(..) If I was him, I wouldn't come back. Despite all his failings, he's still the greatest man in the world to me. Did you know Ragnar lied to us all? The settlement in Wessex was destroyed as soon as we left. I know. A farmer who escaped the slaughter told your father and I what had happened. (..)

(..) Why would they lie? There was something else you learned from Ecbert's ealdormen, was there not? Well? It was about your father's farming settlement in Wessex. We asked if it still existed and they laughed, and said it was destroyed almost as soon as your father sailed away. (..)