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!!'''Book III, Chapter 7'''
-> ''The roots of the foundational Imperial welfare institutions that provide food, shelter, education and medical care to all Imperial citizens predate the beginnings of the Dragon Era by nearly eighty years, dating back to the middle reign of Stoick's grandfather, Chief Hiccup II. Despite a tumultuous early reign, Hiccup II's grip on power stabilized during the AD 960s, and with the aid of his friend and confidant, the scribe Dror ben Ezra, he began a period of systematic cultural change; the ad hoc literacy classes that Dror had been holding were formalized and made mandatory for all children, a yearly census was instituted that also functioned as a minor form of taxation, and the formerly orally transmitted laws were scribed and codified. As part of that codification, the Hooligans took the earlier basic necessities that they had provided to temporarily homeless or destitute members of the tribe and made them universal, with Dror drawing on his Judaic background and training for direction in how to implement them...''
-> ''[…] These educational and welfare systems became one of the core pillars of the Imperial social contract between the State and its citizens; there is no question that, without the economic pump-priming and social cohesion that they created, the young North Sea Empire would have never survived its initial challenges…''
-->-- ''Origins of the Grand Thing, Edinburgh Press, 1631''
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!!Tropes That Appear In This Chapter:
* {{Asexuality}}: It is brought up that Viggo is demisexual, as he doesn't feel sexual interest/attraction until he's made an emotional connection with them; as he only really forms connections with his [[NerdsAreSexy intellectual equals or superiors]]. According to his internal monologue, [[TeacherStudentRomance this apparently made his schooling occasionally awkward]], as he felt attraction to his teachers. Since then, he's only had interest in a [[StraightGay few men]] and two women.
* CassandraTruth: Earl Siward claimed he had nothing to do with the assassination attempt on Hiccup[[note]] he really didn't, it was a plot orchestrated by Mac Bethad [[/note]], unsurprisingly no one believes the word of a known oathbreaker.
* DeathByAdaptation:
** Siward, Earl of Northumbria dies thirteen years before he did in RealLife.
** Echmarcach mac Ragnaill dies either twenty two or twenty three years before his historical death date.[[note]] His exact historical death date is unknown, either being 1064 or 1065. [[/note]]
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
** In RealLife Siward died from dysentery, here he was killed by Stoick.
** In RealLife Echmarcach mac Ragnaill died of natural causes, here he was crushed by a giant boulder dropped by dragons.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Basically applies to Toiréasa's developing dynamic with Heather; when Heather asks Toiréasa to act as part of her new developing spy network for Berk, Toiréasa immediately starts thinking that Heather will start her out with 'easy' assignments before she begins to threaten Mhairi to make Toiréasa commit more brutal acts, assuming that Heather is like Alvin rather than recognising that there are lines Heather won't cross.
* NotSoStoic: The normally acerbic and no-nonsense 70-something Bladewit is reduced to openly sobbing when she meets Rabbi Dovid, and in the process finds out something about the origins of her father, who has been dead since her late teens.
* TheReveal: We discover who trader Johann sold those jars of poison to and by extension who sent the poisoner during Thawfest, it was Eochaid.
--> Toiréasa eyed the jar, and hid her reaction with all of the skill she could muster. Because she ''recognized'' that jar.
--> The Norseman trader had come by Ulaid late last autumn and sold it to Eochaid, saying that it was good for dealing with pests and vermin, but his usual customer had disappeared. Eochaid had made good use of it in dealing with some rivals before coming to Berk in search of dragons and alliance… and, it seemed, he'd given it up to attack Berk with.
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-->[-Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn: [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10408971/chapters/40974968#workskin HERE]]-]
-->[-Website/FanFictionDotNet: [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/75/A-Thing-Of-Vikings HERE]]-]
----
-> ''The roots of the foundational Imperial welfare institutions that provide food, shelter, education and medical care to all Imperial citizens predate the beginnings of the Dragon Era by nearly eighty years, dating back to the middle reign of Stoick's grandfather, Chief Hiccup II. Despite a tumultuous early reign, Hiccup II's grip on power stabilized during the AD 960s, and with the aid of his friend and confidant, the scribe Dror ben Ezra, he began a period of systematic cultural change; the ad hoc literacy classes that Dror had been holding were formalized and made mandatory for all children, a yearly census was instituted that also functioned as a minor form of taxation, and the formerly orally transmitted laws were scribed and codified. As part of that codification, the Hooligans took the earlier basic necessities that they had provided to temporarily homeless or destitute members of the tribe and made them universal, with Dror drawing on his Judaic background and training for direction in how to implement them...''
-> ''[…] These educational and welfare systems became one of the core pillars of the Imperial social contract between the State and its citizens; there is no question that, without the economic pump-priming and social cohesion that they created, the young North Sea Empire would have never survived its initial challenges…''
-->-- ''Origins of the Grand Thing, Edinburgh Press, 1631''
----
!!Tropes That Appear In This Chapter:
* {{Asexuality}}: It is brought up that Viggo is demisexual, as he doesn't feel sexual interest/attraction until he's made an emotional connection with them; as he only really forms connections with his [[NerdsAreSexy intellectual equals or superiors]]. According to his internal monologue, [[TeacherStudentRomance this apparently made his schooling occasionally awkward]], as he felt attraction to his teachers. Since then, he's only had interest in a [[StraightGay few men]] and two women.
* CassandraTruth: Earl Siward claimed he had nothing to do with the assassination attempt on Hiccup[[note]] he really didn't, it was a plot orchestrated by Mac Bethad [[/note]], unsurprisingly no one believes the word of a known oathbreaker.
* DeathByAdaptation:
** Siward, Earl of Northumbria dies thirteen years before he did in RealLife.
** Echmarcach mac Ragnaill dies either twenty two or twenty three years before his historical death date.[[note]] His exact historical death date is unknown, either being 1064 or 1065. [[/note]]
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
** In RealLife Siward died from dysentery, here he was killed by Stoick.
** In RealLife Echmarcach mac Ragnaill died of natural causes, here he was crushed by a giant boulder dropped by dragons.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Basically applies to Toiréasa's developing dynamic with Heather; when Heather asks Toiréasa to act as part of her new developing spy network for Berk, Toiréasa immediately starts thinking that Heather will start her out with 'easy' assignments before she begins to threaten Mhairi to make Toiréasa commit more brutal acts, assuming that Heather is like Alvin rather than recognising that there are lines Heather won't cross.
* NotSoStoic: The normally acerbic and no-nonsense 70-something Bladewit is reduced to openly sobbing when she meets Rabbi Dovid, and in the process finds out something about the origins of her father, who has been dead since her late teens.
* TheReveal: We discover who trader Johann sold those jars of poison to and by extension who sent the poisoner during Thawfest, it was Eochaid.
--> Toiréasa eyed the jar, and hid her reaction with all of the skill she could muster. Because she ''recognized'' that jar.
--> The Norseman trader had come by Ulaid late last autumn and sold it to Eochaid, saying that it was good for dealing with pests and vermin, but his usual customer had disappeared. Eochaid had made good use of it in dealing with some rivals before coming to Berk in search of dragons and alliance… and, it seemed, he'd given it up to attack Berk with.
----
-->[-Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn: [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10408971/chapters/40974968#workskin HERE]]-]
-->[-Website/FanFictionDotNet: [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/75/A-Thing-Of-Vikings HERE]]-]
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