Fjormos

Name: Fjormos Bjornolfsdottir
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Occupation: Shieldmaiden
Sexual Preference: Straight
Status: Single
Hair: Blonde, to her hips
Eyes: Blue
Skin: Fair but slightly tanned
Height & Weight: 5'10", 180lbs
Traits: Supportive, reliable, observant, enthusiasitc, hard-working, overly humble
Likes: Practicing her fighting skills, teaching Freydis how to fight
Dislikes: Any womanly tasks and chores, dresses

Fjormos was the daughter of a hersir of King Sigurd, and a berserker of Birka, named Bjornolf, and a beautiful thrall woman whom once he made her pregnant he freed her and married her. Bjornolf kept trying to get a son on her, but she gave him eight daughters, of which Fjormos was the second eldest. Fjormos was glad her older sister, and her next youngest sister both took a liking to sewing and weaving on the loom, because Fjormos hated it. She much preferred to spend her time outside, learning to fight from her father.

Bjornolf treated Fjormos as though she were the son he never had, though wouldn't teach her how to be a berserker, as that was a sacred magic and rite that was reserved for men only.

By the time Fjormos was nineteen she had been fighting and testing her skills against members of Sigurd's hird, and besting a majority of them. She put on such a great spectacle in all of her challenges, that Sigurd told her he was impressed with her skill and asked her to swear fealty to him and join his hird. Fjormos kissed his armband and swore the pledge and became part of the hird.

She began to go on the summer raids to the western lands as a shieldmaiden and won much renown for her skill in the shieldwall and battle. She couldn't wait to go on the next raid, which seemed so far away. But Freydis approached Fjormos and asked her to teach her how to fight. So teaching Freydis how to fight like a shieldmaiden occupied her winter and made it go by much quicker so that she could go on the next raid.

Freydis was an eager and fast learner. In a matter of a couple years of training, Fjormos believed she was ready to join the shieldwall... well, considering her father would allow it, which Fjormos doubted very much he would. And indeed, that was the case. For when Harald Halfdansson came to Birka looking for aid in the fight to reclaim his ancestral seat, King Sigurd agreed. Freydis asked Fjormos to help her get ready to join, thinking that since this was just the neighboring land and not one across the ocean he would let her join. But much to her dismay she didn't get to go. Fjormos went, and helped secure a victory for Harald.

Then one day, suddenly, Freydis approached her, almost out of breath. She explained that Dyrfinna had a vision, and that she was told to go get Fiormos and leave Birka. It took Fjormos a moment to process everything that had just been told to her, and then she decided to go with Freydis. Freydis was going to leave Birka one way or another, with or without Fjormos, and so Fjormos figured it was probably best if she had someone with to help protect her, and possibly talk her into returning to Birka.

The two got a small skiv and took it out of the fjord where they would have to decide where to go. Fjormos and Freydis decided to go to Tonsberg, where by the time they would get there news on what happened in Birka after they left would have already reached there. And they were also hoping that King Harald would come to the aid of his fiance's city should there be any bad news.

But little did they know that King Harald had already sent a messenger to Birka to inform them that he had no intention of following through with the wedding.

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