Prince Ivar 'the Boneless' Erikson of Kiev falls in love with and marries Princess Helga (Olga) of Chernigov. While taxing her people to finance a war against Denmark, the Chernigov 20 ambush and capture the prince and his retinue and threaten to e...
"Erik came to me in a dream and he said, 'Ivar the Boneless
is Prince Igor of Kiev'."
Brian Howard Seibert
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Longship Being Portaged the Hard Way
(938-939 AD) "King Liere made you make him king?" Princess Helga asked Ivar incredulously.
"King Liere didn't make me make him king," Prince Ivar corrected his first wife. "He made me wait to make young Gorm king. He warned me what could happen if you turn over the reins too soon."
"But you didn't have to turn over the reign at all," Helga insisted.
"I had to make him king. If I didn't, some Danish prince from some other kingly line would murder him and claim the crown for himself. That is the way it works in Denmark. There are more kings than crowns."
"So now Queen Blaeja gets to stay queen and I'm demoted to princess?" Helga asked incredulously.
"Queen Mother Blaeja," Ivar corrected. "Gorm's new wife, Thyra is now queen. We have to keep the Snake King alive if our plans are to reach fruition. You know that as well as I do. You will always be my queen. Now come back to bed. We need a son now, more than ever."
Helga approached the bed and slipped under the silk sheets and slid towards Ivar's waist, catching his steed in her mouth and tasting him and she could taste herself upon him and she enjoyed the melded taste for a while, then she slid up his chest and she mounted him. She rode his steed and she dreamed of a son, a Swine King who would take back the crown of Denmark from the Snake King. Ivar dreamed of a son too, but only in the sense that sex was better when making a child and sex was best when making a son. He exploded within her and he could swear he saw a son in the spirit of her eyes.
While Prince Ivar was in Kiev, troops began arriving from his far-flung empire. Jarl Biorn and Captain Sihtric arrived from Angleland with the York fleet and the Bamburgh legionnaires, warriors of the Ui Imair of Ireland followed, Norman cataphracts from Rouen soon arrived, Norwegians from Southmore to Halogaland came and King Halfdan's picked Swedish troops arrived last. Ivar's Danish contingent had sailed with the merchant fleet and the Kievan Hraes' legions were already standing ready in Kiev. Ivar welcomed his captains and lieutenants into King Frodi's palace as he sat upon his shield between four of the largest men any of them had ever seen. Ivar leaned out from between his bearers and gave each a hug, patting them on the back as they entered. "Come join me on my second highseat," he said to Biorn and Sihtric, as refreshments arrived. Princess Helga shared the first highseat with Ivar, and his daughter, Alfhild, and her husband shared the third highseat. He seated the Norman, Norse and Swedish officers on his guest highseats. "The rest of you, be seated at those benches," Ivar said, pointing out tables to the different groups as they arrived at the hall.
