Gunnar's Ground

Gunnar's Ground is a quest available to both free players and members. It replaced the Romeo and Juliet quest. Players who have completed the Romeo and Juliet quest are still able to complete Gunnar's Ground as well, they will not recieve any additional quest points but are still able to get the extra rewards. The quest is about a dwarf poet that falls in love with a Fremennik chieftain's daughter, and RuneScape's first poetry composition puzzle.

Getting the ring

 * Speak to Dororan just east of the Barbarian village. He tells you that he loves a barbarian girl and wants to give her a present. He wants you to bring a gold ring from Jeffery in Edgeville. He will give you a scroll containing a love poem.
 * Go to Edgeville and speak to Jeffery near the furnace. Members can teleport to Edgeville with an Amulet of Glory or the Paddewwa Teleport spell, but it is possible to walk north to Edgeville quickly.
 * Trade the scroll for the ring.
 * If you have a Skull sceptre, teleport to Barbarian Village. Otherwise, walk south back to Barbarian Village.
 * Bring the gold ring to Dororan. Now he'll ask you to engrave the ring with a text. If you don't have a chisel with you, you can ask him for one. Use the chisel on the ring, and show it to Dororan. He likes it and wants you to show it to the barbarian girl - Gudrun.

Promoting the courtship

 * Speak to Gudrun, located south-west of the mine in the village. Avoid telling her that Dororan is a dwarf. She will then say that her father Gunthor will not allow her to have a relationship with an outsider.
 * Talk to Gunthor, found in the longhall. He will not want his daughter to have a relationship with an outsider, and will praise Gunnar, the founder of Barbarian village.
 * Return to Gudrun and she will suggest asking if "your mystery man" (Dororan) has an idea.

The poem

 * Speak to Dororan and he'll decide to write a poem Gunthor, praising Gunnar to gain his favor.
 * He will get stuck and will ask you for some help. The poem is a small trial-and-error game, in which Gunnar hints for the correct words.
 * The answers are as follows:
 * Stray
 * Threat
 * Swept to war
 * Dororan will then give you the completed poem, Gunnar's ground, which you must ask Gudrun to read to her father.
 * A cut scene will start and Gunthor will have second thoughts. Gunthor will accept the idea that Gunnar's war is over and that the barbarians should consider themselves settled in the village.
 * Another cut scene will show Gudrun meeting Dororan and hugging him.
 * Talk to Dororan to complete the quest.

(After the quest you can go to what used to be Juliet's house and Dororan is now living there with Gudrun. You can talk to Dororan and engrave jewellery for him and receive experience in Crafting.)

Reward

 * 300 Crafting experience
 * Antique lamp granting 200xp in a chosen skill over 5.
 * Swanky Boots
 * Ability to get further Crafting tasks from Dororan (requiring up to level 90 Crafting, boosts allowed)

Extended rewards
Ability to engrave jewellery for Dororan by speaking to him. There are three pieces of jewellery to be engraved. They give various amounts of Crafting experience, for a total of 32,000. Free players can engrave all of the jewellery despite that the requested items are members' only; the items never enter the player's inventory.
 * Ruby bracelet requires a Crafting level of 42 and gives 2,000 experience.
 * Dragonstone amulet requires a Crafting level of 72 and gives 10,000 experience.
 * Onyx amulet requires a Crafting level of 90 and gives 20,000 experience.

Music unlocked

 * Gunnarsgrunn

Trivia

 * Because this quest awards no additional quest points if Romeo and Juliet quest has been completed, It is possible to wear the quest point cape and perform its emote without having finished the quest.QPC_Gunnar's_Ground.png
 * If a player completed the Romeo and Juliet quest, they will receive no quest points for Gunnar's Ground. However, the Quest Completion scroll will still state that they receive 5 quest points.
 * The spoiler on the day it was released was "We tried to write the spoiler for Gunnar's Ground, but couldn't find the right words or a suitable pentameter. Come back tomorrow, when our writer's block has cleared."
 * If you get disconnected during the cutscene where you listen in front of the longhall door, you will return to avatar view, being able to see through the doors.GG_cutscene_glitch.png
 * Interestingly, there have historically been tensions between dwarves and Fremenniks; the Fremenniks nearly exterminated the Imcando dwarves, for example.
 * On day of release, slayer capes were made red in colour, this was quickly fixed.
 * The jewellery requested by Dororan after the quest, are obtainable by members only. However free players can still interact with these jewellery.
 * On the day of release, if you hit more than 100 on Haakon the champion, the hitsplat would be glitched.
 * The engraved ring you receive part way through the quest looks very similar to the One Ring from the Lord of the Rings series.
 * During the cut scene in which Gudrun is introduced to Dororan, if either is examined the examine text will read "Examine Hug".
 * The music track unlocked during this quest, "Gunnarsgrunn", is Norwegian, meaning Gunnar's Ground. Many of the names of the barbarians in the quests are also Norwegian, such as Haakon (Håkon is also used), Gunnar and Gudrun.
 * While doing the quest, if you use the ring with the chisel it will say "You can't engrave a chisel with a ring. Maybe you should engrave the ring with the chisel". You would need to use the chisel with the ring. Usually it doesn't matter what you select first.
 * Upon completing this quest your Adventurers Log will read "I brought peace to the barbarians of Gunnarsgrunn, and helped a dwarf find love."
 * The onyx amulet inscription "The most beautiful girl in the room" is a reference to Flight of the Concords, an HBO show in which a song is sung about "The most beautiful girl in the room".
 * On the day of release, the Barbarian Village was renamed "Gunnarsgrunn" on the world map, but with 'Barbarian Village' under it to avoid confusion.
 * If a player kills Haakon and speaks to the chieftain, Haakon will still speak to the player.
 * During the third part of the poetry puzzle, one of the available options the player can say is "tame the shrew" which, like the quest this one replaced, is a reference to a Shakespearian play.
 * The quest contains an oblique reference to the old Romeo and Juliet quest. The examine text of the love poem is "Laying everybody low with a love poem that he made". This is a reference to the lyrics of "Romeo and Juliet" by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits.
 * This is the third free to play quest released since the start of RuneScape 2, and the second in 2010.