Bjorn continues his wilderness endurance brilliantly, killing a bear inc lose combat and ice-diving naked, unaware vindictive Erlendur and Kalf hired a berserker to kill him. Rollo almost grow desperate when wife Gisla publicly demands a divorce form the 'barabaric savage', yet is semi-appeased by the count with a monk as language teacher, but seems a nightmare pupil. Kings Ecbert and Ragnar both have dream apparitions of dead Athelstan. Judith is delighted with monk-illuminator Prudentius's lessons to mix pigments, gets Ecbert to agree to treat her 'as equal' when they become lovers again and welcomes Aethelwulf, who freed deposed Mercian queen Kwenthrith and her 'heir', Ragnar's bastard Magnus, confiding into her Alfred's biological father is Athelstan. A while after making Helga tell Floki their daughter died to complete his cave agony, Ragnar cuts him loose.
—KGF Vissers