Dull and Duller

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"Dull and Duller" was the nickname given by Eivor Varinsdottir for two 9th-century Norse brothers who aspired to be Vikings.

Biographies

The sons of an unnamed deceased farmer, the two brothers lived quiet lives alone with their mother until she was lethally gored by a cow. As she lay dying, she vehemently denounced her youngest as "a bastard's son". In shock at the revelation and unwilling to accept it, the son convinced himself that his mother had said he was a "Ragnarsson", heir to the great legacy of the late Ragnar Lothbrok. Now orphaned, the son grew fixated on modeling himself and his brother in look and behavior after Ivarr the Boneless and Ubba Ragnarsson, with the youngest even going so far as to adopt the name "Iva".

At some point during the invasion of the Heptarchy by the Great Heathen Army, the brothers got together to practice raiding. After stashing some of their precious belongings in an abandoned Ledecestrescire farmstead, they devolved into arguing about setting it on fire, at which point Eivor encountered them on the road. Overhearing their argument, she took the initiative to light the house on fire, prompting the brothers now dubbed "Dull and Duller" to begin their mock raid.

Unfortunately, they could not break down the front door and had left the key locked inside, forcing Eivor to find another means of entry. Once Eivor had gained entrance, the brothers shouted locations where they might have left their mother's axe. After searching and finding only the key, a furious Eivor unlocked the door to see Iva had forgotten that he had removed the axe from the building prior to the raid for safety reasons. Disgusted with the whole event, Eivor left the two brothers to their own devices.

Some while later, much to her annoyance, Eivor encountered the duo again when raiding a bandit camp in north Lincolnshire, where she found Iva unconscious and his brother kept under guard. After Eivor dispatched his captors, Iva's brother told her how Iva had insisted on cheating the rogues out of coin against his wishes upon realizing the bandits were very experienced. He then asked for help carrying Iva to safety before the bandits returned. Though initially bristling at his request, Eivor relented, seeing that he had a modicum more sense than Iva and could perhaps be reasoned with after.

The two fled the camp, and after fighting off the returning bandits, brought Iva to a road a fair distance away. Before leaving, Eivor sternly warned Iva's brother to abandon his attempts at being a Viking, and to literally knock sense into Iva the next time he thought up a glory-seeking idea. Now aware how lethal Iva's plans could be for the both of them, his brother accepted. As Eivor departed, she heard Iva wake and ask for the details on what he felt was a grand victory, which his brother ignored and instead retorted as he walked away that he was going home.

Personalities

The two brothers were dumb, endangering both themselves and their possessions in ill-advised situations. Iva in particular was rather self-assured, easily dismissing Eivor's criticism after the failed farmhouse "raid". In contrast, his brother was more mild in temperament with a better assessment on the abilities of people the pair met, and so was more skeptical of Iva's boasts of their power and in the "successes" of his fanciful schemes.

Behind the scenes

The brothers as a whole are named after the 1994 comedy film of a similar name, Dumb and Dumber, which follows two well-meaning yet dumb friends on a road trip from Rhode Island to Colorado in their quest to return a briefcase of ransom money after mistakenly thinking it abandoned by its owner.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla