Bjorn still hesitates whether to go rescue Harald from Olaf and gets nu useful answer from the seer, while Lagertha plays retired farmer with the kids and Ubbe receives news from Kjetill Flatnose of Floki's Iceland party's meager survival rate but refuses to believe Floki is dead. Neither suspects the danger rising in the east, where the Kievan Rus plot to reconquer their Scandinavian homeland. Ivar is again amazed how prince Oleg the Prophet deals with rival brothers. Prince Askold is poisoned during a smoke curtain banquet in Novgorod, to get hold of little prince Igor, the legitimate heir of Kiev. Oleg's annexation of land and troops is challenged by another brother, Dir, whose not so as he thought secret marriage to a princess proves Oleg(s secret weapon to 'prove' himself as prophet in a wager and get home safely with Ivar, who befriends young Igor.
—KGF Vissers