Rise of Rurik

　　 In the huge long house of the priest, the brazier bake the whole house so warm that the people in it can deal with it in ordinary linen clothes.

　　 The number of priests in the tribe is not large. They are all women. In order to take up this job, they also gave up the right to be mothers.

　　 They are all people who accept the tribal people's offerings. They spend most of their time in the priest's house except for the sacrifice activities on the necessary days throughout the year.

　　 Many priests spent a lot of their leisure time, knitting their own clothes with linen thread, and cooking burnable lamp oil with animal fat.

　　 When Rurik was invited to enter this field, he immediately smelled an alluring fragrance.

　　 Although the whole longhouse is warm, it still has a lot of holes. The air heated by multiple braziers seeps out from the gaps in the top layer, and the cool air from the outside also penetrates through the gaps in the lower layer. There is no possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning here, and because the brazier charcoal is extinguished, the indoor temperature will drop quickly.

　　 The younger priests built a simple stove on the brazier, and some seal fat was placed in the thick cast iron basin.

　　Otto happened to capture a few plump Baltic seals when he returned to the voyage, so boiling oil was naturally necessary.

　　 When the bay is frozen, drilling vents on the ice to catch seals is also one of the normal tasks of the tribe.

　　The meat and internal organs of these captured seals are used as food, and the skins are used for clothing. Seal oil is naturally an excellent fuel.

　　 The scent of roasted fat makes Rurik very comfortable. He is not hungry now. Today, when he comes to the long house of the priest, learning that knowledge is his first priority.

　　Lurik came with a major purpose, and the priest Veria, who will serve as his one-to-one teacher, also has a major purpose.

　　 But no matter how great achievements are, there is a small beginning.

　　 There is little snow in the sky, and Rurik knows that his father will lead the tribesmen to hunt collectively in the north. According to the experience over the years, they will be able to return with their prey in more than ten days. With good luck, I can eat venison every winter.

　　Lurik has his own job, taking advantage of his very young age and having a lot of free time, it would be better to learn that knowledge in a short time.

　　 He entered the warm long house and put his leather jacket aside after feeling warm.

　　Villa, who is on crutches, is as kind as his grandmother.

　　 "Child, you are here as promised."

　　 "Yes, great priest." Rurik bowed deliberately, and his words were very respectful.

The 　　 tribe did not bow, nor did they even have clear ritual actions.

　　Villa's feeling is of course very comfortable. She can't help but stretched out her old, thin right hand and put it on Rurik's head with golden braids.

　　 She couldn't help but praise: "You are really different from those kids. Let's get started! Cultivating you as a talent will satisfy me for the rest of my life. This is my biggest task for the rest of my life."

　　 "Start learning now?" Rurik raised his head immediately.

　　 "Yes! From now on, there is still time in the future. Since you are interested in learning, tell me clearly, are you willing to master all the wooden boards in that room?!"

　　 "Of course." Rurik answered without hesitation.

　　 "Very good. That is a lot of knowledge, I hope you can keep your promise."

　　 A lot of knowledge on the board? Rurik didn't feel it at all!

　　 The Babylonians recorded their knowledge on clay tablets, the ancient Egyptians recorded their knowledge on straw paper, the Greeks recorded their knowledge on sheepskin, and the very distant East was bamboo slips and paper.

　　 But in this era, paper should be widely used in Europe along the way.

　　Lurik is such an estimate, where is the situation so ideal?

　　 The true historical process, from the third century to the 13th century, for a thousand years, the best document and book carrier of the European land is parchment. Until the invasion of Menggu, the papermaking technology from the East spread. In just a few decades, the whole of Europe began to use cheaper paper for writing, which objectively promoted the rapid spread of the Renaissance.

　　 Because ordinary people can buy cheap books without spending too much money. They will no longer be dull for a long time because the priests monopolize knowledge. They can use books to have their own perception of the whole world and have their own independent thinking.

　　 In the first half of the ninth century, due to the decline of the Tang Dynasty, the order of trade routes from Dongtu to Taishi and even Eastern Rome became worse. Commercial activities have been hit by the war. Those merchants who took risks are more willing to transport higher value-added silk, tea, porcelain, and spices. In the East, various types of paper that are not expensive are not the main commodities. Even for these commodities, the nobles of Eastern Rome were eager for them. After they bought them out, Western Europe and even Northern Europe could hardly get these materials.

　　Unless, the various tribes of the Vikings around the Mediterranean Sea had greater ambitions to trade with Eastern Rome.

　　 The time was 828 AD. So far, no Viking force has really made commercial contact with Eastern Rome.

　　 Because now, the "Viking Age" has actually just begun.

Here, the one who is most likely to complete it is the Rus tribe branch of the Swedish Sidya League. If they relocate to Novgorod according to the historical process, the mixed Varang-Slavs will trade with Eastern Rome. The era of competition also began immediately.

　　Lurik basically knows this historical process, and he also knows very well that he should be the historical driving force of this process. But these words are too metaphysical and magnificent, and I am afraid that ordinary people will think it is unthinkable. Vilia will probably believe it. So what if she believes it, and finally she sighs "Odin's blessing".

　　 It stands to reason that the Ross people can also use sheepskin or cowhide to make writing carriers. They did not do this, probably because this operation is time-consuming and laborious.

　　If you think about it carefully, they don't seem to have a strong motivation to do so.

　　 There are thousands of people in the entire tribe. There are only a handful of people who love to learn knowledge from books. More people are not advocating anti-intellect. On the contrary, everyone understands the importance of knowledge.

　　 Ordinary people are dismissive of the knowledge recorded in the Rune alphabet on those wooden boards, and because they must first learn the Rune alphabet in order to understand knowledge, this persuades many people.

　　 What they know best is actually some of the symbols marked with numbers in the Rune alphabet. After all, trade needs to understand decimal numbers.

　　 Only a few of them know how to mark their names in the Luen alphabet, and everything is basically limited to this.

　　 They pay more attention to technical precepts and deeds. Shipbuilders teach their sons how to build ships, and professional blacksmiths teach their sons how to select ore, smelt and forge. Women including families also educate their daughters how to make linen, how to weave cloth, and how to process animal skins.

The living environment is too harsh. Any young boy or girl must learn the most practical life skills in a short time, and learn those obscure theoretical knowledge. The male parents of the family are not willing to give up their young children and learn some "food and worship". Obscure graphics compiled by the priests of food".

　　 Yes, most people are members of the Ross tribe. Unfortunately, they don’t even understand their own writing alphabet.

　　 It is not surprising that the Ron alphabet has always been a niche character, and the sad fact that it is quickly dying out.

　　 Therefore, the whole tribe doesn’t like books in nature, because they still don’t understand the use of learning some obscure things.

　　 Without the help of the tribe, the historical development of the tribe must also be recorded. The Verias are afraid that their tribe will forget who they are after a few generations.

　　 Based on her memory, she chose some resilient oak boards by herself, baked them until it was very dry, and polished them with a whetstone~www.readwn.com~ and finally engraved ancient knowledge with the Rune alphabet.

　　 But what she has mastered is not simply this knowledge, and even the majority of the tribe members don’t even know that the young Veria was lucky enough to meet the man in black who claimed to be from the “warm beach”.

　　 Those people in black persuaded Veria to believe in a supreme existence, and Veria told them bluntly that the only supreme one was Odin.

　　 However, Veria still got a treasure, which is a book compiled from dozens of parchment in a small wooden box. The beautiful cover of the book shows the Eastern Roman style, and the content is written in two sets of scripts-Latin and Greek.

　　 As for the content, they are all praising an apostle and the teaching of the apostle to ordinary people.

　　Villa’s knowledge is hailed as a wise man, and her knowledge is still extremely limited.

　　 She doesn't want to be a believer of the apostle, she just wants to be Odin's servant. Veria respects the people in black from Rome. Based on her own understanding, she simply believes that the book that has been sealed for decades in a wooden box is the "book of oracles" of the Romans.

　　 Odin controls the cold north, and the Romans’ south is not under Odin’s control.

　　Villa kept the book very well, because she felt that when the tribe had the opportunity to further contact with the Romans in the future, this book would serve as a medium for friendly exchanges. After all, fighting contact was the next best thing.

　　 In addition, she marveled that the Romans' book text was preserved on soft parchment. How can animal skins be processed into such writing instruments? She didn't understand at all, but she was envious but helpless.

　　 She can only record the knowledge of the tribe on the oak, because the area is cold and dry, and the oak is strong enough, in terms of preservation time, the text on the oak board is still very clear for decades.