[b]A) Improve Food[/b]

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With jubilant cheers and hard earned satisfaction the Ards watched as the ships that had carried them so far were burned on the beach. When the salt air had killed the last embers, a grim realization began to silently spread through the hardened men and women, and even the children as they too had seen a good deal of hardship and were aged beyond their years. The realization was that they were in as precarious a situation as ever; they had eaten the last of the preserved food that they had brought on their ships. Now they had nothing save the clothes on their back and the armor and weapons of the warriors.

Sensing that his people needed their leader, Danr assembled his tribe on the shore. The 250 Ards watched as their chieftain stooped down to grab a fistful of loose earth. Shouting over the crashing of the waves and the sea breeze, he held the handful of dirt high and proclaimed, "Be joyous! This land- I shall call it Njor, North in our old tongue, for our old lands to the North are no more- this is our land now, and it is a rich enough land.  Yet there are still more trials before us: our bellies will soon be empty, and our longhouses have yet to be built. We have much work before us."

Without wasting much time, Danr set about arranging the Ards into groups. Food was desperately needed. The warriors, of which there were many since the Ards were a strong and warlike tribe, carried one of three weapons: longspear, bow, or axe. The warriors that had spears and bows were better suited for hunting, so they were ordered to explore the nearby area in search of food. Those that had axes were ordered to fell trees for firewood, as cooking fires would be needed. The women and children did not venture out as far as the warriors that went hunting, but several of them still searched the nearby, boreal landscape for any plants that could be gathered and used for food. The rest of the women and children would try to fish along the coastline.

Danr hoped that between hunting, fishing, and gathering for some time, his people would be able to stockpile enough food so that they could focus on other things without worry of starvation.
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