days. Your wedding day is really approaching, and I will also be a witness."