The peaceable folks of Sceapig, if asked in 798, would have shrugged and denied all knowledge of people calling themselves Vikingar. The new century was about to change that, when everybody would live in terror of The Northmen and call them Vikings. They embarked on Sceapig for the first time in the late spring of 798, a disaster for Deormund because it was calving season for many of his hinds.
VikingarThe NorthmenUnlike his family, fortuitously, he was absent when the longship crew came to his home. The deer herder was in the Ness Forest with Mistig, attempting to track and recapture the stag to reintegrate it into the herd. In the depths of woodland, a man is lost to the outside world and its goings-on. Deormund spent all morning hunting the wily beast but at last Mistig trapped it in a
