The Second Flowering of Yggdrasil: An Analysis Of The Norse Resurgence, 1710 Wrote:An additional factor in Berk’s meteoric rise was the combined facts that they had a rapid means of transportation and transit across Europe, and an extremely attractive environment for skilled and trained individuals. It was fairly common for scholars, artists, and craftsmen of all types to emigrate specifically to take advantage of the basic living welfare while they focused on their crafts and studies, and do additional work to gain the supplies and materials they needed in their pursuits. And while some certainly fixated on their own pursuits with dogged narrowmindedness to the exclusion of all else, others leapt at the chance to put their skills to use in order to serve their new home. Many became teachers, passing on knowledge of their crafts, while others used their disciplines more directly in the service of their new state. The resulting human capital flight strengthened Berk and the North Sea Empire significantly, with noted contributions to production, culture, economics, and other areas all coming from people who had made the deliberate choice to emigrate.
That epigraph was written by the A Thing of Vikings author himself for one of his proofreaders, Croc from Spain, whom he trusted enough to let write the first authorized ATOV side-story, a little yarn that could only be called Una Nueva Espada Para Una Nueva Era.
Mr_Crocodile Wrote:When Hiccup tamed dragons over on Berk, he changed the world and the course of history, affecting people all over. For some of those people, this change will redirect their entire lives into a new direction. A wandering smith can become a student, and a man with no place in the world can find one, and then find another.
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