ANYONE said:

Belief  or supposition is no substitute for the definitive answer from those that run the game, and if it is true it doesn't help those that can't score heavily, nor does it benefit them dropping events that they can more easily score in, and why would they need the shards for the new event, this being the case see above.

I saw the post on the viking war of clans facebook page from plarium stating that there would be a jot or fury event every week for the months of december and January and as I said the new knowledge can be upgraded for shards with rss only or Gold of course which is about 500m gold to complete stage one of the new knowledge, stage 2 and 3 is in the billions for gold so shards is the only way if you want to do this new knowledge so two months of mass killing events is plarium's answer to help the huge players/spenders to get the shards they require for the new upgrades. 

From the facebook page

"Vikings: War of Clans

19 December 2019 at 22:35 ·

🔥Something entirely new is coming! A month of Fury has been announced in Vikings: War of Clans!🔥

Yes, you heard it right. There will be 4 Kingdoms Battles: Fury over the course of 30 days.😱

⚡️Schedule:

- December 20–21, 2019 – first Kingdoms Battle: Fury.

- December 27–28, 2019 – second Kingdoms Battle: Fury.

- January 3–4, 2020 – Battle for the Throne.

- January 10–11, 2020 – third Kingdoms Battle: Fury.

- January 17–18, 2020 – fourth Kingdoms Battle: Fury.

Sharpen your swords and rest up – the battle will be long and thrilling!"

So, still not sure what next week will bring but facebook will find out in the next couple of days. They seem to put a schedule each week on Monday that includes invaders and ghosts. It would be nice if they could do the same here.

Thanks.

It would seem that some of the beliefs are in fact real information, which as has been pointed out, could have been posted here on the forum for the benefit of those that don't use  Facebook.

It maybe they have announced it indirectly here in the news item section which is mostly repetitiously boring information.

From facebook

Vikings: War of Clans

Yesterday at 02:54 ·

🔥 Be fully armed with the handy schedule of next week's events!

⚔️ Kingdoms Battle: Revenge — from 24 January to 26 January

⚔️ Clans Battle — from 28 January to 29 January

⚔️ Cave Lion — from 20 January to 26 January

⚔️ Royal Guardsman — from 24 January to 30 January

⚔️ Gepid — from 24 January to 1 February

⚔️ Jotunheim Ursus — from 27 January to 2 February

⚔️ Moon Wolf — from 24 January to 30 January

⚔️ Abyss Guard — from 24 January to 1 February