Varin
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Varin (died c. 855) was the husband of Rosta and father of Eivor Varinsdottir, a Raven Clan shieldmaiden who participated in Viking raids against the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England during the 9th century.
History
At the age of nineteen, Varin and his lover Rosta stacked cairns on a high cliff near the fjord of their village.[2] The two were later married and in 847, Rosta bore Varin a child, Eivor.[3]
Unfortunately, their happiness did not last. Eight years later, the Order of the Ancients member Kjotve the Cruel raided their village of Heillboer in Rygjafylke as they were swearing allegiance to the Raven Clan's King Styrbjorn of Fornburg. Warning Eivor to stay inside the longhouse, Varin lead his clan to battle and dueled Kjotve as the raiders began their attack.[1]
Varin proved no match for Kjotve and was quickly overcome. As Kjotve's men set the village ablaze and began killing the wounded, Rosta was apprehended by a raider in her effort to help her husband. With Rosta's life as leverage, Kjotve offered Varin a chance to spare the village if he defied Viking tradition to die honorably in battle. Against his wife's protests, Varin knelt in submission and tossed aside his axe, allowing Kjotve to pick it up and execute him. Hoping to avenge Varin, Rosta rushed at Kjotve, only to make it paces from him before her captor launched a throwing axe into her back, killing her.
Keeping Varin's axe, Kjotve proceeded to break his deal with Varin and order the entire town massacred, although Eivor survived the attack[1] and was adopted by Styrbjorn, who raised her alongside his own son, Sigurd. In 872, she recovered Varin's axe after defeating one of Kjotve's soldiers, Rikiwulf, before he could kill her crewmate Bragi in a blood-sacrifice.[4]
Behind the scenes
Varin first appeared in the first issue of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Song of Glory, were his death is depicted with a bearded Kjotve impaling him through the chest with a sword. This conflicts with the same events in the memory sequence "Prologue" from Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, which instead has a clean-shaven Kjotve swing Varin's own axe into his skull.
Gallery
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Varin's death in Song of Glory.
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Song of Glory (first appearance) (appears in flashback(s))
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
- Assassin's Creed: Rebellion (mentioned in Database entry only)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Prologue
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – East Cape Peak
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – The Seas of Fate
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Honor Bound
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