Tales of Odin’s Legion of the Draugar: Kåre’s story (2022-05-12)

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Tales of Odin’s Legion of the Draugar: Kåre’s story (2022-05-12)
Tales of Odin’s Legion of the Draugar: Kåre’s story (2022-05-12)

When the dishonourable fell, Odin would not accept them in his Great Hall of Valhalla. He cursed them to become Draugar, animated corpses with supernatural powers. Upon seeing the state of the modern world, Odin formed a Legion of the Damned who had to atone for their past by punishing the present in a manner akin to their original crimes. These are their tales and their penances.

Tales of Odin’s Legion of the Draugar: Kåre’s story

As he grew up in the small fishing village of Sodemreetgud, the young Vikingling, Kåre, was prone to random acts of mischief and small wrongdoings. One summer’s day, as he was deliberately blocking the path of a man pulling a cart, he caught the ever-watchful eye of Loki. Loki took on the disguise of boat captain and befriended Kåre. As he matured into a man Loki tightened his influence and escalated Kåre’s jinxes. At the age of twenty, Kåre captained his own boat in the first mighty warrior fleet to set sail across the sea to the land of Engelond. Under Loki’s encouragement Kåre deliberately positioned his boat in the middle of the convoy, and then slowed his pace to a faction of the rest of the armada’s. Chaos ensued as the other longboats swerved left and right to avoid Kåre’s ship. Many crashes and drownings later, the now-depleted navy turned back to the lands of ice and fjords, never to reach Engelond*. After Kåre’s crew had inflicted their mortal retribution on him, Odin placed his own curse of damnation. Kåre’s reanimated body would periodically rise from the grave and roam the lengths of England’s motorways and beat the living crap out of middle-lane hoggers**.

* Loki did get a nicely written thank you note from the Christian god for sparing his merry band of Lindisfarne monks. Unfortunately for the monks this was pretty short-lived.

** Alas, Odin miscalculated the scale to of the problem and there are more annoying middle-lane hoggers than the draugr Kåre could ever cope with***.

*** the Christian god, equally f***ed off with maddening middle-lane hoggers has declared a policy that all their souls will be promised to Satan for him to play with for the rest of eternity. Red hot pokers will probably be involved.

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