The Rise of Rurik

Chapter 49: Who Is The Master Of Gotaland

The geographical location of Rossburg has reached the deepest part of the Gulf of Bothnia, and the people living here are too far away from Svealand, the main activity area of the Swiss people.

Geographical barriers have had a great impact. They share a common ancestor with each other. Since the Ross tribe decided to move north nearly a hundred years ago, the people of Svealandhave gradually forgotten that they have a group of brothers in the far north.

Only the large scale longboats drawn from the northern seas once or twice a year can prove to the ordinary people of Svealand that the north does have its own kin, and they are quite powerful.

Isn't the Svealand region cold enough? Could it be that in addition to the ice and snow in the north, what else has a huge attraction, forcing some of the same clan to insist on going north!

The answer is yes!

That's fur! Lots of animal furs!

Stockholm, the major city of the future Scandinavia, has already existed in its first prototype in the ninth century AD.

The waters of Lake Mlaren poured into the Gulf of Bothnia, and some wandering tribes realized that this area had an inherent advantage in developing trade. Because the large lakes are good for shipping, and the large number of islands at the mouth of the river, they can easily be converted into ports.

The inhabitants who settled in this area formed a community of residents known by other groups as the Malarens.

But in the ninth century, the powerhouse of the Baltic Sea was Denmark. The mighty Danish fleet took control of Gotaland and occupied the grazing highlands south of Svealand.

The thinking tribe alliance, they continue to grow and develop in the Svealand Plain, but with their near primitive productivity, no matter how large the land area is, it will soon reach a bottleneck.

There is only one development path in front of the tribal alliance, to expand the living space.

They resented that the Danes had preemptively seized pastures that could have been theirs for grazing, and arable land for growing wheat.

They also hated that Gotland was occupied by the Danes even more, because the loss of this island meant that the Danes basically locked the possibility of Swiss going south.

Although the Danes could not guarantee not to miss any of the longships in the northern bay, if they encountered it, fighting was inevitable.

According to the cultural traditions of the Thinking sub tribal alliance, young men need to leave their families and carve out their own homes near their own tribes.

When a grown man marries a wife, he will not hesitate to start a big family. In order to feed their large population, the limited land is obviously not enough. Only by manipulating the long ship and looting under the leadership of the leader can the family survive the winter without starving to death.

Over the centuries, Svealand's resources have become less and less.

To make matters worse, they are also faced with the serious development problems of increasingly tight local resources, and they also think of ways to solve the problem through looting. Just too much.

Since the Danes started their raids on Britain, their hunger problem has been basically solved because they have obtained a large supply of food from the "Island of Plenty".

Since all the people involved in the raids were young men hungry for wealth, they forcibly abducted the British Anglo women based on instinct.

Danes and Angles, they are also close relatives of each other.

More food, more exotic women entered Danish society, and Jutland's population expanded rapidly.

In ancient times, the population was the best productive force, and even a child was an indispensable productive force for the family.

More and more Danes need more and more land for farming and grazing.

The main force of the Danes firmly controls the only outlet of the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. The narrowest point of the Copenhagen is only five kilometers, which also makes it easy for the Danes to log in to Scandinavia on the other side and enter Gotaland Heights.

The Danes and the Swiss met, and a conflict ensued because of competition for pastures for grazing.

A hundred years is long enough that two ethnic groups with exactly the same language have evolved into two tribal groups full of conflicts.

The Danes were indeed more advanced than the Swiss, because they had to have all sorts of relations with the Frankish kingdom, with the chain of small kingdoms in Britain, and even with a completely different branch of Wend people.

Many cultural concepts from the hinterland of the European continent have entered Jutland, making some tribal leaders no longer willing to be a leader.

They learned that the huge and incomprehensible Frankish kingdom was only a tiny existence at first. Because of the bravery and resourcefulness of the leader, the Franks annexed small tribes and eventually became giants.

The Danes in this era had already felt the strength of the Franks, because the Wend people who bordered their area of activity had already surrendered to the Frankish kingdom.

Those Wend people are the Slavic ethnic group living in the eastern part of Germany, and they are one of the ancestors of the Poles. Because they were conquered by the Frankish kingdom, they gave up their traditional Slavic beliefs, and all converted to the Holy See and accepted Frankish rule.

How to be as powerful as the Franks?

First, let your tribe become the leader of the alliance, and then make your tribe have unshakable strength, and finally the leader becomes the real king.

Even though the Franks were powerful, the Danes never gave up their attempts to expand south. But because of the Franks' strong counterattack, the Danes' offensive was finally contained.

Many tribal leaders with ideas for the future realized that the Franks could only be outcompeted by a united clan.

The south is warmer and the land there is easier to cultivate. And the best land is in Britain, where the natives are also very powerful.

In order to obtain greater benefits, his own strength is still not enough at this stage, so he can only implement the strategy of sneak attack and looting. Indeed, no farmers are willing to settle down and develop farms in the looted land.

The only exception is in the Gotaland area.

Two tribal alliances fight over the ownership of the vast Gotaland region.

They are all Vikings! They are good at resolving conflicts through battle! And the peasants and herdsmen who entered the land to pioneer, their hungry stomachs are forcing their brains to attack another group of people who will loot their homes.

Even if the other party speaks the exact same language as himself, as long as he is not his tribe or allies, he is a mortal enemy.

The battle began as early as the early eighth century AD, and the strength of both sides of the battle has grown for nearly a hundred years.

It is clear that the Danes have grown most significantly in this regard, not only in population, but also in their warfare skills. They began to learn the gallop of horses from the Franks, and the unique technique of using bows and arrows from the Britons.

Today's Danes are still junior students, and they have just used these two important magic weapons that influenced ancient warfare, but their descendants will surely restore the Viking spirit of their ancestors on horseback.

In the vast Gotaland, small-scale conflicts between farmers belonging to different tribal alliances occurred frequently, and land and sea wars of hundreds of people also occurred from time to time.

Or because of the cultural tradition shared by the Vikings, someone in the family died in battle, and his brothers and sons were obliged to avenge him.

This has almost entered an endless loop, and it has also led to smallscale wars that will inevitably lead to decisive battles at the strategic level.

Who is the master of Gotaland? !