Una Nueva Espada Para Una Nueva Era
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.
—The Second Flowering of Yggdrasil: An Analysis Of The Norse Resurgence, 1710
Tropes that appear in this chapter:
- All of the Other Reindeer: Poor Musa is distrusted and treated as different by the Christians, Muslims and Jews.
- Big Damn Heroes: Musa manages to save Casio right before he would have been killed by bandits.
- Foreign Language Title: The title is in Spanish while the story is in English. The title translates to English as "A New Sword For A New Age".
- Like a Son to Me: By the time Musa leaves for Berk, Don Escaldadas has started viewing him as a son, a feeling that is completely reciprocated as Don Escaldadas and his son Casio were some of the few people who didn't treat him as an outsider.
- Gossip Evolution: By the time the story of Hiccup taming dragons reaches Espeñaios, the story includes him having also tamed sea serpents.
- The Outsider Befriends the Best: When Musa settles in Espeñaios, he becomes closest to Don Escaldadas and his family who rules the place.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Don Escaldadas is one of the few people to not alienate Musa and as the leader of his village, is able to shield Musa from the worst of the mistreatment.
