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Danelagh
Retired [X2] Elf

The raven banner was used by a number of Viking warlords regarded in Norse tradition as the sons of the Danish king Ragnar Lodbrok. The first mention of a Viking force carrying a raven banner is in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. For the year 878, the Chronicle relates:

And in the winter of this same year the brother of Ivar and Halfdan landed in Wessex, in Devonshire, with 23 ships, and there was he slain, and 800 men with him, and 40 of his army. There also was taken the war-flag (guðfani), which they called "Raven".

The Annals of Saint Neot confirms the presence of the raven banner in the Great Heathen Army and adds insight into its seiðr- (witchcraft-) influenced creation and totemic and oracular nature:

It is said that three sisters of Hingwar and Habba [Ivar and Ubbe], i.e., the daughters of Ragnar Loðbrok, had woven that banner and gotten it ready during one single midday's time. Further it is said that if they were going to win a battle in which they followed that signum, there was to be seen, in the center of the signum, a raven, gaily flapping its wings. But if they were going to be defeated, the raven dropped motionless. And this always proved true.

This account is repeated almost verbatim in Bishop Asser's Life of King Alfred: "The daughters of Loðbrók had woven that banner and finished it during one single midday's time. It also is said that in any battle where the signum was borne before them, if they were to win victory one would see in the middle of the signum a living raven flying; but if they were about to be defeated, it hung straight and still." Geffrei Gaimar's Estorie des Engles (written around 1140) mentions the Hrafnsmerki being borne by the army of Ubbe at the Battle of Cynuit (878): "[t]he Raven was Ubbe's banner (gumfanun). He was the brother of Iware; he was buried by the Danes in a very big mound in Devonshire, called Ubbelawe."
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A P Moeller Maersk
Thrower
7 3 4 7
Pass
+MA
   5 6 0 0 0 0 6/ 100k
(120)k
  
2
LEGO bricks
Catcher
8 4 4 7
Catch, Nerves of Steel
+ST, Strip Ball, Dump Off
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3
Insulin
Lineman
6 3 4 7
Dauntless, Block, Dodge
 n 46 2 4 0 4 2 32/ 130k
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Drinking Snaps
Lineman
6 3 4 7
Block, Dodge
   18 3 2 0 1 1 16/ 100k
(110)k
  
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Danfoss
Lineman
6 3 4 7
Guard
   5 1 0 0 0 2 11/ 90k
(80)k
  
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Niels Bohr
Lineman
6 3 4 7   4 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 60k
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Erm the Viking
Lineman
6 3 4 7
Dirty Player, Dodge
   13 1 1 0 1 2 16/ 100k
(123)k
  
8
KFoged
Blitzer
7 3 4 8
Block, Side Step
 m 2 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 110k
(0)k
  
9
Danepac McBacon
Lineman
6 3 5 7
+AG
   9 1 1 0 1 0 6/ 100k
(110)k
  
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Ancestors of the Normans
Blitzer
7 3 4 8
Block, Side Step
   0 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 110k
(130)k
  
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Jan Mølby
Lineman
6 3 4 7
Dirty Player
 n 6 1 0 0 0 1 6/ 80k
(83)k
  
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