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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic)

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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic)	comment	It's 1040 AD. The Low Middle Ages, near the end of The Viking Age. It's pretty much our world, with a couple of small differences: Dragons are real. They've just been tamed by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III of Berk.How might this affect history and society? A whole lot of Historical Domain Characters are about to find out!A Thing of Vikings is an Alternate History fanfic, placing the first entry of the How to Train Your Dragon animated movie franchise into real history and letting things unwind from there, with other characters and plot elements taken from as needed from the rest of the HTTYD franchise and occasionally other properties.It can be read at Archive of Our Own here.An appendix made by the author containing lists, maps, art, and background information can be found here.It used to be on fanfiction.net, but due to harassment up to and including death threats, it has been deleted and access has been restricted on Archive of Our Own. The restriction was lifted for a time, but after additional harassment, the story commenting is locked down for registered AO3 members only again as of January 2022. As of 2023, you need to have an AO3 account just to read it, as it's restricted to keep AI chatbots from scraping the text.Una Nueva Espada Para Una Nueva Era and Sic Transit Mundus are one-shot side-stories to A Thing of Vikings the author co-wrote with Mr_Crocodile that involves original characters who live in what is now Spain.The main story, appendix, and side stories are all part of a series that can be found here.The author has also written another HTTYD fanfic taking place during the Age of Sail called The Savage Seas.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_105f4bd9	type	Villain: Exit, Stage Left
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_105f4bd9	comment	Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Adalwin/Alvin pulled an escape after realising that not only was his true identity revealed, but his forces were overwhelmed by the Hooligans.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: Mildew's cruelty as a jarl under King Mac Bethad isn't limited to keeping dragons chained up; people in his village routinely receive excessive punishments for minor misdeeds; one fisherman was whipped to death for telling other fishermen from other villages about the dragons that Mildew was training for Mac Bethad.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_11ad560b	type	Control Freak
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_11ad560b	comment	Control Freak: After Snotlout/Sigurd relocates to Rome, once Hiccup learns what Snotlout has done with his dragon-training experience he spends some time attempting to basically watch everyone taking part in dragon training to ensure that nobody 'inappropriate' gets a dragon, until Astrid and Wulfhild observe that this gives the impression he doesn't trust them.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_11bc87bc	type	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_11bc87bc	comment	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: The author, after being asked, made a tumblr post with faceclaims for some of the fic's OC's. Wulfhild looks like Julia Stiles as she appeared in Save the Last Dance or The Bourne Identity, only shorter and with longer hair. William of Normandy looks like Tom Holland. Harald, Magnus, and Gunnar BrÃ¦sisson look like Chris Hemsworth, Luke Hemsworth, and Liam Hemsworth respectively, only with blonde hair. The author stated that he has an idea for who Gudmund Hallvarsson looks like, but hasn't said who it is due to spoilers. It's eventually revealed that Gudmund/Heidrun's faceclaim is Nicole Beharie only taller and with shorter hair. Yngvarr looks like Heath Ledger as he appeared in A Knight's Tale. Pelagia Triantafyllou looks like Nia Vardalos. Inga RoswynsdÃ³ttir looks like Marian Tomas Griffin, when she was 18. Bladewit looks like Judi Dench. Benjamin Axelsson looks like Matt Damon as he appeared in Good Will Hunting or Saving Private Ryan. Esther looks like a young Ofra Haza.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_133f1c12	comment	The Spymaster: Stoick asks Heather to be his Spymaster for the tribe, even with her apprehension to use her spy skills and how she was trained into it against her will. Despite having been initially been used against Berk, Stoick trusts her because, she could have gotten away with it, but chose to surrender instead, and he thinks that her being the spymaster makes for the best Take That! to both Alvin and the people in Berk who still give her a hard time over it. She eventually takes the job... on the condition that she can deal with her father-slaying brother.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1384ff11	type	Humans by Any Other Name
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1384ff11	comment	Humans by Any Other Name: Dragons call humans "walkers".
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Defied; while Tuffnut rescues Marte from her abusive husband, he feels that sleeping with Marte when she offers would be taking advantage of her while she's emotionally vulnerable.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_15d8e4f5	type	Slave Liberation
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_15d8e4f5	comment	Slave Liberation: The general law whenever thralls step foot on Berk and Berk-regent territories like Vedrarfjord is that the thrall is freed, with the exception of when a thrall-owner is given hospitality. No matter how much they prefer otherwise, hospitality takes precedent.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_166c3e6f	type	Speculative Biology
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_166c3e6f	comment	Speculative Biology: Many of the epigraphs go into the mechanics of dragon biology, with the major defining trait of the species being a specialized organ that allows for their various Breath Weapons.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_18e7aa01	type	Practical Currency
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_18e7aa01	comment	Practical Currency: Dragonscale currency. Can be used for decoration, industry or even insulation, and, per Gresham's Law, gold and silver coins are rapidly disappearing from circulation â€“ not that there was that much of it beforehand. Some of the epigraphs note that dragonscale currency helps destroy European feudalism, by allowing for more money in circulation.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: When Stoick beats Fergus at arm-wrestling during Thawfest, the two become fast friends, both declaring that they hadn't faced so formidable an opponent in years.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1a89d143	type	Construction Is Awesome
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1a89d143	comment	Construction Is Awesome: The Hooligan tribe is already noted as being heavily invested into infrastructure construction (because they needed to keep their output as high as possible in the face of dragon-raids), and now that they're politically expanding, they're building roads, cities, bridges, canals, universities... and that's even before Hiccup's Person of Mass Construction tendencies come to the fore.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Hiccup and Fishlegs treat Astrid and other woman like people while other boys like Snotlout treat them as possessions, which is why Astrid is with Hiccup and why a lot of Berk girls wanted Fishlegs and resent Heather for being with the latter. Astrid makes this absolutely clear to Snotlout in Chapter 17 as part of her scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech to him, and even Ruffnut uses this argument as to why she had no interest in Snotlout. Later on, Princess MÃ³r notes that part of the reason she likes Tuffnut is that he wouldn't look at her as a woman with titles he has to control but appreciates her as a person.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: Mentioned as one of the possible punishments for Hooligans who commit crimes that don't merit execution. Steinn and Vigdis clan Hofferson are sent into exile for Vigdis' crimes against Heather. In Chapter 80, Hiccup declared Snotlout to be exiled in response to Snotlout providing Rome with a fleet of dragon-riders.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Fighting from dragon-back makes attacks from above very easy to inflict on enemies if they don't have something to specifically counter Dragon Riders.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Downplayed. Astrid's clan, not knowing Hiccup is brainstorming of lavish bride-prices he could pay to marry Astrid and that Stoick is turning down all offers of political marriages for Hiccup, almost cause her and Hiccup to break up by telling her the best she could hope for is to be Hiccup's concubine.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The most powerful dragon of a nest becomes its nest-lord, the Thengill.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: Each chapter opens with epigraphs that are presented extracts from various books that will be published in the future of the new history where trained dragons become a common part of human civilisation, ranging from historical books providing brief hints about the human characters' future histories to some details about dragon biology.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1d47dc06	type	Alternative Calendar
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1d47dc06	comment	Alternative Calendar: As of the start of Book 4, the timestamps include a Post-Reformation Norse Calendar, and the epigraph for the first chapter of Book 4 explains that the epoch for this calendar is Ã…r Odin, or Ã…rO, beginning in Harpa Ã…rO 0. The timestamp for that chapter is dated Harpa Ã…rO -1.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: When Mildew tortures Hiccup, he starts by ripping out at least one of Hiccup's fingernails.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Hiccup and Stoick do a lot of practical things for their people. Stoick resolves issues and makes sure his peoples' wellbeing are looked after. Hiccup, in addition to his duties as the Herald, helps manage the dragons and creates lots of useful inventions. Magnus wants to follow their example, but Einar tries to keep him as a Puppet King.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1eed1d03	type	Anti-Air
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1eed1d03	comment	Anti-Air: With the taming of dragons, weapons that can hit a Dragon Rider and their dragon in the sky becomes very important in warfare. Hiccup came up with many of them back when Berk was fighting dragons such as the Mangler, and Mac Bethad's spies managed to copy the plans, and Mac Bethad then gave out copies of the plans to every major king and noble he could reach. The cause of the New Year's Fire Rout was due to Mulan using Fatal Fireworks against the Pechenegs.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1f60add	type	Locked in the Dungeon
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_1f60add	comment	Locked in the Dungeon: Sigurd gets tossed into a Byzantine dungeon by the Catapan of Italia, George Maniakes, when he refuses to turn traitor and help make Maniakes the new Emperor. The small cell he's given has a full view of the torture chamber, and the begging for mercy from the neighboring cell terrifies Sigurd.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Alvin the Treacherous is more in line with his book counterpart than his incarnation in Dragons: Riders of Berk. For example: He trained/tortured Heather into becoming one of his spies, killed and replaced the king of Vedrarfjord, and, once the Hooligans arrived to deal with him once and for all, he set his own fortress on fire to cover his escape, killing at least two underlings with his own hands while doing so.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_213dc284	type	Closest Thing We Got
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_213dc284	comment	Closest Thing We Got: The reason Stoick picked Heather to be his spymaster in spite of her lack of any training for it is because she is one of the few the Hooligans had available to have any training in spycraft whatsoever.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2168c968	type	Villains Learn Faster
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2168c968	comment	Villains Learn Faster: The Pecheneg Civil War allows the Pechenegs to test and experiment with tactics useful against enemy dragon riders. By the time their Civil War ends, they come out the other side with a lot of experience in combat against enemy dragon riders, an improvement Sigurd notices when they attack Constantinople.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_229c2ec8	comment	After the training is complete, Michael sends Sigurd on Uriah Gambit after Uriah Gambit, hoping he would die for his earlier defiance of him, even though again, this would cause him and the Byzantines to lose their best dragon expert.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Used all over the place: One example is Hiccup coming up with the idea for the Firecocks in Chapter 2, and then using them in Chapter 25 to help defeat Harthacnut's navy. In Chapter 10, one of Mac Bethad's spies mentions fighting a shieldmaiden Astrid reminds him of. The shieldmaiden turns out to be Jonna, who recognizes him 106 chapters later. While en route to Constantinople, Snotlout trades a dragon scale to a merchant. That scale makes its way to the Pechenegs with Drago in attentance as proof that dragons were tameable. In Chapter 22, the Pechenegs kill Kormak's brother. In Chapter 119, Sigurd uses this fact to set Kormak on the Pecheneg Dragon Riders to allow the rest of the Byzantine Dragon Riders to get to the Black Sea nest to warn its Thengill. Berk made a lot of letters inviting Jews to their territories. One of those letters makes it all the way to the Kaifeng Jews in China, giving the Song Dynasty information on Berk and their friendly dragon riders while they try to prepare a response for the hostile dragon riders of the Pechenegs. Another letter made it to Timbuktu, leading some Jews from there to travel to Berk, and Berk to open trade relations with Ghana. In Chapter 125, Stoick and Bladewit discuss the rules for the members of a clan to split off and form a new clan. This comes into play in Chapter 147 where the Jorgensons sick of Clodgall's rule use those rules to escape his tyranny. In Chapter 3, Hiccup made a toy for the dragons where they use a catapult to launch themselves. Exactly 150 chapter later, Hiccup uses it as a tool of war to launch the Byzantine Dragon Riders to combat the Pecheneg Dragon Riders.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_23153741	type	Suddenly Significant City
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_23153741	comment	Suddenly Significant City: Berk was previously just another Viking village, that just happened to fight dragons. Then they tamed the dragons and it suddenly became the capital of the Kingdom of Berk a few short years later. At the start, it had 712 Vikings per the Chapter 42 epigraph, and by the time Mac Bethad visited them for the first time, it's a full fledged city with thousands of residents and far wealthier than Mac Bethad's own capital.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: The assassin at the 1042 Thawfest doses cups of Eirish ale with refined Oleander, trying to poison Hiccup, Astrid and Wulfhild, and does succeed at poisoning a visiting Norse princess. Some of the pranks against Heather include spiking her food with spoiled meat, and (in the case of Thicknut's daughter) putting sand in one of Fishlegs' drinks.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_23568a2a	type	Adaptational Job Change
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_23568a2a	comment	Adaptational Job Change: Viggo and Ryker are still dragon hunters (at first), but they work for the Catholic Church. Grimmel is also in the church's employ, as a priest, rather than a legendary dragon hunter being employed by warlords like he is in canon. Drago Bludvist was previously a caravan guard before becoming a dragon hunter, and then a dragon warlord like in the movie.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_23cc7485	comment	I Want Grandkids: When Hiccup tells Stoick that he is going to be a grandfather (twice), his celebratory reaction is predictable, to say the least. Also the mothers of both Cami and Merida are really pushy about the subject after they marry. It's a factor in their deciding to pursue Eret and, when everyone is on board, making him their concubine.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_24067bb9	comment	Related in the Adaptation: Gothi has no known family in canon, here she is Stoick's aunt and Hiccup's great aunt. In canon Valka had no known blood relatives beside her son, here she was Gobber's grand-niece. This also makes Gobber Hiccup's great-granduncle. Gobber in canon had no known living blood relatives. Here he is the much younger half-brother of Spitelout's father making him Spitelout's uncle and Snotlout's great-uncle. Dogsbreath and Snotlout/Sigurd are cousins here. Mildew used to be a Hofferson before being banished from his clan, and is Astrid's great-granduncle.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Dragon eggs explode not because they're hatching, but because the dragon foetus has developed some fault that will prevent it from hatching normally, effectively the dragon version of a miscarriage. In Chapter 98, one of the first eggs of the year's latest clutch to explode is one of Stormfly's and Toothless'.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: After Magnus woos Ruffnut with an original love song, she counters it with "For the Dancing and the Dreaming" from How to Train Your Dragon 2. In Chapter 17, Hiccup echoes his sarcastic line from the first movie: Here, Astrid and Cami are second cousins, no-doubt a reference to Astrid being the closest equivalent to Camicazi the film-franchise possesses. One of the dragons used in training is named Horrorcow, the same as Fishlegs's dragon in the books. This one is a different breed and sex, though. Dragon eggs do explode, as they did in Gift of the Night Fury, complete with Astrid shouting "THE EGGS EXPLODE!", but with the twist that this is not due to them hatching; instead, eggs with developmental disorders of their hydrocarbon organ system (the organs that let them breath fire) explode about three months into their seven month gestational cycle. In Chapter 42, when asked by Einar what he wants out of life, Tuffnut responds with "a finely crafted mace and a chicken". In Chapter 46, Astrid asks Hiccup why he's hesitant to let Wulfhild into his heart and into their bed. The following exchange calls back a pivotal moment from the first movie: And then they quote word-for-word their exchange from that scene. Astrid's unsuccessful attempt at making a steamed milk beverage during Yule is mentioned in Chapter 54, alluding to her Yak Nog recipe in Gift of the Night Fury. People in-universe are iffy as to whether the hive queen was red or green (with at least one family of rumors using this as the basis for there being two hive lords that Hiccup fought, with him killing one by blowing it up from the inside and killing the second by destroying its wings mid-flight). Gobber is the Dragon Healer in line with him being the Dragon Dentist in canon. In Chapter 71, when faced with Father Henriksson's machinations, Wulfhild asks, "Now what will you do about this?" Astrid comments, "That's usually my line." At the end of Chapter 73, after Hiccup and his allies defeat the Eirish army attacking Vedrarfjord, Hiccup looks at the devastated army and sadly mutters, "I did this." Drago's attack on the tribal chief's meeting is similar to the one in Stoick's flashback in the second movie. Chapter 83's epigraph reveals that Hiccup will have a descendant named Kamikaze â€“ who is also Fishlegs' descendant, to boot, going by the clan name. In Chapter 113, in a nod to the movie she's from, Mulan disguises herself as a man named Ping. As a further nod to the source, Chapter 140 sees Mushu declare dishonor on a stubborn dragon similar to how he declared dishonor on Mulan and her horse in their first meeting. In Chapter 117, Astrid kills Mac Bethad. Although the prophecy doesn't exist here, he was still killed by "no man of woman born", i.e. a woman.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_26ad2fa8	comment	Fictional Geneva Conventions: In the future of the story, multiple international treaties have declared the intentional killing of a Buffalord dragon a war-crime because Buffalord saliva have incredible healing properties and killing one would only serve to promote diseases.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_26e2cc1	comment	The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction: Zig-Zagged. Heather is initially given to Fishlegs as a pleasure thrall by Adalwin, however the Hooligans hate slavery and immediately free her. She starts getting close to Fishlegs anyway, only for her to turn out to be a spy sent by Adalwin to steal information and dragon eggs. Fishlegs finds himself falling for her, though he's always been insecure about his attractiveness. But then she ends up falling In Love with the Mark and has a Heelâ€“Face Turn after her espionage is revealed (though she was never truly evil, only Forced into Evil). After all that, Fishlegs still loves her, but doesn't believe she wants him for real, until she spells it out for him.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_273af360	type	The Stations of the Canon
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_273af360	comment	The Stations of the Canon: Downplayed; like in the show, Alvin wants to steal Berk's dragon-riding secrets, and sends Heather as a spy to do that , but the means, method and outcome of that parallel are completely redone. The avalanche from Animal House is also given a nod, but instead of being a few seconds of Ship Tease like it was in the show, it instead is treated as a life-threatening incident that eats up most of a chapter with search and rescue efforts. The discovery of Gronckle Iron (here retconned as being steel, as opposed to some sort of super metal) being the result of Fishlegs and Meatlug indulging in some stress-induced binge-eating. Mildew's use of Blue Oleander and his later betrayal of Berk (albeit to Mac Bethad instead of Alvin). The back story of Mildew includes him framing a dragon of burning down a building in Berk much like how he did in In Dragons We Trust complete with most of the tribe convinced that a dragon was responsible and the ones that don't aren't able to prove it was Mildew.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_27705cf8	comment	Textile Work Is Feminine: When asked by Phlegma to help invent something to reduce work time with sewing and tailoring, Hiccup is left clueless for the first time, having never been taught anything having to do with sewing other than leatherwork. When Astrid explains to him, having been taught feminine work in-spite of her shield-maiden identity, how much work goes into making clothes, Hiccup is left aghast with the amount of effort it takes.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_27a047a6	comment	Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born: Ruffnut finds that twins run in the family when she gives birth to both a boy and a girl.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: The Hooligans, due to having outlawed thralldom over a century earlier, and with nearly everyone in the tribe being either a freed slave or descended from freed slaves, have a particular dislike of the institution of chattel slavery, to the point that 'Sigurd' immediately orders that all slaves in his new territories be freed once he learns of their existence despite the potential challenges this will present to running his territories. Implied to be a major part of why the Berkians were willing to take in the dragons at the end of HTTYD 1, as being freed slaves of the Green Death allowed Berks to understand and bond with the dragons on an emphathetic level. The epigraph for chapter 127 called the use of slavery a black mark for both humans and dragons.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: Hiccup and Astrid tend to exchange these whenever they are flirting.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2a6ed9ec	type	Dragons Are Demonic
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2a6ed9ec	comment	In the early part of the story, Christians view dragons as Satan's servants. This attitude starts changing, and it many cases, outright reverses itself with dragons being compared to angels and saints as the story progresses. After Fearless's sacrifice allows Hiccup to bring back Buffalords, whose saliva is a Panacea, Fearless starts to become something of a folk saint.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The Hooligan Tribe is slowly becoming widely feared by the rest of Europe, especially the Christian part of it, to the point that those that deliberately attack them without a huge army of their own are considered Too Dumb to Live. As things stand, Rome, one of the centres of Christianity, is too afraid to actually attack them and are all too happy to accept peace. Toothless in particular tends to reduce brave men into quivering wrecks the moment they hear the unmistakable sound of a Night Fury. In fact, the entire species is feared and centuries later, nations that have confirmed members of the species are at an edge compared to those without, even if they have other dragon breeds.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: During the Battle of the Sound of Berk one of Earl Godwin's men, upon hearing Toothless' diving screech, wets his undergarments in fear.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2b3e7d3e	type	Sketchy Successor
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2b3e7d3e	comment	Sketchy Successor: Snotlout/Sigurd Trondsson arrives in Constantinople just in time for the death of the current Emperor, Michael IV, and quickly ends up getting in over his head in imperial politics due to the new Emperor, Michael V, being The Caligula. Some history lessons from Sigurd's mentors make it clear that Michael V is just the latest and worst of several such successors over the last decade and a half, since the reign of Emperor Basil II. In that time, the Empire had gone through three other Emperors (Constantine VIII, Romanos III and Michael IV), with each one being arguably worse than their predecessor.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2bb06191	type	Adaptational Sexuality
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2bb06191	comment	Adaptational Sexuality: While in the series Astrid is shown to have a Single-Target Sexuality towards Hiccup, here it extends to Wulfhild when she joins them in their marital bed. In Brave, the closest thing to attraction Merida shows in the film is an astonished look she gives when a large, battle-hard beef-cake is confused for the heir of the Clan Dingwall. Here, she becomes Cami's lover and wife. And later, they both invite Eret to become their male concubine.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: It is noted that while Bewilderbeasts are powerful, their size and slow speed means that they're better suited for naval defence rather than as part of an attack force.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2c136406	type	Standard Royal Court
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2c136406	comment	Standard Royal Court: Given the abundance of characters who are royals and other aristocrats, there's plenty shown courts. Consistent among most is that besides the ruler, there's a marshall in charge of the army, a spymaster in charge of espionage, a steward in charge of finance and other duties, and a herald to be their ambassador. Berk's Royal Court also has the Master of the Dragon, who is in charge of all dragon-related issues, and High Almoner, who is in charge of making sure there is enough food and beds to go around for all citizens and visitors. The Pechenegs also have the Dragon Warlord, a position filled by Drago Bludvist, which combines the positions of marshal and Master of the Dragon into one role.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2c385759	comment	Massive Multiplayer Crossover: The main premise is How to Train Your Dragon placed in the medieval era, but characters from Brave and Mulan have also been adapted as major figures in the story.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2c437b06	comment	Violently Protective Girlfriend: Astrid, in spades. Wulfhild has her moments too.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2d047747	comment	People in-universe are iffy as to whether the hive queen was red or green (with at least one family of rumors using this as the basis for there being two hive lords that Hiccup fought, with him killing one by blowing it up from the inside and killing the second by destroying its wings mid-flight).
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Ruffnut is an aspiring skald and, after relocating to Norway with her husband King Magnus, establishes St. Olaf's Hospital. Tuffnut proves to be surprisingly adept at learning languages, rescues Marte from an abusive husband, and refuses to take advantage of her when she offers herself to him in gratitude.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: Mac Bethad manages to pull one of these off between Berk and England, framing the latter for luring Hiccup and co. into a trap, prompting the former to declare war on Harthacnut.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2df4fa08	comment	Omniglot: Invoked between Tuffnut and Ruffnut where they have a bet going on to see who can learn more languages. Isioma can speak many African and Middle Eastern languages, and quickly picks up Norse from Tuffnut in the time it takes to travel from Ghana to Berk.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2e3a46ba	comment	Second Coming: Heather brings up the idea that - while not believing it herself as she is not a Christian - Hiccup follows many of the same criteria that Jesus did and thus could be considered by some people to be the Second Coming. Wulfhild is not amused.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2fa6b075	comment	Several Byzantine emperors were little more than puppets for John the Eunuch. He had first assumed power by introducing one of his brothers to the Empress Zoe, who took him as a lover and had her husband assassinated in order to marry him, making the brother into the Emperor Michael IV, and John into his puppetmaster. And when Micheal IV got sick and died, John suggested to the Empress that she adopt his nephew as her son in order to maintain his control.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_2fd7200b	comment	Hiccup's daughter Valka is named after her grandmother, who unbeknownst to everyone is still alive.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3012325a	comment	Exotic Extended Marriage: Berk and the future North Sea Empire allows polyamory. One epigraph notes that the record for the largest legally wed group is nine.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Every action Mac Bethad takes to subvert and destroy Berk to prevent them from attacking him are the very actions that provoke them into attacking him and cost him his life in a fatal duel with Astrid. King Henry assumes Berk plans to annex Normandy and Breizh, and takes actions to prevent that. However, Berk had no such plans and his ambush of King Stoick based on his erroneous assumptions causes those two duchies to secede from him and join Berk.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: It is mentioned in one of the Epigraphs that the reason Mildew was not outright banished from the tribe was that he'd been one of Berk's most prolific and skilled dragonslayers in his prime. Even then, however, he'd been banished from his original clan (Hoffersons) sixty-five years earlier, and was a pariah instead of an elite due to his appalling personality. Padraig has a tendency to make others feel foolish, if not outright state it, and more than one person dread written correspondence from him, but, he can back up his intelligence and his reforms to the Bed and Food Rights system for efficiency work.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: For all that Einar is the man who grabbed power over Norway, unlike Henricksson, he isn't a hypocritical fanatical fundamentalist. Although Alvin's training of his spies was brutal, ToirÃ©asa realizes when watching Dagur and Savage torture a prisoner that at least Alvin's torture was always for a purpose, whereas the current torture is just for the sake of inflicting pain. She later learns that Dagur actually doesn't approve of Savage's more ruthless actions, such as attacking small villages with overwhelming force, and Dagur has even avoided raping any women while being ruthless enough to imply that he'd kill anyone who questioned his attitude. When Drago is informed that he needs a woman to legitimise his position as the new Kagan, he immediately rejects the idea of taking the Kagan's widow for himself (although nobody was suggesting that as an option given her age), and is uncomfortable with taking another woman because she's so much younger than him.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: Hiccup develops droppable firebombs early on, and later, when an army shows up outside of the walls of the city he's in, they find out that a human-wave attack doesn't work when the genius you're attacking just made the world's first INCENDIARY MINEFIELD.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_31c4280	comment	Conscription: Harthacnut's initial attack on Berk included about three-thousand conscripts. Markus is one of them, and his experiences demonstrates just how poorly they're treated. Freemen and freewomen of Berk's allied clans owe sixty days of service to the Chief and another forty to their Clanhead per year, which can be discharged in a variety of ways, including being called to arms. They do not carry forward from year to year, so if they are not used up, they are lost. After the Citizenship Conclave concludes and the proposals ratified, the obliged days of service are modified. The Civis class owes the Royal House fifty days of service per year, the Specialist and Lessor Nobles classes forty-five days, and the Allied Clans owes fifty days. As before, any days not used up are considered lost.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_31d6fd00	type	Legend Fades to Myth
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_31d6fd00	comment	Legend Fades to Myth: In Chapter 82, the Berkians discover a dragon nest with the skeleton of an Alpha that was a nine-headed dragon. Fishlegs speculates that it was the origin of the myth of the Hydra that Heracles fought in Classical Mythology, particularly since eight of its heads were cut off while the ninth was crushed. Lampshaded by one of the epigraphs, which wonders how many dragons were the basis of their respective myths, and which were named for their resemblances to pre-existing legends.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Literally, since he's a merchant with a ship. In Chapter 2, Trader Johann tells Hiccup and Astrid in no uncertain terms that they're an ideal match:
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_322f6b34	type	Angsty Surviving Twin
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_322f6b34	comment	Angsty Surviving Twin: During Sigurd's trip south to the Roman Empire, the trade caravan he's part of gets attacked by raiders. Thanks to him and Hookfang, his people mostly get through unscathed, but one of the guards, Ondott, gets killed because he didn't see the horse-archers coming, due to Hookfang blocking the line of sight. His twin brother, Kormak, blames Sigurd for his loss, not seeming to care or even be able to acknowledge that things would have been worse if not for Sigurd.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_32ec6393	type	Shotgun Wedding
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_32ec6393	comment	Shotgun Wedding: After Lopsides and her lover Beorn the sailor are caught in the act, he is "made to do the honorable thing".
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_34602d5a	type	Hegemonic Empire
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_34602d5a	comment	Hegemonic Empire: Starting with Veisafjord conquering themselves and giving themselves to Hiccup, Berk found itself with expanding territories with people who want to be their vassals due to their high standards-of-living.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_35850a4f	type	The Fellowship Has Ended
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_35850a4f	comment	The Fellowship Has Ended: The original six dragon riders already had a more distant relationship than in canon, given Snotlout's frustration with following Hiccup's orders, but they permanently 'break up' after the trip to Norway to meet with Magnus, with the twins remaining in Norway after Ruffnut marries Magnus while Snotlout relocates to the Byzantine Roman Empire to find a new place for himself, leaving just Hiccup, Astrid, and Fishlegs in Berk.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: Ruffnut and Magnus the Good. They barely knew each other for a week or so before the latter proposed. As of Chapter 60, Cami proposes to Merida. They knew each other as long as the previous example did, perhaps less.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_362461f6	comment	Heather was originally the daughter of an infamously bloodthirsty Viking Chief before she was given to an ally as their ward at only six years old. When she was ten, her birth father died and then she was eventually sold into slavery when her village was raided. And that was before Aldalwin had her trained to be a Sex Slave and spy.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_369c0d71	type	Voluntary Vassal
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_369c0d71	comment	Voluntary Vassal: Hiccup goes to pay a diplomatic visit to the petty king of Veisafjord (modern day Wexford, Ireland). The residents of the city promptly overthrow the king and offer the city to Hiccup, who is flabbergasted. Later on, Conchobar ua Mael Sechlainn, the rÃ ruÃrech of Mide, approaches Stoick to petition for annexation, as his kingdom had a poor harvest, prompting Conchobar, after consulting his vassals, to swallow his pride and ask Stoick for help.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_38072b53	type	Wrong Assumption
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_38072b53	comment	Wrong Assumption: King Adalwin ua Imair (real identity Alvin the Treacherous) tries to send an envoy to apologize for the attempted theft of Meatlug and attempted murder of her rider Fishlegs and to plant a spy in Berk to feed him intel and information on Berk and their dragon-taming skills by giving the tribe a whole ship's worth of thralls. Unfortunately, they did not count on the fact that unlike most of the rest of the world, Berk is fervently anti-slavery. It also does not help that Fishlegs was far from the kind of viking who would use a pleasure thrall, and is so tender-hearted that their spy Heather would eventually fall in-love with him and lead to Berk invading his city. Also they mixed up Fishlegs and Meatlug's names.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: The epigraph for Chapter 7 talks about England's burh and herepath system that was notably effective in repelling viking raids, up until the vikings tamed dragons. The opening scene for that chapter then shows Snotlout and other members of his clan about to raid one of said burhs. The epigraph for Chapter 78 mentions that since the only thing that can counter a dragon-riding force on anything resembling equal footing is another dragon-riding force, everyone had two options. That they could either have dragons, or they will be beholden to one with dragons. The opening scene then shows Drago strong-arming several chiefs into joining his Khagan and punishing them severely for refusing.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_382bdb6b	type	Volcano Lair
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_382bdb6b	comment	Volcano Lair: Dragons tend to make their homes in volcanoes because they need the heat to incubate their eggs. There are risks with doing this as an eruption could wipe out the entire nest, which is why the Hooligan dragons like the Brooderies the Hooligan humans set up as there's no risk of a decimation event like with volcanic nests.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_38b33e8d	type	Love Epiphany
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_38b33e8d	comment	Love Epiphany: About a month after she becomes his concubine, Wulfhild realises that if Hiccup wasn't already courting Astrid, she'd have asked Magnus and Einar for a Perfectly Arranged Marriage with him. Even with the initial discomfort from having the situation forced on them, Wulfhild still likes the idea of bedding Hiccup, giving birth to his children, and living with her best friends.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_38e5177d	type	Jews Love to Argue
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_38e5177d	comment	Jews Love to Argue: In chapter 78, when Esther arrives in Vedrarfjord, she is shocked to find a rabbi arguing with a Christian priest, and even more shocked to learn that the two men are actually on friendly terms and they have regular theological arguments together on a daily basis, except for Shabbos and Sunday, with the loser buying dinner.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_39441318	type	Horny Vikings
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_39441318	comment	Horny Vikings: Berk in all its horned helm glory. Except they no longer raid, no longer practice the jarl-carl-thrall system, and there's quite a bit of Scots/Irish/Anglo blood in the mix as well. Most other Scandinavians have dropped Thor's hammer for Christ's cross, but not the Berkians. They're dragon horns, by the way.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_39b7a7cd	type	Amazon Chaser
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_39b7a7cd	comment	Amazon Chaser: Sigurd shows genuine interest in Sophia after she fights off an assassin, and it's later observed that he only shows clear interest in any woman (or man) capable of fighting him.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Dagur the Deranged shows boyish glee during his stay at Berk and becoming enraged once he finds out the games aren't blood-sports and are actually relatively bloodless, nevermind his very short temper and laughing inappropriately at jokes that only he finds funny. He also killed his father and gloated about it, and helps his clan engage in torture, slaughter, and war crimes. Though it's later revealed he's secretly much more conflicted about all of this than he lets on.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Fritjof clan Jorgenson and his dragon, the Zippleback Nott & Delling, are both wounded, and the English army has almost overtaken Hiccup's party. So the two of them turn back, facing over a hundred mounted cavalry to buy the rest of the party time. They die, but a valley full of Zippleback gas wiped out the majority of the cavalry, sending the rest running for their lives.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The epigraphs reveal a few things ahead of time: Chapter 60's epigraph reveal that Stoick will somehow lose an eye and a hand and will hire a woman of a different faith who never married. That woman is Esther. Chapter 79's epigraph reveal that Mac Bethad will die in a duel with Astrid, with Chapter 57's epigraph dating this to 18 April 1043. We know both Valka and Asta survive their illness from the epigraphs of Chapters 93 and 94, which give their death dates many decades in the future. We know Hiccup survives, from many entries mentioning his future actions and future children.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: According to one of Mac Bethad's spies, Toothless played a prank on another dragon during the first Thawfest in the story. No details were provided. Tuffnut somehow set the stables in Nidaros on fire. During the second Thawfest in the story, Hiccup recalls one of Cami's more elaborate pranks from his childhood. No details are given except the line, "He still was not sure where Cami had found that much butterâ€¦" Roger de Montgomery said something to Mjolnir that he hopes the dragon understands was just a joke.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Chapter 82 has Toothless muse that so many dragons chose to come back to Berk after the defeat of the Green Death (known to the dragons as 'Fire-Hunger') only because it was such a cruel Alpha that they felt virtually any kind of authority had to be better than it, and even then the new arrangement only worked because 'Fire-Hunger' was so bad and so many walkers were willing to try and be better 'masters' to the dragons.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Unprepared medieval-era conventional forces tend to take heavy and disproportionate losses against dragon-riders, and even those ones that are prepared tend to also take heavy losses. Anyone who goes up against Hiccup and backs him into a corner also tends to take disproportionate losses without Hiccup losing a single person. The comparative death tolls speaks for themselves. In major battles with Berk, the other party could lose at least one hundred soldiers and only kill one Hooligan and their dragon. The Byzantine emissary sent to Berk reported to Theodora his shock at the fact that Berk fought four major battles against forces that vastly outnumbered them, and won all four.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3d7b1b61	type	Twice Shy
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3d7b1b61	comment	Twice Shy: Both Mulan and Shang are interested in each other, but have no idea the other reciprocates.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3e87fc1f	type	Psychological Projection
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3e87fc1f	comment	Psychological Projection: This is the crux of why Berk has so many enemies. Mac Bethad, among others, cannot believe that the Hooligans are genuinely peaceful since they themselves would be using dragons to wipe out their opponents.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In Dragons: Race To The Edge, Trader Johann turned out to be one of the main villains. In this series, he's an ally of Berk, and Word of God has confirmed that he will not turn out to be a villain later, as that character twist was considered to be both lazy and insulting (particularly as Johann displays a range of features and traits that are associated with antisemitic stereotypes, which are then compounded by the character twist into something that "makes the character into something straight out of literal Nazi propaganda").
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Snotlout and Hiccup (plus Astrid) are having a three-part contest of strength, speed, and wisdom in that order, best two out three wins. When Astrid and Hiccup win the first two (Astrid taking the strength test on Hiccup's behalf as he isn't a good fighter and is still trying to cope with his recent lost leg while Hiccup beats Snotlout in a dragon race) Snotlout still insists on doing the wisdom test. The test giver explains that in attempting to do so he has already failed, as a wiser man would have known when he was beat and just walked away, particularly when he was facing being tested in his weakest area. Snotlout in his arrogance and stubbornness manages to lose all three tests humiliating himself even further.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_40cc43af	type	Easy Communication
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_40cc43af	comment	A villager in Glenfinnan asks Hiccup to deliver a package to her daughter, giving Hiccup the idea to set up the Dragon Mail, a massive communication network that invokes Easy Communication in medieval times that massively impacted the world.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4133a8bc	type	Forgets to Eat
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4133a8bc	comment	Forgets to Eat: One of the Jews who moved to Vedrarfjord, Niv ben Shelomo, has been known to forget to eat by being so engrossed in his studies.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: Shows up twice. First suggested as the tactic of choice by Spitelout when the Anglo-Danish fleet attacks, reasoning that the the archers aboard the ships couldn't kill enough of them fast enough. Later in the fic, this tactic was used by the Eirish during their attack on Vedrarfjord, specifically of the human-wave variety. As there were a limited number of defenders protecting the city (about fifty or so, facing over two thousand attackers), their plan was to rush the walls and climb up over them to overwhelm the defenders through sheer numbers. It was their bad luck that Hiccup invented the minefield in response to the threat.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_42002878	type	I Am X, Son of Y
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_42002878	comment	I Am X, Son of Y: Due to naming conventions in the era, patronymics are fairly typical. Formal Hooligan names have a personal name, patronymic, and clan (and position), with Hiccup's full formal name being Hiccup 'Horrendous' Stoicksson clanheir Haddock of the Hooligans. In one chapter, Fishlegs tells Heather about his great-grandfather, a Jewish scribe named Dror ben Ezra, with his people's version of the trope. However, the Jewish women have matronymics (i.e. Esther bat Rivkah), which may be a bit of Artistic License â€“ History. Eirish and some Albans use mac or nic, so Dagur's full name is Dagur mac Oswald clan Murchadh. The only cultures we see that seem to use family names instead of patronymics are the Greeks, the Chinese, and some of the Normans (like Viggo).
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_42224ac2	type	The Good Kingdom
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_42224ac2	comment	The Good Kingdom: With their steadily-rising political standing in the eyes of the rest of the world, good relations with Norway and other smaller kingdoms, the ingenuity - both for domestic purposes and for security against invasion - that Hiccup's innovations and their domesticated dragon population provide, their semi-democratic system of decision-making, their complete abhorrence to slavery of any kind and Martial Pacifist philosophy, Berk is well on their way to becoming a kingdom where most citizens are happy and provided for.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed; like in the show, Alvin wants to steal Berk's dragon-riding secrets, and sends Heather as a spy to do that , but the means, method and outcome of that parallel are completely redone.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_44796d0f	type	No Guy Wants an Amazon
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_44796d0f	comment	No Guy Wants an Amazon: In Constantinople, Sophia is looked down on and considered unattractive due to her being unfeminine by their standards. Part of the reason she genuinely likes Sigurd is that he considers her Amazonian traits attractive.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4484e50a	type	I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4484e50a	comment	I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: Heather's training at Alvin's and his wife Delilah's hands involved her parents getting beaten for every failure on Heather's part.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Taskill reflects that Mac Bethad's downfall could have been avoided had Taskill recognised that they were both being manipulated by Mildew.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4503f7d4	comment	Who Watches the Watchmen?: During her and Fishlegs' private discussion, Bladewit mentions this as being why she's against just giving out dragons; as it stands, there's no way of ensuring that the dragons aren't being abused that isn't flat out tyrannical.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: The 'Nightscreamer' that has been attacking Mildew's new village is actually Toothless's sister.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Stoick and Fergus become fast friends, due to the latter coming the closest to beating the former in an arm-wrestling match.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_46b62ac8	comment	Outcast Refuge: Berk has hated slavery for generations, giving freedom to any thrall who managed to make it to their territory. Before the end of the Dragon War they would sometimes go on raids to "steal" thralls and free them, inducting them into the tribe if they wished, and a large percentage of them have thrall ancestry. They extend their emancipation policy to all their territories, and thralls from all over Eire start fleeing to the cities under Berk's control. They also declare that Jews have an open invitation to settle in their lands, in recognition of their oppressed status in much of Europe, and because generations ago a Jew helped the Hooligan Tribe by teaching them all to read and write. After King Magnus the Good legalizes paganism and enforces religious tolerance in his kingdom (largely due to Berk's influence), a group of Polish pagans ask to settle there. He grants permission, which makes the church none too happy. The Bog-Burglars began as a group of Norsewomen fleeing their patriarchal community to found a home where they could worship their goddesses freely, and soon attracted women fleeing unwanted marriages or Honor-Related Abuse. As part of their integration into the Hooligans, the Bog-Burglars require them to keep their law offering sanctuary to any woman who wants it.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_47f524ff	type	Fantastic Religious Weirdness
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_47f524ff	comment	Fantastic Religious Weirdness: In the early part of the story, Christians view dragons as Satan's servants. This attitude starts changing, and it many cases, outright reverses itself with dragons being compared to angels and saints as the story progresses. After Fearless's sacrifice allows Hiccup to bring back Buffalords, whose saliva is a Panacea, Fearless starts to become something of a folk saint. Once dragon riders visit Muslim lands, Muslim scholars start furiously debating the propriety of the use of dragon-flights to perform the hajj. After it becomes known Buffalord saliva is a potent cure for many ailments, the Jewish community in Berk's territories ask the Rabbis if it's kosher (since it's from a non-kosher animal). They all answer yes, citing pikuach nefesh where saving a life takes priority over nearly every law. And then they have further discussions on what counts as a severe enough illness to justify using it, and if an illness that starts out small but can become worse counts... Esther's family argue over how to best be compliant with the prohibitions of Shabbat in the context of taking care of dragons and handling their products. Macarius asks the monks teaching him to read whether dragons have souls. After they discover Florian, the dragon he's been hiding, this becomes more than a simple theoretical question. His High Holiness Michael Keroularios, Patriarch of Constantinople, considers Macarius' and Florian's bonding, away from Constantinople, to be a unique opportunity for him to find out how dragons fit into Orthodox Greek Christian theology after he and many others realise the dragons are smarter than they thought.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4866ff50	type	Fantastic Medicinal Bodily Product
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4866ff50	comment	Fantastic Medicinal Bodily Product: Many of the dragons produce substances (mostly venoms, but some tears and salivas) of medicinal value, including anesthetics, heart medications, paralytics, sterilizing agents, and even abortificants.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_487b1e5b	type	Marry for Love
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_487b1e5b	comment	Marry for Love: Hiccup turns down all politically advantageous marriage proposals in order to marry Astrid, the girl he loves. He literally pays the king's ransom on top of that just to show the world just how much she means to him.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Several historical characters die sooner in this fic than they did in Real Life. Also a few characters from the HTTYD franchise die sooner here than they did in canon, assuming they died at all. Historical characters Einar Thambarskelfir will die in 1047, three years before his historical death date. Sigvatr Tordarson will die in 1044, one year before his historical death date. Argyrus dies in 1042, twenty six years before his historical death date. Mac Bethad will die in 1043 in a duel with Astrid, fourteen years before his historical death date. Siward, Earl of Northumbria dies in 1042, thirteen years before his historical death date. Echmarcach mac Ragnaill dies in 1042, either twenty two or twenty three years before his historical death date.note His exact historical death date is unclear, being either 1064 or 1065. ZoÃ« Porphyrogenita dies in 1042, eight years before her historical death date. Count Eudon dies in 1042, thirty seven years before his historical death date. Conan II dies in 1042, twenty four years before his historical death date. Thanks to this Tumblr chat◊ we learn that several historical characters died during the attempted attack on Vedrarfjord in chapter 73. Diarmait mac MÃ¡el na mBÃ³ dies in 1042, thirty years before his historical death date. Donnchad mac Briain dies in 1042, twenty two years before his historical death date. Art Uallach Ua Ruairc dies in 1042, four years before his historical death date. Diarmaid mac Tadgh Ua Ceallaigh dies in 1042, twenty three years before his historical death date. Eochaid mac Niall dies in 1042, twenty years before his historical death date. Niall mac Eochada dies in 1042, twenty one years before his historical death date. KÃ¼l BilgÃ¤ Tengri Khan dies in 1043, at least twenty five years before he died in real life.note His last historical appearance was in 1068 when he was succeeded by Tengri BÃ¼gÃ¼ il BilgÃ¤ Arslan Tengri Uighur TÃ¤rkÃ¤n but it is unknown if he died then or if he lived past that point. HTTYD characters In canon Oswald the Agreeable wasn't killed by his son Dagur, here he was. In canon the fate of the Screaming Death post-TV show is unknown; here he is killed by Toothless's sister Fearless causing a volcanic eruption. In canon, Toothless's Nemesis's (here named Mold) fate post-TV show is unknown; here he is killed when Toothless's sister Fearless sacrifices herself to kill her former nest-lord. In canon, Mildew's fate was left unconfirmed after Berk made peace with the Outcasts; here he is killed when Toothless's sister Fearless sacrifices herself to kill her former nest-lord. In canon Savage's fate post-TV show is unknown; here he is killed by Jacob stabbing him in the back with a sword. In canon Spitelout never died; here he is killed in battle against the Francians. In canon Kingstail never died; here he is killed in battle against the Francians. In canon Thornado never died; here he is killed during King Henry's ambush.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_48da1453	comment	Gender Reveal: Gudmund Hallvarsson is actually Heidrun HallvarsdÃ³ttir, a fact she reveals after kissing Sigurd, and while he's sputtering in surprise and confusion, still not getting it, decides to take drastic measures and pulls off her shirt, just to get it through his very dense head.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_48da376b	type	Game Changer
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_48da376b	comment	Chapter 25: Hide, And Pray That It Does Not Find You. Not only does Berk fight off an army that outnumbers their people ten to one â€“ and that count includes the tribe's children â€“ Hiccup creates air-dropped bombs to bombard the Anglo-Dane fleet, permanently upsetting the political and strategic status quo.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_48dbd87b	type	Peaceful in Death
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_48dbd87b	comment	Peaceful in Death: Fritjof clan Jorgenson; when Hiccup and his party find Fritjof's body, he's smiling.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Heather and Mhairi are both happy with their adoptive parents. In chapter 98, William accepts being adopted by Stoick into Clan Haddock, and Stoick will happily teach him how to be a leader.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4a8fd6a0	comment	The Bog-Burglars began as a group of Norsewomen fleeing their patriarchal community to found a home where they could worship their goddesses freely, and soon attracted women fleeing unwanted marriages or Honor-Related Abuse. As part of their integration into the Hooligans, the Bog-Burglars require them to keep their law offering sanctuary to any woman who wants it.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4bb6d104	comment	Shipping Torpedo: Ruffnut makes it clear that she recognises that Snotlout is only flirting with her now because Astrid is no longer 'available', but in turn notes that she isn't interested in Fishlegs or Hiccup either, only considering herself remotely 'jealous' of Astrid because Hiccup's the only decent male in their age group.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4dc13d51	comment	Grand Romantic Gesture: Not only does Hiccup turn down multiple politically advantageous marriage offers in order to marry Astrid, the girl he loves, he also gives a literal king's ransom and a captured city as the bride price to her parents. Just so that the world can know how much she means to him. This backfires slightly, though; Viggo quickly uses that piece of information to realize that Hiccup isn't a hardbitten raider â€“ he's a romantic.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4f497bab	type	Alpha Strike
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4f497bab	comment	Alpha Strike: Played With. Stoick takes every rider and weapon they have to settle the score with Harthacnut, leaving barely anything behind to defend Berk and their holdings in southern Eire; Harthacnut and his forces gets squished, but several of Berk's enemies try to take advantage of the opening, attacking both Berk and Vedrarfjord. Unfortunately for them, they hadn't accounted for Hiccup and his preparations...
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4f4bbeff	type	Interspecies Friendship
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_4f4bbeff	comment	Interspecies Friendship: In the beginning of the story, humans and dragons have bonded on a society-wide scale, with dragons being fully-intergrated into Berk's previously human-only society. This eventually extends to a species-wide scale in the future where the global human and dragon populations have made peace from their previous conflicts and dragons become omnipresent in every human society on the planet.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: When the epigraphs discuss Brittany the Duchy of France, most of them call it Brittany instead of Breizh which is what the Breizhad call their home. After Breizh joins Berk, the first epigraph to discuss the Breizhad calls them by what they call themselves in their tongue and Henry the Sinister as Henry of Brittany, drawing a distinction between Brittany as a Duchy of the Kingdom of the Franks and Breizhad as a district of the North Sea Empire.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5067fd81	type	Everyone Is Bi
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5067fd81	comment	Everyone Is Bi: Downplayed. Concubinage is accepted in Viking society, and there are several instances of polygamous marriages featuring same-sex partners. Astrid's great-grandfather, the Hofferson clan-head, has one wife and two concubines (although everyone refers to them as his three wives), and it is explicitly stated at one point that all three of the women have been intimate with each other over the course of their very long marriage, with the two concubines sleeping together most nights.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Harthacnut the Dane, who sees no problem with ordering a city to be razed in retaliation for killing two of his tax collectors (which was done in real life to the city of Worcester in 1041), plotting an attack on Berk with the intent of killing the entire Hooligan tribe, and ordering a farm to be razed for daring to not give up a guest to him when he ordered it.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_516ac9a8	comment	Viking Funeral: After the first clash with Harthacnut's forces, Berk held a funeral for their dead. Both humans and dragons were honored in the first funeral for dragons Berk held. Another one was held for Fritjof and Nott and Delling after they sacrificed themselves. Hiccup and his group did the best they could while pressed for time, not wanting their pursuers to catch up to them so that their sacrifice didn't go to waste. Spitelout gets one, of the "cremation and then burial" kind, after his Heroic Sacrifice in Normandy.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Fishwings and Lopsides used to be close friends, but they drifted apart. Fishwings thought it was because she wasn't there for Lopsides when the latter was a pariah for having a child out of wedlock. Lopsides sets the record straight by telling her that it was because she was willing to abort her own child which disgusted Lopsides.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_51f46e82	comment	Jerkass FaÃ§ade: Bladewit wanting to keep dragon ownership to Berk's clans was not because she wanted to halt progress, but because she wants to make sure they do it right. If Berk's human citizens grow, the dragon citizens will be outnumbered quickly and if dragon adoption was a right for all, that would force the dragons into slavery. She kept this a secret, telling only Fishlegs, so no one could manipulate the law contrary to her intentions.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_52388345	comment	Elective Monarchy: As is normal for Norse cultures, the Hooligans elect their rulers, and as their territories grow, electing who is the ruler's heir becomes the method by which title inheritance is handled within their empire.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: After the funerals for the Hooligan casualties from the Battle of the Sound of Berk, Astrid finds Hiccup drinking alone in his house, heavily drunk over guilt from the enemy death toll. Similarly, although somewhat less sympathetically; when Dogsbreath arrives in Constantinople with news of Hiccup having a wife, a royal concubine, and two kids on the way Snoutlout/Sigurd promptly goes on a disastrous bender.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_52aa0c4a	comment	Michael V is supposed to be just another puppet when he becomes the Emperor of the Roman Empire; but as soon as he's coronated, his first order is the banishment of his biological uncle, John the Eunuch, who has been effectively ruling the Empire as a sort of prime minister/puppetmaster for a decade. That promptly backfired, as Michael V was determined to rule on his own... but has no idea what he's doing.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5336c902	comment	Boom Town: Vedrarfjord started with roughly two thousand citizens within its walls and another two thousand in its immediate surrounding areas and was a small trading port. After the Hooligans conquered it by accident, regency of the city was given to Hakon and Gunvor and they turn it into an industrial centre with an ever growing population.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5345de5	type	Strange-Syntax Speaker
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5345de5	comment	Strange-Syntax Speaker: In the dragon POV scenes, Dragonese is shown in <bracketed italics> with Object-Subject-Verb order (i.e. Yoda-speech) to illustrate its alienness to human speech.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_53ecf83f	comment	Lensman Arms Race: After Berk's invention of dragon domestication results in them becoming a major power, other kingdoms begin scrambling to either get their own dragon riders, or at the very least develop viable countermeasures. There is also the rapid development of weapons and tactics to assist dragon riders to improve their effectiveness rather than relying on pure brute force.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_54bb2c63	comment	The Alleged Boss: One of King Henry's major grievances is that though he is officially King of Francia, his actual ability to exert influence over his nominal vassals is almost non-existent. As a result, he reacts poorly to how little consideration Hiccup and Stoick give him, which Henry interprets as an implicit snub highlighting his lack of power. This insecurity is one of the key factors that drives King Henry into committing the catastrophic mistake of ambushing King Stoick on the assumption Stoick would run roughshod over him when in fact he was going to offer generous terms that would have alleviated some of his issues. Instead, as a result of his ambush, several duchies and one county officially break away from him, so he no longer even has the pretence of being in charge, irreversibly destroying his kingdom.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Hiccup's daughters Valka and Asta catch an illness later, the village is able to find a cure from Buffalord spit, and when a Screaming Death goes on a rampage that leads to the death of Toothless's sister Fearless, one of the only surviving eggs is Fearless's own.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: The Christian Church, in spades, with the Catholic branch firmly under the control of a series of noble Italian families at this stage in history, with the current Pope, Benedict IX, being the singular most corrupt pope in all of history, and the Orthodox branch being effectively part of the Byzantine Government.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: At 1,090,823 words as of chapter 100, the fic is officially longer than the combined length of the seven main Harry Potter books (1,084,170). As of the end of Book 4, the total is over 1.7 million words.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_56515a39	comment	In one chapter, Fishlegs tells Heather about his great-grandfather, a Jewish scribe named Dror ben Ezra, with his people's version of the trope. However, the Jewish women have matronymics (i.e. Esther bat Rivkah), which may be a bit of Artistic License â€“ History.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5773777b	comment	One-Man Industrial Revolution: While Hiccup canonically doesn't invent steam power, he does create industrial tech that is literally centuries ahead of its time (sheet metal roller, drop press, etc). It is noted that part of the reason for this is that compared to other geniuses of the time or before him, Hiccup as the heir to a rapidly emerging power did not need to seek funding to build his inventions or spend time just trying to earn enough money to feed himself. Lampshaded by one of the epigraphs, where it's stated that many modern students of history lament the fact that Hiccup "just missed" inventing the steam engine, seeing as how he had all the necessary components at hand. However, as the epigraph counters, he lacked the need for such inventions, since many of the things steam power could accomplish, dragon power could do just as well for the needs at the time.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: The Hooligans are viewed as evil because they ride dragons, which is viewed as a sign of witchcraft or devil-worship to their Christian neighbors.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_597d7dad	comment	Onion Tears: Before she revealed herself as a spy, Heather regularly hid her tears of angst behind the excuse of chopping onions.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	comment	Puppet King: Magnus the Good of Norway, under the effective control of his regent, Einar Thambarskelfir at the start of the story. Several Byzantine emperors were little more than puppets for John the Eunuch. He had first assumed power by introducing one of his brothers to the Empress Zoe, who took him as a lover and had her husband assassinated in order to marry him, making the brother into the Emperor Michael IV, and John into his puppetmaster. And when Micheal IV got sick and died, John suggested to the Empress that she adopt his nephew as her son in order to maintain his control.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: Fishwings has clearly taken a fancy to Viggo. This has not gone unnoticed by him and he uses it as a means of fishing out information, but the attraction otherwise one-sided since he is asexual (bordering on demisexual veering towards other men). Sigurd/Snotlout is implied to have a crush on Harald, who not only is straight but very homophobic.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5a5b7e42	comment	Improperly Paranoid: Mac Bethad, King of Scotland, he of the Scottish Play fame. He's the weakest of the main players in the British Isles, knows it, and takes unnecessarily drastic actions because of it. He keeps trying to destroy or at least weaken Berk, thinking they intend to invade his realm but they have no such ambitions. It costs him his life in 1043, fourteen years before his historical death date. King Henry I of the Capets is insecure about his position as king and simply assumes Berk plans to undermine him and take pieces of his kingdom for themselves, which leads to him making a catastrophic error in attacking King Stoick when he came in peace. Henry does get to realise how badly he screwed up though when he finds the generous treaty Berk was planning to offer, terms that are voided due to his actions.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5aa8b4b6	comment	Intrepid Merchant: The fic opens from the perspective of Trader Johann, who is one of the few of those brave enough to travel to Berk and its dragon-infested waters in search of profit, only for him and his crew to find that things have changed since their last visit, and he's quick to adapt to the new circumstances of claiming the shed scales, claws, and other body parts of live dragons rather than the salvaged body parts of dead ones.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5abc8612	comment	Unholy Matrimony: Alvin the Treacherous and his wife, Delilah, though villainous, are genuinely loving (along with Vitriolic Best Buds). Henry the Sinister and his wife Joan are both evil, with her even being the one to suggest Henry rape Hawiz to get a bastard heir to Brittany. She pretends to be a victim of his to escape from the Hooligans after Henry is defeated.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Dragons and humans have different terminologies for the same things. Dragons call themselves flyers and humans are called walkers. They also call fish swimmers. Chapter 92 shows that other dragons call Night Furies 'Nightscreamers'.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Hiccup blames himself when he realises that Mildew has been capturing dragons in his new village using the Mangler plans he stole from Hiccup before he left Berk. After Fearless dies saving them, Ruffnut privately blames herself as she feels that she could have done something if she hadn't frozen at a crucial moment, as her current baptized state left her concerned that she wouldn't go to Valhalla if she died.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5c300c3b	comment	The Berserker: Rare but seen, most notable Fishlegs of all people. Also Dagur the Deranged and his men. And it is mentioned in passing when Astrid, injured, is manipulated into taking some foul-tasting medicine for her pain. It's mentioned that giving it to berserkers has interesting side-effects.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Einar is a manipulative and controlling man, but his own detractors note he has a sense of practicality that can substitute for honour. Even he is shocked when Henricksson manipulated things such that had they succeeded, would have enraged his country's dragon-riding allies for pretty much no other reason than religious extremism. For this reason, despite their inherent conflict with Einar being the controlling regent and Magnus being the king, there are a few things they completely agree on, and why Magnus is willing to leave Einar in charge while he checks in of his new kingdoms because again, Einar is practical and competent in addition to being a known factor. Basically applies to Viggo, as he is initially hired by the Church to spy on Berk based on reports that they intend to use their dragons to mount new campaigns of pillage and plunder. While he soon recognises that Stoick and Hiccup aren't that kind of ruler, he still subtly edits his reports to the church to ensure that he plays up their potential strength. That said, he also emphasises that Berk is very defence-minded, with Viggo entering into a partnership to help set up Hiccup's planned dragon mail stations around Rome and the Vatican. Seeing how much the people of Vedrarfjord support Berk, he decides the best way to be a conqueror is to be a Villain with Good Publicity and convince his newly conquered subjects that he is a better ruler for them than their previous ruler, and follow through on his promise of being a better ruler so that any sceptics can see he's putting his money where his mouth is. Drago, for all his cruelty, also can be pragmatic, telling the Khagan he works for that burning the fields and killing the enemy's livestock was incredibly wasteful as they could have seized those for themselves instead of destroying it. Kurya treats his conquered people well, telling his friend that needless tyranny will only provoke resentment and their new vassals will try something at the first opportunity in spite of their dragons, while citing Drago giving them dragons due to the kindness he was shown as proof that kindness is rewarded. When Hiccup arrives in Mac Bethad's kingdom after the battle at Iceland accompanied by a mass of dragons from Mildew's former forces, Mac Bethad rejects the idea of trying to attack Hiccup's forces at this time, despite them being tired and vulnerable after the battle at Iceland, because there are too many dragons for him to guarantee killing them all, and if even one gets away to reveal what he did he doesn't have the forces to resist a full counter-attack. It is noted that Mildew was a variation of this, in the sense that he was only loyal to whoever could offer him safety; Mac Bethad notes that if Hiccup had captured Mildew in Iceland, he would have immediately told them the identity of his patron to save his own neck.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5d162996	comment	Extended Disarming: Played reasonably realistically with trained spy Heather nic Oswald. Upon being asked to come on a diplomatic mission â€“ officially as a maid, unofficially as a spy and backup â€“ she demonstrates that she not only carries at least half-a-dozen knives on her person (with the last one concealed someplace that only her boyfriend normally sees it), she can throw them with enough strength and skill that they all stick out of one of the roof pillars in a space smaller across than the palm of her hand.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5d3483cc	comment	Reading The Enemy's Mail: Macbeth and his court are convinced that the Dragon Mail is a ploy to read their messages.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5d9b8c3a	comment	Femme Fatale Spy: Delilah uses her feminine wiles to manipulate men of power, and she and her husband Alvin the Treacherous specialize in training more women in Delilah's craft to do their bidding. Technically Heather and others have the potential to use their feminine wiles to manipulate men after their training, but they are 'hindered' by their own morality even before they find a way out from Alvin's control.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5e7eb915	comment	Clarke's Third Law: Quite a few kings, bishops and other political figures from outside of Berk see the dragons as demons and regard Hiccup as a sorcerer who commands them. Harthacnut referred to him as a "sorcerer-smith" and was particularly unnerved by his artificial leg, which allowed him to walk normally. Others are more positive, but the leg, Toothless' harness, Hiccup's flaming sword and Astrid's flaming ax are all believed to be the work of magic, not engineering. It's mentioned that during the setting up of the dragon mail stations, one town tried to offer to build Hiccup a wizard's tower. Jonna predicts Hiccup's response to be along the lines of, "It's not magic, I'm just a really good smith." When Mulan first uses a synlengra (telescope), she thinks it's magic.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5ee6a992	comment	Oh, and X Dies: In the Epigraphs that open each chapter, some entries include birth and death dates for major characters—some of them decades in the future, telling us that they won't die during the course of the fic (for example, Empress Theodora dies in 1068, over 20 years from the events of the fic). Likewise, there's mention of Tuffnut and MÃ³r's wedding having to be postponed multiple times before they finally marry in 1054, telling us that something will interrupt their wedding planned for Fall 1043.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5f49ac76	comment	Single-Target Sexuality: It is pointed out in the Epigraph for Chapter 10 that the cultural expectation of the time was for Norse chieftains to be polygamous, and that Stoick was considered unusual that he only had one wife, Valka, and that he never took a concubine or remarried after her loss. It became the subject of much romanticization in the future. Ultimately subverted with Hiccup and Astrid, who have both admitted to themselves that have fallen as deeply in love with their third partner, Wulfhild, despite a period of time where Hiccup had hang ups about the whole situation, as they are with each other, although Hiccup makes it clear in Chapter 87 that this was due to exceptional circumstances and he has no interest in taking on more than two wives.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Cami and Merida get caught by Merida's mother after their very first time in bed together.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5f930b19	comment	Named After Somebody Famous: The epigraphs reveal that because Hiccup and Dror had such a positive impact on their society and history, they will have many people named after them. One epigraph reveals that the name Hiccup has become synonymous with genius and altruism with another revealing that there is a Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Sixth. Jews are also extremely grateful to the legacy Dror left behind and named their children after him as revealed by an epigraph showing that there is a prominent Rabbi named Shihook ben Dror (And for bonus points, "Shihook" is Hebrew for "Hiccup"). In honour of the sacrifice he made to save them, Jews have also started naming their children after Spitelout.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Gunnar eats a lot without ever becoming overweight; he's routinely noted as poaching snacks and other edibles when he has the chance.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Eochaid sends a poisoner to Berk's Thawfest Festival after he and his men were kicked out for violating Sacred Hospitality. There was literally nothing he had to gain for it and yet he did it anyway out of spite. After Berk discovers he was the culprit, his own vassals turned on him for doing something so obviously stupid as to provoke Berk when the military power disparity was huge.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Berk suddenly gaining control over dragons upsets the balance of power in Europe and derails many plans already in motion. Wulfhild notes that Hiccup pretty much changed the rules of the game overnight and forced everyone else to play catchup.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_60426489	comment	Citizenship Marriage: After Berk's Thing passes a law that limits dragon training to members of the Allied Clans, there's an explosion of new marriages and concubinages, since those are ways to join a clan, and Berk allows polygamy. It is all but stated most of those are expressly to gain the right to train a dragon.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_605dc9af	comment	Team Mercy vs. Team Murder: When Hiccup and his companions are ambushed in enemy territory and several are seriously injured, Hiccup refuses to kill the surviving Anglo mercenaries over Fritjof's objections even though logically he knows that they'll betray the group's location as soon as they're free. In this situation it's more of a case of I Gave My Word, since Hiccup has been shown killing enemies before,note though he did have a My God, What Have I Done? moment afterwards but honor is everything to the Norse.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_60c620f6	comment	Person of Mass Construction: Hiccup, using dragon-aided labor, goes on a construction spree through Berk's territory, and even beyond.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: Toothless' diving screech during the Battle of the Sound of Berk terrifies the soldiers and sailors of the Anglo-Dane fleet, as they hear it either as "the screaming of the damned", or, for those who have encountered Night Furies before, a warning that their only hope is to "hide, and pray".
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Ruffnut's and Magnus' had a lot of political considerations going into it influencing how quickly it all played out, but they are perfectly loving and the historical record is that it was a love-match. Hiccup, Astrid and Wulfhild are also all loving with each other, although they took a while to work out the details from Magnus' vassals forcing Wulfhild on them. Hinted at for the future; in Chapter 76, Magnus proposes that he and Stoick make plans to arrange a marriage between Astrid's firstborn child and the relevant child of Magnus and Ruffnut when the children are older, as a means of further securing Berk's alliance with Norway, but both agree that they will not force such a relationship on the children if they aren't interested.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_63267b15	comment	Theseus' Ship Paradox: In Chapter 72, when Hiccup told Fishlegs about how the various warriors of Vedrarfjord asked for him to transmute their family swords from iron into gronckle iron as if he was a wizard, Fishlegs sarcastically mentions this trope as a comparison.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_63b12059	comment	Villainous Friendship: Drago and the Kagan of the Pechenegs are warmongering conquerors and genuine friends with Drago becoming the Kagan's most trusted adviser as he shows the Kagan the world he's seen before joining the Pechenegs. The trust is mutual, the Kagan earning Drago's Undying Loyalty. This continues after the Kagan's death, with Drago being made the ruler and swearing to conquer the world in his friend's name. While this might seem self-serving, his internal narrative reveals he really means it.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_63fa5d78	comment	Cult of Personality: Shown to be developing around Hiccup and Stoick, completely without their intentions, and helped along by their actions (Hiccup being a Hero and Stoick being a Good King). Conversely, Viggo specifically mentions in his internal monologue that he intends to emulate their examples and build up one around himself as king of Al JazÄ«ra Al-KhadrÄ�.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_63fa98df	comment	The Dragons Come Back: According to the epigraphs, dragons were comparatively rare during the time period of the story but they eventually became omnipresent in human society.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: Tuffnut times his telling of Hiccup's bride price for Astrid to the Rus' men specifically to provoke one of them into spitting his drink in shock.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6439de78	comment	Spitelout gets one, of the "cremation and then burial" kind, after his Heroic Sacrifice in Normandy.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_648c3646	type	Enlightened Self-Interest
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_648c3646	comment	Enlightened Self-Interest: MÃ³r's fellow kin of the Ua Imair dynasty, infamous for infighting between kin, are supportive of her relationship with Tuffnut for the sole reason that they hope she can get them dragons as a result of it.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_64a5e4f	type	Black Vikings
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_64a5e4f	comment	Black Vikings: One of the Varangians in Snotlout's Cast Herd (Gudmund Hallvarsson) is an Afro-Norse warrior, the child of a retired Varangian who returned to Sweden with an African concubine.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Fritjof clan Jorgenson. His last words are that he has a date with a Valkyrie... but with a hundred or so Anglo horsemen going with him, he has company. It's mused that, after an accomplishment like that, Odin and Freyja are likely competing over who gets to claim his service as one of the Einherjar. Fearless sacrifices herself to set off a volcanic eruption that kills the Screaming Death and takes out Mildew and Mold as mere collateral damage.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_66fd8a51	type	Accidental Discovery
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_66fd8a51	comment	Accidental Discovery: Gobber accidentally discovers how to cheaply mass-produce steel when Fishlegs and Meatlug come to him when Meatlug was sick from an eating binge.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: Fearless, Toothless's sister, only spends enough time with her brother to receive a name and be given the offer of leading her nest back to Berk before she gives her life to save the others from the Screaming Death.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_67d722d8	type	A Storm Is Coming
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_67d722d8	comment	Chapters 70 and 78; "Red Sky At Morningâ€¦" "â€¦Sailor Take Warning."
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: The Battle of the Sound of Berk at the end of Book I is told mostly from the perspective of the combined Anglo-Danish fleet trying to reach Berk in order to attack it. Unfortunately, since they backed Hiccup into a corner, he doesn't hold back in defending his home and his people, and the shattered (and much reduced) fleet ends up running for its life, thoroughly traumatized.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_68a91d1c	type	Honest Advisor
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_68a91d1c	comment	Honest Advisor: Lawspeaker Bladewit DrorsdÃ³ttir clanhead Ingerman. Constant pain in Stoick's ass, senior jurist, head of the Ingerman clan... and with enough honesty and integrity that she will deliver a legal decision that she hates on a deeply personal level, because that is the law.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_69391768	comment	Expecting Someone Taller: Everyone who has heard of the Hero of Berk expected someone who looked like a stereotypical viking. Reactions to actually meeting Hiccup range from mild surprise to complete bewilderment. Inverted with Viggo and Stoick. After seeing that the tales had exaggerated Hiccup's size, Viggo immediately assumed the same was true of Stoick, only to be stunned to see that Stoick's size was not exaggerated.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6965038d	comment	The cause of the New Year's Fire Rout was due to Mulan using Fatal Fireworks against the Pechenegs.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_69e4f7b7	type	Historical Fantasy
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_69e4f7b7	comment	Historical Fantasy: It's Real Life history with dragons... up until 1040 AD. Whereupon Hiccup hits the timeline like a proverbial cannonball (with either the "water bellyflop" or "gunpowder-propelled ball of iron" being acceptable interpretations).
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: As the author notes, while Clodgall and Bladewit might be going about it in the most ass way possible, but their desire to keep dragon ownership limited to the Berkian clans does stem from reasonable concerns; chief among them being that said dragons would be abused, or turned against Berk.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	In Chapter 24, Fishlegs noted that he saw the various different dragon species mating outside their kind. This is foreshadowing for The Reveal that the dragons are more one singular species with many breeds.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6b4b3eba	comment	Lady Land: Much like in the source material, the Bog-Burglar tribe is an all-female tribe. Because of this, they have been stereotyped by foreign people as being either a tribe of women sex-starved for men or are exclusively populated with lesbians. Given that same-sex relations are not considered weird to them and Cami is a bisexual who freely admits to having slept with both men and women, it seems that both rumors have a grain of truth to them.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6d01755e	type	Monstrous Cannibalism
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6d01755e	comment	Monstrous Cannibalism: Tyrannical Thengills can and will engage in cannibalising other dragons, be it because of perceived treason like with the Screaming Death eating a dragon carrying a human, or something as petty as not bringing enough tribute like with the Green Death.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6d56cebf	type	Chess Motifs
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6d56cebf	comment	Chess Motifs: In Chapter 15, Hiccup plays a few rounds of hnefatafl, a game similar to chess note and a direct inspiration to the game of Thud!, and loses both rounds. His opponent comments, "You try too hard to protect your pawns at the expense of your king." In Chapter 71, when Hiccup and Astrid confront Wulfhild regarding Father Henriksson's manipulations, Hiccup assures her that she was merely a pawn in Henriksson's scheme, adding, "And I do not throw away pawns."
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Chapters 93 and 94 see Astrid and Wulfhild give birth, their daughters being named Valka Zephyr and Asta Rhonda Haddock respectively.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6eeba1f2	type	"Shut Up" Kiss
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6eeba1f2	comment	"Shut Up" Kiss: Cami's offer to lie through her teeth in order to protect Merida's reputation as a marriageable young noblewoman is cut off when Merida kisses her, in front of Elinor no less.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6f44042b	type	The Immodest Orgasm
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: To the point of being a Running Gag. Evidently Hiccup and Astrid are quite vocal during their lovemaking sessions after they get engaged, with Stoick reflecting that some nights the only hope he has of getting any rest is if he falls asleep before Hiccup and Astrid go at it. Once Wulfhild joins them in bed, she turns out to be as loud as they are.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6f550365	type	Rite-of-Passage Name Change
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_6f550365	comment	Rite-of-Passage Name Change: It is common for members of the Hooligan Tribe to change their names once they reach adulthood, since parents would often give their children horrible names for superstitious reasons. The notable example given here being Snotlout Spiteloutsson clan Jorgenson taking the name "Sigurd Trondsson" after leaving to join the Varangian Guard. He also officially changes it when he becomes a Christian.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: The Hooligans have culturally evolved in a different direction than the mainstream Norse, much less the rest of Europe, due to pressures from the Dragon War forcing them to adapt and adopt practical changes. Specifically: They have universal literacy to preserve critical knowledge. Should for example, a Lawspeaker die because they attacked a Monstrous Nightmare sorely under-equipped while drunk, someone else will need to know the laws to replace him. And the incident did in fact happen and is cited by Gobber when he explains to Wulfhild why they write all these things down. They have instituted social welfare because anyone could find themselves homeless and destitute because of a dragon-raid, and to make sure the tribe as a whole can survive, they need their worst off to be able to get back on their feet. They abolished thralldom because defending their homes from dragons requires as many hands as possible, and when half their defenders had been injured from one bad raid night, the chief of the time promised every thrall freedom if they took up arms. They abandoned the practice of exposing infants deemed weak due to the tribe's low birthrates resulting in them prizing any child they get. They give their infants absurd or at least unconventional names out of a belief that it protects their children from real and imagined dangers. There are several aspects of Christianity that the Hooligans find strange and confusing. This includes the concept of the trinity, nobody but priests being allowed to read the Bible, women not being allowed inside monasteries, and just monotheism in general.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_71019994	type	Unwanted Harem
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_71019994	comment	Unwanted Harem: Initially Hiccup is uncomfortable at the notion of having Wulfhild as a concubine while already married to Astrid, but eventually the three of them get past this and genuinely fall in love as a triad. That said, Hiccup makes it clear that he won't be taking any further wives or concubines, to the extent that he signs a contract preventing anyone trying to force additional marriages onto him.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7160b097	type	Dawn of an Era
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7160b097	comment	Dawn of an Era: The fic makes it very clear that Hiccup making friends with Toothless in HTTYD 1 was a pivotal moment for world history, with several epigraphs using such wording. Hiccup's actions leading to the domestication of dragons upsetted the entire world order and the next few centuries became known as the Dragon Era.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_716cdf08	comment	Vorpal Pillow: Father Hendricksson attempts to smother Ruffnut with a pillow after baptizing her in her sleep in order to get rid of her pagan influence and make it look like she died from the aftereffects of childbirth. However Einar catches him and intervenes on the attempted assassination.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: Snotlout's mother is unnamed in the films and show, here she is named Serena and is Stoick's sister. Likewise, Astrid's parents are given the names HÃ¡kon and Gunvor. Ruffnut and Tuffnut's father is given the name Thicknut. In canon Heather's adopted parents were unnamed, here they are named Murray and Griselda. In canon Toothless' nemesis the Whispering Death isn't given a name, here it is named Mold and essentially becomes Mildew's dragon due to their shared distaste for Hiccup and Toothless. In canon the Skrill isn't given a name, here after bonding with William he is named Mjolnir.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: Ruffnut and King Magnus of Norway get married to cement an alliance between Berk and Norway. Magnus' Norwegian vassals also force a concubinage arrangement between Hiccup and Magnus' half-sister, Wulfhild, but the situation was muddied a bit as Magnus' court priest, Father Henriksson, may or may not have married her to Hiccup. This is later changed when Hiccup offers her the chance to be his and Astrid's wife when her concubinage is up as a political stunt to take away whatever leverage the church may have over Berk through their union. One was set up between Clan Dunbroch and the Bog Burglar tribe after Elinor finds Cami and Merida in bed, having clearly just had sex, Cami proposes a marriage contract between them. Not only would this save face from whatever social scrutiny that may arise from the princess losing her virginity before marriage, but this would establish a partnership with Berk by-proxy through the Bog Burglars, who have had a long-standing alliance with the Hairy Hooligans. Since Berk allows for same-sex couples and are located between Wales, where the Bog-Burglar village is hidden and which in real life is a wetland south of the River Dyfi's estuary, and Scotland, Stoick offers Berk as the site of the ceremony. In Chapter 76, as a way of cementing the alliance between Berk and Norway, Magnus suggests that Hiccup and Astrid's child should marry one of his and Ruffnut's twins once they come of age. Stoick agrees, on the condition that the children should not be forced to marry if they do not wish to.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Constantine's motivation for plotting against Sigurd is that he hates the latter for being a foreigner with too much power in the Byzantine Empire.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Dagur attempts this during his duel with Hiccup. The fight is from Dagur's perspective and we see that he deliberately offers Hiccup several opportunities to strike him down and despite having several chances to make a killing strike against Hiccup refuses to take them. This is because Dagur sees this as his last chance to die with some honor and go to Valhalla rather than face damnation after being tortured to death by Savage. It's averted since Hiccup sees through what he's trying to do and refuses to let him run away from the consequences of what he's done and instead grants him Cruel Mercy.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: In the show, Mildew was nothing if not a coward when facing off against the Scauldron, implying that (at least in his golden years) Mildew was not accustomed to confronting dragons himself. Here, it is mentioned that the only reason why he was not banished entirely was the fact that in his prime he was one of Berk's best dragon-killers (although it is implied that he cheated and used poison, a belief that is eventually confirmed in Chapter 76 when Fishlegs and Heather find his supplier).
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: Heather defects to the Hooligans because she'd fallen in love with Fishlegs due to his kindness.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_73f7b5a5	type	Total Party Kill
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_73f7b5a5	comment	Total Party Kill: All of Mildew's men end up killed alongside him in Iceland. This is not actually a good thing as it prevents Berk from interrogating them to find out who was their backer.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: A few characters live longer in this fic then they did in Real Life. Theodora Porphyrogenita will die in 1068, twelve years after her historical death date. Downplayed with Harthacnut who in Real Life died on 8 June, 1042, here he survives for an additional 3 days. In Real Life Domenico Flabanico died in 1043, here thanks to Hiccup gifting him buffalord spit he survived. And among the HTTYD characters: Stoick, as the events that led to his canon death never occur here.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: Dragons eat a lot and Mac Bethad's court was shocked that Berk can afford to feed their army of dragons. Berk manages it because of several reasons. One, with the demise of the Green Death, the ecosystem suddenly had a surplus to go towards other predators, such as Berk's dragons. Two, Berk uses the dragons themselves to catch all the fish they'll need to feed them while using the dragon's labour to be more efficient about feeding everyone. Dragon dung also makes good fertiliser, so the humans can grow more bountiful harvests which means they can allocate more fish towards the dragons while the humans eat the crops. Sigurd suggests following Berk's example of having the dragons help catch the food to feed them to help solve the Byzantine's logistical issues but his assistant says they'll be in such demand for warfare that they can't spare their labour for that.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7537b028	comment	Dragons Are Divine: After being freed from Harhacnut's tyranny by Dragon Riders, Markus starts comparing dragons to angels. Drago mentions that dragons are venerated as messengers of the gods in Ã‡in (China).
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_76df59f1	comment	Thicker Than Water: Justified, discussed, subverted, exploited and defied, all at different times throughout the fic and with different situations. It's justified in that blood ties are seen as incredibly important, and there's an intricate web of them tying the various clans of Berk together to allow them to bypass debt claims and get on with the task of surviving, Cami is allowed to keep a dragon she accidentally bonds with because she has a blood tie to Berk through her father, and Hiccup gives Snotlout support when he leaves for the Roman Empire because they're cousins. Bladewit tells Fishlegs that blood-ties are an important bond that keeps the clans at least somewhat united â€“ but that bond is under strain without constant dragon attacks giving a clan incentive to stay united. But that doesn't mean that it isn't still stronger than any oath, which is why she will only trust the welfare of dragons to the clans and those who marry in. Speaking of which, the Norwegian Jarls are of the same mind of Bladewit that blood ties via marriage are seen as more of a guarantee against attack than any form of treaty, resulting in Wulfhild becoming Hiccup's concubine, as a surety for Norway's chiefs against dragon-rider attacks. It's also subverted, because the Jorgensons were trying to use Snotlout's blood tie with Stoick as his nephew to supplant Hiccup as heir, Dogsbreath steals from his father and shaves his beard because of a dare from a girl and they end up running for it, Mildew wants revenge on his estranged brother, and John the Orphanotrophos counts on this trope to keep power, only to lose control when his newly Imperial nephew turns on him on his first day as Emperor. Alvin exploits it to guarantee his spies' loyalty, by keeping their family members as insurance. And finally, it's outright defied â€“ Heather wants to kill Dagur, her brother, for killing their father. Tellingly, Chapters 30 and 31, the chapters that show Hiccup and Astrid's wedding, are called "The Blood of the Covenant Is Thicker..." and "...Than the Water of the Womb."
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_76e24530	comment	Delicate and Sickly: In chapter 104, Hiccup's and Astrid's infant daughter Valka contracts the 100-day cough and it worries Hiccup so much.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7913833c	type	Balkanize Me
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7913833c	comment	Balkanize Me: The Kingdom of the Franks had been unstable for decades due to a weak royal house and powerful feuding nobles, but the last straw was King Henry I of the Capets attacking King Stoick of House Haddock in an ambush when Stoick came in peace. In response, Duke William and Duke Conan seceded their duchies of Normandy and Brittany from his kingdom and joins Berk while the Duchy of Aquitania and the County of Tolosa declared full independence, shattering the kingdom to pieces. What little remained of the Kingdom of the Franks slowly lost territory and independence until the Holy Roman Empire annexed them.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: In Chapter 80, Stoick ponders the fact that it is almost two years to the day since Hiccup claimed to have shot down a Night Fury, and wonders at how much has changed since then and what would not have taken place if he had believed his son and simply killed the Night Fury on that day. In a less positive direction, in chapter 21, Snotlout trading with some villagers along the Dnieper river, and hits upon the idea to use some of Hookfang's shed scales as payment rather than his few remaining coins. The shed scales get used as currency further downriver, and at least one Pecheneg man trades with him and sees him riding Hookfang. That Pecheneg man later goes around as a courier between the Pecheneg encampments and shows off the scales that he got in trade while telling of the dragon-rider he saw, and meets one dragon-hunter in the process. And then the dragon-hunter, after a period of disbelief, proceeds to tame his first dragon while out on a hunt, and brings more tamed dragons to the Great Kagan of the Pechenegs. So a bolt of cloth that Snotlout wanted to trade for is the nail that leads to Drago Bludvist and the Pechenegs starting to conquer across the Asian Steppes. Berk jumps from a fishing town to a global superpower within a single lifetime, and Medieval Europe and Asia stumble into an early industrial revolution complete with dragons... all because a boy wanted to impress a girl by killing a dragon. In the original timeline, the Kingdom of the Franks managed to recover from its low point in the Viking Age, eventually. In this timeline, because of Henry the Sinister's machinations destabilizing the kingdom even further and his widow Joan slandering the Hooligans to prime King Henry into ambushing King Stoick when he would have been better advised to listen to what Stoick had to say, the Kingdom of the Franks balkanizes, with Normandy and Brittany seceding and outright joining Berk while Aquitania and Tolosa declare independence in the more immediate aftermath, with the remnants of the kingdom itself being annexed a decade later by the Holy Roman Empire, losing all independence and sovereignty.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_79e07b47	type	Lecture as Exposition
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_79e07b47	comment	Sparingly used, with perhaps the most egregious examples being a high-level overview of the current rulers and kingdoms of Europe (which was still missing significant regions, such as Spain, Venice, and Hungary) in Chapter 15, and a similar overview of Ireland's society and politics in Chapter 42, with both of these framed as one character (a herald in the first, a spy trained in local politics for the second) explaining things.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question/Response: A specialty of Astrid's, as demonstrated in the first movie, as her knack for asking the right question or making a salient point often helps Hiccup in solving problems, or knocks some sense into his head when he wrongly chastises himself. She likes to describe herself as Hiccup's "whetstone". Chapter 109 sees Dagur of all people give one to ToirÃ©asa when questioning her conviction that Heather is keeping her daughter as a deliberate hostage rather than genuinely regarding her as a sister, pointing out that ToirÃ©asa can accept that Dagur is capable of being something other than the monster most people see him as and yet still believes the worst of Heather. Chapter 126 sees Spitelout ask his father Clodgall one after finding out about Clodgall talking with Mac Bethad's spies about replacing Hiccup with Snotlout as the tribe's heir.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7b74adb2	type	Grandfather Clause
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7b74adb2	comment	Grandfather Clause: In arguing for restricting dragon-adoption to members of allied clans only, Bladewit makes a point of mentioning that it is not retrospective and the clanless members of the tribe who wanted to have a dragon already got one and will not have them taken away.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7c3dda61	type	Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7c3dda61	comment	Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility: The story is a combination of the Fantastical (How To Train Your Dragon is dropped into real history!) and Hard/Soft variants, where all the consequences of there being tamed dragons are explored, with the various players reacting in all their own ways.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7cfeef98	type	Narrative Filigree
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7cfeef98	comment	Narrative Filigree: In spades, being used to worldbuild, flesh out character interactions, give a little immersion, and hide all sorts of foreshadowing.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7d89315b	comment	Hiccup and Fishlegs treat Astrid and other woman like people while other boys like Snotlout treat them as possessions, which is why Astrid is with Hiccup and why a lot of Berk girls wanted Fishlegs and resent Heather for being with the latter. Astrid makes this absolutely clear to Snotlout in Chapter 17 as part of her scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech to him, and even Ruffnut uses this argument as to why she had no interest in Snotlout.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7e676cdf	type	Engagement Challenge
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7e676cdf	comment	Engagement Challenge: Annoyingly self-imposed by Hiccup; despite being told Astrid's family would accept any reasonable offer, he feels that he needs to have a bride price that is not only sufficiently proportionate for what he feels Astrid's value is to him, but what the tribe's (and the rest of the European world's) expectations are going to be for "The Hero of Berk". He surpasses all expectations by giving a literal King's ransom as the bride price.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: Berk's culture is considered progressive even by modern-day standards, and this was before they made peace with dragons. For example: They have laws against slavery and have (relative) gender-equality due to the Dragon War forcing them to have as many defenders as possible. They also laws against rape and other forms of sexual misconduct (which is accurate for Norse-based cultures). They also approve of same-sex marriage and relations (which is not historically accurate, but comes from being allies with the Bog Burglars). They also practice Polyamory, religious-tolerance, have laws that protect the rights of concubines, just to name a few more. This is lampshaded and deconstructed whenever someone from outside of Berk, be they thralls or envoys, experiences Berk and their people for themselves and react with confusion and astonishment, the rest of the world being as politically incorrect as you would expect for the time period. They do have laws against sex before betrothal (and before marriage, but no one really enforces those). But neither set of laws are enforced, at all, where Hiccup and his inner circle are concerned, the village having been aware that Hiccup and Astrid were physically intimate long before they married â€“ being the Hero has its perks. But others aren't as lucky â€“ one Jorgenson girl, Lopsides, is a social pariah for getting pregnant (twice!) out of wedlock, and only being the daughter of the clanhead has kept her from being completely ostracized. And Fishlegs and Heather being intimate in violation of the law against premarital intercourse is explicitly mentioned as one of the motivations of Heather's harassers. They also have a basic income system of "food rights" and "bed rights", where nobody is left to go hungry or homeless. This massively increases their popularity with the commonfolk, and even leads to one king swearing fealty to Stoick so his people can share in Berk's rich harvests.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_805b13e	comment	Wacky Marriage Proposal: After literal months of insufficiently grand ideas for Astrid's bride price, Hiccup eventually comes up with quite a doozy: Upon being rewarded the ransom for King Harthacnut (100,000 pounds silver â€“ in an era where one pound silver is the yearly wage for a day-laborer), Hiccup promptly takes Astrid aside and asks her to marry him. When she accepts, stunned, the announcement of the bride price to her parents is not only the entirety of a literal King's Ransom, it is also regency of Berk's new vassal city, Vedrarfjord. It is seen as so outlandish that it has become famous across the known world as a Refuge in Audacity moment.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: A villager in Glenfinnan asks Hiccup to deliver a package to her daughter, giving Hiccup the idea to set up the Dragon Mail, a massive communication network that invokes Easy Communication in medieval times that massively impacted the world. Vlademar, Oddmund and Mikael are some of Magnus' thanes, and they played very minor roles in the story, but they're the ones that told Snotlout about and inspired him to join the Varangian Guard. Fishlegs' great-grandfather, Dror ben Ezra. A Jewish ex-thrall who taught the Hooligans how to read and write. Thanks to his efforts, Hooligan culture adapted to literacy, with books being part of Hooligan culture (as shown by the Book of Dragons in the first film). This makes him responsible for saving the Hooligans from being wiped out from dragon raids and creating the educational background that resulted in Hiccup! And his service to the Hooligans is paid back with interest tens of thousands of times over, as Berk invites Jews to settle in their lands free of religious persecution and evacuates all the Jews of northern Francia when they're in danger. A Pecheneg trader who was not even named got some scales from Snotlout as payment for some goods. Through him, news of it being possible to tame dragons reaches Drago, which inspires him to try it out instead of just killing the dragon he beat. When it worked, he offers his services as a warlord to the Pechenegs, and with his help, the dragons they ride helped them conquer large territories. An unnamed merchant in Turpan only appeared in a single scene in a single chapter, and his brother is only mentioned. And yet, their effect on the story is huge. The brother trying to assault Drago for being a cripple and the merchant then arranging for Drago to be abandoned for dead eventually led to Drago finding a place among the Pechenegs.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: Nearly everyone knew Hiccup and Astrid were having sex months before they actually got married. No one made an issue of it out of respect for the two. Tuffnut and Mor having sex while only courting is technically a secret in that people are turning a blind eye and looking the other way, but is openly talked about by several characters.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_80f4e386	comment	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Basically applies to Toothless in Chapter 81, when he appears to not understand that humans (or 'walkers' as he calls them) give birth to live young rather than laying eggs, to the point of being concerned that Astrid and Wulfhild haven't laid their 'eggs' yet. For obvious reasons, Valka assumes that Stoick has married again to the extent that she wonders how Hiccup gets along with his half-siblings rather than consider that Stoick loved her too much to take another bride.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_81c4faa3	type	Entertainingly Wrong
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_81c4faa3	comment	Entertainingly Wrong: Eret assumes quite reasonably given the cultural norms he's familiar with that in the triad of Gobber, Jonna and Reidun, the latter two are the former's wives since that is a normal arrangement for Norsemen. What he doesn't know is that Gobber is Jonna's and Reidun's concubine since he's not aware of the very possibility that men can be concubines.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: The Byzantine Roman Empire; as it was in Real Life, it's the eastern remnant of the Roman Empire, and in the fic (as in Real Life), is currently collapsing from a revival under Emperor Basil II.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_81f8731	comment	Chosen Conception Partner: Jonna and Reidun, a married pair of Norse lesbians, realize that, they might want heirs with their sudden promotion to the heads of a new Hooligan clan. They discuss adoption, but ultimately decide that having their own biological children would be nice. They offer Stoick right of first refusal, resulting in him giving a Spit Take and a stammered "No thank you!", and then turn to Gobber, who watched his old friend with amusement. Gobber, after some thought, accepts, despite being gay himself, acknowledging that this isn't romantic love at all â€“ and he has some very personal reasons to accept.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Mildew dies without a weapon in his hand and while fleeing from a battlefield (in this case, an erupting volcano), which disqualifies him from ever entering Valhalla.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_82d1d1af	type	Defecting for Love
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_82d1d1af	comment	Defecting for Love: It is revealed that Heather was sent by Alvin as a means of spying for him with the threat of her adoptive parents being tortured to death if she does not comply. By the time Fishlegs discovers this, they had long since fallen in love with one another. After beating him nearly half-to-death in a panic, she promptly turns herself in after getting him medical attention.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_82da9d46	type	Mundane Fantastic
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_82da9d46	comment	Mundane Fantastic: Because of the Dragon Mail, by Chapter 78, the citizens of countries without Dragon Riders have become so used to dragon sightings that such news are barely reacted to with a shrug, if that. Exactly as intended by Hiccup.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_83b44e80	comment	Fishwings has clearly taken a fancy to Viggo. This has not gone unnoticed by him and he uses it as a means of fishing out information, but the attraction otherwise one-sided since he is asexual (bordering on demisexual veering towards other men).
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_843bc349	type	Invented Linguistic Distinction
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_843bc349	comment	Invented Linguistic Distinction: Dragons have their own language but the syntax is different from that used by humans. The dragons speak using Object-Subject-Verb order, which makes their speech highly distinctive from human speech and serves to highlight that the dragons have their own culture independent of humans.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Fishlegs observes during the first Dragon Mating season on Berk that there is significant cross-mating between different dragon breeds. In chapter 86, Toothless mates with Stormfly and Mistletoe.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_854601b3	comment	Government Procedural: Downplayed. The story is not focused solely on the workings of government, but there are several times where laws and policies are decided: During Book 2, there is a lot of debate on who gets to adopt a dragon. Despite Hiccup's and his supporters' efforts, the tribe votes to keep adoption rights only to members of the Allied Clans. During Book 3, Magnus is shown trying to organise how the government procedures should work, after he becomes King of England and Denmark. After hearing suggestions, he organises Things in Denmark and transforms England's Witengamot, which was previously only for the elites, into Things so that commoners can have a say too. Also during Book 3, a lot of laws are voted on to allow for the annexations of the Bog Burglars and Meatheads tribes into the Hooligans. Among other things, anything that requires an oath to be sworn against one of the Hooligans' gods is changed so that the person can invoke any god or goddess of their choosing, and for the Bog Burglars specifically, the Hooligans vote to pass a law allowing abused and/or runaway women to seek sanctuary status with them.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_854b029a	type	Encyclopedia Exposita
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_854b029a	comment	Encyclopedia Exposita: One of the fan-favorite aspects of the fic, each chapter opens with an Epigraph sourced from a fictional work from the future of the alternate history, talking about some element of foreshadowing, worldbuilding, or exposition, with the framing for each being as varied as textbooks, to a Norse-flavored Wiki, to military dossiers on the dragon breeds.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_85c014c5	comment	Just One Man: Played With. Hiccup might be just one man, but given his past battle record, Sigvatr deeply enjoys responding to an incredulous thrall wondering what Hiccup can do against all of Mildew's forces, as he's "just one man", with a comment about said battle record.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_87bb6874	comment	Basically applies to Viggo, as he is initially hired by the Church to spy on Berk based on reports that they intend to use their dragons to mount new campaigns of pillage and plunder. While he soon recognises that Stoick and Hiccup aren't that kind of ruler, he still subtly edits his reports to the church to ensure that he plays up their potential strength. That said, he also emphasises that Berk is very defence-minded, with Viggo entering into a partnership to help set up Hiccup's planned dragon mail stations around Rome and the Vatican. Seeing how much the people of Vedrarfjord support Berk, he decides the best way to be a conqueror is to be a Villain with Good Publicity and convince his newly conquered subjects that he is a better ruler for them than their previous ruler, and follow through on his promise of being a better ruler so that any sceptics can see he's putting his money where his mouth is.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: By chapter 80, Snotlout insists that he is Sigurd now. After being exiled from Berk by Hiccup and offered Roman citizenship by Empress Theodora, he has embraced his new life as a Roman soldier.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_88424df3	comment	I Thought Everyone Could Do That: At one point, Snotlout accidentally outs himself as literate in front of someone outside of Berk and promptly gets confused by the man's shocked reaction. Coming from a place with universal literacy, he has a hard time wrapping his head around the fact that being able to read and write is somehow unusual. He can also sew and nearly gets attacked for it, someone thinking it's witchcraft.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The Dragon Riders of Berk quickly develop a reputation as a mighty army, consistently holding their own against far larger forces.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_899f4b24	comment	Heel Realisation: Sigurd/Snotlout suffers this in Chapter 79, when learning about Hiccup's progress since he left Berk forces him to recognise that everyone there who called him a fool was right to have such a low opinion of him.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: The Eirish men on Berk who tried to rape Heather enraged Stoick and resulted in them getting kicked out for violating Sacred Hospitality. Vigdis' actions that led to said events also turned the tribe and their Bog Burglar allies against her and resulted in them being more sympathetic to Heather.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8b1a664	type	Kill All Humans
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8b1a664	comment	Kill All Humans: The Screaming Death in Iceland wishes to kill all humans when dragons from his nest are getting captured, but is talked down from following through. When Fearless comes back to their nest with humans, he decides enough is enough and immediately goes on a rampage to kill all humans and the dragons who side with them.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: When the Hooligans attacked Vedrarfjord it was just to get rid of the king. That they might have to take over the place now that it doesn't have a leader never occurred to them. As Hiccup puts it when talking to Astrid about it:
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8d3349bb	type	Canon Character All Along
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8d3349bb	comment	Canon Character All Along: King Adalwin turns out to be Alvin the Treacherous. At some point, he killed and replaced the real King Adalwin with himself. The Dragon-Hunter who was with the Pechenegs turns out to be Drago Bludvist.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8d4e3278	type	Kingmaker Scenario
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8d4e3278	comment	Kingmaker Scenario: Discussed, Sophia explains to Sigurd he is now a kingmaker. Because of the dragons, Sigurd is now in charge of the most powerful military unit the Byzantines have. They will never accept him as their emperor because he's not Greek, but his backing will play a major role in deciding the new ruler should he still be around by the time Theodora dies without a clear successor. This factor is why Sophia's family wanted to tie him to them. They know they can't get the throne, but by tying Sigurd to them, they become kingmakers-by-proxy, greatly increasing their own influence.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8e1db422	type	Adopted into Royalty
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8e1db422	comment	Adopted into Royalty: William of Normandy gets adopted into the Royal Clan of Berk in Chapter 98.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Chapter 25: Hide, And Pray That It Does Not Find You. Not only does Berk fight off an army that outnumbers their people ten to one â€“ and that count includes the tribe's children â€“ Hiccup creates air-dropped bombs to bombard the Anglo-Dane fleet, permanently upsetting the political and strategic status quo. Arguably Chapter 55, which introduces the Dunbroch clan to the story as well as Heather's brother Dagur the Deranged. Chapter 83 ends with Mildew discovering another Night Fury exists. Chapter 105 ends with Mildew capturing Hiccup's party; the following chapters reveal that the Night Fury attacking Mildew's new village is Toothless' sister, and then the now-named Fearles sacrifices herself to stop the Screaming Death that was her prior nest-lord. Chapter 108 ends with Valka appearing in the nest with other dragons, confirming that she's still alive. Chapter 119 has so many major reveals and developments that makes it more than worthy of being Book Three's final chapter: The Nest Lord of the Black Sea Nest allies with Theodora and the Byzantines in response to the Pechenegs enslaving her subjects and brings her remaining subjects and eggs to them. Dagur abdicates his position as Mormaer in favour of Heather and the Agreeables faction of the Berserkers support her. Fergus becomes regent of Alba with a plan for the Albans to hold a vote in four years time for them to decide who will be their permanent Ruler from among the claimants. It turns out Drago and the Pechenegs have captured over three-thousand dragons from the Black Sea Nest. The eggs on Berk hatch, and Toothless' and Mistletoe's egg hatches into a Razorwhip, Toothless' and Stormfly's egg hatches into a Night Fury, and Fearless' egg hatches into a Skrill. Viggo finds a Dragon Nest on Ninguaria, Canariae Insulae, right where Pliny said they were in his millennium-old works. Taskill is captured and Heather begins questioning him. The Green Death has a brother named Furious, and he advocates enslaving humans in response to humans enslaving dragons.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8e647ba9	type	Undercover as Lovers
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8e647ba9	comment	Undercover as Lovers: Defied. In Chapter 113, when Mulan sets out to contact Berk about an alliance against Drago's forces, it's brought up that there was a potential alternative for Mulan disguising herself as a man, and that was Mulan and Shang would pose as spouses, but that plan was rejected.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8f8b59c1	type	Inhumanable Alien Rights
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_8f8b59c1	comment	Inhumanable Alien Rights: Drago and the Pechenegs, as well as Mac Bethad, enslave dragons and mistreat them, considering them just beasts, because they don't recognise their intelligence.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Kurya is the only one of the Pechenegs the story shows that treats their dragon well. The dragon, Kudret, rewards him by saving him from a potentially lethal fall and protecting him from the flames of the burning building they land in. King Henry of the Capets ambushes King Stoick when he came in peace. As a direct result, Normandy and Breizh break away from his kingdom and join Berk, while Aquitania and Tolosa declare independence, permanently fracturing his kingdom. The people of Paris, his only real holding, also flee, causing his already small tax base to bleed. The worst part for King Henry is that he only has himself to blame for planning an attack based on assumptions since the treaty King Stoick dropped proved beyond a shadow of all doubt that Berk was planning to offer generous terms to him that are now no longer available to him.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Hiccup's loss against Roald at hnefatafl was because he prioritized protecting his pawns at the expense of the king, reflecting his attitude towards his tribe and people under his command. In China, dragon attacks are interpreted as symbolic of the emperor losing their heaven's mandate of their right to rule. Upon seeing a juggler struggle with juggling several balls and failing, Mac Bethad draws an explicit comparison to himself and hopes he doesn't fail either. Henry the Sinister's army (which massacred many Jews) is defeated in the exact same way as the Egyptian Army pursuing the fleeing Jews were in the Book of Exodus, washed away by a river. After King Henry's surprise attack on him, Stoick reflects attributes of several Norse gods: he's missing a hand like Tyr, missing an eye like Odin, and slept for nine days while pierced with a spear.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9230c618	type	Hypocrisy Nod
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9230c618	comment	Hypocrisy Nod: Snotlout eventually realises what a huge hypocrite he was when he gave the Byzantines dragons while loathing Hiccup for doing the same with Norway. He also realises that what he did was worse than what Hiccup did, because Hiccup personally gained something out of his deal while also benefiting Berk, while Snotlout did it because he had a crush on his homophobic commander and has nothing to show for it on that front and his actions endangered Berk.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Father Michael Henriksson is devout in his beliefs, if not a little too-devout. For the entirety of the Berkians' stay in Norway, he makes the demand that they must all convert to Christianity to solidify their treaty. When this does not work, he manipulates Wulfhild into a Christian wedding with Hiccup, using it in a long-term plan to convert Berk and bring it under the control of the church, intentionally omitting various details and technicalities (like how polygamy has been banned from Christian practices centuries ago). After Ruffnut becomes queen, Henriksson does everything he can to undermine her, including trying to take control of her hospital under the assumption that women are too fragile to care for the sick and injured. When she refuses to have her children baptized - believing that they have the right to choose their gods when they are old enough to decide - Henriksson baptizes Ruffnut while she is sleeping before trying to smother her with a pillow, trying to make it look like a Death by Childbirth. When Einar catches him in the act he changes his plan to making it look like they killed each other. Oh, and it was revealed that he ordered the first assassination attempt on Hiccup and Astrid when they first came to Norway.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_93399c3c	comment	Patricide: Dagur the Deranged has admitted to killing his and Heather's father, Oswald the Agreeable, not even bothering to hide it as a Hunting "Accident".
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9432b844	type	Best Out of Infinity
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9432b844	comment	Best Out of Infinity: Snotlout's insistence on going through the third round of the holmgang challenges despite having lost the first two is what leads him to lose the third.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: One of Hiccup's signature themes, although it doesn't always work as hoped. Stoick, however, was also faced with two unpalatable options and picked a third; either be responsible for mass starvation or leave the thralls of Vedrarfjord behind. Instead, he vassalized the city and declared it to be part of the tribe, though that third option ended up having it's own unintended consequences since the city has since became the first of many annexed territories under Berk.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_95428daa	comment	Rite of Passage: The Hooligans uses Dragon-Training as a way to show their children have become adults. Before the domestication, the classes focused on slaying dragons. After they domesticated dragons, the classes now focus on training them and training with them.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: Harthacnut had nothing to do with the ambush that killed Fritjof and his dragon and injured Hiccup and his group. However, since the truth was that he was planning a completely separate ambush, there was nothing he could say to escape retaliation.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_980f7fac	comment	Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It: Based on the epigraphs. The Norse calendar of the future starts at 0 Ã…r Odin, dated to the Norse Reformation, which directly comes out of the events of this series. Downplayed example: in the aftermath of the failed Pecheneg attack on the Song, the Song dynasty changes its era from the Qingli Era to the Huangyou Era.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Carefully used, but still Lampshaded at least once where Snotlout gets told about the recent history of the Roman Empire twice, the second time in more detail several months after the first, getting admonished by the speaker (who had given the first lecture) to "pay attention this time."
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_98f5de00	comment	Let Me Get This Straight...: A common reaction to people being told about the extravagant bride price Hiccup gives for Astrid is for the listener to repeat what the speaker said just to make sure they heard right.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_99dfd4fc	type	Nothing Is the Same Anymore
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_99dfd4fc	comment	Nothing Is the Same Anymore: At the conclusion of Book I, Berk is expanding its territory to include an Irish city, Hiccup and Astrid are married, they have a two-way marriage alliance with Norway with Princess Wulfhild as Hiccup's political concubine, and Berk just proved its military might in front of the entire world in a way that is impossible to ignore. The epigraphs note that the outcome of the Battle of the Sound of Berk caused a huge shock to the status quo of Europe as more people could spread the story of the battle compared to Berk initially taming the dragons. The Plague arc and its resolution in Book 3 causes a lot of changes, with the two biggest being that the Christian Eirish are even more accepting of the pagan Hooligans' rule and they have even started venerating dragons after hearing of Fearless' sacrifice and how she helped save them all from the plague.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Hiccup is willing to forgive attempts on his life if he thinks it will help the assassin become a better person, and the epigraphs note that he is so famous for it that in the future, his name is practically synonymous with altruism. One epigraph authored by Hiccup himself explains why he does this. He recognises that many of his enemies are trapped in a cycle of fear and mistrust, just like Hiccup and Toothless themselves used to be, up until Hiccup gave Toothless trust and broke the cycle between Berk and the Green Death nest. Because of this, Hiccup will always give his enemies a chance, show trust and extend a helping hand. No matter how many times his hand gets slapped away, sometimes, it does work in helping someone escape the cycle they're trapped in and Hiccup could never forgive himself if he didn't give someone the same chance he gave Toothless.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9a7d4472	comment	Stock Ness Monster: While visiting Britain, Hiccup has tried to investigate rumours of a Tidal-class dragon living in a loch, but so far he hasn't found anything to prove or disprove its existence.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Mildew murdered almost his entire family by setting a fire. He meets his own death in a similar way by getting killed by a volcanic eruption.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Given the time period this fic takes place, discriminatory attitudes against women are common. Berk is treated as exceptional because they allowed so many women to become warriors because they recognized that they needed all hands to defend against the dragons. Father Henriksson believes that it's "unnatural" for women to be priests and healers. Wulfhild mentions that Einar didn't allow her to practice archery because he thought it was "unnatural" for women to carry weapons. The freedman Murchadh feels that it's "unnatural" for women to be trained as fighters.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: With a vengeance. Some plot developments foreshadowed in the first ten chapters don't pay off until dozens of chapters later, and offhanded mentions in one chapter can come back later as major developments. In Chapter 2, the lack of options for Ruffnut in men close to her age besides her brother is brought up and foreshadows two different things. Ruffnut would later find love outside the tribe, with King Magnus of Norway, and all as part of an alliance between Berk and Norway. It also foreshadows that Deadly Nadder venom can cause miscarriages if even a small prick hits a pregnant women, which is why there was a lack of options for Ruffnut in the first place. In Chapter 7, Stoick mentions their lopsided population of having more elders than youths, which also foreshadows the fact that Deadly Nadder venom causes a miscarriage even in small doses. Pliny's books are shown to have information on dragons when Fishlegs checks them in Chapter 7. One hundred and fourteen chapters later, Viggo checks those books and finds information on a nest no one else alive knows about. Before The Reveal of a Jew joining the Hooligan tribe roughly a century in the past and a significant portion of the present Hooligan tribe as well as the ruling families of the Meatheads and Bog Burglars are descended from him, there was a lot of foreshadowing. In Chapter 6, Bladewit's patronymic is DrorsdÃ³ttir. Dror is not a Norse name. In Chapter 41, Fishlegs mentions that his great-grandfather could speak Evreet and Aramaya, which given that he was from France, is highly unusual. In Chapter 42, Gunvor mentions that the Hooligans' traditional way of counting people is to have them pay a coin and count those, which is a Jewish tradition. In Chapter 55, when telling Heather about him, Fishlegs mentioned that by his people's custom of handling patronymics, he was Dror ben Ezra. In Chapter 8, Stoick angrily tells Snotlout that his actions won't lead to glory and Harthacnut paying them tribute, but to Harthacnut attacking them, with the tribe's only hope of survival being another of Hiccup's ideas. In Chapters 24 and 25, that is more or less exactly what happens. In Chapter 9, one of the villagers of Glenfinnan asks Hiccup to deliver a package to her daughter in a neighbouring village. This foreshadows Hiccup developing the Dragon Mail and in fact is the inspiration for it. In Chapter 16, Father Michael Henriksson looks at Hiccup and Astrid in disapproval. This is actually very subtle foreshadowing for The Reveal that he was behind the assassination attempt on them the previous chapter and his disapproval is actually him being upset they survived. In Chapter 24, Fishlegs noted that he saw the various different dragon species mating outside their kind. This is foreshadowing for The Reveal that the dragons are more one singular species with many breeds. The epigraph for Chapter 26 mentions that the battle of the Sound of Berk was the only battle of the First Berkian-English war. For there to be a First war, there has to be a Second, which happens in Chapter 73. Trader Johann mentions in Chapter 49 selling the refined oleander to someone other than Mildew. The buyer was Eochaid who uses it to try to assassinate Clan Haddock. Fearless' sacrificing herself was foreshadowed. The Chapter 25 epigraph mentions that most Night Furies are descended from Toothless. Had Fearless lived to see Berk, roughly half should have been descended from her. The epigraphs foreshadowed that Valka is alive. Chapter 67's epigraph makes a point in mentioning Valka was legally declared dead. In Chapter 80, the epigraph mentions some Dragon Nests made a tentative shift to agriculture and fish-farming before the Dragon Era started. Those nests learned it from Valka I. There was a lot of build-up towards the telescope being the invention Hiccup makes that allows him to pass Astrid's challenge. The chapter 23 epigraph mentions that Hiccup encountered Ibn al-Haytham's writings to use as the basis to create the most earth-shattering scientific innovations of his career. Also starting chapter 23, Fishlegs spends a lot of time setting up a proper glass workshop and after getting an actual trained glass craftman in Chapter 55, succeeds by Chapter 59. Chapter 113 shows Hiccup asking the glass workshop to prepare some lens for him. In Chapter 10, one of Mac Bethad's spies, Gregor, mentions once fighting a shieldmaiden. Over one-hundred chapters later, in Chapter 116, it turns out Jonna is the shieldmaiden in question and she identifies him as a spy. The chapter 144 epigraph mentions that the news of the second battle of the Seine River included outright libel. The next chapter shows Lady Joan spouting libel against the Hooligans regarding that battle to convince King Henry to act against them.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9dbb9688	type	Fantastic Honorifics
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9dbb9688	comment	Fantastic Honorifics: Stoick and Hiccup are occassionally called "Dragon Lord". The female dragon riders are sometimes called "Lady Rider". Same with the male ones who are sometimes called "Lord Rider". The dragons in charge of a nest are called "Nest Lord" by the dragons themselves. The Hooligans and Byzantines have separately come up with different titles for the dragons in charge of a nest. The Hooligans use Thengill ("Prince" or "King") while the Byzantines use Alphadraconis ("First Dragon"). Astrid is given the title "Master of the Dragon" by analogy to other kingdoms' "Master of the Horse".
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9de7a5d0	type	Fix Fic
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9de7a5d0	comment	Fix Fic: Of a sort to ''HTTYD'' 3; the dragons don't leave or retreat from the world, but remain integrated with human society, and Hiccup's friendship with Toothless and example of a harmonious society does change the world. Unique in the fact that the fic was begun over two years before the third movie was released.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_9ffbadef	comment	Fantastic Naming Convention: The Hooligan Tribe have a unique tradition of giving their children absurd or otherwise unconventional names out of a belief this protects them from real or imagined dangers.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a0797fb3	comment	Stunned Silence: Ruffnut's parents are shocked speechless to find out a major king had proposed to their daughter, who would have been an ordinary village shieldmaiden, if not for the fact she was a Dragon Rider.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a09f3a65	comment	Sibling Triangle: Picknose forms the hinge of a polyamorous relationship with sisters Mairwen and Signy, who are happy to share him, but don't want to have sex with each other. They end up being stepsiblings once their parents (Picknose's mom and dad, and the girls' mom) get together too.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Stoick and Bladewit each all but explicitly state (Stoick in his own private musings and Bladewit in a talk with Fishlegs) that they had this moment after they learned the truth about the dragon's reasons for attacking them, disgusted and horrified that they have spent their lives taking pleasure in killing dragon's who were little more than enthralled children, and take efforts to correct their mistake. Wulfhild has this reaction once she learned what could happen because Father Henriksson tricked her into marrying Hiccup in a Christian Wedding. Snotlout/Sigurd has this reaction when the reality of the situation he has caused starts to sink in. Forty innocent dragons have been captured by the Romans and their lives are on the line because of him (if he fails to train them, the Romans will most likely kill them). Hiccup basically feels this way when he sees what has happened near Rome because of dragons, feeling that all of this only took place because he indirectly drove Snotlout out of Berk. Eret feels this way when he learns that the Buffalord spit has medical benefits, as he wonders how many people might have died in the last month because he killed a creature that could produce medicine.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a21d8982	type	Assassination Attempt
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a21d8982	comment	Assassination Attempt: Hiccup has three. All while on trips. The first is at Norway where thanes influenced by Hendricksson tried to kill him and Astrid for being pagans. The second was ordered on the spot by Donnchadh mac Brian with whom he went to negotate a trade agreement with. The third was in England where Mac Bethad set up an elaborate scheme to kill him and make it look like Siward and Harthacnut were responsible. Drago has been the target of numerous attempts on his life by the Pechenegs for various reasons, up to and including just for being a non-Pecheneg in a position of power among them.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Part of the reason many dragons stay with Berk, in spite of their distrust of humans, is because they were better than the Green Death, and the Hooligans help with feeding and egg-care. One dragon tells the rest that he will never take a human partner, nor ever fully trust them, but they will never find another home like Berk, which is why he stays and defends them and convinces the others to help out as well.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: Discussed in Chapter 93 regarding whether Ruffnut's forced baptism is valid or not; Gothi eventually finds a possible solution where Ruffnut can rededicate herself to Loki at Odin's blot (as Loki doesn't have a blot himself), but it depends on the idea that Ruffnut didn't ask for the baptism in the first place.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: One of the favorite tactics used by the Byzantine Romans to disqualify people from being Emperor, for both theological (the Emperor had to be physically intact) and practical reasons (hard to command armies if you're blind). The deposed Emperor Michael V has his eyes gouged out at the end of Book II.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a2e96d18	type	Just the First Citizen
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a2e96d18	comment	Just the First Citizen: Played for Laughs and inverted. Once Berk's territory starts expanding, Stoick insists that he's a chief, thankyouverymuch, not a king. To him, a chief is approachable and part of the tribe, while a king is distant and separate. He even starts going on a tour of the lands now under his control, just so he can know the people, and they can meet him, to the point of helping out with farm-work. This doesn't help convince people he's not a king, with people regularly using the royal title out of his earshot.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: In Berk's first visit to Magnus, Magnus notes to Hiccup that he ruled out the possibility of a marriage between Snotlout and Wulfhild as a means of formalising their alliance because of Snotlout's poor treatment of Magnus's servants.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a43a9183	comment	No Poverty: Berk has "bed rights" and "food rights" to ensure everyone gets enough food and housing to survive. This becomes enormously complicated when they suddenly find themselves ruling over hundreds of thousands of people.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a4b32bef	comment	Would Rather Suffer: In trying to emphasize how big of a jerk Snotlout is, Astrid tells Wulfhild that if she was on fire and Snotlout had the only bucket of water available, she would rather enjoy the warmth then let Snotlout have any chance to lord the fact he saved her over her.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a55ab01e	comment	Jerkass Realization: Sigurd realises how much of an asshole he was when he was Snotlout and his abandonment of his old name in favour of his new one is partially because he wants to be a far better person than Snotlout was.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a5adbbe7	comment	Unreliable Expositor: Downplayed example, but some of the chapter epigraph sources are explicitly designed with biases, axes to grind, double standards, and agendas that color their exposition. Most notable of these is the recurring source The Genius Has No Clothes, which engages in various logical fallacies (in one example, it holds Hiccup up as being more scientifically productive exclusively because he had leisure time and a fortune, despite noting that he was busy with diplomacy and affairs of state, and doesn't hold the same standard to another polymath who lived right before Hiccup who was imprisoned by the Fatimid Caliphate under house arrest for ten years and wrote numerous scientific treatises during this time.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a5de0ab9	comment	Polyamory: Berk is a society accepting of polygamous relationships, ranging from the more typical-for-the-Norse of "one man and two or more women" to at least one triad of a married male-and-female couple with a male concubine. Hiccup, Astrid and Wulfhild, after some drama, form a fully loving polyamorous trio.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a5f5b4e0	type	Playing the Victim Card
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a5f5b4e0	comment	Henry the Sinister and his wife Joan are both evil, with her even being the one to suggest Henry rape Hawiz to get a bastard heir to Brittany. She pretends to be a victim of his to escape from the Hooligans after Henry is defeated.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a627a930	comment	Gender Is No Object: The Hooligan Tribe has all their women fighting alongside all their men. The reason they practice this, compared to other cultures, is due to the Dragon War necessitating that everyone be able to fight. After the end of the Dragon War, they kept doing it, and at least one outsider observed that gender makes no difference when you're a Dragon Rider.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: In a sense; where Toothless' Whispering Death nemesis in "What Flies Beneath" only made one appearance in canon (possibly two if that 'What If?' sequence in "Darkest Night" featured the same dragon) here the Whispering Death is named Mold and becomes Mildew's personal dragon due to their shared distaste for Hiccup and Toothless.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: After Toothless's sister Fearless gives her life to stop the Screaming Death that was once her nest-lord, Hiccup makes sure to tell the rest of Berk about her sacrifice. Even the Christian priest sets up a monument for her, musing that, regardless of whether or not dragons have souls, he wants God to know that they appreciate her sacrifice. Later, Ã“engus, a silversmith, asks for some scales from Toothless to complete various pendants he's making in the style of a Night Fury to further honour Fearless's sacrifice. By Chapter 139, Hiccup has completed a runestone commemorating Fearless's memory, with Toothless the first person to see the completed stone.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a6ec25e4	type	Protection Racket
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a6ec25e4	comment	Protection Racket: Not knowing that Berk's leaders were not interested in conquest, their neighbouring royals give gifts to them to bribe them to not attack them with their dragons. To prevent insult, Stoick accepts the gifts. When non-aristocratic neighbours start doing it in the aftermath of Harthacnut's failed attack, Stoick insists on paying them a fair price for the goods they provide.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Hiccup lost a leg, but his genius allows him to make weapons that more than makes up for it. Toothless lost part of his tail fins, but the prosthetic tail Hiccup made allows him to keep up. Drago Bludvist has only one arm, that doesn't stop him from out fighting able-bodied people and dragons.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a7ba94de	type	Inferiority Superiority Complex
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a7ba94de	comment	Inferiority Superiority Complex: All the problems Snotlout caused from his attempts to seize glory in the first ten chapters of the story were motivated by him feeling overshadowed and left behind by Hiccup's successes. This would later motivate him to leave for the Byzantine Roman Empire to join the Varangians and achieve glory that way only for his feelings of inferiority to all come back when he hears that Hiccup became even more prominent and successful while he was gone, resulting in him going on a disastrous bender.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a7e47a11	comment	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Einar congratulates Hiccup on getting rid of Snotlout, thinking he tricked his cousin into going into self-imposed exile. This makes Hiccup feel "unclean in a way that soap and rosewater wouldn't touch".
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Meet the Afro-Norse warrior Gudmund Hallvarsson working as a mercenary for the Byzantine Empire, a.k.a. Heidrun HallvarsdÃ³ttir, sister of Gabriel Hallvarsson. In Chapter 113, Mulan disguises herself as a man named Ping for her envoy's expedition as they prepare to travel to Berk since an unmarried woman travelling without a chaperon would have drawn too much attention during that era.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a8559a9f	comment	Just like in Real Life, Emperor Michael V of the Byzantine Roman Empire was so stupidly incompetent as a ruler that it's a wonder the Byzantines didn't collapse during his rule when he constantly and actively made decisions that were so obviously detrimental to both his own and the Byzantine's long-term prospects. The most narratively prevalent were his actions regarding Sigurd and the empire's Dragon Training: He demands that Sigurd give Hookfang to him and when that was resisted because the precedent would undermine the Varangian Guard's reliability, tries to have Sigurd killed and kidnap Hookfang anyway, never mind that this would result in the Byzantines losing their only dragon-training expert. After the Dragon-Hunting expedition returns with the captive dragons, he takes responsibility for their training away from Sigurd, completely ignoring the fact that Sigurd is still the only one the Byzantines have available who can actually tame the dragons. After the training is complete, Michael sends Sigurd on Uriah Gambit after Uriah Gambit, hoping he would die for his earlier defiance of him, even though again, this would cause him and the Byzantines to lose their best dragon expert. He also banished his stepmother Zoe to prevent her from being a threat to his rule due to her popularity, never mind that his association with her is the only reason he's an Emperor in the first place, and since she was, you know, more popular than he was, that provoked her supporters to riot. Harald could only call Michael "half-brained" and "quarter-wit" after hearing about it.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a86069f	comment	Somewhat Subverted as the Alternate History the story is telling calls into question how famous these two are going to be in the future versus their real-world counterparts; the paths their lives take diverge massively. William in particular since he is adopted by Stoick and therefore given back the chance to live a happy childhood rather than endure the pressure and ridicule he'd face his entire life otherwise, so while still possibly a future famous person it no longer seems likely he'll be remembered as William "the Conqueror".
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a8896b94	comment	Leave No Witnesses: Savage orders the village of Glenfinnan be silenced when the Berserkers catch up with Kerr.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: In Chapter 75, 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.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: For most of the world the term "concubine" means anywhere from pleasure thrall to, at best, an acknowledged lover. For the Hooligans, specifically after the system was reformed, it means a legal partnership with a lot of guaranteed protections for the concubine, but the Hooligans never bothered changing the term. This caused significant confusion for outsiders and new citizens such as with Eret being flabbergasted by Wulfhild explaining how concubinage works on Berk.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_aa88f109	type	Humanity Is Infectious
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_aa88f109	comment	Humanity Is Infectious: Toothless observes that the dragons have begun to learn compassion from the humans, as if the dragons were still wild he would probably have been abandoned by the rest of his kind after the loss of his tail-fin as opposed to life on Berk where he has been given a chance to fly again. After over two years living with humans, Eret notices dragons developing a taste for ornamentation, such as Stormfly getting carvings on her horns in a similar style to human tattoos or another Nadder getting gold gilding on its horns after its rider started wearing earrings. After Fearless's sacrifice, Toothless is genuinely touched to see how so many humans have found ways to commemorate his sister's sacrifice, regretting his own realisation that he has so few memories of his own parents compared to his time under Fire-Hunger's rule.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_aabe2fb	comment	This is lampshaded and deconstructed whenever someone from outside of Berk, be they thralls or envoys, experiences Berk and their people for themselves and react with confusion and astonishment, the rest of the world being as politically incorrect as you would expect for the time period.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ab2ffd70	comment	Foreign Ruling Class: During Book 3, Berk ends up controlling Southern Eire. The majority of the population is Eirish, but Berk itself is Norse. One of the new Eirish vassal lords points out that even though this was due to Berk offering annexation, it still smacks of conquest though they manage to keep the peace by keeping the vassalised Eirish lords in charge but with new duties to run things the way Berk does. Epigraphs reveal that this eventually extends to all of Eire and the Eirish become so loyal due to everything Berk does for them that they resolutely back House Haddock in the Grand Thing.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Stoick considers his impulsiveness, temper, and stubbornness as his as they have caused him no end of grief, citing how he almost led the tribe to their doom in ignoring what Hiccup had to say and attempting to defeat the dragons at the Green Death Nest.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: When Wulfhild first suggested playing battledore on dragonback, all the Dragon Riders at Nidaros loved it, and Astrid realised that if it wasn't for that, she wouldn't be able to throw the firecocks at Harthacnut's navy with a large amount of skill. Hiccup trained the dragons to drag nets to catch a large amount of fish. It also turned out to be useful in catching a large amount of ships, specifically the ones part of Harthacnut's navy. Hiccup showed remarkable skill in the dragon races flying through the sea stacks near his home. This skill serves him well when flying through the Pechenegs Dragon Rider formations.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Henriksson's attempts to prevent an alliance between Berk and Norway and later Christianise Berk through subterfuge and lies not only failed, they backfired. His attempts to prevent an alliance ends up guaranteeing it by King Magnus swearing friendship to Berk. In the aftermath of his crimes being discovered, Magnus reverses the outlawing of the Norse Religion in Norway and Stoick tells a priest who settles on Berk that while he can preach to the existing Christian population, he is not allowed to proselytize.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Generally the reaction of anyone outside of Berk when they find out just how many dragons Hooligans have: Mac Beth's court were shocked that the number of Dragon Riders number at least five hundred, with the number of unbonded dragons that could carry a person numbering three or four thousand. Two for the Byzantine empire: Snotlout/Sigurd was ordered to reveal the number of dragons his homeland had to the Byzantine Court, and they went into an uproar when he admits it's over ten thousand. When their emissary came back, he gives an updated number. Because the dragons have been breeding, they now have tens of thousands of dragons. Those present almost reacted with hysteria before Theodora calmed them down.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Hiccup and Astrid regularly have pun wars, and Hiccup's snark is weapons-grade. Fintan mac Ionatan also has his moments— Such as his comeback against Tuathel: Or when Astrid doesn't appreciate being woken up early:
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_af2f15c1	type	The Puppet Cuts His Strings
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_af2f15c1	comment	The Puppet Cuts His Strings: Einar begins losing control over Magnus after Magnus marries Ruffnut since her personality made her difficult to manipulate. Einar lost even more control after Magnus is crowned king of England and Denmark and has his own significant power base independent of Einar. Michael V is supposed to be just another puppet when he becomes the Emperor of the Roman Empire; but as soon as he's coronated, his first order is the banishment of his biological uncle, John the Eunuch, who has been effectively ruling the Empire as a sort of prime minister/puppetmaster for a decade. That promptly backfired, as Michael V was determined to rule on his own... but has no idea what he's doing.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_af3ff126	type	Idealized Sex
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_af3ff126	comment	Idealized Sex: Subverted, when Hiccup and Astrid have sex for the first time it started out being clumsy, awkward, and confusing. They did eventually find a rhythm that worked for them but even then it wasn't perfect, not that either of them minded.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: Just like in Real Life, Emperor Michael V of the Byzantine Roman Empire was so stupidly incompetent as a ruler that it's a wonder the Byzantines didn't collapse during his rule when he constantly and actively made decisions that were so obviously detrimental to both his own and the Byzantine's long-term prospects. The most narratively prevalent were his actions regarding Sigurd and the empire's Dragon Training: He demands that Sigurd give Hookfang to him and when that was resisted because the precedent would undermine the Varangian Guard's reliability, tries to have Sigurd killed and kidnap Hookfang anyway, never mind that this would result in the Byzantines losing their only dragon-training expert. After the Dragon-Hunting expedition returns with the captive dragons, he takes responsibility for their training away from Sigurd, completely ignoring the fact that Sigurd is still the only one the Byzantines have available who can actually tame the dragons. After the training is complete, Michael sends Sigurd on Uriah Gambit after Uriah Gambit, hoping he would die for his earlier defiance of him, even though again, this would cause him and the Byzantines to lose their best dragon expert. He also banished his stepmother Zoe to prevent her from being a threat to his rule due to her popularity, never mind that his association with her is the only reason he's an Emperor in the first place, and since she was, you know, more popular than he was, that provoked her supporters to riot. Harald could only call Michael "half-brained" and "quarter-wit" after hearing about it. Eochaid sends a poisoner to Berk's Thawfest Festival after he and his men were kicked out for violating Sacred Hospitality. There was literally nothing he had to gain for it and yet he did it anyway out of spite. After Berk discovers he was the culprit, his own vassals turned on him for doing something so obviously stupid as to provoke Berk when the military power disparity was huge.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b060856d	type	Big Book of War
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b060856d	comment	Big Book of War: One of the fictional texts used to provide epigraphs for various chapters is "The Wing and the Axe", a book on the military applications of dragons, written by Astrid. Another epigraph mentions that it was the book of dragon warfare for almost two centuries and still seen as one of the foundational texts on the subject later on.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Snotlout leaves Berk with the intention of making it out on his own and claiming glory and riches, and heads to the Roman Empire to join the Varangian Guard, a Norse mercenary group that is part of the Roman Army. His dreams of fame and glory, however, quickly turn into a fight for survival, as the old Emperor dies, and the new one immediately orders him to give up Hookfang. When he refuses, the Emperor (possibly) tried having Snotlout killed by a group of muggers lead by a rival Varangian. After that, it's practically a Trauma Conga Line for poor Snotlout, who, bound by his oath of service, ends up converting to Christianity under threat of death by torture, having to train dragons for the Empire (and realizing that he's the only one who has the welfare of the dragons personally in mind), training the Emperor to ride a dragon of his own, having his mentor in the Guard arrested on trumped-up charges, and facing an Uriah Gambit that will end with him getting killed in battle, along with having his inferiority with Hiccup and Fishlegs in literacy and intelligence rubbed in his face, and even having to live-fire test the new dragon-skin armor for the the Roman dragon-riders â€“ and hope that the armorers did their job properly. Plus, he's also directly and personally responsible for giving dragon-riding to the freaking Roman Empire, whose military quickly comes to the conclusion that dragons are the new great weapon, which ends up getting him banished from Berk.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b0bce7aa	type	Selective Obliviousness
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b0bce7aa	comment	Selective Obliviousness: Mildew is able to manipulate Taskill so easily because he tailored his slander of Stoick and the Hooligans to fit Taskill's preconceptions of vikings. It's so effective that Taskill dismisses his spies' reports that Berk has no intention of attacking Mac Bethad. It took seeing Berk with his own eyes, months of trying to reconcile the discrepancy between his preconceptions and what Berk's actually like, and Rikard specifically taking time out of his day to talk to Taskill about what kind of manipulative bastard Mildew is for him to realise the Confirmation Bias trap he fell into.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b0d6dfa8	type	Sand Necktie
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b0d6dfa8	comment	Sand Necktie: Heather mentions that one possible method which Alvin used to dispose of the hostages of washouts from his Spy Training is to bury them up to their necks in a river marsh and from there, it's a race between what kills them first, drowning, thirst, or attacked by wild animals.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b0fb2427	type	Bread and Circuses
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b0fb2427	comment	Bread and Circuses: Mentioned and mused upon by Viggo when he sees Berk's system of welfare payments; he sees "populace pacification" as being a potential failure state for the system, which is intended for "population welfare".
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Sigurd/Snotlout eventually realises his error in judgement in helping the Byzantine Empire take dragons, but he can't leave without violating his oath or putting those same dragons at risk of mistreatment. And then Hiccup exiles him for it, and it is upheld by Stoick due to him violating his oath to them to not go raiding using dragons through a Loophole Abuse and breaking Berk's monopoly that made them a world power in the first place, which means he can't go home, he's stuck.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b2c20efd	type	Abandon the Disabled
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b2c20efd	comment	Abandon the Disabled: Defied with the Hooligans. Unlike most other Norse societies, they abandoned the tradition of exposing weak and sickly infants and keep every child no matter the circumstances due to how hard it was for them to carry a child to term. Toothless and his sister Fearless discuss that most dragons would leave a maimed dragon for dead.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Hiccup nominally takes Wulfhild as his concubine to appease the Norwegian court without having to set Astrid aside and to protect Wulfhild from a nasty Arranged Marriage that may otherwise be waiting for her back home. Nobody is particularly happy with this arrangement and despite everyone's best efforts tension continues to raise. Finally, all parties involved conclude the situation as it stands causes only misery and decide to talk things out. At the end subverted; Hiccup ends up bedding Wulfhild with Astrid's approval and all three slowly settle into a stable polygamous relationship.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: ToirÃ©asa witnesses Savage torture a prisoner, and realises that he's driven by a genuine desire to cause pain for the sake of it.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Most of Heather's detractors in the tribe agree that Vigdis' actions that almost succeeded in getting her raped crossed the line and led to them being more sympathetic to Heather.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b53c57d5	comment	It is pointed out in the Epigraph for Chapter 10 that the cultural expectation of the time was for Norse chieftains to be polygamous, and that Stoick was considered unusual that he only had one wife, Valka, and that he never took a concubine or remarried after her loss. It became the subject of much romanticization in the future.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	The Hooligan Tribe is slowly becoming widely feared by the rest of Europe, especially the Christian part of it, to the point that those that deliberately attack them without a huge army of their own are considered Too Dumb to Live. As things stand, Rome, one of the centres of Christianity, is too afraid to actually attack them and are all too happy to accept peace.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b5914444	comment	During the second Thawfest in the story, Hiccup recalls one of Cami's more elaborate pranks from his childhood. No details are given except the line, "He still was not sure where Cami had found that much butterâ€¦"
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b6cebad3	comment	The Double Standard is especially blatant with Tuffnut and Mor. Them having sex while courting is openly talked about but no one is speaking out against it.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b6e1d40b	comment	Acceptable Breaks from Reality: The author acknowledges that the Holy Roman Empire wasn't called the Holy Roman Empire until the mid 12th century, but calls it that to help prevent confusion with the Roman Empire centered around Constantinople. Later in the story, Berk start referring to the Holy Roman Empire as the Deutchlands, which is what the Romans called the region in which the majority of the Holy Roman Empire now sits, to differentiate it from the Byzantine/Roman Empire in Constantinople.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: In Chapter 51, after King Donnchadh mac Brian gets curbstomped by Hiccup and his friends, Hiccup pointedly refuses to kill the king, citing this trope as one of his reasons. He didn't want King Donnchadh to become a martyr, or to have an army under his banner seeking revenge against Berk. In defending his decision, Hiccup points out that the Cycle of Revenge is at the heart of the story of RagnarÃ¶k: Odin banished or tortured Loki's children out of fear, which prompted Loki to kill Baldr, which drove Odin to punish Loki, which would lead to Loki joining the jÃ¶tunn against Asgard.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b72ae7	comment	Omnidisciplinary Scientist: As an adult, Asta Rhonda Haddock- the firstborn daughter of Hiccup and Wulfhild- will be one of the first graduates of Waterford University, with her interests including biology, anatomy, botany, mathematics, geology, paleontology, and cartography.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b780431d	type	The Dragonslayer
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b780431d	comment	The Dragonslayer: The Hooligan Tribe used to be full of people capable of slaying dragons in one on one combat before they tamed the dragons. Some former dragon slayers didn't adapt well. Drago Bludvist killed hundreds of dragons before he independently of Berk found a way to tame dragons by making them submit to his strength. Even after realising the benefits of having dragons fight for him, he still mentions his kill count to impress other people.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Zig-Zagged. Wulfhild starts out as being a close friend to both Hiccup and Astrid. When Einar and the other members of Norway's court threaten civil war if their Altar Diplomacy is not made a second way (Ruffnut and Magnus's marriage not considered secure enough) through Wulfhild, she offers to make herself Hiccup's official concubine as a compromise, vowing for their relationship to remain chaste if it means not to get in the way of him and Astrid. While Astrid believes her and still acknowledges her as their friend, she can not help but feel threatened by Wulfhild's new position in the clan until her great-grandparents (who are also involved in a polygamous relationship) convince her that not only is it in their best interest politically to consummate the arrangement, but that she does not have to worry about Hiccup's faithfulness to her. After Wulfhild joins their marital bed, Hiccup and Astrid quickly come to love her like they do with one another and become a One True Threesome.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b8198b96	type	Dead Man's Switch
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b8198b96	comment	Dead Man's Switch: Mildew warns Mac Bethad that if the latter kills the former, letters will be dispatched to Stoick explaining everything they did. It took over a year, but Mac Bethad's people managed to locate those letters, destroy them, and kill the people who had possession of those letters. Except they missed one. Mildew told Peader and presumably most of the others that he'll send them letters every four months. Taskill managed to trace these to Peader and the other possessors of the incrimating letters. However, he told Fraser that he'll contact him yearly. Without a letter to Fraser to trace, he escaped the fate of Mildew's other contacts. The incriminating letter Mildew gave him is still intact. Overall the plan is decent but nearly fails because no one actually likes Mildew all that much. The remaining letter winds up gathering dust in a tavern keeper's papers while he decides what to do about it... until it is seized by Berk as part of entirely unrelated fraud charges. It reaches Stoic and alerts him to Mac Bethad's treachery merely hours after Hiccup's retinue leave to talk to Mac Bethad about his spies.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b87363bb	type	Character-Driven Strategy
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b87363bb	comment	Character-Driven Strategy: Viggo remarks that Hiccup loses their game of Maces & Talons because he is so concerned with keeping his pawns that he leaves his chief unguarded, reflecting Hiccup's priorities in protecting his subjects over himself.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b8f0415	type	Dramatis Personae
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b8f0415	comment	Dramatis Personae: There's an Appendix on Archive Of Our Own with a character list.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: Heather basically asks Fishlegs to be this for her when she realises that she needs more than just herself in her role as Berk's spymaster, wanting to ensure that she doesn't end up like Alvin.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ba58393f	type	Overnight Conquest
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ba58393f	comment	Overnight Conquest: Dragons make conquering a city a piece of cake, since walls are no barrier and defenders tend to be ill-prepared to handle dragon riders. Dragons make it so easy to conquer that Berk with a relatively small force conquered Vedrarfjord by accident when they only wanted to get rid of the king. When they do it on purpose, Harthacnut's reign over England and Denmark ended in short order.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Standard operating procedure for most armies at the time. Defied however by Berk despite being proud unabashed Vikings who still worship Odin and Thor and indeed Stoick very specifically forbids any raiding using dragons. Most everyone else, however, knows nothing about Berk other than they're Vikings on dragon-back and thus fear the results and take actions based on the assumption that they will go raiding, regardless of repeated demonstrations and evidence that Stoick and Hiccup will not allow raiding without justification and that attacking them anyway is a lethally stupid course of action.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ba9cda8	type	Bigotry Exception
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ba9cda8	comment	Bigotry Exception: Mold is the one exception to Mildew's dragon-hating attitude. He explicitly mentions that they were cut from the same cloth. Mildew actually refers to Mold as a friend.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: A good description of the Roman Empire's attitude towards the expanding dragon empires; Markis explicitly confirms that he's making plans for the possibility of putting Sigurd and Harald on the thrones of Berk and Norway on the chance that Hiccup and Magnus's children will prove hostile towards the Empire, even though there is no sign that such a scenario will happen. Really, it's all about making sure the Byzantines remain the biggest power in Europe instead of losing its position to Berk. Harald knows Makris' plan could weaken his home, but, since he would be in charge if it works, he's very interested in seeing it work.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: The Hooligan Tribe as a whole has two. The first one is theft of their dragons, as Captain Ragnell and his crew quickly realize. The second is slavery since most Berkians are either former thralls or have one somewhere in their immediate family tree. While normally easygoing, Heather joking that Hiccup might be the Second Coming kills the mood for Wulfhild.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Astrid and Wulfhild claim that they do not have a sex-life outside of Hiccup, but it is implied that a majority of their sex-life after including Wulfhild involves him servicing them (and vice-versa) at the same time. It is later confirmed in Chapter 59 that Astrid sees Wulfhild as a romantic partner just as much as she does with Hiccup. In Chapter 103, it is confirmed that in addition to their sex life with Hiccup, Astrid and Wulfhild occasionally enjoy each other without Hiccup being present. Chapter 76 hints that Sigurd/Snotlout is at least interested in men in a physical sense, but is relieved that he never actually did anything when he learns that a group of prisoners are going to be castrated and burned alive for just having sex with men. This becomes more explicit in chapter 80, which affirms that part of the reason he originally agreed to train dragons was to impress his commanding officer in the Vangarians, Harald. In Chapter 99, although she's married to Cami, Merida's words suggest that she doesn't have anything against sex with men but only objected to the fact that her mother's potential partners would have basically reduced her to a lord's bedwarmer.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_bd620d3c	type	In Love with the Mark
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_bd620d3c	comment	In Love with the Mark: Toireasa is sent by Heather to infiltrate the Berserkers to find a way to kill Dagur. As the mission eventually spans into months and her target exposes his insecurities to her, she finds herself falling in love with him before she knew it.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: Inverted. Before Berk tamed dragons, people used to eat dragon meat not knowing they were thinking creatures like they were. It was subtly implied in chapter 1, and explicitly suggested in Chapter 101 where Mildew tells Eret that his family can eat the Buffalord they just captured.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_bdbc35e7	type	Blade Enthusiast
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_bdbc35e7	comment	Blade Enthusiast: Heather, having been taught by Alvin, who seems to always have a knife or three on him. At one point, she performs an Extended Disarming as proof of her martial skills and for comedy, showing that she's carrying at least half a dozen knives on her person (excluding the last one, strapped someplace where only her lover usually sees it).
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: The Bog Burglars claim that they capture potential rapists, build a wicker man out on the cliffs where ships can see, stick the rapist inside, and set it on fire, but Cami confirms to Heather, Atali, and ToirÃ©asa that the tribe haven't actually done that for ages because of the lack of wood on their island to make a wicker man of that size. As such, they've had to 'settle' for more mundane punishments like hanging and castration.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c008e0d9	type	Sons of Slaves
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c008e0d9	comment	The Hooligans, due to having outlawed thralldom over a century earlier, and with nearly everyone in the tribe being either a freed slave or descended from freed slaves, have a particular dislike of the institution of chattel slavery, to the point that 'Sigurd' immediately orders that all slaves in his new territories be freed once he learns of their existence despite the potential challenges this will present to running his territories. Implied to be a major part of why the Berkians were willing to take in the dragons at the end of HTTYD 1, as being freed slaves of the Green Death allowed Berks to understand and bond with the dragons on an emphathetic level.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c02ce551	comment	Straight for the Commander: Hiccup and later the Roman dragon-riders under Snotlout find that dragons make targeting the enemy leader really easy. In the Battle of the Sound of Berk, Hiccup and Toothless just swoop in and pluck Harthacnut right off the deck of his ship.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: In Chapter 109, Mulan is right in that they must help their people, which one of the councillors admits, but that same councillor points out that they can't afford to, especially with a reduced tax base from the damage to their nation's biggest city. Mulan can't offer a counter-argument to his observation that they need to raise peoples' moral through propaganda such as her own appointment.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c0935922	type	Dragon Rider
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c0935922	comment	Social: As a result of the political advantages, being a Dragon Rider of Berk suddenly gave them status equivalent to nobles and their Chief effectively a King, to the point that a King like Magnus proposing to Ruffnut who otherwise doesn't stand out that much from her tribemates was accepted easily by his vassals, with other aristocrats like Earl Godwin eventually following his example. Berk's fervent anti-slavery views and their attitudes about helping each other also raised the standards-of-living of their new holdings. Some characters outright state that having a dragon has become a status symbol.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c145f69b	comment	Ultimately subverted with Hiccup and Astrid, who have both admitted to themselves that have fallen as deeply in love with their third partner, Wulfhild, despite a period of time where Hiccup had hang ups about the whole situation, as they are with each other, although Hiccup makes it clear in Chapter 87 that this was due to exceptional circumstances and he has no interest in taking on more than two wives.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c186a39c	type	He Didn't Make It
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c186a39c	comment	He Didn't Make It: After the Roman dragon-riders escaped from the trap at Bari, Sigurd finds that command of the unit has devolved to him â€“ starting with the casualty totals. One of the Roman dragon-riders is said to have "bought us time" after he saw his dragon's body.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: The Hooligan Tribe's tradition of giving their kids silly names tends to give outsiders pause. The most notable example is that more than one person is stunned or at least surprised that the Hero that tamed dragons is named Hiccup. One of Mac Bethad's spies even mourns the fact that Hiccup is the third person of his line with that name. The main exceptions are the Hoffersons, who feel themselves too skilled to need such protections. It's also noted that the practice has been waning for a while.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c2c80ef	type	Neck Lift
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c2c80ef	comment	Neck Lift: Stoick lifts one of Eochaid's men by the neck when he finally reaches the limits of his patience with Eochaid. Heather is impressed that Stoick's arm doesn't even quiver, despite the desperately twitching man at the end.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c34a1799	type	Kaiju
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c34a1799	comment	Kaiju: Most dragons are on the same scale as more mundane animals, but there are a few that are larger than a whole village. The Green Death as per canon, described as having been 60 cubitsnote 90 feet or 27.432 meters tall, 200 cubitsnote 300 feet or 91.44 meters long, and with a 300 cubitnote 450 feet or 137.16 meters long wingspan. The old nest lord of the Cretan nest, described as having been almost half as large as the Green Death. Good-Cold the Bewilderbeast as per canon. The Black Sea nest lord (Night-Glow) is described as being less than half as big as the Green Death was. Furious as per canon.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Kerr made it to Ivor's village carrying information Berk would want to know. He is told that they get regular visits and Berk is a few hours away by dragon-flight and is relieved. Then Dagur catches up, kills him, and kills or enslaves the rest of the village.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c526eaa4	type	Bond Breaker
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c526eaa4	comment	Bond Breaker: Spitelout's death proves to be this for Clan Jorgenson, as he is the only member of the clan that the majority would be able to accept as heir (especially since his son Snotlout, the only other possible contender, is in exile). With his death and the growing discontent over not wanting to deal with his father Clogdall's tyranny any longer, the clan ends up completely splintering, diminishing it to barely over twenty members before the next clan heir is finally declared.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c57b21f9	type	Global Currency
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c57b21f9	comment	Global Currency: Dragon scales and teeth becomes in use as a currency far beyond Berk's territories, with even their enemies using them, as they cannot be counterfeited or debased, unlike traditional coins.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: After spending months planning how he will show Hiccup up when he returns to Berk, Snotlout/Sigurd is shocked to learn from Dogsbreath that not only is Hiccup now married to Astrid, but he has taken Wulfhild as a concubine and both women are expecting Hiccup's children, while Sigurd hasn't even been with a woman yet.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Tuathel mac Uaithne, the king of an Irish petty kingdom, and his men try attacking a former thrall in Berk under the rationale that the freedman owes Tuathel compensation for lost goods. How exactly? The freedman escaped from thralldom and thus owes his former owner for the theft of himself. The worst part is, by a technical reading of the law at the time, Tuathel had a case â€“ or, at least, the law outside of Berk.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c60e9e0c	type	Bullying the Disabled
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c60e9e0c	comment	Bullying the Disabled: Drago is looked down on by many for his lack of an arm and heavy scarring. He is often insulted, despite everything he has done for the Pechenegs, and has trouble with maintaining credibility. In the past a merchant's brother picked a fight with him and after Drago defended himself, the merchant arranged for Drago to be abandoned for dead in the middle of a desert. It forms a large part of the reasoning behind his ruthlessness, and when he meets the merchant again his new allies arrange a poetic retribution. Mistletoe and Stormfly drop Toothless into the water since he can't fly. They later apologise to him after he made it clear how hurtful that was.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To The Far Side, oddly enough; in the first chapter, Hiccup refers to the spikes at the end of The Green Death's tail as a Thagomizer. The chapter titles "Understanding is a Three-Edged Sword", "Your Sideâ€¦", "â€¦Their Sideâ€¦", "â€¦And The Truth" and "The Third Principle Of Sentient Life" are all references to Babylon 5. The titles of Chapters 74 and 75, "It's Planting Seeds In A Garden..." and "...You Never Get To See" are taken from the lyrics of "The World Was Wide Enough" from Hamilton, though it is also a reference to a Jewish parable. Chapter 102 has Mac Bethad's wife, Gruoch, use the phrase "'Wash our hands of him'? Is there enough soap and lye in the world to get that spot out?" in reference to Shakespeare's Macbeth. This has extra layers because Grouch is whom Lady MacBeth was loosely based on. In Chapter 113, Wulfhild describes PÃ¡draig's plan to give everyone an identity number as "there will be only one person with two-four-six-oh-one, but imagine how many people are named PÃ¡draig mac Bran?". The titles for the Chapters 140 to 143 together form a quote from a speech given by Faramir from The Lord of the Rings.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: As a society, the Hooligans went from being just another Viking tribe to an economic powerhouse, with the biggest examples being Clan Haddock who by controlling the Wild Flock also control most of the wealth that comes from dragons and Fishlegs whose glass workshop made him one of the richest of his clan. Fintan went from being a thrall who only had the clothes on his back to being Hakon's and Gunvor's aide and rich enough from his wages and investments that he could buy out an Eirish petty kingdom.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c8c968c3	type	The Alliance
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c8c968c3	comment	The Alliance: Berk and Norway form an alliance that greatly benefits both powers. Berk gains greater political legitimacy and some politicking know-how and gets brought up to speed on current affairs, while Norway gets dragons and a boost to their standards of living from implementing how the Hooligans do things. A massive alliance of Eirish and Viking kings formed in order to crush Berk, but they were completely defeated by their defenders and their territory became annexed under Berk.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: Dragons are more than just animals. They are capable of high-level reasoning and debating among themselves as shown when the Skrill, later named Mjolnir, convinces the other dragons of the Haddock Wild Flock to help defend Berk. The first example of this is in chapter 23 when Toothless and Stormfly managed to convey to Gobber that Hiccup and Astrid were working too hard and got him to fill a picnic basket for their riders. One example of this is shown during a brief scene in Constantinople told from Hookfang's POV, with Hookfang pondering how his 'walker' has probably changed nests seeking a mate. Toothless, Stormfly and Mistletoe all form a 'nest' in chapter 53 when they realise that Astrid and Wulfhild are pregnant; chapters 79 and 80 reaffirms Toothless's intelligence in particular, as he 'acts out' a scene to assure Hiccup that Snotlout would have left on his own anyway and later 'talks' with Hookfang and local dragons to confirm that the Romans are treating them well. Chapters 81 and 82 feature Toothless, Stormfly, Mistletoe and Meatlug in particular talking about how 'walkers' give birth before they discover and talk with the dragons of another nest whose Alpha was killed by humans long ago. In Chapter 94, Toothless is surprised when he learns that walker infants are born live, even if he quickly moves past his shock to vow to protect Hiccup's babies like family. In Chapter 99, Stormfly, Mistletoe and Galloway (Merida's Nadder) each take part in their riders' target practice, shooting spines at the targets instead of arrows (Cami's Changewing doesn't join in only because he doesn't have the ability to do something like that). Chapter 106 takes this even further; Stormfly literally falls over laughing when Hiccup initially assumes that the new Night Fury is Toothless's new girlfriend rather than his long-lost sister, Toothless uses Tuffnut and Ruffnut to explain his relationship with the new arrival, and Eret later observes the Night Furies talking to the extent that the female clearly gestures towards him at one point. The following chapter reinforces how only truly sentient creatures can make a decision to override self-preservation instincts and sacrifice themselves for others, as the now-named Fearless triggers a volcanic eruption that kills her and the Screaming Death. After Hiccup completes Fearless's memorial, he shows it to Toothless first, and not only does Toothless identify the runes intended to represent Fearless's name, but even expresses an interest in learning how to write himself. By Chapter 152, Toothless has even learnt to write Hiccup's name, although he finds it easier to write with runes rather than in Latin or Arabuc as runes involve more straight lines. It is essentially confirmed that dragons as a whole (rather than a few key species) are capable of coordination and tactical planning in Chapter 73, which depicts the dragons conversing among themselves, even in the absence of their likely 'Alphas' of Toothless and Thornado, as they decide to help their 'walkers' defend Berk from an attempted invasion on their own merits, to the point of bringing Spitelout a horn that Hiccup has trained them to respond to as a means of mounting a coordinated defense. This is further reinforced in Chapter 92 when a completely wild nest is shown having a 'debate' about the merits of acting against nearby dragon hunters, with the Nest-Lord preferring a more violent approach and only being talked down due to a 'Nightscreamer'. Chapter 140 also features Mushu convincing other dragons to trust Mulan and his other walkers after a raid, and Chapter 141 shows Mjolnir the Skrill essentially questioning Spitelout about the gods and Spitelout giving an answer that he reasons the dragon can understand. In Chapter 153, Toothless shows that he can read and write.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: The Byzantine Roman Empire's politics are extremely ruthless and cutthroat. Blackmail and extortion is actually on the more restrained end. The situation is bad enough that they hire Vikings as imperial bodyguards, so they won't be invested in internal politics. At least... that's the idea.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_c9fe8de2	comment	Impersonation-Exclusive Character: King Adalwin turns out to be have been long dead, replaced by a man whose real name is Alvin. Readers don't get to see what the real King Adalwin is like, but the impostor was able to fool Adalwin's extended family.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ca326e1e	type	Chekhov's Volcano
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ca326e1e	comment	Chekhov's Volcano: There are several volcanoes on Iceland. Fearless purposely triggers an eruption at one of them to defeat the Screaming Death, which has the side effect of also taking out Mildew and Mold.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ca5eda76	type	Heteronormative Crusader
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ca5eda76	comment	Heteronormative Crusader: The Byzantines are really homophobic, to the point that men having sex with other men is a crime punishable by castration or death by burning at the stake.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cab5085a	comment	Rain of Arrows: Noted as being one of the few defenses that will work against dragon-riders when one doesn't have dragons of their own. And if the dragon-riders have Hiccup's firebombs... well, good luck shooting them when they're hundreds of feet overhead.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Fritjof's last stand; he wiped out over ninety percent of the pursing English horsemen, and fulfilled his oath to protect and guard Hiccup and his family to the last breath. Fearless's Heroic Sacrifice, where she takes the Screaming Death down with her by triggering a volcanic eruption. For bonus points, she also kills Mildew and his dragon with the same eruption as a side-effect â€“ a fact that would infuriate the egocentric Mildew, and due to him fleeing the battlefield in panic, dropping his weapon in the process, he would be denied entry into Valhalla.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Stoick, unlike most other monarchs of the era, feels responsible for the people â€“ all the people â€“ in his demesne. So territorial expansion amounts to having to deal with more arguments.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cb2d889	comment	Won the War, Lost the Peace: Discussed. After repelling the attacks on their home from the entirety of Southern Eire, Hiccup discusses the possibility of there being more fighting. Since the attacking areas are either leaderless or has a lessor leader eyeing the throne above him, more blood might spill if they just ignore them or support someone seizing power. He then suggests a way to defy this by offering those people membership in their tribe, which is accepted by the majority.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cb4c72d8	comment	Rerouted from Heaven: In the aftermath of her involuntary Christian baptism, Ruffnut is afraid that her soul won't go to Valhalla when she dies.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: King Stoick's Adventures in Comaland when he's unconscious have him meeting a Norse god, but he was also being treated with dragon venoms and medicines, some of which can cause hallucinations. So it's deliberately ambiguous whether the gods, or any deities, actually exist.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise: Explicitly referenced by Stoick when Jonna (a lesbian) thanks him for not even trying to talk her into sleeping with him as a precondition of service. Stoick accepts the compliment in spirit it was given (honestly complimentary), but is a bit irked at being compared with "one of those men." Of course, Jonna brought it up as a lead-in for her next topic â€“ her need for an heir for her clan. After giving Stoick, ahem, right of first refusal, Stoick does a Spit Take, turns her down, and beats a hasty retreat. Gobber finds the whole thing hysterical.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cc4b45f6	comment	May be a slight exaggeration on both sides, but many of the kings and other groups opposed to Berk are primarily taking action because they can't believe that Berk won't try to use the dragons as tools of conquest, incapable of acknowledging the repeated evidence that Stoick and Hiccup aren't like that. Word of God is that part of the reason for this is that they're so used to dealing with people who are power-hungry conquerors that they simply don't have any life-experience that would let them recognise that Berk is different. The Chapter 82 epigraph addresses this issue. The epigraph is authored by Hiccup himself and in it, he shows that he eventually realises that the majority of Berk's enemies are trapped in a cycle of fear and mistrust and that someone has to show them trust and help them for that cycle to break.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cc8109ab	type	Mistaken for Romance
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cc8109ab	comment	Mistaken for Romance: When Hiccup sees the way Toothless interacts with the Night Fury that has been attacking Mildew's village, he initially assumes that she is Toothless's new girlfriend, before Toothless uses Tuffnut and Ruffnut to 'explain' that the new Night Fury is his sister.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cda3365c	type	Common Law Marriage
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cda3365c	comment	Common Law Marriage: After Roisin is rescued, she and Fintan spend months living as a married couple without officially marrying due to Fintan's issues with Christian vows having been made a thrall by Christians and questions on whether or not they could marry using Norse Pagan vows.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: Ruffnut finds Roman-style garum (fermented fish-sauce) to be... less than palatable.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Earl Siward claimed he had nothing to do with the assassination attempt on Hiccupnote he really didn't, it was a plot orchestrated by Mac Bethad, but unsurprisingly no one believes the word of a known oathbreaker. When Hiccup is captured by Mildew, he's tortured to 'confess' his real reason for coming to Iceland because Mildew doesn't believe Hiccup's honest explanation that buffalord spit has healing properties and thinks Berk has discovered the activities of Mildew's new patron. Snotlout/Sigurd's claims that dragon dung is a potent fertilizer aren't taken seriously by nearly all those he knows in the Roman Empire. Empress Theodora is the only one who believes him.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d04b5665	type	Eating Contest
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d04b5665	comment	Eating Contest: Mentioned as one of the popular highlights of the Thawfest; Fishlegs comes in second at the 1042 AD sausage-eating contest.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Averted. Astrid and the other female characters have to deal with them regularly. Realizing that they've missed two while having a chat in the bathhouse makes Astrid and Wulfhild realize that they're both pregnant.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: In spite of the presence of dragons and the associated human conflicts with them, world history proceeds near identically to real-life up until 1040 AD, the year Hiccup defeats the Red/Green Death.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d27471a7	type	Multiple Government Polity
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d27471a7	comment	Multiple Government Polity: The North Sea Empire is made up of several different countries and smaller fiefdoms within those countries. While there are universal laws that apply to all, they each have their own culture, caste systems and local legal codes.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: In Chapter 104, Ruffnut delivers a variation of this to Gothi when she learns that the tribal healers have knowledge of the healing properties of the Buffalord dragon and haven't shared this knowledge with anyone out of fear of it being abused like other healing secrets, Ruffnut countering that suppressing such knowledge is just as bad as killing potential patients themselves.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: Referenced in Chapter 36, when Ruffnut pledges to help her husband Magnus break free of Einar's control, envisioning a future in which Magnus is revered as a strong, wise and beloved ruler.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: The reality that Hiccup gave a literal king's ransom and a conquered city to Astrid's parents as a bride price to marry Astrid is considered so absurd that people compare it to a fantastically embellished saga, usually needing the teller to repeat themselves, and consider Hiccup a foolish romantic for doing such a thing. Everyone in Constantinople considers Berk this whenever Snotlout tells them about the customs of his homeland; he's outright accused of lying when he tells them that they have universal literacy and thousands of dragons. Tuffnut and Mor having out-of-wedlock sexual relations would normally be cause for them to be shamed, but they are so blatant about it, to the point of Mor moving in with Tuffnut, that combined with their close connections to Hiccup and Stoick, no one gives them grief and some of Princess Mor's relatives and people are actually ecstatic for her.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d4d8d831	comment	When Inga planned to get revenge on Rolf's family for a family feud for the sake of her mother due to how poorly their courtship ended by humiliating his son Dogsbreath, she didn't expect it to result in her and Dogsbreath accidentally violating Sacred Hospitality and running for it because she gave a stupid dare that Dogsbreath took seriously. She probably didn't expect that she'd end up falling in love with Dogsbreath and marrying him either.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d7d6ed9a	type	Fictional Sport
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d7d6ed9a	comment	Fictional Sport: With dragons, there are a lot of sports on dragon-back or otherwise involves the use of dragons: Berk introduced a lot of them to their Thawfest games, such as dragon racing. When the story first went to Norway, Wulfhild had the idea of playing a game of battledore on dragon-back. The Pechenegs had a similar idea, adapting the game of buzkashi traditionally played on horse-back to being on dragons.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d7ebf1ce	type	Fantastic Science
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d7ebf1ce	comment	Fantastic Science: Dragon Biology becomes its own field of science in the future of the story, with several epigraphs coming from a text called An Introduction To Dragon Biology, 17th Edition, Oxford University Press, 1793.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Alvin the Treacherous and his wife, Delilah, though villainous, are genuinely loving (along with Vitriolic Best Buds).
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d8b3412b	type	The Singularity
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d8b3412b	comment	The Singularity: By training dragons, Berk had inadvertently upsetted the status quo of the entirety of Europe and beyond with the textbook entries implying that the following Enlightenment caused by dragons, the Mundane Utility they possess and Hiccup's technological marvels had advanced technology and general public opinion by centuries in the long run. It took several nobles visiting them at the same time for Berk to actually realise the effects of them accepting dragons. Specifically: Warfare: In an era long before any kind of viable flight by humanity's own hands, being a Dragon Rider is a huge advantage against ground-bound forces, with any engagement almost always resulting in the side with no Dragon Riders suffering disproportionate losses. Every major power quickly realised that Berk taming dragons heralded a new era of warfare. The Byzantine Empire's top military brass noted that Dragon Riders are faster than light cavalry, hit as hard as heavy cavalry, and can deny the enemy the ability to engage on their terms and go straight for the leaders. They note that the only real counter is massed archers deploying a Rain of Arrows, but that weakness can itself be managed as demonstrated when Berk decisively defeated the English-Danish fleet. Astrid's book 'The Wing and the Ax' notes that the best counter to a dragon-force is another dragon force and to be or remain a world power, one must have dragons or they will be beholden to one who has dragons. Politics: As a direct result of the military advantages of dragons, the Hairy Hooligans tribe which only had about seven hundred members at the start of the story almost overnight became a major world power comparable to entire countries as soon as people heard about it with other nations tripping over themselves to form tangible alliances with them. The first one to succeed, Norway, benefited a lot from that alliance. Social: As a result of the political advantages, being a Dragon Rider of Berk suddenly gave them status equivalent to nobles and their Chief effectively a King, to the point that a King like Magnus proposing to Ruffnut who otherwise doesn't stand out that much from her tribemates was accepted easily by his vassals, with other aristocrats like Earl Godwin eventually following his example. Berk's fervent anti-slavery views and their attitudes about helping each other also raised the standards-of-living of their new holdings. Some characters outright state that having a dragon has become a status symbol. Economics: Taming dragons allows Berk to harvest dragon-derived materials like wool from a sheep. This makes the tribe very very rich and the annual shedding of dragon scales helps them finance the infrastructure they build for their new holdings. It also causes merchant traffic to head to Berk in full force and all pathways between the merchant homelands and Berk benefit from it too. One epigraph noted that Berk's treasury was greater than that of the rest of Europe's royals and nobles combined. Technology: Having a ready source of dragon-derived materials from whatever the dragons shed gives Hiccup and Fishlegs lots of material to work with. The labour the dragons provide can also do a lot for them. In combination, they developed a lot of technologies making the most they could with the aid of dragons.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d8fad039	comment	Weird Currency: Dragons shed their scales, and humans find them to be a pretty useful form of currency, especially when there's not a lot of gold or silver around in medieval Europe. Some of the epigraphs note that the scale shedding has a massive economic impact.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d9b4cc7f	comment	Abdicate the Throne: Cami successfully argues for the Bog Burglars to renounce their independence and join the growing Berk, knowing full well this demotes her from future chieftess to future clanhead. After he is captured by Hiccup, Dagur renounces his title as Mormaer Murchadh in favor of his sister Heather.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d9f4972a	comment	Recruited from the Gutter: Fintan mac Ionatan is the POV character for many of the Eirish freedmen, and his internal narration makes it clear that he's deeply loyal to the Haddock clan. The fear that Stoick and Hiccup will mass-recruit from the gutter to stock an army of fanatically loyal dragon-riders and foot soldiers is explicitly a fear of Macbeth and his court â€“ and to be fair, if it was anyone other than Hiccup and Stoick in charge, their fears would almost certainly have come true, but Stoick and Hiccup take the concept of "A Chief Protects His Own" to the logical conclusion and view the idea of territorial expansion as a headache waiting to happen from the additional responsibility.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_d9f97805	comment	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: After Astrid defeats Snotlout in combat and Hiccup defeats him in the race, Snotlout demands that they go through with the third challenge - the test of wisdom. He is then immediately declared the loser of the third challenge because he just proved he is not wise enough to see that he had been beaten 2 out of 3 and that it would have been better if he had admitted defeat.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_da163a71	comment	Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: A few characters invent many things centuries before they were invented in Real Life. Hiccup He invents ball bearings in 1040, seven hundred and fifty-four years before they were invented in real life. He invents ring binders in the 1040s, eight hundred and forty years before they were invented in real life. He invents the rolling mill in 1041, five hundred or so years before they were invented in real life. He invents the flashbang in 1041, nine hundred and thirty years before they were invented in real life. He invents impression-die drop forging in 1041, about nine hundred years ahead of "schedule". He invents the chimney (or as he calls it the skorsteinn) in 1041, one hundred and forty four years before they were invented in real life. He invents the wheelbarrow some time in the 1040s, either one hundred or two hundred years before it was invented in real life.note The exact date that the wheelbarrow was invented is unknown, believed to have been between 1170 or 1250. He invents the spinning wheel in 1042, around two hundred years before they made it to Europe in real life.note The spinning wheel was invented in 1030 but didn't make it to Europe until the 1200's He invents the pantograph in 1042, five hundred and sixty-one years before it was invented in real life. He invents the elevator some time in the 1040s, over eight hundred and ten years before it was invented in real life. He invents plaster casts in 1042, eight hundred and ten years before they were invented in real life. He invents the parachute (or as he calls it the fallskarm) in 1043, seven hundred and forty years before it was invented in real life. He invents the telescope, here called the synlengra, in 1043, five-hundred and sixty-five years before it was invented in real life. He invents the air fuel bomb in 1043, at least nine hundred and twenty years before they were invented in real life. Gobber He accidentally discovers a way to cheaply mass produce steel, eight hundred and fourteen years before it was in real life (granted, this is less due to innovation on his part than the mere presence of Gronckles in the setting). Fishlegs He invents the greenhouse in 1043, three hundred and ninety-five years before they were invented in real life. Other Hiccup's son Magni will use a synlengra to discover mountains and craters on the surface of the moon (which the Berk Vikings call "Magni") as well as the four largest moons of Jupiter (or "Odin") about five-hundred and fifty years before Galileo would discover them in real life.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_da512040	comment	Fantasy Contraception: The venom of Deadly Nadder quills, in the right â€“ and apparently narrow â€“ dosage will induce a miscarriage in a pregnant woman. This bit of worldbuilding is used to explain the skewed population ratios between the adults and children of the Hooligan tribe â€“ during the Dragon War and the conflict with the dragon nest, it was very hard for Hooligan women to bring babies to term; this is why Hiccup was seen as so precious by Stoick, why Hiccup's cadre has only six teenagers in a tribe of hundreds of people, and why the tribe is so accepting of outsiders: because they need immigration to keep their numbers up. The information about the quills is a closely-held secret by the Hooligan healers, out of fear of people misusing them and getting the dosage wrong, which would be lethal. However, Fishwings Ingerman (Fishlegs' older sister) and Lopsides are revealed to know due to secretly reading the Healer's Book while it's implied Basir al-Lixbuna also knows.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_da9131af	comment	The Baby Trap: A problem facing Berk's dragon riders, regardless of gender, are men and women trying to get an in with them through the use of bastard children. Orvi was seduced by Jacqueline, and William discovering this gets him mad at him as William explains the trope to him. Svein did it with several girls unthinking off the consequences. Hazelnut also mentions to Heather an incident of a guy trying to bed her even though she said she's already married.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_daefe0af	type	Retroactive Stepsibling Relationship
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_daefe0af	comment	Retroactive Stepsibling Relationship: Picknose Rolfsson is already the lover of both Signy and Mairwen before their mother rekindles her relationship with his father (though Their First Time was also the same night their parents hooked up). This causes a lot of awkwardness for the family later when they - and the rest of the tribe - figure out what the step-siblings are doing in secret. Also, Picknose's brother Dogsbreath and the girls' sister Inga are already married with a child by this point, but they live thousands of miles away, so are less involved with the rest of the family.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_db6f4a5c	comment	Parents Walk In at the Worst Time: Elinor arrives to collect Merida from the Bog Burglar guest house at the end of Thawfest, assuming that Merida has been spending more time with her new best friend, Cami. Upon hearing her call for Merida, upstairs, Cami and Merida bolt from the bed and start sorting out clothing â€“ unsuccessfully.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: A subplot in Book II involves the proposal of laws regarding dragon adoption â€“ who can and who can't. Two of the clanheads submit and push an incredibly restrictive version, where the only people allowed to adopt dragons from Berk's flock are those of recognized "allied clans" of Berk, instead of anyone from the newly conquered/integrated portions of Eire. And that version is what passes in the end. When Fishlegs goes to confront his aunt, who wrote the proposal, she reveals the actual motivation for writing the law as she did: She did the math and realized that humans in Berk's potential area of control far outnumber their dragon flock. That means if dragon-riding became a possible right for everyone under Berk's control, it would lead to the dragons being effectively enslaved, because they'd have no choice about being used for riding. So she wrote the law to keep them from being abused â€“ and set things up so that the clans, including her own, would bloat with new members being adopted or married in to make them riders, also giving them a chance to assimilate into the tribe's ways of doing things. And then, when she and the other elderly clanheads die... the bloated clans, unable to choose successors, would fragment, but that would buy time for the dragons to build their numbers, but still keep them from being forced to adopt humans due to the population ratios. In short, in order to protect the welfare of the dragons, she set up her own clan to self-destruct on her death. Fishlegs is stunned to the point of going on an eating binge.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_db912a80	type	The Good King
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_db912a80	comment	The Good King: His insistence on not being called King aside, Stoick cares about everyone in Berk's territory, even the ones that were part of the groups that attacked Berk. He does his best to look after their welfare, and this makes them very loyal.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed In-Story: Hiccup has a saga, The Hero of Berk. He finds it humiliating. Berk also became renowned, due to their wealth and military might from their dragons, to the point that various powers are trying to either emulate them, ally with them, or destroy them.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: In the books Snotlout's mother is named Freda, here her name is Serena. "Camicazi" is now referred to by the more believable name of "Camilla", or "Cami" for short.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dc205a79	type	Catapult to Glory
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dc205a79	comment	Catapult to Glory: Hiccup makes a dragon-launching catapult as a toy for Berk's dragons in Chapter 3. It makes a comeback as a war machine to launch Byzantine's Dragon Riders directly into battle.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dc8ecfda	type	Futureshadowing
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dc8ecfda	comment	Futureshadowing: The epigraphs, being mostly excerpts from historical or other texts from far in the future, foreshadows a lot of key plot points and developments, with some still waiting to happen: Chapter 13's epigraph tells that diplomatic relations opening between Berk and Norway led to Berk taking a larger role on the world stage, and several chapters later, starting with Harthacnut's attack on them, this is actually shown and takes up a large portion of the story. Chapter 15's epigraph mentions that Berk's Norse culture has actually diverged from mainstream Norse of the time, which caused culture shocks to other societies, including mainstream Norse. Dozens of chapters later, this culture clash is shown when the Jonna's Jomsviking group shows up and joins Berk. Even after fighting side by side against Harthacnut and being recognised as an allied clan, there are still issues. Chapter 16's epigraph reveals that Wulfhild would end up in a marital alliance. It would later be revealed that this is with Hiccup as his concubine. Chapter 37's epigraph mentions that Clan Jorgenson is the first to split following someone's death. Book Four reveals the death is that of Spitelout from the Battle of the Seine River while the clan shatters later in Chapter 147. Chapter 45's epigraph mentions that a Gronckle's breath attack can have variable effects based on what they eat. This foreshadows them producing steel cheaply in an era where steel is both rare and expensive. Chapter 48's epigraph mentions that Berk would annex Eire piece by piece, beyond what they already had by that point in the story. Chapters 73 and 74 shows that this is because Southern Eire united to attack them, were defeated, and annexed to stop further bloodshed. Chapter 60's epigraph mention that Stoick will hire a woman of a different faith who never married as an aide. This later turns out to be Eshter, a Jew from Normandy. Chapter 63's epigraph mentions that the Normans will conquer, among other places, the Straits of Jabal á¹¬Ä�riq, and that they practice meritocratic egalitarianism, integration and syncretism. The leader of the Norman conquerors in question turns out to be Viggo and the reason he implemented those practices is because he saw how well-beloved the rule of the Hooligans were in Vedrarfjord and wanted to emulate their success. Chapter 68's epigraph has Astrid explaining that warfare involving Dragon Riders against Dragon Riders aims to capture rather than kill or drive off the dragons because dragons were just too rare and valuable to realistically do otherwise in most situations. Later in the chapter, it shows Sigurd attempting to capture the dragons of the forces loyal to Michael V, and succeeding. Chapter 82's epigraph mentions that some people do accept the chance Hiccup gives them to escape the cycle of fear and mistrust that they're trapped in. In Chapter 118, it turns out Dagur is one of those who accepts the chance to escape that cycle. Chapter 86's epigraph mentions that Hiccup not meeting King Henry of the Capets while visiting every other major noble and king soured relations before they had the chance to formally open due to the apparent snubbing. When Hiccup finally does meet him, Henry is indeed mistrustful of Hiccup and his activities. Later on, Henry's mistrust escalates to him ambushing King Stoick on the assumption he would run roughshod over him when Stoick was actually planning to offer generous terms. Chapter 88's epigraph talks about how truly skilled bureaucrats can have multiplicative effects on an organisation's effectiveness. This is the same chapter that introduces Padraig, who imposes himself on Hakon and Gunvor to help administer the Food and Bed Rights system, and succeeds in making it far more efficient that it was before. Chapter 107's epigraph mentions that in the aftermath of the New-Year Fire Rout, there were significant political developments among the Pechenegs. Later in the chapter, Kagan Berk, believing his son to be dead, announces Drago as his heir. Chapter 107's epigraph also mentions that the loss triggered a period of infighting among the Pechenegs. Come Book 4, the Pechenegs fall into a civil war that lasts a good portion of the book. Una Nueva Espada Para Una Nueva Era's epigraph mentions that skilled workers migrated to Berk and put their skills directly to use in service of their new home. This can be seen with Musa being a blacksmith, with a knack in swordsmithing specifically, and him working directly under Gobber to make necessary items for the Battle of the Seine River and adapting his swordsmith skills to making surgical tools vital to save King Stoick.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Stoick increasingly presents himself as this as events unfold, allowing people to swear allegiance to Berk without forcing them to convert to follow the Norse religion or change their own ways of life beyond freeing any Thralls they may have. Magnus accepted Hiccup's original relationship with Astrid and only gave into the 'pressure' to arrange a marriage between Hiccup and Wulfhild due to the insistence of his advisors. On a personal level, despite being a Christian himself he accepts his wife's decision not to convert and agrees with her that they will not have their children baptized until the children can choose their faiths themselves. Compared to Emperor Michael, Empress Theodora is strict but fair, though she also has a conservative Christian morality.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Beorn is introduced in Chapter 1, but it is not until Chapter 94 that he is revealed to be Lopsides' baby daddy. As a citizen of Berk, he provides Stoick with information on where they could find Buffalords for their healing saliva in Chapter 105. In Chapter 23, Heather reflects once knowing a fellow thrall named ToirÃ©asa whom she was certain was also trained as a spy. She later shows up in Book 2 and becomes a member of the Hooligans following an incident with her former master and plays a major role in Book 3 infiltrating Dagur's clan. In Chapter 28, Johann first mentions a Moorish alchemist. Heather and Fishlegs will later meet that alchemist, Basir, and the information he provides allows them to figure out Mildew used his poisons in his dragon-slaying. Bladewit mentions in Chapter 67 that one abused Deadly Nadder fled Berk. This Nadder made its way to the nest Valka is at, giving them stories of the abuse. Chapter 111 mentions that a Jewish man and an Eirish Queen fell for each other. This comes into play in Chapter 149 when said queen, Eithne nic Tairdelbach, offers the Jewish refugees land to build their own city.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dd8deee1	type	Xenofiction
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dd8deee1	comment	Xenofiction: Downplayed; the majority of the story is written from the perspective of human characters, but there are a number of dragon POV sections, and their different social structures, physical capabilities, and modes of thought are visibly on display; there's enough overlap between them and humans to be able to engage in mutual understanding, but the scenes in question really show the differences between how they think and speak and humans, without even taking the flight and firebreathing into account.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dd92bf66	type	Warrior Prince
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dd92bf66	comment	Warrior Prince: Push comes to shove, Hiccup eventually develops into a prince that will defend his home and family, creating battle plans and weapons and of course, leading his tribe's warriors on dragon-back.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_de15a322	type	Tangled Family Tree
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_de15a322	comment	Tangled Family Tree: Being a small tribe of only a few hundred people, most of the Hooligans are related by blood, adoption, or marriage to each other, and the (incomplete) family tree on the wiki◊ is extremely tangled. See also the epigraph for Chapter 122, which mentions the complications involving same-sex and polyamorous relationships.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Hiccup, the dragons, and Berk mostly just want to be left alone and live in peace, except seemingly all of Europe schemes against/fears them hoping to kill them or exploit the dragons for their own gains. To wit: Mac Bethad, king of Scotland, spies on Berk and then later recruits Mildew to steal dragon eggs and train his forces. Harthacnut, King of England and Denmark, fearing a Berkian-Norwegian alliance and in retaliation for a Viking raid led by Snotlout against Hiccup's wishes, leads an invasion on Berk in the hopes of wiping it out entirely. Adalwin, Irish petty king of Vedrarfjord, is in fact Alvin the Treacherous, having killed and replaced a member of the Ui Imar, tries to kidnap Meatlug, and then sends Heather to spy on and steal Berk's secrets. And all of this is just within the British Isles, to say nothing of the rest of the continent.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_defec730	type	Tiger by the Tail
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_defec730	comment	Tiger by the Tail: Sigurd/Snotlout eventually realises his error in judgement in helping the Byzantine Empire take dragons, but he can't leave without violating his oath or putting those same dragons at risk of mistreatment. And then Hiccup exiles him for it, and it is upheld by Stoick due to him violating his oath to them to not go raiding using dragons through a Loophole Abuse and breaking Berk's monopoly that made them a world power in the first place, which means he can't go home, he's stuck. For the Berserkers, Dagur is fully aware of what his fellow Berserkers are, but if he starts acting like Oswald the Agreeable instead of Oswald the Antagonistic, they'd all turn on him. After hearing that, Toireasa compares the Berserkers to stampeding cattle with Dagur running ahead of them. He's "leading" them, but if he stops or tries changing direction, he'd get run over and stomped on.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_df77bb33	type	Ambadassador
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_df77bb33	comment	Ambadassador: When Hiccup and his entourage start paying diplomatic visits to other rulers, every time there's trouble, they tend to win.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: When Inga planned to get revenge on Rolf's family for a family feud for the sake of her mother due to how poorly their courtship ended by humiliating his son Dogsbreath, she didn't expect it to result in her and Dogsbreath accidentally violating Sacred Hospitality and running for it because she gave a stupid dare that Dogsbreath took seriously. She probably didn't expect that she'd end up falling in love with Dogsbreath and marrying him either. Hiccup suggests that the Hooligans annex the Eirish territories that tried to attack them and are now leaderless to prevent further bloodshed. When Bladewit speaks up, he is caught off guard by the fact she completely agrees with him. He shares a look with his father and Stoick is also surprised. When Magnus explains the plot Father Henriksson had with arranging Wulfhild and Hiccup in a Christian ceremony to Hiccup and Astrid, understandably they are upset. When Wulfhild wakes up and walks in on them afterwards, she can tell by the look on their faces that they now know and that she knew all along. What she was not expecting was that they would be understanding of her plight, recognizing that she had been wrestling with this secret and has been trying to find the right way to tell them. It is made especially clear that they are sincere when Hiccup comes up with the idea to have Wulfhild officially marry both of them to legitimize her relationship to them for both the Vikings and the Church, with all three of them completely on board with the idea.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e0e8cce6	type	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e0e8cce6	comment	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Einar tells Hiccup that no matter what they may claim, people only desire money, power, revenge and sex, and the faster he realizes this the better a leader he'll be.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Despite the characters ostensibly speaking Old Norse, things like puns and rhymes make sense in English though they may not in Norse.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e1a80b5a	comment	The Oathbreaker: One of Magnus's thanes breaks his oath of service and tries to assassinate Hiccup and Astrid with the aid of his brother. This is seen as such a vile act that Magnus immediately swears an oath of friendship and protection for Hiccup in the hope that he'll forgive the act of his household. Hiccup regards Snotlout as an oathbreaker for providing Rome with dragon-riders and using them to attack alleged enemies of Rome. For his part, Snotlout considers himself to have kept the oath. He swore not to raid, and he hasn't. He's carrying out military operations under orders. Hiccup and Stoick think it's hair splitting. King Harthacnut is regarded as one for promising an opponent hospitality only to lure him into an assassination plot.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: From the public perspective, Berk has gone from being an insignificant isolated tribe to a major political power in a few short years since they started training dragons, with close ties to the King of Norway and an ever-expanding territory only limited by their leaders' unwillingness to actually conquer others. Snotlout also fits since he was nothing more than a Berkian youth. But when he moves south and joins the Varangian Guard, he suddenly becomes a much bigger player on the world stage and becomes the founder of the Roman Empire's Dragon Rider Corps. Needless to say (especially given the corruption of the Byzantine Empire), this has a huge impact.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Yngvarr; he isn't called "the Merry" for nothing. In fact, he is so friendly he was able to bond with six dragons (a Timberjack named Hatchet, two Terrible Terrors named Huginn & Muninn, an unnamed Hobblegrunt, a Scauldron named Wavecrest, and a Deadly Nadder named Windleaf).
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e268e2	comment	The Clan: There were five major clans on Berk at the start of the story, being Haddock, Hofferson, Jorgenson, Thorston and Ingerman. After Harthacnut was deposed, four new clans are formed, one of which is Joms. Berk later gains a lot more clans by annexing their allied Bog Burglar and Meathead tribes and even more when the Jorgenson clan splits after being unable to choose a new heir after Spitelout's death.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: Inga only planned to get revenge on Rolf's family for a family feud by taking it out on his son Dogsbreath. It resulted in her and Dogsbreath accidentally violating Sacred Hospitality and running for it which would lead to them being captured by a French noble to kill his rivals. They managed to escape and after helping with a rebellion in Denmark, ended up going all the way to Constantinpole to join Dogsbreath's cousin in exile until both the Hooligans and the Bogs forgive them for the original violation of Sacred Hospitality. So in short, what should have been a simple revenge plan blew completely and utterly out of proportion and affects the geopolitics of at least four countries, Berk, France, Denmark and Byzantine Rome.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e50987a9	type	Reconstruction
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e50987a9	comment	Reconstruction: A core principle of the story's worldbuilding is finding explanations for why Berk's Vikings are literate and generally egalitarian in an era where such things are unthinkable for a typical Viking. Most of the reasons are related to the Green Death's raids exerting pressure on the Hairy Hooligans tribe forcing them to adapt to survive: Why are there no thralls in Berk? Because during the Dragon War, it was people versus dragons instead of people versus people, and Berk needed every available hand to defend themselves from dragon raids. Why are they so inclusive of immigrants, even non-Norse immigrants? Because Berk has every incentive to bring people into the fold to keep their numbers up in the face of dragon attacks. Why are they all literate when in that era, even the aristocracy aren't good at reading? Because writing things down ensures critical knowledge isn't lost in the event of someone's death (and because a Jewish refugee taught them). Why did Berk stop abandoning sickly and weak infants? Because in addition to losing people in dragon attacks, the repopulation rate is low because exposure to Deadly Nadder venom causes miscarriages, making bringing children to term difficult.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Because of Spitelout's actions towards his son, which played a huge role in how Sigurd ended up giving dragons to the Byzantines, both Fishwings and Hiccup give scathing talks to Spitelout and show no sympathy over the fact Sigurd refuses to talk to him in spite of their own frustrations with Sigurd. In chapter 126, Spitelout gives his father Clodgall a piece of his mind for not only not reporting three of Mac Bethad's spies but also for talking with them about possibly replacing Hiccup with Snotlout as the tribe's heir.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e5467735	type	Expy Coexistence
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e5467735	comment	Expy Coexistence: ATOV is primarily based on the movies and TV show, and Astrid is a major character, but it also includes Camicazi, the inspiration for Astrid from the books.note Though here her name is changed to the more believable "Camilla".
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: No matter how large his new North Sea Empire gets, Stoick insists he is a chief, not a king. Too bad for him a lot of people don't even bother pretending otherwise, including his own tribemates. Others humour him but call him king when he isn't around. Stoick finally gives in and admits he is a King during the Citizen Conclave in order to be able to claim the right to simply adopt people into his Clan without having to meet specific requirements or use loopholes.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e5700c89	type	Reluctant Psycho
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e5700c89	comment	Reluctant Psycho: Of all people, Dagur. It's eventually revealed that he's very, very aware that there is something wrong with his brainnote the author portrays him as having, to quote, 'dissociative amnesia that is a comorbid symptom of his Borderline Personality Disorder, which is triggered under periods of extreme emotional excitation. Or, to put it another way, he gets memory blackouts during periods when he's experiencing the greatest emotional stimulation' and that he's a danger to everyone around him, and he absolutely hates it.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	It is mentioned in one of the Epigraphs that the reason Mildew was not outright banished from the tribe was that he'd been one of Berk's most prolific and skilled dragonslayers in his prime. Even then, however, he'd been banished from his original clan (Hoffersons) sixty-five years earlier, and was a pariah instead of an elite due to his appalling personality.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e63228a7	comment	Info Dump: Sparingly used, with perhaps the most egregious examples being a high-level overview of the current rulers and kingdoms of Europe (which was still missing significant regions, such as Spain, Venice, and Hungary) in Chapter 15, and a similar overview of Ireland's society and politics in Chapter 42, with both of these framed as one character (a herald in the first, a spy trained in local politics for the second) explaining things. Some chapter epigraphs gives a lot of background info vital to explaining the context of the story without getting in the way of the story's pacing. One example is the epigraph explaining Eire's caste system which is important to understanding Eire's society and how Berk tries to interact with them in their attempt to slowly dismantle any slavery institution.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e68d9ddd	type	Not Blood Siblings
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e68d9ddd	comment	Picknose, Signy, and Mairwen get in big trouble when they're caught, not only for premarital sex but because they're stepsiblings (though they got together before their parents did). However, by this time there are early signs of a cultural shift in sexual attitudes.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e70c45f0	type	All Animals Are Dogs
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e70c45f0	comment	All Animals Are Dogs: More then once Toothless is compared to a dog by one of the characters due to his habit of wanting to sniff new things and his tendency to follow Hiccup around.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e71975df	type	Rising Empire
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e71975df	comment	Rising Empire: Though they had no such ambitions, Berk ended up annexing territories as a result of them launching a counterattack or because the territory petitioned to join. Berk eventually officially forms the North Sea Empire, apparently still going strong in 1822.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e851b5	type	The Plan
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e851b5	comment	The Plan: Alvin's and Delilah's plan for them to become High King and Queen of Eire was to send Femme Fatale spies to their rivals to obtain information and possibly assasinate them. That plan has since gone sideways with the spy they sent to Berk Defecting for Love and them losing their main power base.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Downplayed with Hiccup, Astrid, and Wulfhild. Hiccup is the Id (though he's far from emotionless), Astrid is the Ego, and Wulfhild is the Superego, as contemplated by Astrid in Chapter 57:
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When talking with a priest during a visit to Rome, Wulfhild is careful to discuss her relationship with Hiccup in a manner that answers all questions honestly without admitting that she plans to marry him and Astrid to limit the 'risk' of the Vatican trying to step in. She also mentions that she plans to have her children baptized, but leaves out that she intends to wait until they're old enough to decide for themself.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_eb0bb6a6	type	Solid Gold Poop
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_eb0bb6a6	comment	Solid Gold Poop: Dragon-scale currency. To the dragons, who shed their scales every spring en masse, the scales are mostly useful as fireproof nest lining for their soon-to-be-born hatchlings. For humans, they're effectively a replacement for gold and silver coins (and causing a financial revolution in the process, as there wasn't that much gold and silver in circulation in medieval Europe). A more downplayed (and literal) example is the fact that boulder-class dragons poop sand as a side-effect of eating rocks, which Fishlegs and Hiccup end up exploiting for glassmaking. Dragon dung turns out to be a potent fertilizer, so much that HÃ¡kon organizes a sports competition to fairly distribute it to Eirish farmers.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_eb52ff9b	comment	Adult Adoptee: Under Hairy Hooligans law, in the event a concubinage ends, the former concubine is required to be adopted into the clan. Esther is adopted into the Haddock family after she cuts ties with her family using the Bog Sanctuary laws in protest of her father trying to marry her off.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_eb7a5313	type	Famous Ancestor
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_eb7a5313	comment	Famous Ancestor: One of the most respected ancestors of the present story Hooligan Tribe is Dror ben Ezra, a Jewish man who had been kidnapped into slavery for his literacy a century before and ended up rescued by Berk. He's held in high esteem by modern Hooligans, especially the clan he married into, with his daughter now being the clanhead, as he was responsible for teaching them how to read and write which allowed the Hooligans to save their culture and way of life. It's telling that the Hooligans remember Jewish dietary practices despite having never spoken to another Jewish person besides him.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Downplayed example; Chapter 55 features an appearance by Fergus of Dunbroch, with his wife Elinor, their three sons Harris, Hubert and Hamish, and their daughter Merida. The author has stated that this will not be a straight-up crossover, but the Dunbroch clan will play a role in future chapters. The Pecheneg Arc has another, reframing Drago as Shan Yu and Mulan using fireworks to deliver their first major defeat. Unlike the movie, she is immediately promoted to counselor. Also used as a tongue-in-cheek summary of the fic. "HTTYD crossed-over with a history book."
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ed05cfee	comment	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer: Hiccup, Snotlout and many of the other Hooligans are inexperienced and largely unaware of their contemporary geo-politics (as before a few years earlier, they'd been a small Norse tribe with local problems), so they (and by extension the audience) get brought up to speed on rulers, kingdoms, wars, feuds and other things of diplomatic interest across Europe.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: The Roman Dragon-Riders get betrayed by the Roman Catapan of Italia, who wants to use them to make himself Emperor... and won't take no for an answer. The Roman commander is killed by him before their escape... devolving command onto Sigurd.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ed46da54	type	Martial Pacifist
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ed46da54	comment	Martial Pacifist: Berk in general and Hiccup in particular. He will always seek a peaceful resolution when dealing with other kingdoms, but if left with no other choice he can and will decimate opposing armies with efficiency, and will take no pleasure in the victory.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_eda30d58	comment	0% Approval Rating: Most of Harthacnut's people hate him for his tyranny, and in the future is mostly remembered as a tyrant who deserved his death by the general populace. The few apologists aside, King Mac Bethad has become a stock villain in the future of the story on how taking actions based on unnecessary paranoia can spiral into chaos and death, and even those apologists admit their best defence of the man is that he was ignorant to the consequences of his actions.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: One of the arguments against limiting dragon adoption to allied clans was that it would lead to a new caste system where Dragon Riders are at the top and those without are effectively thralls. Bladewit counters that even without dragons, there was always a caste system and that those without dragons are still treated equitably and have all of the other rights that the members of the allied clans have. The actual reality a few years after Berk domesticated the dragons is that Berk's Dragon Riders are now nobles in all but name, with powerful established nobles arranging marriages or concubinages with them. In Chapter 145 at the conclusion of the Citizenship Conclave, the Allied Clans officially become nobles. After the Citizenship Conclave finishes, Berk formalises a caste system different from most others in the setting. The lowest, Resident Alien class, which consists of any resident in Berk's land that has not sworn fealty to Berk's ruling house, still enjoying better rights than what a thrall would ever get elsewhere. Next up is the Civis class, being anyone who has sworn fealty, or born from those who did, and are part of no higher class. Next up is the Specialist class which consists of anyone trained in a craft or trade. The next classes are the actual aristocrat classes. Lowest of these is officially the Lower Nobles, which is anyone recognised as a noble, but not part of the Allied Clans. Next, and right below the ruling house, are the Allied Clans, those who have the Right to Train a Dragon.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ee302ebd	comment	Barbarian Tribe: All of their enemies expect the Hooligan Tribe to be typical vikings, just on dragon-back, but the Hooligan Tribe are actually a subversion, practicing universal literacy and freemanship. They are indeed highly martial in nature like other vikings, but they otherwise subvert many of the stereotypes everybody expects of vikings.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Broken many times. Two major villains and one neutral (for now) ruler are all named Henry: Henry, King of Francia, Sir Henry the Sinister, and Emperor Henry the Black of the Holy Roman Empire. Two villains are named Michael, the Byzantine Emperor Michael V and the priest Father Michael Henriksson. Plus the minor character Mikael Ãšlfrsson. There are two characters named Magnus, though they're spelled slightly differently: Magnus the Good, King of Norway, and Maghnus, Eirish freed slave. Wulfhild's (deceased) mother having the same name as Astrid causes some confusion, but it's mitigated since she never actually appears. Both Esther's mother and her former sister-in-law are named Rivkah. Hiccup's daughter Valka is named after her grandmother, who unbeknownst to everyone is still alive. Sophia's father Alexios Makris has the same name as Sigurd's military advisor, Alexios Arianites.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: It is confirmed that Berk's Vikings didn't bother doing any raiding when they had to deal with the regular threat of the dragons, and even after they start training dragons they don't use them on similar raids against innocent villages (apart from an early attempted raid by Snotlout), although they are willing to go on raids to rescue thralls if they have sufficient evidence that said thralls are mistreated. Their anti-raid stance is for the dual reason that Hiccup doesn't approve of going on raids, and his practical concerns that the dragons may start feeling like they 'need' to go on raids for the Vikings in the same way as they needed to feed the Red Death.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ef6e5c9d	type	Dictionary Opening
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ef6e5c9d	comment	Dictionary Opening: Chapters 5, 89, and 100 has epigraphs explaining the meaning of the terms Thawfest, Weregild, and Yule respectively.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_efac5012	type	Fallen Princess
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_efac5012	comment	Fallen Princess: Wulfhild had to flee in exile when she was nine years old, she and her brother living off of the begrudging hospitality of their distant relatives before the both of them were used as pawns for their uncle, her life reduced to a political game-piece with no agency of her own before coming to Berk. Heather was originally the daughter of an infamously bloodthirsty Viking Chief before she was given to an ally as their ward at only six years old. When she was ten, her birth father died and then she was eventually sold into slavery when her village was raided. And that was before Aldalwin had her trained to be a Sex Slave and spy.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Dragons with super-sharp wood-cutting wings? They make great sawmills. Dragons that can tunnel through rock? Miners and underground infrastructure. Dragons that spit boiling-hot water? Dish-cleaning. All the uses of dragons in ways other than warfare managed to turn Berk into an economic and industrial powerhouse. Outside of the dragons, Hiccup has noted that some of his weapons have been useful for more non-martial purposes, such as his flaming sword being more commonly used as a light source.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_eff85ff1	comment	The Low Middle Ages: Though set in the later part of the period and starts to take a different direction once the dragons of Berk begin to emerge from the shadows.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f0864fd9	comment	Combat by Champion: Astrid volunteers to duel Snotlout in a ''holmgang'' in Hiccup's stead, as Hiccup would get beaten by Snotlout easily due to still recovering from his amputation. Fortunately for Snotlout, it's only to first blood. Stoick duels King Harthacnut for England and Denmark on behalf of Magnus, with the rationalization that Stoick doesn't want to kill more men than he has to.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f1356f5e	comment	Speaks Fluent Animal: Chapter 108 shows Valka conversing freely with the dragons in her nest. By Chapter 114, Hiccup still doesn't completely understand Toothless, but he is able to comprehend the key ideas that Toothless is trying to express when they talk about Fearless's death.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f217cdab	comment	Great Big Book of Everything: The new Book of Dragons that Hiccup and Fishlegs are writing contains everything new they learned about dragons after Berk tamed them. Heather realised that this makes the book an extremely valuable tool, as anyone with it doesn't have to go through the effort of making the same discoveries they did. Later chapters also reveal that it doesn't contain the extensive medicinal uses of dragon parts that the healers know, and they'd like to keep it that way. Gothi has her own separate Book of Dragons with this knowledge that Hiccup and Fishlegs and the rest of the non-healers don't know about.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Some of the descriptions of the banquets (especially the wedding banquets) have apparently set some of the readers to drooling.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: Stoick may not be stupid, but it's still unexpected when he's the one who realises that dragons shed their scales a week or so before their eggs hatch so that they can use the scales as material for fireproof nests.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: After they're told how Wulfhild was coerced into making wedding vows to Hiccup after he married Astrid, Hiccup and Astrid forgive Wulfhild, although it's implied that it was a good thing Wulfhild was out of the room when they were told, as Astrid apparently nearly attacked Magnus.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f48d0f54	comment	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Basically applies to ToirÃ©asa's developing dynamic with Heather; when Heather asks ToirÃ©asa to act as part of her new developing spy network for Berk, ToirÃ©asa immediately starts thinking that Heather will start her out with 'easy' assignments before she begins to threaten Mhairi to make ToirÃ©asa commit more brutal acts, assuming that Heather is like Alvin rather than recognising that there are lines Heather won't cross. Even a letter intended to keep ToirÃ©asa up to date on events back on Berk is interpreted as a reminder that Heather still has the option of threatening ToirÃ©asa's daughter rather than the friendly update it was intended as.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f52ae5d8	comment	Enemy Civil War: During Book 4, the Pechenegs undergo a civil war that has at least four competing factions including Drago's. This was discussed by an epigraph to be instrumental in buying their enemies, including the Song Dynasty, time to prepare a response to the threat they pose. That said, their civil war gave the Pechenegs the unique opportunity to test and experiment with tactics against enemy dragon-riders, so after the internal tensions are resolved, they actually manage to come out the other side of their infighting more dangerous than before.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f54f6719	comment	Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards: The Varangian Guard of the Roman Emperor. Six to ten thousand Norsemen, who are "not so much directed as unleashed in the appropriate direction." They're not exactly "foreign", since they're Norse too (and she's originally from Berk), but after Father Henriksson and the thanes' treachery is revealed, Magnus sends for Berkian bodyguards for Ruffnut and their children.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f617419c	comment	Astrid volunteers to duel Snotlout in a ''holmgang'' in Hiccup's stead, as Hiccup would get beaten by Snotlout easily due to still recovering from his amputation. Fortunately for Snotlout, it's only to first blood.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f7dd67de	type	All Lesbians Want Kids
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f7dd67de	comment	All Lesbians Want Kids: Played With. Jonna and Reidun weren't originally planning on having kids, but getting promoted to clanhead status means they need an heir, and they decide that they want biological kids after some discussion.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f807e541	type	Fantastic Legal Weirdness
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f807e541	comment	Fantastic Legal Weirdness: The Hooligans eventually grant dragons a special legal status where they are granted a lot of the same rights humans have with their rider being held responsible for their behaviour - equivalent to adopting a child.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: Vigdis tricks one of an Eirish noble's men into believing it was okay to rape Heather and he attempts to but Heather manages to fight him off and got him and his group kicked out of Berk for it. One of Dagur's warriors tries to force himself on ToirÃ©asa, but she manages to fight him off and he is subsequently tortured and executed for it under Dagur's orders for violating his Sacred Hospitality.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f863bb6d	comment	Battle Trophy: Pieces of the Green Death are taken as trophies, with the most spectacular being its tail which was relocated to near Berk's mead hall.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f8c8175a	type	Malicious Slander
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f8c8175a	comment	Malicious Slander: Alvin and Delilah spread false tales of Berk's Norse persecuting Christians. Unfortunately for them, Viggo is perceptive enough to realise that this isn't corroborated by anyone else and in fact manages to disprove their stories to the Vatican when he shows them letters from the Christians themselves. The village that sold Dogsbreath and Inga into thralldom to Henry the Sinister claim that the former two attacked them without provocation, and that the two were randomly attacking Brittany in general, leaving Hiccup's group with the wrong idea of what truly happened. However, Dogsbreath and Inga manages to tell Tuffnut and Wulfhild respectively their side of the story, and that Henry was forcing Dogbreath to kill his rival nobles while holding Inga hostage. As part of the deception Henry would "drive Dogsbreath off" to make himself look like the hero. Better yet, Duke William manages to corroborate Dogsbreath's and Inga's side of the story by pointing out the suspicious attack pattern. The only village that was attacked was the one that sold them to Henry and besides them, only nobles were attacked and they were all Henry's rivals. Unfortunately, even though Berk and William believes them, too many French people believe Henry's ruse over the truth.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: May be a slight exaggeration on both sides, but many of the kings and other groups opposed to Berk are primarily taking action because they can't believe that Berk won't try to use the dragons as tools of conquest, incapable of acknowledging the repeated evidence that Stoick and Hiccup aren't like that. Word of God is that part of the reason for this is that they're so used to dealing with people who are power-hungry conquerors that they simply don't have any life-experience that would let them recognise that Berk is different. The Chapter 82 epigraph addresses this issue. The epigraph is authored by Hiccup himself and in it, he shows that he eventually realises that the majority of Berk's enemies are trapped in a cycle of fear and mistrust and that someone has to show them trust and help them for that cycle to break. Later on, Drago only lets Kurya treat his dragon with kindness because he believes the dragon's 'true' nature will show itself eventually and he just idly hopes that the beast won't maim his friend's son too badly when the time comes. In Chapter 99, King Henry of France interprets the news that Stoick has adopted Duke William of Normandy into his family by speculating on how this gives Berk an opportunity to annex Normandy if William dies, rather than recognise that the Haddocks just made such arrangements because they care about William rather than caring about the Duke.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f990ea58	type	Dead Drop
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f990ea58	comment	Dead Drop: Alvin's spy network in Eire is extensive enough that he can leave letters at dead drops and be sure that they'll be delivered. Even after he's deposed and sent on the run.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Hiccup has a deal with Astrid (and later with Wulfhild) that if he can get five inventions in a row working perfectly the first time he tests them, they will do something pleasant for him in turn. To date, Hiccup has only managed to get four in a row working first time, and Gobber has expressed curiosity about what Hiccup could get the girls to do for him outside of their usual activities anyway. Hiccup finally completes the challenge in Chapter 115, but realises that he doesn't actually want anything from Astrid as he only pursued the challenge for the sake of the challenge itself.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fbba5e98	type	Gadgeteer Genius
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fbba5e98	comment	Gadgeteer Genius: Hiccup. A sample of the things he invents: war machines on par with those of the Romans, air-dropped bombs, a flaming sword, and the wheelbarrow. See the entry for Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome for a longer list.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fbc54605	type	Riches to Rags
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fbc54605	comment	Riches to Rags: Alvin and Delilah went from being petty royalty and ruling their own city with an extensive spy-network far beyond it, to being on the run and reduced to getting by on the goodwill of others, goodwill that lasts only as long as they're more useful alive than dead.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Hiccup Haddock. Kind, decent, friendly, and a pacifist who wants to help people and build things useful in society. Threaten his home with annihilation, though, and your war fleet will be running literally screaming in fear by morning, albeit significantly reduced in size. Yngvarr the Merry is one of the kindest people anyone would hope to meet. When he learns that Rasmus has beaten his wife Marte and his son Isak, he is said to resemble an irate dragon. He asks for Magnus' permission to dispense justice in this case, adding, "I have some trash to take to the midden."
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fcf82917	type	Wacky Cravings
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fcf82917	comment	Wacky Cravings: Nothing too outlandish, but Stoick finds it hilarious when both Wulfhild and Astrid have mutually incompatible pregnancy cravings.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fdb6b8ad	type	The Magnificent
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fdb6b8ad	comment	The Magnificent: Stoick the Vast, of course. An epigraph reveals that Stoick gains the additional epithets "Odin's Spear-carrier," "the Wise," and "the Law-Giver." In a few of the fictional references used as epigraphs, Hiccup is referred to as "Hiccup the Wise." An epigraph shows that Astrid will gain quite a few epithets including "The Skydancer," "Freyja's Chosen," and "Sif's Blade." Other recurring characters include Alvin the Treacherous and Magnus the Good. Mildew becomes known as "Mildew the Vicious".
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fdbb6993	type	Ridiculous Future Inflation
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fdbb6993	comment	Ridiculous Future Inflation: Downplayed; the pragmatic adoption of dragonscale currency â€“ before a rare material only harvested from dead dragons, and now an annual injection of funds into the economy when the dragons shed their scales en masse in the spring â€“ causes rampant inflation in the story's economy, where a pennyweight's worth of dragonscales is seen as a lot by some, but is used as an entrance fee for the Thawfest games (each) in chapter 56... and then less than six months later in the story, a meal and a bed at a roadside inn cost a "quarter-pennyweight" of scales and is earned in an afternoon's labor. Interestingly, though, the inflation is presented as a good thing, as it's allowing for a shift from a feudal barter economy (where taxes might be paid to the lord in buckets of butter and cuts of meat) to a market economy, where even the peasantry have access to currency.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fdc6d885	comment	Technical Virgin: It is brought up on whether or not Merida is still technically a virgin on account of her having lesbian sex with Cami.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fe10cf42	type	Alien Space Bats
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fe10cf42	comment	Alien Space Bats: The dragons and dragon-riding function as the space bats of the story, with Berk having an air force during medieval times.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Downplayed with Wulfhild, she got a cut on her cheek and while the resulting scar isn't disfiguring many nobles think that it has tarnished her beauty, with one flat out calling her "damaged goods" to her face.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Eochaid sends a poisoner to Berk for no other reason than pure spite. When he was discovered as the culprit, his own vassals turned on him for such dishonourable conduct.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_fed93e1b	comment	Drago is looked down on by many for his lack of an arm and heavy scarring. He is often insulted, despite everything he has done for the Pechenegs, and has trouble with maintaining credibility. In the past a merchant's brother picked a fight with him and after Drago defended himself, the merchant arranged for Drago to be abandoned for dead in the middle of a desert. It forms a large part of the reasoning behind his ruthlessness, and when he meets the merchant again his new allies arrange a poetic retribution.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ff41780	type	Young Future Famous People
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ff41780	comment	Young Future Famous People: Harald Sigurdsson is a high-ranked Varangian mercenary... but most people know him as the Viking King, Harald Hardrada, who tried to conquer England in 1066 (and failed). William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, is mentioned early on as a teenager even younger than Hiccup. Somewhat Subverted as the Alternate History the story is telling calls into question how famous these two are going to be in the future versus their real-world counterparts; the paths their lives take diverge massively. William in particular since he is adopted by Stoick and therefore given back the chance to live a happy childhood rather than endure the pressure and ridicule he'd face his entire life otherwise, so while still possibly a future famous person it no longer seems likely he'll be remembered as William "the Conqueror".
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ff555c8f	type	Cross-Referenced Titles
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ff555c8f	comment	Cross-Referenced Titles: Some chapters are grouped together by titles that, when joined together, make a longer sentence. Examples: Chapters 16 and 17; "Bindingsâ€¦" "And Partings" Chapters 24 and 25; "Your Only Hopeâ€¦", "â€¦Hide, and Pray That It Does Not Find You" (a reference to the entry on Night Furies in the dragon training guides from How to Train Your Dragon, before Hiccup befriended Toothless.) Chapters 35-38; "Understanding is a Three-Edged Sword", "Your Sideâ€¦", "â€¦Their Sideâ€¦", "â€¦And The Truth" (a reference to Babylon 5) Chapters 42-44; "The Penâ€¦", "â€¦Is Mightierâ€¦", "â€¦Than The Sword" Chapters 48-51; "Things Fall Apartâ€¦", "â€¦The Center Cannot Holdâ€¦", "Mere Anarchy Is Loosed Upon The World" (from W.B. Yeats' The Second Coming) Chapters 54 and 55; "We Are Who We Are", "And Who We Make Ourselves To Be" Chapters 60 and 61; "A Threat Perceived" "Is A Threat Achieved" Chapters 74 and 75; "It's Planting Seeds In a Gardenâ€¦" "â€¦You Never Get To See" (a reference to Hamilton) Chapters 70 and 78; "Red Sky At Morningâ€¦" "â€¦Sailor Take Warning." Chapters 140-143; "Love Not The Bright Sword For Its Sharpness", "Nor The Arrow For Its Swiftness", "Nor The Warrior For His Glory", "Love Only That Which They Defend", which is a quote from The Lord of the Rings.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: Since the movies, books, and show are set in a collection of fictional islands, most of the non-Berkian canon characters have now changed to be from real places. Heather, Dagur, and the Berserkers are from Alba (Scotland). Alvin is a Norse king ruling over an Eirish city. Cami and the Bog-Burglars live in a village in Wales, though they're not culturally Welsh. Viggo and Ryker Grimborn are from Normandy. Eret is a Saami taken as a thrall to Iceland. Drago is from the Liao kingdom in East Asia. Mala is from the Caucasus, but lives in northeastern India. Grimmel is from Bohemia.
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Einar gives Tuffnut a pep talk about not letting his potential go to waste after seeing the latter has no meaningful ambition to speak of.
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