Host Olaf receives the eligible kings and earls, then presides over the election as king of all Norway, supporting Bjorn like even candidate Harald, along minor candidates Hakon and Thorkell. Ubbe looses patience with junkie Hvitserk, whose paranoia about his burnt lover Thora and a satanic Ivar keeps worsening. Meanwhile the Sulk Road expedition sent a man back to report they spotted Ivar alive in Rus country. Ivar and prince Igor craftily free at night Dir, who flees by sled into the snowy plains while Oleg of Novgorod executes the failing guards, who could tell nothing under torture except they were distracted by a naked woman.
—KGF Vissers