Lúsinda Sigrdrífasdóttir

Lady Lúsinda Sigrdrífasdóttir of the House of Klappland (1675–1706; also known under the Hurmu legal name Lusinda Klappland) was born in an elite Storish–Vanic family in Kaupang in 1675. She is famous for burning herself to death in front of the Palace of the Elenaran on 6.IV.1706, and causing the 1706 Vanic insurgency across the Lyrican continent.

She was the daughter of Lady Sigrdrífa Magnúsdóttir of the House of Klappland (born 1620) and her second husband, Jarl Karl Johansson Mistelbom (born 1657; with whom Sigrdrífa had contracted a morganatic marriage in that she was of higher standing than he). Lúsinda had three elder brothers, all of whom died in the years 1685–1693.

She was ten years old when Stormark collapsed in 1685. Her family's riches allowed her family to stay somewhat safe for the next four years. They employed the traditional Storish feudal system (her family were so-called archnobility, as part of the noble houses of Lyrica that, unlike Hurmu, swore allegiance to High King Harald upon his conquest of the Heartland (i.e., Harald's conquest of Lyrica) in the late 1460s and early 1470s. As such, the family had servants, from whom sexual favours were regularly expected and given on the principle of "loving fealty".

In 1689, the Hurmu Trust Territory took hold of Kaupang, and the family was placed in a prisoner of war camp in the outskirts of the city. The family had taken up arms against the Hurmu Trust Territory during the early days of the occupation, and was thus regarded as enemy combattants. After most of the household having died an honourable death, as was expected of their station in a Storish household, fighting off the ESB-sponsored soldiers, the family surrendered and vowed to fully cooperate with the Hurmu Trust Territory. They were taken to an abandoned Storish spa outside Kaupang, where they stayed for the two years. Lúsinda remembers the conditions as comfortable, though not luxurious.

In 1691, the family were taken to the Southern District to undergo re-education. During this time, two of Lúsinda's brothers died in work-related accidents (the cause of death was deemed to be the brothers' own fault, as they had, out of vanity, refused to wear mandated protective gear). Lúsinda did well in the re-education, and on her 18th birthday, in 1693, she was released from the Southern District under the name Lusinda Klappland. She moved back to Kaupang, where she enrolled in a five-year programme in social work, graduating with a master's degree in 1698. A former lecturer remembers Lusinda as someone who, originally, with pathos wanted to help former Storish and Vanic people to integrate to a modern and free society, but who later, began radicalizing towards extremism. Lusinda was not a good student, spending more time in the youth wing of the Heartlanders' Interests League, Young Heartlanders. It was through this youth wing, that Lusinda was radicalized. In meetings with Young Heartlanders, Lusinda took a position of supporting Freyja's Battlers, using identity politics and intersectional analyses to bring her point forward. She was a good debater, and by 1702, the Young Heartlanders had been so radicalized that the youth wing was expelled en masse from the Heartlanders' Interests League.

In 1703, the Hurmu Constabulary put her under surveillance. She was sectioned into a psychiatric hospital in 1704, being released only a year and a half later, with a seeming full recovery according to the attending psychiatrists. When Freyja's Battlers, just two weeks later, saw 27 of its men arrested, Lusinda's spirits were crushed. She became increasingly hostile to the social workers who visited her (as part of her recovery plan). She disappeared from public life, and little is known of her activities from this time forward until 1705. It is believed she joined an underground cell of Freyja's Battlers that stayed hidden until the 1706 Vanic insurgency began.