"Alfhild, the Viking pirate queen" Topic

"hey arrived at night, screaming and berserk, like a mad vision from the Book of Revelations. Attacking with savage ferocity, they razed whole villages, slaughtered babies for sport, dissected captured leaders alive—from the back—and spread their entrails in an eagle pattern on the ground. Arguably the finest seamen the world had produced, the Norsemen sallied out from Scandinavia, traveling vast distances over icy, storm-wracked seas, creating havoc and terror wherever they landed.

They rapidly became known as the dreaded "Vikings"—"sons of the fjords"—and their fine-lined oaken boats were called "longships." Between 70 and 100 feet long, the Viking longship was a double-ended, clinker-built craft of overlapped planks, iron-fastened and tightly caulked, yet flexible. The sweeping bow was decorated with a snarling figurehead, often of a dragon or serpent. There was only one bank of oars, for the sail was the important means of propulsion. This was square, strongly sewn and beautifully decorated with bright silks and gold embroidery by Viking women. The masts were often covered in gilt, and the rigging dyed red, and at the masthead there was a pedestal for a lantern…"

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Armand

Gráinne Mhol, Grace O'Malley, would have handled her. And with far less purple prose.