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Quote:First Shieldbearers
Active July 1043 AD/March 1045 AD (see History)—present
Country North Sea Empire
Type Mounted bodyguard
Role Imperial Body Guard
Size 500 Thanes
Garrison/HQ King Magnus’ Palace, London
Motto We Hold The Line (official)
We Hold Back Our Boss (unofficial)
Colors Black and Red
Commander 4 Wing General Spitelout Clodgallsson Clan Jorgenson
Inception—Present
Provisional Commanders
Astrid I Hákonsdóttir House Haddock 1043-1045
Folarin House Haddock 1045-1061
William I Robertsson House Haddock 1061-1065
Maor ben Dovid House Mordechai 1065-1076
Hamish Hiccupsson House Haddock 1076-1084
Full List of Provisional Unit Commanders (1043-Present)
The First Shieldbearers of Berk and the Lands of the North Sea Empire, and Members of the Imperial Body Guard of High Thanes, popularly known as the Shieldbearers , is the unit of the North Sea Imperial Armed Forces charged with protecting the persons of the Imperial House. The oldest Imperial military corps still in existence, it was formally created by order of King Stoick I of Berk in response to the Caen Massacre…
—First Shieldbearers (n.d.) In Wikikenna. Retrieved August 10, 1876