"Laughin'" Sven Bennson was once at the top of the Norse charts for his traveling revue, an icon in his own homeland. He was known for his up-beat drinking songs, his romantic drinking ballads and his funeral dirges for those many friends of his who had drunk themselves to death.

One summer his band got hired to play half-time at a Blood Bowl game where they were set upon by an Rat-Ogre who's keepers had failed to feed. Barely escaping the hungry clutches of the big rat, and being the only surviving member of his band, he set out to learn the game of blood bowl to take revenge.

After finally getting through his training and managing to get into a game against the skaven responsible for the demise and digestion of his band, he was called on to the feild just in time to see the ogre trip over his own feet GFIing and breaking its neck, killing it instantly.

Sven, who had for months not so much as smiled, literally passed out from lack of breath from laughing so hard and had to be carried off the field by apothecaries, without a single game under his belt. Deciding not to waste his training, he decided to stay in the game and found himself hired as a blitzer by another group of norse musicians-cum-blood bowl players, the Banjo Brothers.