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Long ago, before the first raids to England and long before Charlemagne's reign; at the time of the gods, the time of legends, the time of magic and when everything was new; lived a viking and a mermaid.
Of all the creatures of Midgard, the mermaids were the most dangerous. Their kind and mankind were the most deadly enemies. Each of those kind slayed the other with no mercy in a quest for fame and recognition. No man had ever spoken to or loved a mermaid and no mermaid had been foolish enough to betray Ran, the fierce goddess of the sea, and find herself loving a human.
Yet, it happened once, in a land ashore the Norwegian sea. But more than love, the mermaid and the human found destinies and glory into one another. They found something more valuable than any treasure in the world; they found themselves and fulfillment.
They were bound by the belief that together, nothing was impossible to achieve, not even sailing to the unknown. The Norns had woven the threads of their destinies so tangled to one another that the human became merman and the mermaid became woman. Some said they could become one.
They were connected. As connected as a wave kissing the shore and as connected as the planks of wood put together to form the keel of a boat.
They were one with the sea and the shore. They were nature and mankind; they were violence and sweetness; they were warfare and vengeance; they were blood and water; they were love and hate; they were crashing waves.