Chapter 20: Veria's Divination

Chapter 20: Veria's Divination

Because of the stove, the huge wooden house was baked very warmly.

A white-haired old man, dressed in thick buckskin leather, sat around the fire, waiting for the kettle to boil. At this moment, the smell of boiled onions and herbs filled the room.

This old man was Veria, an unbelievably old woman who lived to the age of seventy.

Beside her, some young women in the tribe are her lower-level priests. They are quietly doing their work. After serving Vilia and drinking herbs, the day's work is not explained.

Veria is indeed very old, and she has always ordered the lower-level priests under her to prepare herbs and make medicinal soup for herself to take. The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))

It seems that both priests and witch doctors have a source. Vilia learned some herbal knowledge from the ancestors of the tribe. Today, she feels that she has contracted the cold. After drinking the herbal soup for a few days, she feels that her condition is getting better day by day.

But she is still too old, and needs the assistance of others in many aspects of her daily life.

She has such a long life! Therefore, this person who holds the office of tribal priest is highly respected, and many times, her opinion is on the same level as that of the chief Otto.

Kanuf's mother told her everything she knew, and Vilya believed very much that the young Rurik had talents. She never imagined that Rurik, who was only seven years old, was already there. Concentrate on training the children of the tribe.

"So, do you support him?" Kanuf's mother asked respectfully.

"He is the son of the chief, and he is blessed by Odin." Veria sat cross-legged like a rock, squinting, "I understand what you mean. Rurik will be our chief in many years, But the road has not been smooth. He has some unique ideas, are they correct? I need to hear from Odin."

All Viking tribes have very similar beliefs.

Most of the tribes believe in Odin, followed by Torr, and some tribes have a small belief in Loki.

Therefore, the priests of the tribe always hope to get in touch with Valhalla through a certain method.

Villa slowly opened his eyes and signaled to a low-level priest to bring the divination pot with the rune inscription and the whole body inlaid with some gold patterns.

Then, she slowly stood up with her aging body, and put on thicker clothes with the help of the attendant, especially when she solemnly put on a helmet inlaid with huge antlers. Even though the antler helmet was heavy, she had to wear it.

The priests of the Viking tribe of Scandinavia had their own helmets with antlers. And the warm Gaul region, where the druids of the former native Celts, also have their own antler helmets.

All the gems were polished into spheres as much as possible, and because of the frequent use of priests in the past, all the gems were extremely smooth in appearance.

These six gems have a great weight in the hearts of the tribes. They are considered to have mysterious power, so people only want to believe that only the divination made by priests using these gems can truly reflect Odin's wishes.

They simply believe this because they think it is worth believing.

It seems that the so-called divination is purely the performance of probability, and the situation is not so simple.

The gemstones have been specially treated. For example, the red gemstones have been deliberately polished with a small groove, and the sapphires representing negation have been polished with two.

Ordinary people have no chance to touch these divination gems, and this is a secret kept by the priests among each other.

Of course, Villa has alternatives. Some time has passed, and on certain occasions, she will show these gems to the people of the tribe, and what is actually shown are replicas of them without any scratches on the surface.

So does such "divination" still make sense? Of course there is. As for mortals hoping to obtain Odin's answers by this means, how could it be so simple. Compared to this, Villa believes in dreams and the revelation from the sky - the Northern Lights.

Therefore, Vilia used this method. In addition, she had served as the highest priest of the tribe for 30 years, and she was the second person in control of the tribe behind the leaders of all dynasties.

Even Rurik's father Otto, who was able to serve as the chief of the tribe for a long time, was supported by the power of Veria.

Obviously, what the mortals of the tribe don't know is that the aged Vilia has made up her mind. She loves her Ross tribe and thousands of people, so she must nurture Otto's son in her lifetime. rick.

When she felt the time was right, she called Rurik to her side, making him truly the first wise man recognized by the tribe.

She has always believed that, as a leader, knowledge is more useful than brute force. Obviously, the young Rurik was naturally aware of the value of wisdom. Thirty people formed a fighting group, and thirty people just filled a boat. Four boats can form four human walls, and can form a hollow array.

Villa recalled his own life, and no one in the tribe had ever imagined such a fight before.

She had no idea what such a tactic would bring. After all, she listened to Kanuf's mother's dictation, which Rurik came up with himself. And Rurik is really training those children according to his own assumptions. The children roared amazingly on the hill every day, and the visiting lower priest came back and reported: "They are like a stone wall, panning forward very neatly."

Recalling these reports, as well as the surprise report of Kanuf's mother, the aged Villa had more emotions.

She only sighed that her life was not long. It took seventy years for the Ross tribe to have such a promising and ambitious child. If she could not teach him the knowledge of the tribe's ancestors she had mastered in her lifetime, it would be her eternal regret!