They were on their way to the purported mine around half an hour later.
Lasse was in front. There were three reasons for this. First of all, Lasse knew how to track - not as well as Henrik, but he'd also done plenty of hunting with his marksman bow, back in the old times.
Secondly, Lasse was the only Viking who hadn't been spattered with blood - he wouldn't scare off anyone encountered, at least not as badly as the other Vikings, richly decorated with other people's blood. The third reason was his bow. If they ran into someone, and that someone did get scared and tried to run run, Lasse would nail him. His new bow was a vast improvement on the previous one - Lasse could hit a palm-sized target at twenty paces, and as earlier events had proved he had no problem hitting a man-sized target at distances much greater than that.
