Thorkell Palsson

Thorkell Palsson started playing in Akornebir in AS 43, joining in the Wastekeep baronial events the next year. While he does a lot of the administrative side of the game, he has recently started Rapier Fighting.

Thorkell and his wife Gudrun Saebjornsdottir have two children

Awards and Honors

Blasted Tree November 14 AS XLIV / 2009

Award of Arms May 22 AS XLV / 2011

Goutte de Sang May 17 AS XLIX / 2014

Steward (Order of Courtier) Aug 2 AS XLIX / 2014

Baroness's Favor Oct 4 AS XLIX / 2014

Offices Held

Chirurgeon - Canton of Akornebir AS XLIV to Present

Chirurgeon - Barony of Wastekeep AS XLVI to Present

Exchequer - Barony of Wastekeep AS XLVIII to Present

Inlands Regional Chirurgeon Deputy - AS XLVII to Present

Personal History:

"I was born a good day’s walk from Hafrsfjord, four summers after King Harald laid waste to Eirik of Hordaland, Sulke of Rogaland, and the rest of the petty men who called themselves “king”.

I was the fifth child to be born to my parents. Soon after, my mother divorced my father, Pall Donaldson. He stayed at the family’s farm and my mother remarried and moved west. To where – I do not know, I was but a boy. My father remarried as well, to Sandey Riksdottir, a Swede. I stayed on the farm until I was of age, then I went a viking to find my fortune, as I was not going to inherit my father’s farm.

I did well on these travels and was becoming a wealthy man. On one of my trips, went on a trading trip to the eastward as far as Ladoga, where I acquired a crossbow. While slower to fire than most bows, it can pierce men and shields better. It became my favored weapon, even over the axe. In 904, I met my future wife Gudrun while she was traveling with her father, trading some of their fine wool. We had witness to the handsel at the Thing the following year, and was married shortly after that. We have two children, Kora and Lili – both can be quite ferocious.

Since our marriage, I do less raiding and more trading. The farms are quite successful and our future feels secure."