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Chapters: 119/? Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon (Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III/Astrid Hofferson, Heather/Fishlegs Ingerman, Ruffnut/Magnus the Good|Historical Character, Camicazi/Merida Characters: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Astrid Hofferson, Stoick the Vast, Gobber the Belch, Snotlout Jorgenson, Fishlegs Ingerman, Ruffnut Thorston, Tuffnut Thorston, Original Characters, Magnus the Good, Einar Thambarskelfir, Wulfhild of Norway, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Heather (httyd), Spitelout Jorgenson, Astrid Hofferson’s Mother, Astrid Hofferson’s Father, Mildew (HTTYD), Berkians (HTTYD), Toothless (HTTYD), Stormfly (HTTYD), Barf and Belch (HTTYD), Meatlug (HTTYD), Hookfang (HTTYD), Thornado (HTTYD), historical characters, Harald Hardrada, Harthacnut the Dane, Yaroslav the Wise, Viggo Grimborn, Ryker Grimborn, Johann (How to Train Your Dragon), Dagur the Deranged, Merida (Disney), Camicazi (How to Train Your Dragon), Big-Boobied Bertha (How to Train Your Dragon), William the Conqueror, Fa Mulan (Disney), Valka (How to Train Your Dragon), Valka's Bewilderbeast, Cloudjumper (How To Train Your Dragon) Additional Tags: Alternate History, References to Norse Religion & Lore, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Depictions of Norse Culture, Depictions of Polyamory & Polygamy, First HTTYD movie is Canon, All other HTTYD Properties are a Buffet Table of Ideas, Mature Rating is for Violence And Related Content, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Implied/Referenced Underage Sex, Book 1 (ch 1-31) is rated Teen, Book 2 (ch 32-68) is rated Mature, Book 3 (ch 69-ongoing) is rated Mature, The Past Isn't A Friendly Place, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, due to ongoing harassment only registered users can comment Summary:
Take History. Add Dragons. Stir until a Genius makes friends with them and things explode. Take the resulting stock of Hiccup and tamed dragons and set it to simmering in 1040 AD, in the Scottish Hebrides. Add more Kings, Emperors, Romans, Vikings, Conquerors, Spies, Warriors, Thieves, Knights and Nobles, to taste. Take cover, and sit back to watch the fireworks.
In Real Life, 1040 was the tail end of the Viking Age; Europe was 50 years from the First Crusade; the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches have not yet formally split, William the Conqueror is a frightened teenager in Normandy, the Byzantine Empire is collapsing after a revival under one of their great emperors, and the great Viking Harald Hardrada is a Varangian mercenary there, while the Caliphates are having a rough time from the new Seljuk Empire and their own internal tensions. The most corrupt Pope in history holds Rome, the Reconquista of Spain is underway after the collapse of the Caliphate of Cordoba, and the Norse religion is a pale shadow of what it once was, hanging on around the Baltic Sea, Iceland, Greenland... and the Hebrides.
And into that heady mix, there is now Hiccup and Berk.
Yeah, history won't know what hit it.
