Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-38306117-20190126044625

Hello all

I recently did some calculations, and I believe I've discovered the approximate time that the events of the franchise take place, as well as when Berk was first settled. In Race to the Edge, Johann mentions an event that actually happened. I can't remember which episode, but he mentions the defeat of Emperor Nicephorus of Byzantium at the hands of Krum, Khan of the Bulgars, and Nicephorus' skull's conversion into a silver-lined drinking cup. This happened on the 26th of July, 811 C.E./A.D., which puts it in the early Viking age. Johann, of course, told the stories of other seafarers that he happened upon. Therefore, he'd want more recent stories for maximum impact instead of boring old ones that everyone's heard before. As such, we can place the timeline of the franchise in the early 9th Century C.E./A.D., which is the 800s. This fits in with the Viking era. As we know, Berk was first settled by Scandinavians three hundred years before the events of the franchise, so we can place the settlement of Berk in the early 6th century A.D./C.E., which is the 500s. 