Ulf's Mound

On a cold November day, Ulf led his band of Jom’s Vikings – the mercenary second and third sons of Danish and Norwegian landholders – on a raid against another band of Northmen – led by Hagar Bloodaxe. Ulf had heard that a burial mound on a plain by Bloodaxe’s village concealed gold and other plunder. Ulf felt it would look better, and be more useful, above ground instead of under it.
Needless to say, Bloodaxe took objection to Ulf’s plan and the two warbands met at the mound.
Ulf’s wild berserkers stormed the mound first. Bloodaxe led a handful of hird. Bjorn, a crazy Jom’s who fought with two hand axes, locked him up in a duel. In a furious and bloody fighting Ulf cleared the mound and Bloodaxe was struck down by Bjorn.
On the Jom’s right their bondi marched slowly up, in a shield wall, against a looser group of hird. They were soon engaged in a stalemated battle where the shield wall held despite the heavy battering.
Dag, Bloodaxe’s brother, led a surge back up the mound and avenged himself on Bjorn. Meanwhile a youth named Cnut, also of Bloodaxe’s village, found himself surrounded by Jom’s. Slashing and dashing with his short sword he killed two of his more heavily armed and armored foes, then a third before being finally struck down.
The Jom’s archers meanwhile were having a good day, thwarting an attempted flanking maneuver, causing twice as many casualties as they took.
Dag was struck down, and as light faded, Bluetooth, the last hirdman, faced more than a dozen Jom’s buying time for the few, scattered, living defenders to make their way to their stockade, conceding the gold and other valuable to the raiders.

​Figures are 25mm. Rules are home grown.