RedTarn's Landfall
"GUESTS! Guests to the Hall of the RedTarn!"
Welcome to Torvaldsland and the Landfall of the RedTarn. This is where Perrin's father, the original RedTarn, landed after his father sent him out to make his own way in the world. His father gave him only enough men to crew the ship that he built himself, a small twenty-bencher Serpent. Perrin's Father, Neill, named the Serpent the 'RedTarn' after seeing a crimson tarn on a trip to Kassau.
Traveling all over Torvaldsland, he found no place that was welcoming. After a trip to Kassau for supplies he pulled into an inlet in southern Torvaldsland to make camp. He looked around and knew that he had found his new home. He immediately set his crew to gathering the materials he would need to build his hall, a simple longhouse. He worked with his crew to gather the stone and the wood and the sod he would need and soon they began building the hall. He didn't have a plan as such, he simply went by a design that was common in the north.
Soon the hall was completed and they then began to work on clearing the fields for Sa-Tarna and plots for gardens. Some of them took the ship back to Kassau and purchased seed for this and also verr and bosk to start herds for the holding. As soon as the RedTarn returned a portion of the crew began to work at planting the Sa-Tarna and other vegetables and others began to build corrals and a shed for the bosk and verr.
The RedTarn took others in the ship and went out in search of... help... for the new Landfall. They raided north into the deep part of Torvaldsland, making landfall and raiding far inland to the farms that had no access to Thassa. They returned to the ship laden with bondmaids and a few thralls for the work none of them wanted to do and set sail for the Landfall once more.
Once the longhouse was complete and the first crops harvested and everything prepared for winter, the RedTarn officially dubbed his new holding "RedTarn's Landfall". This was late in the year 985 in the calendar of the Rune Priests (10,101 C.A.). The winter passed by uneventfully and, come spring and the new Rune Year, 986, they once again set about a normal day to day life at their new home.
The years passed until the year 997 in the calendar of the Rune Priests. That year the RedTarn ventured to join in an attack on Helmutsport along with several other Jarls who had been offended by a comment made by the leader of Helmutsport during a feast. During the attack the Torvaldslanders were repulsed but the leader of Helmutsport was killed in the fighting.
As the RedTarn and his men were falling back to the serpent, Neill grabbed a woman of the Caste of Scribes who had taken shelter in a small Priest-King shrine in the city. She was taken back to the Landfall as his prize, a souvenir of the event. His crew was surprised that he did not enslave the woman, but merely kept her as his captive.
The year wore on and the men of the Landfall were surprised to see their Jarl and his captive spending more and more time together, having long talks about the south and various other things. The next year, they were Free Companioned in a Torvaldslandic ceremony honoring Frigga. Near the end of the year they announced that there would be a child in the Landfall soon and that the Rune Priests had said that it would be a son, an heir to the talmit and the RedTarn legacy.
When the child was born, in the year 1000 in the Northern calendar, they named him Perrin. He was left at the Landfall as the crew of the RedTarn raided hither and yon. As he grew he was taught the skills needed to survive in Torvaldsland, hunting, fishing, skill with weapons. As he was taught those, his mother also taught him, to his father's dismay, to read, write and do arithmatic.
In the year 1006, by the Rune Priests reckoning, the Beasts, the Kurii, invaded Torvaldsland and the War Arrow was sent out. Neill answered the call of the War Arrow and went with many of his men to battle the Kurii. The RedTarn never returned from that battle and the Talmit of RedTarn's Landfall passed to Perrin.
Since he was too young, the men of the Landfall, having a great respect for their Jarl's Woman, chose to follow her until he came of age. She wisely left command of the RedTarn in the hands of the man who had been her Companion's second. She also left the the Landfall in the charge of the man Neill had entrusted with it while he was out raiding. The Landfall continued to prosper under their joint leadership and all were happy.
When Perrin returned from his first raid with Reider, even though he had not reached his majority, he took over as the Jarl of RedTarn's Landfall. Once he had reached his majority though he got a case of wanderlust and, remembering his mother's tales of the south, set out to see the south. He once again left the Landfall in the care of those his father trusted and for years it has prospered in his absence, broken only by short visits.
Most of these visits were just him checking to see about things at the Landfall. Some though were of more importance. He spent a good bit of time arranging a Companionship between his younger sister and Gylfi, the owner of a farm to the east of RedTarn's Landfall called Fitjar. After months of negotiation this deal fell through, much to Perrin's sister's relief as that fellow was rather fat and disgusting, and instead Perrin decided to claim that land as his own the old fashioned way.
He gathered up the crew of the RedTarn and the other men of his Landfall and, making their way overland to the other farm. They arrived at night and surrounded the longhouse. They then set fire to the longhouse and, as the inhabitants tried to escape, killed them to a man. Only the bondmaids and thralls were left alive to work the farm for the new owners. Perrin brought in members of the group of mercenaries he calls "The Torvaldsland Guards" to live and work on the farm. The Torvaldsland Guards who settled here have given up the life of a raider for that of Torvaldslandic farmers owing fealty to Perrin under their Jarl, Hastein.
Once the RedTarn had settled his control over that farm, he decided to go ahead and extend his ambit of control over the rest of the district in which RedTarn's Landfall lay. He next gathered his crew and The Torvaldsland Guards and sailed to the north. He bypassed the farm known as Palnatoki and struck instead at Jomsburg. The Jarl of Jomsburg had long been an enemy of Perrin and his father before him. Perrin sailed around and struck from the east. The Torvaldsland Guard landed Heimdall's Sword to the west and struck from there. Again a hall burned and everyone inside died to prevent a blood feud from beginning. The rest of the Torvaldsland Guards settled here and continue their raiding under their commander and Jarl, Oleg the Black.
The Jarl of Freysnes, Gutthorm Gj�kason, protested the actions of the RedTarn and, as a result, Perrin challenged the man holding for holding in a Free Duel. The two men fought and, after both of their shields had been hacked to bits, the shield bearers retired from the square and Perrin and Gutthorm fought it out. Perrin was injured in the contest but Gutthorm was decapitated on the square. This left Perrin as the Jarl of Freysnes too as Gutthorm's sons had died in a duel on the square a few months before.
Months later, Snorri, Jarl of Palnatoki, the holding to the west of Jomsburg, offended Oleg the Black so direly that he would not be satisfied with just meeting the man on the Duel Square. He called for Perrin's help and once more the RedTarn sailed. They again surrounded the hall in the middle of the night and burned it, killing the Free inhabiting the holding in total, leaving only the slaves. More displaced Torvaldslanders flocked to Perrin's banner and Palnatoki was quickly settled once more with a crew to man the twenty bencher in its boat shed. Perrin named Ingvar, another officer of The Torvaldsland Guard, as Jarl of Palnatoki.
With these four holdings, plus RedTarn's Landfall and Aesir's Forge, a holding run for Perrin by Jarl Knut, with a small mine of iron and a smaller one of silver on its lands, the Jarl of RedTarn's Landfall controls the entire district that the Landfall sits in the center of. All of the Jarls in the district owe the Jarl of RedTarn's Landfall loyalty and are sworn to him as his Thing-men. This gives him roughly six hundred men that he can call directly to his service.
Now though, the RedTarn has come home to the Landfall. Perrin is once more residing in the land of his ancestors and has once again taken up the talmit of the Jarl of RedTarn's Landfall. He has built a new hall, one of wood and stone, to house the RedTarn and the people of his holding.
The crews of the Black Axe (a 20 bench Serpent captained by Gellir) and the NightSong (a 20 bench Serpent captained by Hrut) have gone a bit south to settle farms in the district. Gellir has bought the farm Anabrekka and Hrut is settling the farm Urdir. Both settled the farms with their crews as Perrin's Thing-men
It is currently early in the year 1043 by the Northern Calendar. Welcome again to Torvaldsland and the Landfall of the RedTarn.
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