Ciara Week One

The idea occurred to me at 8:57 a.m. on January 30th while I let my mind wander (in other words, run 30 km/s). A vague concept I had considered in the first week of freshman year upon being reminded that vikings actually discovered America, and centuries before Columbus was even born, resurfaced from the recess of my conscious. The traces of indications that Slavic languages had influence on those of Native Americans' came to mind, and the idea that logically speaking offspring of vikings and natives would be born occurred as well. Instantly, the Ahayuta (twin warrior gods of Zuni mythology) popped up, though it occurred to me that the Zuni occupied a region in New Mexico, and would not be at all logically proximal to the locations (namely, New England and Canadian coasts) that vikings explored primarily. Achiyalabopa (another Native American deity; somewhat an equivalent to the Japanese Karasu no Tengu) seemed more fitting to the images that came to mind of a protagonist. I happened to see the word halberd in whatever I was reading, and I automatically adopted that as the protagonist's weapon of choice, per se; (you can't write a story about vikings and/or Native Americans and not have awesome weaponry). The Nordic 'Niidhog' (a legendary black dragon) additionally came to mind. Somehow I'd like to work this together to create a story!