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Take History. Add Dragons. Stir until a Genius makes friends with them and things explode. Take the resulting stock of Hiccup and tamed dragons and set it to simmering in 1040 AD, in the Scottish Hebrides. Add more Kings, Emperors, Romans, Vikings, Conquerors, Spies, Warriors, Thieves, Knights and Nobles, to taste. Take cover, and sit back to watch the fireworks.

In Real Life, 1040 was the tail end of the Viking Age; Europe was 50 years from the First Crusade; the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches have not yet formally split, William the Conqueror is a frightened teenager in Normandy, the Byzantine Empire is collapsing after a revival under one of their great emperors, and the great Viking Harald Hardrada is a Varangian mercenary there, while the Caliphates are having a rough time from the new Seljuk Empire and their own internal tensions. The most corrupt Pope in history holds Rome, the Reconquista of Spain is underway after the collapse of the Caliphate of Cordoba, and the Norse religion is a pale shadow of what it once was, hanging on around the Baltic Sea, Iceland, Greenland... and the Hebrides.

And into that heady mix, there is now Hiccup and Berk.

Yeah, history won't know what hit it.

A Thing Of Vikings is an Alternate History fanfic with the premise of placing the first entry of the How To Train Your Dragon film franchise into real life history and allowing things to unwind from there, with other characters and plot elements from the HTTYD franchise and other media properties taken as needed.

The fanfic can be found at Archive Of Our Own here.

At 85 chapters and over 900,000 words as of the May 2019 hiatus, the story qualifies as epic, with franchise characters, historical characters, and original characters all interwoven. Thus this wiki, to help keep track of things. The story's author is active on the wiki, having created it with the intention of using it to collate and organize his notes (and finds writing in the third person to be just as odd as one would expect). Contributions and analyses from readers are welcome and encouraged!

Currently Under Construction:

Plot Overview

Chapter Index



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