The Saxons put their hope on warrior bishop Heahmund's visions of starving the Vikings in besieged York, but Ivar prepares another trap for Aethelwulf's troops. Bjorn starts doubting his guide Sinric who advised masquerading as traders, since the renegade Byzantine governor on Sicily, Euphemius, turns out a vassal of the Moorish emirate of North Africa, who is eager to engage the Vikings, like the Byzantine court, as his bodyguard, which Bjorn accepts for now. Returned from Wessex to Kattegat, Ubbe accepts a pact offered by equally sidetracked Lagertha for revenge on both king Harald and Ivar, who meanly treats 'deserter' Hvitserk as a lapdog. Delirious Floki believes to have arrived in a divine island paradise which he wishes to share with his folk.
—KGF Vissers