Skýndrar

'They came in their great boats with bronze rams, they burnt our towns with torches, salted our fields and killed our oxen, cut us down with their falling axes and curved swords. Monasteries, temples, homes lit up against the sky. I remember when Pappa lifted me up onto the back of our pony, I could hardly reach her reigns, and he yelled at me. Mariyga, you go, he said. And as I rode, I saw... I saw a woman split his skull in two and grin at me over clanging iron.'- Unknown.
The Skýndrar (singular Skýndr) were raiders from Rakkimar's Rasmussland, active from the year -2100, with their activity roughly petering out by the 5th century pre-DR as they overextended, lost their identity and Rakkimar was united from within again.
The word Skýndrar, though coming to be synonymous with 'raider', did not strictly imply this - in fact, Skýndr was formed of the Rakki roots Skýnn and Dyra, roughly meaning 'one who wanders far'. 
A conglomeration of many clans and tribes of South Rakkimar, mostly Tarkassic in origin (i.e. not Gildegran like in North Rakkimar), it included people from ethnic groups like the Øngbrænskaldr, Rakki primarily, and united by the Saemhl clan MacLovatt, who united the groups at Jolðenskorrir Island in Hjarofjall, back then part of Clan MacLovatt's ward. This meeting was known as the Kilþing (War Council) where the Égis Skýndir (Time of Raiding) was declared - a time for Rakkimar to make her name in a developing world.
Over the next centuries, they continued to pillage and burn and invade - see the Timeline for more information.
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