Vic stays with the women and children while Flake's Viking men go hunting in the forest. Pirate Sven passes by, out of provisions, and agrees to plunder the village when he sees it deserted by the men. Hungry, they force Ylva to prepare a feast, but are made to help. Vic sneaks out to warn Halvar's men, but their blunt attempt to overrun the invading pirates ends in being forced to lay down their arms and be locked in. Vic plays a bugging trump card: stinking beetles found in rotting trunks, sling-projected on Sven's fiendish bunch.
—KGF Vissers