Schemes, betrayals and politics rule the day as a new monarch takes the throne of England. Leif is hailed as a hero but secretly questions his faith.

On a pilgrimage, Freydis and her party are savagely attacked. Harald and Leif seek a route through the marshes near London as Edmund is crowned king.

Leif proposes an audacious assault on London, one that Emma and Godwin fear their brash and headstrong boy-king, Edmund, will be too reckless to defeat.

Plotting to avenge a massacre in England, Viking armies converge in Kattegat — but siblings Leif and Freydis exact a different kind of retribution.

To save the life of Freydis, Leif agrees to join Canute and Harald’s siege of London. Queen Emma dispatches stepson Edmund to secure an ally’s help.