It's time, and past time, for A Thing of Vikings Chapter 72, "How The Wheel Turns"!
In Vedrarfjord, Hiccup smiths Gronckle-Iron weapons for the attack on England and crafts some gifts for afterward. In the dungeons of Faaborg, Markus Ulverson is awakened from the nightmare his life has become. On the great steppes, the Kagan of the Pechenegs discusses strategy with Drago. North of Constantinople, Sigurd leads the Hypsikrates tagma in aerial drill over the planned site of their fortress. Back in Vedrarfjord, Heather takes a break from all the big problems to deal with a small problem, while Viggo gets checkmated. And we close at the ring-fort of Cashel, where the kings of Eire are gathered in their masses united in their opposition to the Viking infiltration.
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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/72...Of-Vikings
Once again, we turn to an undated draft of The Wing And The Ax, courtesy of the Waterford University Archives, in which Queen Marshal Astrid Haddock I Wrote:There are two great dangers with using dragons for military purposes—overuse and underuse, and frequently they mirror each other. As with any fighting resource, the temptation to concentrate everything you have into a single hammerblow will always be there. And it is worse with the use of dragons, due to their high mobility. One can easily rationalize to oneself that the utility of keeping a mass formation of dragons that can rapidly deploy outweighs the risks of raids and other high-speed attacks. But the mere fact that dragons are fast doesn't mean that they can fly across Midgard in a day. Time is still needed to get any army moving, and that is still the case for flocks of dragons, regardless of how well-trained or well-drilled they are—and that still allows for a window which someone alert and ready to attack can use to their own advantage.
In Vedrarfjord, Hiccup smiths Gronckle-Iron weapons for the attack on England and crafts some gifts for afterward. In the dungeons of Faaborg, Markus Ulverson is awakened from the nightmare his life has become. On the great steppes, the Kagan of the Pechenegs discusses strategy with Drago. North of Constantinople, Sigurd leads the Hypsikrates tagma in aerial drill over the planned site of their fortress. Back in Vedrarfjord, Heather takes a break from all the big problems to deal with a small problem, while Viggo gets checkmated. And we close at the ring-fort of Cashel, where the kings of Eire are gathered in their masses united in their opposition to the Viking infiltration.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/40265339
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/72...Of-Vikings