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Torvaldsland is a cruel, harsh, rocky land. It contains many cliffs, inlets and mountains. Its arable soil is thin and found in patches. The size of the average farm is very small. Good soil is rare and highly prized. Communication between farms is often by sea, in small boats. Without the stream of Torvald it would probably be impossible to raise cereal crops in sufficient quantity to fee even its relatively sparse population. There is often not enough food under any conditions, particularly in northern Torvaldsland, and famine is not unknown. In such cases men feed on bark, and lichens and seaweed. It is not strange that the young men of torvaldsland often look to the sea, and beyond it, for their fortunes. Marauders of Gor, p 54.



Visitors and those wishing to settle here.





All are welcome to visit Torvaldsland, with an exception to be mentioned later. The men of Torvaldsland are a friendly bunch and will accept visitors to the Great Halls and landings. Respect and honor is given to all those deserving such, but once crossed, beware, the men of Torvaldsland will be upon you. As Ivar ForkBeard welcomed Tarl Red Hair to join him.



"Guests!" shouted a man. "Guests to enter the hall Svein Blue Tooth!" We looked to where once had stood the mighty portals the hall of Svein Blue Tooth. "Bid them welcome," said the Blue Tooth, and he himself left the table, taking a bowl of water and towel to meet the guests at the portal. "Refresh yourselves," said he to them, "and enter. "Two men, with followers, acknowledged the greeting Svein Blue Tooth; they washed their hands, and their faces and they came forward. I stood. "We have sought you," said Samos of Port Kar. "I had feared we might be too late." Marauders of Gor, p 281.





The one exception, as mentioned earlier, are the Kurii. They are not welcome, as they have shown in the past they are without honor and can not be trusted.



Men and the Kurii, where they met, which was usually only in the north, regarded one another as mortal enemies. Marauders of Gor, p 92-93.

The Home Stone of Torvaldsland

Though there is no official mention of any Home Stone in Torvaldsland, Torvaldsberg has been accepted by the people of Torvaldsland now as their Home Stone, since it is the resting place of Torvald and hallowed ground.

The Torvaldsberg is, all things considered, an extremely dangerous mountain. Yet it is clearly not unscalable, as I learned, without equipment. It has the shape of a spear blade, broad, which has been bent near the tip. It is something over four and a half pasangs in height, or something over seventeen thousand Earth feet. It is not the highest mountain on Gor but it is one of the most dramatic, and most impressive. It is also, in its fearful way, beautiful. Marauders of Gor p. 220.


In the far distance, the moonlight reflected from its snowy heights I saw, too, the Torvaldsberg, in which the legendary Torvald was reputed to sleep, supposedly to waken again if needed once more in Torvaldsland. Marauders of Gor p. 192.

This is Northern Gor