Jötunn Grímsson

General:
Name: Jötunn
Last name: Grímsson
Title: Swain

Jötunn was given this title by his friends when he managed to end up in the bed of his former girlfriend's mother.

Age: 25 years old
Rank: Skald
Place of birth: Kattegat
Place of residence: Skagen

Family:
Father: Grím Knurtsson
Mother: Vör Thrudsdóttir
Siblings:

Kirk Grímsson
Alvilda Grímsdóttir
Oydis Grímsdóttir

Appearance:
Skin tone: Pale
Hair color: Dark blonde
Hair style: Medium long, mostly messy and interlaced with multiple braids.
Beard: Somewhere between short and medium. The ends of his moustache are braided and decorated with beads.
Eye color: Blue
Height: 1m75
Weight: 74kg
Build: Well-trained but definately not underfed.
Tattoos: Runes and portraits of the gods all over his chest, back and arms.

Personality:
Jötunn is a person who lives his life to the fullest. He sees the best in everything and is nothing alike any pessimist. With his strange look to life he often knows how to surprise people with his words and reasoning, which he turns into stories and songs. This surprising effect works sometimes in a good way, sometimes not so much. There are people who feel enlightened by him and his prescence, he brings a new look to life and a new look to the gods. But there are also people who think he is a shame to the viking culture, trying to change the old ways and disrespecting the gods. But he doesn't care about that last category, he only focusses on the good. This good includes love. And love is one of the most important things in Jötunn's life. He almost literally lives of love and needs it to survive. It isn't a surprise he has bed more woman than he can count, and has broken multiple hearts. But he just hasn't enough with one love. He has so much love and passion in his body that he just needs to share it with more than one person. And he can't understand that people can devote themselves to one person only. Just as he can't understand that some girls are heartbroken when they know that they aren't the only one he shares the bed with.
Jötunn is a very clever person, he knows the right things in the right places and knows who to tell it to and who definately not. He can easily play people against eachother and totally get away with it. He has this charme that makes it easy for people to believe and trust him. Kindness and generosity are only a few of his good traits. But in time of urgent need he will always put himself first and look out for his own. He sees his life too valuable to go to waiste. And because of his lack of fighting skills, he protects himself by using smart words and manipulating people.

History:
Jötunn is born in Kattegat and raised in many different villages. Both his parents were thriving merchants and traveled across the North Sea many times. Their faces were known in many different Viking villages, among them even Uddevalla, the distorted kingdom. By many Grím’s family was seen as different and maybe even strange. They did not really live by one true code, but had picked many habits from many Viking cultures along the way. Some respected and loved them, others feared and avoided them.
Because of his parents fame, Jötunn and his siblings have always known a certain amount of wealth. But where they were rich in clothes and jewelry, they had a lack of education and were sort of left to their own. They spent all their time together and raised each other in a strange way. But in the end everybody saw that they were very different from other children: They were not interested in fighting or farming, because they were always on the road and never had to participate in battle or work on the fields. Instead they were interested in the stories that came along with it. Stories about raiding, about the gods and everything that had to do with it. They loved to write poems about these stories and make songs about them, they even performed these as acts in many different villages. Because they had so much spare time when they were travelling with their parents, they learned themselves how to make music and created instruments on their own.
Wherever Jötunn came, he made a lot of friends. He was a very social and easy to hang out with. Also with girls he was very popular, and ended up in more beds than he can remember. Because of this he has made a name for himself in many villages, but still is loved by many for his enthusiasm and passion about almost everything.
Years passed by, and the Grímssons and -dóttirs grew tired of following their parents everywhere they went. They wanted to fulfil something for their own, create their own life and a family somewhere. On a short period of time Jötunn and his siblings descided to split their ways and to focus on their own goals. It broke his heart and in the beginning he felt incredibly lonely. But the charm of Skagen made him feel home very soon, and everything that had happened there was a great source of inspiration for all his stories, poems and songs.