The Viking Age Persona Test

Skald

You scored 15% leadership, 22% spirituality, 6% violence and 51% intelligence!

FOLLOWER - SPIRITUAL - PEACEFUL - EDUCATED Skalds are the Norse equivalent to bards, or possibly minstrels. They are the ones responsible for over half of what we now know about Scandinavian culture, royalty and mythology today, for they passed down their lore by word of mouth and song from generation to generation until Snorri Sturlusson of Iceland wrote down the Eddas in the 13th century. Skalds were gifted poets with quick tongues who flattered kings with their art, and occasionally the kings themselves would be known as skalds (or else!). Skalds were highly respected for their wit and intelligence, and in some folklore, they were said to know of events happening in far off lands as they were happening.

Skald
You scored 12% leadership, 46% spirituality, 0% violence and 45% intelligence!


FOLLOWER - SPIRITUAL - PEACEFUL - EDUCATED Skalds are the Norse equivalent to bards, or possibly minstrels. They are the ones responsible for over half of what we now know about Scandinavian culture, royalty and mythology today, for they passed down their lore by word of mouth and song from generation to generation until Snorri Sturlusson of Iceland wrote down the Eddas in the 13th century. Skalds were gifted poets with quick tongues who flattered kings with their art, and occasionally the kings themselves would be known as skalds (or else!). Skalds were highly respected for their wit and intelligence, and in some folklore, they were said to know of events happening in far off lands as they were happening.

Lawspeaker

You scored 21% leadership, 22% spirituality, 27% violence and 28% intelligence!



LEADER - SPIRITUAL - VIOLENT - EDUCATED Judge, jury and executioner; you are the lawspeaker. You know the ancient lore of your people back and forward, and you can remember every charted detail of your peoples' history back to the days when Odin created your world from the dead body of a giant. You preside over the Althing, which is the meeting of tribes and kings, and make sure nobody gets out of line. You are merely a freeman outside the Althing, but within the sacred boundaries of the frithgard, you are higher than the mightiest king of the north. And if anybody messes with you, you've got the gods themselves on your side. Wisest of the wise, you are untouchable.

Gothi

You scored 25% leadership, 33% spirituality, 1% violence and 39% intelligence!

LEADER - SPIRITUAL - PEACEFUL - EDUCATED Gothar were the priesthood of heathen Scandinavia. You are the spiritual backbone of your society. Only you can intrepret the gods' will for your jarl. You are the first person people will come to any time they want to do anything from building a new shed to invading Denmark. May the gods smile upon you.

LEADER - SPIRITUAL - PEACEFUL - UNEDUCATED You are a navigator. It seems perhaps like a rather random profession out of many from the Viking Age to be a choice here, but navigators on longboats were one of the most highly valued men on board. Kings, lords, vikings, chieftains, wizards and priests trusted in these men, who knew just from looking up at the sky no matter the weather which way France was. Without the calm-headedness of the self-assured navigator, the Norse could never have discovered Iceland, Greenland and North America, and all history would have remembered them as would be the pillagers of pop culture. You will not be mentioned in the sagas, but rest assured, without you, there would BE no sagas.

Skald

You scored 16% leadership, 36% spirituality, 0% violence and 40% intelligence!

FOLLOWER - SPIRITUAL - PEACEFUL - EDUCATED Skalds are the Norse equivalent to bards, or possibly minstrels. They are the ones responsible for over half of what we now know about Scandinavian culture, royalty and mythology today, for they passed down their lore by word of mouth and song from generation to generation until Snorri Sturlusson of Iceland wrote down the Eddas in the 13th century. Skalds were gifted poets with quick tongues who flattered kings with their art, and occasionally the kings themselves would be known as skalds (or else!). Skalds were highly respected for their wit and intelligence, and in some folklore, they were said to know of events happening in far off lands as they were happening.

Skald

You scored 19% leadership, 25% spirituality, 4% violence and 51% intelligence!

FOLLOWER - SPIRITUAL - PEACEFUL - EDUCATED Skalds are the Norse equivalent to bards, or possibly minstrels. They are the ones responsible for over half of what we now know about Scandinavian culture, royalty and mythology today, for they passed down their lore by word of mouth and song from generation to generation until Snorri Sturlusson of Iceland wrote down the Eddas in the 13th century. Skalds were gifted poets with quick tongues who flattered kings with their art, and occasionally the kings themselves would be known as skalds (or else!). Skalds were highly respected for their wit and intelligence, and in some folklore, they were said to know of events happening in far off lands as they were happening.

For shizzle my nizzle, I pass on my lore via word of mouth and the Internetz.

Tradesman

You scored 16% leadership, 18% spirituality, 18% violence and 37% intelligence!

FOLLOWER - IMPIOUS - PEACEFUL - EDUCATED You're the tradesman. Much like any society, there are people who were intrinsic to general life, but who aren't particularly noticeable otherwise. These are folks like professional blacksmiths, shipbuilders, wagon-renters and shepherds who are experts in their profession, and make a good living off of it. They have no interest in much outside their job, and because of this make it their primary concern. But there aren't any sagas written about professional wagon-renters, are there?

FOLLOWER - SPIRITUAL - VIOLENT - EDUCATED You're a freeman: the average joe of Scandinavia. Most people nowadays in the West are a variant of freemen. Freemen were allowed to vote, to carry weapons, to fight in armies, to take up a trade and to rise in station if they distinguished themselves somehow. They were educated with at least basic skills regarding trades, fighting and religion. Being a freeman was a good life.

Freeman

You scored 4% leadership, 45% spirituality, 22% violence and 28% intelligence!

FOLLOWER - SPIRITUAL - VIOLENT - EDUCATED You're a freeman: the average joe of Scandinavia. Most people nowadays in the West are a variant of freemen. Freemen were allowed to vote, to carry weapons, to fight in armies, to take up a trade and to rise in station if they distinguished themselves somehow. They were educated with at least basic skills regarding trades, fighting and religion. Being a freeman was a good life.