The weather is getting colder and 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 are not willing to go to the southern seas, just because it is not only the fishing grounds of their allies, but also possible
Encountered 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 the tribe with their wives and children forever, and go to the south to integrate with the allied tribes in order to seek a better life. Coupled with the deaths and babies born from various reasons every year, the tribe's population has always maintained at this number.
The tribe still has more men than women.
Because, compared with the 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 small
, even fewer able-bodied men died in war.
On the contrary, for the women of the tribe, their childbirth is a journey through 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 techniques. If you encounter a patient with a serious illness, you can only pray for Odin's mercy.
Judging from the results, "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 has to go 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 bear the loss of a large number of people in one battle. Once defeated, the tribe will inevitably collapse.
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 has 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, saying that "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 available to ordinary fishermen 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 must learn the skills of weaving linen and sewing animal skins. They can weave cloth themselves, but weaving fishing nets is 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 on 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 wilderness in some areas.
The lives of Nordic reindeer have not been excessively disturbed by humans, and they still roam throughout Scandinavia. They breed throughout the warm season, and in winter, they push aside 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 over the past few 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 the early stage of development, because the yew wood for making bows and arrows did not exist locally! The tribe only had a shabby more than 20 bows, but there was no excessive requirement for using various woods for arrows. The number of bows
Very few of them are fake. They were all bought at high prices through trade networks 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 in Roseburg, just like a groundhog hiding in a burrow, waiting for the weather to get warm again.
Of course this is not the case!
My nephew has become a real adult after the wedding, and his wife will soon become pregnant. Now, I no longer have to worry about my nephew's future, Arik has become a 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 because of the limitations of the concept, Otto did not want his son to master too much knowledge, because the tribe respected male strength, so what was the use of having so much knowledge? An excellent leader must have excellent fighting ability, and this is the only way.
Only then can you convince the public 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 hoped to develop a set of excellent fighting skills as soon as possible to win in the competition for the leadership position.
Win and get everyone’s approval.
After all, no matter how many ambitions and ideas I have, I will become a loser in the arena, and all my ideals will become empty talk.
Otto certainly understands his son's lofty ambitions and the amazing dominance he is showing now. Dozens of children have already recognized him as the leader, all of whom are only seven or eight years old. They are all too weak.
Otto was a smart man. Now he buried his concerns in his heart and did not rudely order his son not to study with Viglia.