Chapter 54： The Lost of the Sami

The Ross tribe is still the natural name that it is a deer breeder, all because once discovered, it means that a large herd of deer can be obtained.

Otto’s explanation instantly awakened everyone’s memories, thinking of the prophecy of the priest Veria that Otto once said-those who participated in the hunting operation will surely gain huge profits.

The yearning for wealth drives everyone's unconditional obedience to the leader. In this way, Otto, with excitement and anxiety, once again trudged toward the northeast for two full days, staggering another fifty kilometers on his snowboard!

Their efforts are worthwhile. When Otto and others clearly saw that there were a large number of animal footprints on the soft snow, everyone had already made a clear judgment.

The shrewd hunter found a large number of reindeer footprints. Experience tells them that this must be the reindeer.

There are traces of large-scale turning over in the snow, and the meadows pressed by the snow are also eaten, which further proves the existence of the deer.

a herd of deer, a lot of walking meat, a hundred reindeer are enough for the tribe to eat until spring comes!

I only found the deer herd at present, but did not clearly see the traces of those animals, but everyone made a very optimistic judgment based on the traces, that is, the size of the deer herd is quite large.

But there are still people who are very serious. Through careful observation, they found other strange footprints.

To be precise, they are human footprints, and the owners of the footprints are by no means their own.

This is really great news.

The main job of Otto and his party in the past few days is to hurry. As the leader, he himself still has nothing to gain.

Although I think that if you keep going northeast, you may find the baby, but the time has passed too long.

Otto has made two amazing discoveries, and he ordered his men to gather on the snowy field.

"A large herd of deer, we should kill them all, brothers, all the deer skins are ours. As for the deer meat... we went back to the camp and told everyone that all the deer meat was taken away. We also found humans. Footprints, those who raise deer, we can... hey, take their wealth as our own."

Thinking of these things, who can be unhappy?

This sounds like a very good idea. Everyone is happy and happy. They don't have full confidence in their abilities.

After all, hunting a group of wild reindeer, those animals are very capable of action, and their thick fur can not be killed with a single poke of a short spear.

It is those who raise deer, it should be easy to defeat them, everyone has full self-confidence.

Otto's mind was very calm about this, he looked at his twenty subordinates.

Everyone was standing on this snowy area where the north wind was whistling. Although they were all wearing thick skin and wearing huge deerskin or fox fur hats on their heads, Otto couldn't help but think of looking for deer breeders and proactively attacking them. very worried.

Because in such an extremely cold area and far away from Roseburg, if you were injured in the battle, although you may not die on the spot, any serious injury will result in one death.

The situation began to become more subtle, and the pure hunting action instantly became militarized.

So, are there deer-raisers in the place where Otto is, so-called Sami people?

The answer is of course yes!

Otto and his current twenty men, they have gone too far to the northeast, following the trail of the reindeer, and have broken into the territory of the Sami people.

Specifically, it is the westernmost edge of the Sami area.

Otto was not aware of this situation, and those Sami who focused on winter grazing were also unaware of the approach of danger.

For decades, the Rus tribe, who had expelled the Sami by harsh means, never encountered a new Sami.

Decades of time are also very long. Gradually, the two ethnic groups gradually forgot the previous wars, as if they had never been in contact.

Compared with the Mind Subtribe Alliance, the structure of the Sami is undoubtedly more backward and more fragile.

The Sami people are the oldest aboriginal in Europe, and they are also part of the separation from the Finns.

In the past two hundred years, the Finnish tribes that had spread throughout Eastern Europe were driven by the eastward Slavic tribes, causing some Finns to go straight to the Ural Mountains and some to withdraw to the north near the Arctic Circle.

The situation of the Sami is even worse. They have been driven by the Viking tribes who landed in the Svealand area. Finally, the Ross tribe among them gave a heavy punch, making the Sami have completely left the Gulf of Bothnia. .

The Sami retreated to the Arctic Circle and entered the so-called Lapland region and Murmansk.

If they want to live in the Arctic, any energy they can get is very precious. Don't think about the development of agriculture in extremely cold regions. The Sami people's livelihoods depend extremely on the reindeer they raise. Through trade with some Finns living in Karelia in the south, they traded reindeer fur, dried meat, and wood products in exchange for some flax and metal.

However, trade is also extremely low. They basically lead a life without any disputes. They don't want anyone to disturb their bitter and cold days.

Maybe the Sami people are naturally peace-loving, but peaceful gains never come from other people's charity.

The Sami also knew how to grow agriculture. They failed in the battle. They escaped all the way to the Arctic Ocean. Is this a safe place?

Do not! Because of those Vikings who have a great desire for wealth, they are approaching!

In general, all the Sami clan must guard against Arctic wolves attacking their hard-bred deer. They have to make a certain amount of armed to be prepared, and they must send people to watch the wolves with their eyes wide open while grazing. group.

They always pay special attention to the wolves that are extremely threatening to people and animals, but because they have not contacted the Ross tribe for a long time, many young Sami people can only learn some ancient legends from their parents.

Or because the description of the ancient horrible memories is mixed with too many personal emotions, the "Varyags" that the young people understand gradually have the image of a wolf, like a group of monsters with huge fangs.

The elderly are indeed afraid of the "Varyags", especially when they point out that there is a group of "Varyags" who claim to be masters of oars and can maneuver long boats.

Young people don’t understand all of this. They inherit the less-rich heritage of their ancestors, that is, a herd of reindeer. According to the old habits, they routinely graze twice a year on a large scale, and their lives are dull year after year and nothing more. .

The thick fur of the reindeer can easily resist the erosion of the cold. By eating grass under the snow, each reindeer can grow rapidly in winter.

The grazing in the winter every year becomes particularly important, because when the climate starts to get warmer, all reindeer will moult. UU Reading those leftover hairs of the Sami people will not be wasted, they can be mixed with the linen obtained in exchange to woven into a special linen, and then printed and dyed with moss of various colors.

Therefore, the clothes of the Sami are much more gorgeous than the civilians of the Rus tribe.

However, no matter how gorgeous clothes can conceal the fact that they are weak in force.

There is no huge organization for the Sami people. They live in the wilderness as a clan with a population of only a few dozen people.

The leader of any clan must be an older female, because they are still in the matrilineal clan stage, which makes them naturally only exist as a small settlement, and the number of the most combative men in the settlement is not dominant.

Because of the Ross tribe, when the tribe is threatened, they can organize two thousand warriors armed with swords and prisoners of war.

In medieval Europe, two thousand warriors were already the limit of the forces that many feudal earls could organize.

But no matter how many Sami men, it will not help. They use stone spears or antler spears to defeat wolves, but they have no power to parry the Vikings' battle axes.

Although the Sami people make single bows, they also make bowstrings and arrow clusters. As a result, the weight of the bow is too low, and the arrows are not polished antlers or stones.

Such an arrow can't even penetrate the fur of the reindeer far, but it is enough to shoot arctic foxes and ferrets.

They are such ancient ethnic groups that are sparsely populated, lack organizational skills, and are still in the Paleolithic age with a serious lack of metal.

Under strong oppression by foreigners, and because of their own compromise, they escaped the disaster and withdrew to the extreme north of the world, but after all, they could not change the fate of being conquered.

Because the leader of the Ross tribe has made up his mind, now, Otto's greed can't be healed at all.