Chapter 37: Engraving Knowledge On Wooden Boards

Chapter 37: Engraving Knowledge On Wooden Boards

In the huge high priest's house, the brazier made the whole house so warm that the people in it could cope with only ordinary linen clothes.

The number of priests in the tribe is small, and they are all women. In order to take up this job, they also give up the right to be mothers.

They are all supported by the tribal people, and spend most of the year in the chief priest's house, except for sacrifices on necessary days.

Much of the leisure time of many priests consisted of weaving their own garments from linen thread and cooking flammable lamp oil from animal fat.

When Rurik was invited to enter this field, he immediately smelled a tempting aroma.

Although the entire longhouse is warm, it still has a lot of holes. The air heated by the multiple braziers seeps out from the gaps on the top floor, and the cool air from the outside also penetrates through the gaps on the lower floors. There is no possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning here, and the indoor temperature will drop rapidly because the brazier charcoal is extinguished.

The younger priests set up rudimentary hearths over braziers, thick cast iron basins with some seal fat in them.

When Otto returned, he happened to catch a few plump Baltic seals, and boiling oil was naturally a necessary operation.

When the bay is frozen, it is also one of the normal tasks of the tribe to drill holes in the ice to capture seals.

These captured seals, meat and internal organs are used as food, skins for clothing, and seal oil is naturally an excellent fuel.

The aroma of the fat being roasted made Rurik very comfortable. He was not hungry now. He came to the longhouse today and learned that knowledge was his first priority.

Rurik came with a big purpose, and the priest Veria, who would serve as his one-to-one teacher, also came with a big purpose.

But even great achievements have a small beginning.

It was snowing lightly in the sky, and Rurik knew that his father was going to lead the tribe to the north for collective hunting. According to the experience over the years, they would be able to return with their prey after more than ten days. Fortunately, I can eat venison all winter long.

Rurik has his own job, and while he is very young and has a lot of free time, it is best to finish that knowledge in a short time.

He entered the warm longhouse, and after feeling the warmth, he put the leather jacket aside.

Veria, leaning on crutches, is as kind as his grandmother.

"Child, you arrived as scheduled."

"Yes, great priest." Rurik bowed deliberately, and his words were also very respectful.

The clan did not bow, or even have a clear ceremonial gesture.

Ordinary people disdain the knowledge recorded in the rune alphabet on the wooden boards, and because they must learn the rune alphabet to understand knowledge, this discourages many people.

What they know best is actually some symbols marked with numbers in the rune alphabet. After all, trade needs to understand decimal numbers.

Only a few of them knew how to write their names in the rune alphabet, and everything was basically limited to that.

They pay more attention to the words and deeds of technology. The shipbuilders teach their sons how to build ships, and the professional blacksmiths teach their sons how to choose ores, smelt and forge. Including the women of the family also taught their daughters how to make linen thread, how to weave cloth, and how to process animal hides.

The living environment is too bad, any young boy or girl must learn the most practical life skills in a short period of time, and learn those obscure theoretical knowledge. An obscure figure written by the priests of the grain".

Yes, most of them are members of the Ross tribe, unfortunately they don't even know the written alphabet of their own tribe.

It is not surprising that the Ron alphabet has always been a niche language and is quickly dying out.

So, the whole tribe essentially doesn't like books because they don't yet understand the use of learning something obscure.

Without the help of the tribe, the historical development of the tribe must also be recorded, and the Villians are afraid that their tribe will forget who they are after a few generations.

Based on her own memory, she also selected some elastic oak boards, baked them very dry, and polished them with a whetstone. Finally, the ancient knowledge was engraved with rune letters.

But what she has is not simply this knowledge, and even the majority of clan members don't even know that the young Vilia had the honor to meet the man in black who claimed to be from "Warm Beach".

Those men in black persuaded Veria to believe in a supreme existence, and Veria bluntly told them that the only supreme being was Odin.

However, Veria got a treasure, a book of dozens of parchment in a small wooden box. The beautiful cover of the book is full of Eastern Roman style, and the content is written in two sets of scripts - Latin and Greek.

As for the content of it, they all sing praises to an apostle and what the apostle taught to ordinary people.

Veria's knowledge is known as the wise, and her knowledge is still extremely limited.

She didn't want to be a follower of that apostle, she just wanted to be a servant of Odin. Veria respected those people in black from Rome. She simply believed that the book that was sealed in a wooden box for decades was the "oracle book" of the Romans.

Odin controlled the cold north, and the Roman south was out of Odin's control.

Veria kept the book very well, because she felt that when the tribe had the opportunity to have further contact with the Romans in the future, this book would serve as a medium for friendly exchanges. After all, fighting contact was the last resort.

In addition, she marveled at the fact that Roman texts were preserved on soft parchment. How can animal hides be processed into such writing instruments? She didn't understand at all, envious but helpless.

She can only write down the knowledge of the tribe on the oak, because the area is cold and dry, and the oak is strong enough. In terms of preservation time, the text on the oak board is still very clear for decades.