The leader of our merry band is Jarl Olaf Haroldson.  Dahrg de Belne centres on his far-famed and highly profitable cloth and clothing business.  Like any prosperous Viking trader, Olaf pays mercenaries to do his fighting for him, but he still keeps his hand in with sword and bow.  Olaf is Clothier by Royal Appointment to King Eadred and has Royal permission to mint coins.  

Jarl Olaf's wife is Lady Ragnhild Sigmundsdottir.  She runs the business while Olaf is away fighting or on the occasional sea voyage. She is responsible for the day to day running of the settlement, and this is signified by the great bunch of keys she carries hanging by a chain from her belt.  She is a skilled weaver and embroiderer and an expert in dying and spinning textiles. She also swings a mean battle skillet...

Ranvig is the daughter of Jarl Olaf Haroldsson, and like most teenage girls is something of a handful...  She is a talented musician and singer, and has also inherited her mother's expertise with the battle skillet! 

 Thorfinn Gunnarsson is the Owner/Master of the trading ship (knarr) Thorr's Lady. He takes Jarl Olaf's trade goods around the British coast, to Iceland and to the various trading ports and villages along the coastline of Scandinavia.  A skilled navigator and seaman, he has done his fair share of fighting - and the occasional bit of piracy, just to keep in practice....  Thorfinn is a Norse pagan.

Mistress Rowena is wife to Hrolf Arnisson, who she met and fell in love with at Bewdley. 

A wise-woman skilled in the lore of herbs and medicaments, she also is reputed to be the possessor of mysterious powers....

Sven is Captain of Jarl Olaf's personal guard of highly trained mercenaries.  His job is to organise the defences of the settlement, protect the Jarl and his family, train the warriors, and lead them into battle on Olaf's behalf.

He is a fierce Norwegian, fond of mushrooms, and some call him the last of the berserks...

A Saxon lady from Tamworth, wife to Sven Einarsson and a skilled jeweller and worker in glass, Mistress Elswith's wares attract farmers' wives and high-born ladies alike.

Skilled potter, trader and some-time mercenary, Sigurd joined Dahrg de Belne from Norway via Ireland, Jorvik and Tamworth!  His Celtic lady, Fearn, is famed for her embroidery and follows the mystical ways of her people.

Fierce warrior and talented worker in bone and antler, Shamus hails from Ireland, and is as ready with a song as an axe…

Exiled from his family, originally of noble birth, this soft-spoken warrior found refuge at Dahrg de Belne, where his skill with gold, silver and bronze provide a good living…

Erik Valhellison