In Wessex, before approving suspect-apostate bishop Heahmund's promise to Lagertha, Bjorn and Ubbe their people can to settle in the deed-promised part of East Anglia Egbert could no longer legally grant them, in return for fighting against other Viking incursions, king Alfred demands at least Ubbe's conversion by baptism. In Kattegat, Ivar is engaged to Freydis, who promises him a son despite his impotence, then consumes Ivar's knife-drawn blood, claiming it can make her conceive, and secretly has sex with Ivar's virile slave. In Iceland, Frodi blames Eyvind's son Asbjorn for Thorgrim's death, while Floki fears that his visions were due to insanity. Alfred implores Ubbe to convert to Christianity. Alfred ignores his intended bride Ealhswith, who starts an affair with Bjorn. Ivar has a disturbing dream involving Margrethe, and then has her killed. When lord Cuthred, who got presumed-dead Heathmund's bishopric, which Alfred refuses to return, threatens to divulge his spy witnessed heathen Lagertha and celibacy-bound Heahmund making love, Heahmund murders Cuthred in the cathedral.
—KGF Vissers