Fic Updates 48

[Norgarth]

A Few Steps Left of Center (God like SI touring the multiverse, first stop: The Hobbit)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...t-89535206

A Thing of Vikings
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089.../110971438

The Second Battle of the Seine River was then-Princess-Marshal Astrid Haddock I’s debut battle in the military sphere as a formal commander. This battle—insofar as it was a battle and not just a rout—left as much of an impact on the political and military spheres as it did on the landscape, where her artificial river-flood changed the course of the Seine River, closing one meander downstream of Rouen and creating a new oxbow lake. In the military and political calculus, it took some time for the full scale of her impact to penetrate. News was comparatively slow to get out, hampered by the fact that the Hooligans had their hands full with other considerations and problems, and was liberally mixed with rumor and hearsay, along with outright libel. But as the details spread in conjunction with her subsequent actions, the sheer lethality and pragmatism of the Princess-Marshal’s tactics combined with the reputation of Berk as a whole and her husband in particular. This was, after all, the first wife of the Hero, and she had clearly not gotten her position on nepotism. Her wife, Princess-Herald Wulfhild, made pointed use of her spouses’ reputations in her negotiations…

—Dragons of the North: Profiles Of The Viking Lords, Waterford University Press, 1733