Well, the Viking period in England began in 866 and ran until around 1030, when the Normans invaded. That's a pretty decent span of time you've got to work with. Also, there was a Viking woman's name, Runa, that sounds an awful lot like Rowena.
How about something involving Rowena being of Viking extraction, possibly upper-class, originally named Runa? She's sent away to study with an English witch when her powers become evident, lots of fighting happens, she meets other witches and wizards who have suffered different degrees of education, everything goes to Hell when an untrained wizard turns a battlefield or a village into a smoking pit, and she and her kind are hunted in an effort to prevent it happening again. It's not great, but it's an idea.
Oh, ravens were sacred to the god Odin, so that might be something to work on as to where she got her surname.
Just remember the sacred rule of fiction: it's fiction. When in doubt, make it up.
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Date: 2004-05-28 03:24 pm (UTC)How about something involving Rowena being of Viking extraction, possibly upper-class, originally named Runa? She's sent away to study with an English witch when her powers become evident, lots of fighting happens, she meets other witches and wizards who have suffered different degrees of education, everything goes to Hell when an untrained wizard turns a battlefield or a village into a smoking pit, and she and her kind are hunted in an effort to prevent it happening again. It's not great, but it's an idea.
Oh, ravens were sacred to the god Odin, so that might be something to work on as to where she got her surname.
Just remember the sacred rule of fiction: it's fiction. When in doubt, make it up.