#kinda sad I don't get to explore those avenues more fully but also think this is the most accurate thing tbh

[islandiis]

honest to God icelandic history is sooo so cool and interesting and I'm always learning something new but it's also so fucking funny kind of covering it through Leifur bc. okay. this little lad basically had no idea what was going on Ever and if he did he had the emotional maturity of a bag of oats

When Norway first came to Iceland they basically forced Christianity upon Iceland by throwing missionary after missionary at the island. There was some success but they also murdered several people and then when it wasn't that successful Norway just took several Icelanders hostage (including prominent chieftains who they threatened to kill), and they were Iceland's only real trading partner so. oop.

But all this going on and Leifur was still pretty much feral at that time tbh. I think maybe he was staaaarting to be domesticated ever so slightly? In the sense that he probably understood that this was happening and he wasn't happy with his people being taken hostage by the Norwegian Crown, but probably still wild enough that his response was to like. bite a local goði and give him rabies or something