Andreas van Berghen

Whereabouts

Currently Living in the Barony of Seagirt

Biography

Aelfgar joined the SCA in 2005 for a Sealion War held by the Barony of Seagirt. Some time later, he was first kid on his block to assemble a suit of armour and start fighting. Aelfgar has since thrown himself head-long (sometimes head-first) into any bout of heavy combat he can find. It paid off when he travelled to Sealion 2008, participated in the newbie fighter tournament and won most chivalric combatant.

Also a sword brother in the Company of Red Dawn.

He is often seen in the company of such disreputable folk as Rashid al-Qasim, Dmitri Ivonavitch and Turstan of Seagirt.

Persona Biography

Alfgeir Gunnarsson, also known as Alfgeir Jorsalfare, Alfgeir Mostur-beard and Alfgeir Twist-foot, was born in the year of our Lord, 1090 on one of the Orkney Islands. Growing up during the dawn of the 12th century, Alfgeir’s early life was similar to that of his Viking ancestors. In 1107, emulating the stories he had heard of his forebears, Alfgeir joined his king Sigurd I on a journey across the seas to adventure, a journey headed for the Holy Land. During the voyage, the contingent visited the court of King Henry in England, fought at Lisbon in Spain, met Roger of Sicily at his court and sailed to and fought many small battles on various islands of the Mediterranean before reaching the Holy Lands in 1110.

Alfgeir fought with his king at Sidon and helped take that city for King Baldwin of Jeruselum; a feat for which Baldwin gifted Sigurd with a splinter of the True Cross. It was also at the Battle of Sidon that Alfgeir was wounded, taking a terrible blow to his leg from a Saracen blade. He was unable to accompany the majority of his kinsmen on their journey to Constantinople and then home to Norway in 1111. Instead, even after his wounds had healed, he stayed behind in the Kingdom of Jeruselum with some of his fellow Norsemen. Alfgeir now helps to protect the Holy Land from the Saracen savages that surround it.