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Tribe of Reuben
Reuben was the biological first born son of Jacob.
By rights he should have received the double-portion of land inheritance due the firstborn son. This did not happen because he defiled his father's bed. The account is mentioned when Jacob gives his end-times prophecies over each son...
1 Genesis 49:3-4
3¶Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
4Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
The idea of "defiling the father's bed" shows up in an important historical footnote. The Viking raiders, made Christian monosteries a common target of their raiding.
In the days before universities, monostaries where the place where God the Father reproduced in the world. The Vikings, the lost tribe of Reuben, in effect continued to defile the Father's bed for a very long time after the original Genesis account. This quality is a signature attribute of the tribe, and not just a fleeting footnote about Reuben himself.
The birthright land, the prize, was North America, and though the Vikings are widely regarded as being the first Europeans to visit the upper east coast of North America, it was not the Vikings who eventually settled, but the English, the lost tribe of Joseph, instead.
