Rigsogur Fragments, Assassin's Creed Valhalla Points of interest

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Destroy the planks and climb the ladder to the upper floor.

III. The Lay of Solveig

One year when Spring came, Rig fell in love. His ways had caught the eye of Solveig, a thrall in charge of making mead. Legend says that she was swimming in a barrel of honey-waves when Rig arrived and dipped in his mug to fill it. Solveig grabbed the mug and pulled Rig into the giant vat. Thus did she earn the name Solveig Maiden-of-Mead. That night, Solveig and Rig went on a long walkabout through the woods and there consummated their love.

Upon their return, however, they found that Rig's family had been captured and burnt alive at an Althing in Trondheim, having been accused by Ergon Blade-Tongue of using black seidr, Rig's talking skull being the proof. Rig was appalled by this act of violence against his family, a miscarriage of justice and a perversion of honor so vile that Rig vowed revenge. But it would not come that day, for King Hadon, at Egon's urging, had issued an order of exile against the lovers.

Rig and Solveig packed their belongings and made as if to leave Trondheim, as King Hadon had ordered. At dusk they set sail with many great and loyal warriors, while Egon sneered at their departure. But that evening Rig and Solveig returned under cover of dark, cloaked like One-Eye. They snuck into the village to finish the job with Ergon, killing him and removing his leg as a trophy, which they stood outside for all to see. This earned Rig a new nickname, The Ghost of Trondheim. The following morning King Hadon was forced to put a bounty on their heads and Ergon's son, Bolli Ergonsson, vowed revenge.

The two lovers escaped for England, sailing with their most loyal drengir, as King Hadon's hunters followed in close pursuit. Heavily outnumbered, Rig and Solveig hatched a cunning plan. They hid inside a beached whale carcass with several warriors and remained there for ten nights. On the first night, Rig and Solveig made love in front of their fellow warriors, who cheered them on until the ninth day when their first child, Erik Whaleborn was born. That evening, as she held her child, Solveig heard Rig talking and shouting in his sleep, a thing he had never done before. "I will drink of the elixir, Father!" he screamed from a dream. "I will find you again on the other side of doom!" Through these fits, Solveig held her lover's hand long into the night, kissing his wet brow.

On the tenth day, the threat of Hadon's bounty-hunters was gone. Rig and Solveig changed their names to Erik Whaleborn and Silla the Sea-Queen for a time until they could commandeer a ship and a group of warriors to then head for the coast of England in search of a new life.

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