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Series

1.	The Ambush
2.	Adding Injury to Insult

Storyline
Howling Fjord War is Hell Reports from the Field The Windrunner Fleet Ambushed! Guide Our Sights Landing the Killing Blow Report to Anselm Let Them Eat Crow Sniff Out the Enemy The Dragonskin Map The Offensive Begins A Lesson in Fear Baleheim Bodycount Baleheim Must Burn! The Ambush Adding Injury to Insult The New Plague Spiking the Mix Test at Sea New Agamand The Dead Rise! Elder Atuik and Kamagua Grezzix Spindlesnap Feeding the Survivors Street "Cred" Arming Kamagua "Scoodles" Forgotten Treasure Avenge Iskaal The Staff of Storm's Fury The Frozen Heart of Isuldof The Lost Shield of the Aesirites The Ancient Armor of the Kvaldir Gambling Debt The Fragrance of Money Mutiny on the Mercy Jack Likes His Drink A Traitor Among Us Sorlof's Booty Dead Man's Debt Zeh'gehn Sez The Shield of the Aesirites A Carver and a Croaker A Return to Resting "Crowleg" Dan Return to Atuik Meet Number Two The Jig is Up A Tailor-Made Formula Apply Heat and Stir Field Test Time for Cleanup Parts for the Job Warning: Some Assembly Required Mastering the Runes Suppressing the Elements Making the Horn Mimicking Nature's Call March of the Giants The Book of Runes The Lodestone Mastering the Runes Skorn Must Fall! Demolishing Megalith The Rune of Command Gruesome, But Necessary Burn Skorn, Burn! Towers of Certain Doom The Conqueror of Skorn! Dealing With Gjalerbron Of Keys and Cages Necro Overlord Mezhen The Walking Dead Sleeping Giants The Slumbering King Gjalerbron Attack Plans The Frost Wyrm and its Master The Artifacts of Steel Gate The Cleansing Spirits of the Ice The Fallen Sisters Wild Vines Spawn of the Twisted Glade Seeds of the Blacksouled Keepers Keeper Witherleaf In Worg's Clothing Brother Betrayers Eyes of the Eagle Alpha Worg

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Comment by crankmonkey

this is an elite quest so bring a fiend or two or kite him back to lydell

bjorn is at 63, 39

Comment by 181927

You don't need two people, it's easily soloable. Just use the insult scroll at distance and run back across the river to the ambush. They will finish him off for you.

Comment by Athene

Seal of Light, Divine Storm, Consecration, Bjorn plus adds down:p
You don't have to lead Bjorn back to Lydell, it doesn't matter where you kill him as long as he dies.
He hits for about 800 on plate (~45% mitigation) and uses mortal strike alot.

Comment by 244583

We killed him just before the camp and didnt get update on kill .. kill him in the camp

Comment by 37500

Note that you don't have to have the tag on him to get credit. About ten of us were camping his spawn, take the insult from inventory and bind it to an easy-to-press key (1). I got the insult on him, someone else managed the tag, bunch of us did damage to him, I got credit, despite him being gray.

Comment by Coca

Did not get credit for killing him when we did to much dmg outside of the camp.
So pull him to camp then kill him.

Comment by 247127

Bjorn Halgurdsson

Comment by 247127

oops, Bjorn Halgurdsson is located at ,
read insult to him and pull him back to the guards at

Comment by 247127

Bjorn Halgurdsson is located at ,
read insult to him and pull him back to Lydell at who will help you kill him - so easy

Comment by Avilister

Bjorn is immune to both Blood Plague and Frost Fever (or possibly just Icy Touch/Cold Damage). Death Knights attempting to solo him should be aware that their diseases will not be landing on him.

Comment by 81639

"Adding Insult To Injury"" is the name of a song from the album "A New Dawn for the Dead" by the british brutal death metal-band Gorerotted, now known simply as The Rotted. As we can see Blizzard has changed the sentence but the similarity is stunning.

Yeah yeah, keep degrading the comment, damn haters! Metal up your ass!

Comment by Thesteini

The insult that is read to him (or at least the one I read to him, not sure if it differs between players) is: "Bjorns mottar haelgond sygar!" Which means, "Bjorns mother, Haelgond, sucks!"

This is supported by the fact that Bjorn responds by saying, "No one speaks of my mother in that manner!"

Just thought I might add this, although many probably figured this out for themselves.

Comment by Bigbrobogdan

He is around 64.39 in front of a big house riding a big dragon. Soloable, he is immune to pretty much everything except normal and magic damage. (immune to diseases, stun, fear).

Comment by theminority21

Hunters beware: if you try to kite him around you will not complete the quest. If Bjorn doesn't stop for a second and start attacking he will not give you credit. Just pause for a moment to let him get in a swing or two.

Check the target-of-target. If he has you or your pet targetted, you're okay to kill him. Oh, and don't forget to pewpew. :)

Comment by 146819

Something involving his mother and large barnyard animals

So... a "Yo Mama" joke? Real original, Blizz...

Comment by 102490

Soloed him on my frost mage in s1 gear without any help from the npc. Just keep distance with Blink, and dont stay near your water elemental. If he gets close to you with Blink on cooldown just iceblock and he will run back to the elemental and start beating it. Then you can start nuking him again with frostbolts. He only has 36k hp so its not that hard once you know your mage tricks. ;)

Comment by 202288

Careful if you are going at this quest solo, I tried to and was easily pulling him back to the camp, when I go one extra Bonegrinder aggro. The NPCs attacked the Bonegrinder and I got killed by Bjorn.

Comment by 181947

If you have pets, place them on passive until you reach the camp.

Comment by Mayz

K, I've killed him twice now, no joke. Each time I start by reading the note, then I lead him back to the ambush spot and kill him with the NPC's help, and both times I have not gotten credit for "insulting" nor for "killing" am I doing something wrong?

Comment by 65900

I kept having issues soloing him as a destro lock. He kept flying off in the middle of the fight, even at the camp. And since we are squishy it is hard to take a hit since it's usually MS or it dazes you. So what I did was to kite him to the camp. Had a voidwalker on passive. Once he aggros the npc, soulshatter, have the voidwalker taunt. If he is still on ya, then sac void for some protection. All the while you aren't really doing any dmg. At that point, the npc will gain aggro and you can dps and get the quest complete

Comment by 313033

I just solo'ed him as a 69 BM Hunter. I followed the insult and run rule and it worked well for me. I ran all the way back to the ambush site and they killed him v easily, I took part in the kill also. Just one thing make sure you kill all mobs about him before you insult him. I add my pet on def to start with just to get him to follow then about the lake turned him passive.

Comment by Knuck

Note that, for me at least, you have to land one hit on him before Lydell and company will attack him.

Comment by healingenzo

68 Orc DK - frost & blood spec. Dead but not released is fine for completion. I easily outran him to the camp.

Comment by 121766

Be prepared, you will have all the aggro, which means that you will most probably die before him. But dont worry, you get the credt even if you are dead.

Comment by Jacktretbar

I didn't read the quest description and assumed after you do the insult, it like makes him un-elite and you take him. So I go up there and insult him then accidentally end up soloing him. I'm a prot warrior and only used Shield block. I was wondering why it seemed so hard lol. Read the quest when i finished to see if i did something wrong. Oh well, it was worth the 2k+ exp. I got credit for the kill and finished the quest contrary to other comments here.

*edit*

I'm a level 70 prot warr with 11.7k HP // 12.7k Armor

Almost full greens from Borean Tundra quests.

Comment by 463929

solo'ed as pally 68 (ret.) 8500 hp...but it tooks a lot of time...

Comment by 532750

GOD damnt!i killed him together with npc's and i didnt took the credit!WHY?

Comment by Warluckey1

Every time i use the insult, it just says "Evade" and nothing happens....wtf?

"Edit"

Okay, w8ed a whole day and finaly bjorn responded to my insults

Comment by Felicitas66

I pulled him back to the camp and Lydell did nothing ... wtf?

Comment by 423423

when its bugged (i cant use the quest item on it what i can do

Comment by 479224

I'm assuming his mother did the animals?

Comment by Masqerader

killed the npc, the quest completed showed up, was unable to turn in. "please choose a reward"

Comment by sivla

Best and most useful post of this thread, is to skip the quest if your below 70. If your gunning to make cata as quickly as possible..this is one quest you can do without, the rewards are just laughable...and negated if your using heirlooms anyway.

Comment by 819632

Lol, i haven't thought about pulling him back. Just killed him as Arcane Mage. Mana shield, mirror images, and few crits from AM i AB.

Comment by 717239

On a hunter, I went to kill him today and pulled him back to the quest giver as usual.

I started to kill him when he got close. Quest giver didn't help. Mob never targetted anyone but kept following me around. I got the insult part complete, but the death part wouldn't complete.

I waited for him to respawn, dismissed my pet. kited him around and just went all out on him. Again, he never targetted me or anyone, I killed him, no quest complete.

3rd attempt. Pulled him back to quest giver. stood on quest giver. Eventually the mob did a cleave and targetted the quest giver. I nuked him down and then it finally completed.

Comment by 837422

He keeps Evading. I even tried to attack him but he just keeps evading. Should I try it another day?

Comment by Dyaxion

Doop-doop-doop!

Hunter trick for the Evage Bug

I found him evade-bugged on my hunter, so I took matters into my own hands to solve the issue. I put down an Explosive Trap right under him, which steadily did damage. As each trap went away, I put another down until I got the guy to 0% and he died.

After that, I chilled on Youtube until he respawned, then I read the insult and all went well. This may work with other AoE spells, but I can't say I know. Best of luck, everyone!

Comment by 846897

Was having the evade bug on June 26, 2011. Was able to insult, but was not able to get NPC to follow me or do any damage to him. Was finally able to kill him when a mage came to help and used flamestrike under him. Based on this experience and the previous post about explosive traps, I am guessing that when this bug happens, the only way to kill him is with AOE damages that are ground effect based (explosive trap, flamestrike, consecrate, D&D, etc.).

Comment by Bowserkills7

Having the evade bug now. Can't read the insult to him, and cant seem to attack him either (Prot Pally, Concentration didn't work).
This is annoying. :P

Comment by 818002

Solo'd as a combat rogue today. read the insult and all went well until i started to pull him to camp but i forgot to clear other adds before i went that way so of course i had about 5 adds on me at once. I did get credit for the quest giver killing him though all you have to do is not release and you should get credit for it like i did

Comment by 924595

solo'd it as a lvl 70dk. easy peasy. just rise your ghoul, and use dancing rune weapon.

Comment by paularcher24

I did today and forgot to read quest objective, I cleared the 2 guarding him and also cleared the patrolling one nearby that comes to close . I then proceeded to insult him with scroll and as it had been so long since i last did this quest on my main i forgot to run back to camp. I'm a protection warrior level 68 and soloed him fine used a few cooldowns but killed him right where he starts off . I must add though i have full heirlooms so not sure how this would turnout for a non heirloomed character . I did get credit for the quest so you do not have to run back to camp or at least not always. .

Comment by Groovin

As of today I can't complete this quest: Bjorn is Evade bugged and won't give chase. That this bug has persisted for at least one year (to the best of my knowledge) is quite ridiculous.

Comment by SirRaven

It's so bugged (evading etc) that it really pissed me off..

Comment by 1091197

Quest is bugged! He was floating up above the ground by the main building across the broken bridge, i could throw the scroll at him but he would not come down and follow me. Don't know what is goin on with it.

Comment by Rj23

We tried all of our AOE (warrior & shadow priest) and couldn't get him to budge. When reading the taunt it simply said evade. I submitted the bug, but it looks like if it's been going on this long it may never be repaired.

Comment by 1092290

On my lvl 69 Hunter, came across this quest and he was on evade. I had to stand and keep throwing my Explosive trap until he slowly died. Once he did, quest was complete. It's pretty much a waste of time, but if you have nothing else to do and want/need the XP or the quest reward gear, give it a shot.

Comment by BoSoxFan08

Seems to be "Evade Bugged" as of 11 May 2013 - sad day...

Comment by Raismordan

Would just like to confirm as of 18th May 2013, Hunter's Explosive Trap does kill him, as I did this for a friend. Bjorn Halgurdsson died and the quest was completed.

Comment by JonGhost52

I had him chasing me the first time I insulted him, but arriving at the camp Lydell and her mates didn't do much to hurt him so he ran back to his initial position. I went back there, insulted him and he started chasing me back to camp, where Lydell & co did not budge at all ; as I did not think I had a chance I kept fleeing and he ran after me over an amazing long distance.

When I could mount again, I went back to his position to repeat the whole process but as soon as I was close to him still flying, he started chasing me again, running after me in the skies...quite funny...I landed & tried my luck to solo him, as a Monf ilvl 100, that was just about right !

Comment by WokkaD

Remember that Lydel & friends should attack Bjorn before you kill him.

Doing as a low level quest, I killed Bjorn, but didn't get the completion as Lydel & friends didn't get a hit in. Then had to wait for the respawn and try again.

Comment by 1420363

When I get close to the target to use te scroll he just vanishes, so I can't finish the quest. Anyone else having this issue?

Comment by 1440987

Adding Injury to Insult http://youtu.be/qfqhB2df9r8

Comment by Taraezor

Few bug reports here. So to confirm that as of now at least, he is definitely NOT bugged. I clicked on the quest item when in melee range of him, having of course already cleared a path back to the camp, and then kited him. Once at the camp I let the NPCs get a few hits in, then moved in for the kill.

Only problem I foresee at the moment is that if you need to fight your way back and you are lowish level and cloth then you are going to take some significant damage.

Comment by Rawrwitchity

Don't make my mistake and one shot Bjorn before he attacks you.
You will have to wait until he respawns and re-insult him and then wait until he attacks before hitting him.

Sigh haha

Comment by jfoobar

If you're a hunter, don't bother kiting him with concussive shot. That can bug out the quest and he will ignore your pet taunts as well. Just insult him and run back to the NPCs. Let the NPCs hit him first and he will aggro stick to them. Then kill him and all is good.

Comment by wmattgardner

This quest #$%^ing sucks.

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Adding Injury to Insult

Read the Vrykul Insult to Bjorn Halgurdsson in Baleheim, then lead him back to Lydell's Ambush and help slay him.

	Bjorn Halgurdsson insulted (1)
	Bjorn Halgurdsson defeated (1)

Provided item:

	Vrykul Insult (1)

Description

The vrykul are being clever about this. Fortunately I've a trick up my sleeve.

This leader of theirs, Bjorn, is a real hothead. We've pieced together enough of their language to fashion what we think is a good insult. Something involving his mother and large barnyard animals... we're not quite sure.

Take this piece of paper and read it to him. Once he starts chasing you, lure him back here. We'll make sure he doesn't make it out alive.

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You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Embossed Ermine Girdle			Bone-Inlaid Bracers
	Magdun Spaulders			Runeplate Helm

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

350 reputation with Horde Expedition

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12481))

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