the great characters of GOR 

HISTORY: Dagur, High Jarl of Vigra:

My origin lays in Nubia (it lies along the east and west banks of the Nile River near the modern-day border of southern Egypt and northern Sudan). During one of their invasions the Arabs captured and enslaved me when I was just six years old. So I grew up as their slave for almost 12 years and traveled with their caravans all over North Africa. Lions had to watch over me and the other slaves. One of the cubs, Exal, grew up with me and during the years we became good friends.

In that time the Vikings sailed to the Mediterraneans and founded some settlements in North Africa and traded with Arabs but had to defend their settlements also now and then. During one of the clashes between Vikings and Arabs the Vikings liberated me and Exal came after me to stay with me. After that I was helping the Vikings with translation etc. They accepted me more and more and learned me how to fight and defend myself. When the Vikings left North Africa I traveled with them along Constantinople through Russia back to Scandinavia. In Russia we had many clashes with the Rus and I fought well, even saved the lives of some Vikings. One of them, Erik, became a kind of father for me and I went with him to Gotland (Sweden). There I met his lovely daughter, Katia. I felt in love with her from the first moment and after hard working, showing my genuine interest and pampering her a lot she fell in love with me too and we got married. During one of our trading trips to the coast of Norway we arrived in a lovely settlement called Ulfheim. It was very peace- and respectful. We decided to stay there for a while. After a few winters we moved on with some other Ulfheim settlers and arrived in Vigra. An amazing village. Because of Katia's love for horses we took here our residence as horse traders. Vigra is amazing but also a young village. Because of the successful trading with other neighboring villages, Vigra became prosperous and ties with those countries grew stronger and stronger. One of those countries is Skaertonnfjall with a queen, Nanna, whom we had met before on one of our trading trips from Ulfheim but had lost sight of. Nanna, a beautiful woman and of splendid character, with a daughter, Rac, of dazzling beauty. Katia and I were well liked in Vigra and with our horse trade we contributed significantly to Vigra's prosperity. My role and duties within the community of Vigra became more important and more significant, requiring Katia to go alone on distant trading trips. Through my frequent contact with Skaertonnfjall, Rac caught my eye. A young woman with a will of her own, very smart and incredibly beautiful. Although I still love Katia very much I cannot ignore the fact that Rac's beauty and character also attract me very much. So I court Rac when I am in Skaertonnfjall and to my surprise she appreciates it and answers more and more of my advances. We get closer and closer and we express love for each other. (By the seventh century, Nubia expanded and became the dominant power in the region. It was strong enough to halt the southern expansion of Islam after the Arabs had taken Egypt. After several failed invasions the new Muslim rulers agreed to a treaty to allow peaceful coexistence and trade, contingent on the Nubians making an annual payment consisting of slaves and other tributes to the Islamic Governor at Aswan; it guaranteed that any runaway slaves were returned to Nubia. The treaty was kept for six hundred years. Throughout this period, Nubia's main exports were dates and slaves, though ivory and gold were also exchanged for Egyptian ceramics, textiles, and glass. Over time the influx of Arab traders introduced Islam to Nubia and it gradually supplanted Christianity).

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