Krigskada

Renee Walker’s character- Krigskada  ( battle scar ) Norwegian. My parents had 3 children, all girls, I was the youngest. With no sons, my father took me to learn the ways of hunting and fishing and fighting, all the things a son would know. One morning I was sent out for a pail of water by my mother. I was about 13 years old. Suddenly, from the river I heard screams from the village. I ran back to see but stayed hidden in the bushes. Raiders were burning the village and killing all the people. After many days of hiding and sorting through the rubble for tools, I left to live in the woods. I hunted, fished and stole to survive. I grew strong and and lean. Many times I had to fight to live. I drifted to new lands. I was aided by a Gypsy boy when caught for stealing. He brought me to his camp where I was invited to travel with the Gypsy caravan. We traveled to Britain and soon my fighting skills were seen by a local protection group. People that, would not pay were beaten or killed. Soon the magistrate put a bounty on my head. I put on the clothes the Gypsy women gave me and tried to get passage on a ship to the new world. Being an outlaw, I feared I would be seen and captured and sent to the guillotine. I paid my passage partially with gold and partially with labor. We sailed for 4 months. In the new world I set out for the interior of the land. I hunted and fished and lived well off of the bountiful land. I encountered the native people and was they were fighters like no other. I was near killed and left to die in the wilderness. I was found by a buckskin wearing man that brought me to a settlement, there I was healed . There is where I learned of a Duchess that was in need of a guard.