Astrid who was shocked looked at Olaf and ask 'why do you want to take land?' Olaf smiled looked at Astrid and said 'the earth in England is the real treasure There is food growing. I am a farmer and the son of a farmer, and this is what I understand and I believe our people can grow more when take the lands but for now we will focus on raiding them and conquering them another time,' Astrid who looked intrigued by this as land that was as good as Olaf said must be important and asked 'so you plan to start recruiting and leaving in the summer?' To Olaf said 'yes I want to gather more men to go and raid England and while I do that you will rule kaupang cause I think your the better of us,' this got Astrid smiling and took Olaf's hand as they went to bed to make love.
While with helga was taking her jewels and was getting ready to leave with her daughter when she heard someone at the entrance it was Harold standing there, she said ' are you here to kill us?' To which he replied' no,why would you think that?' Helga said 'it what most new jarls do to the old one?' To which Harold said 'well my brother is not like most people he's a man who doesn't hold grudges, he's weird like that and I have come to take you as mine as you would be under my protection and my woman what do you think?' This caught helga off guard and she asked 'why would you do this for us?' He moved closer to her and placed his hand on her chin and said 'well don't you want to be the woman to a jarl once more again?' And this was what made helga look at Harold with shock as she knew what those words meant but what the people in the hut didn't know was the were being spied on by someone who after hearing all they heard moved slowly away and disappeared.
The following day was the burial at sea for the previous jarl after which there was a meeting at the all to talk about what was happening in the scadenavian world, one of the men was informing Olaf he said 'Jarl Olaf I have heard news of battles between the king horik who lands in Denmark and a powerful Swedish jarl by the name of borg who rules in Lund, they have been in feuds for years and are looking for support in their battles it has drawn the eye of many Vikings,' to this Olaf scoffed and said 'why waste fight amongst themselves when they could be going to raid in the west man sure word of our adventure should have spread because this will attract more people who will join us on the next raid,' he then to look at floki and asked him 'floki how has the construction of ships going?' Floki looked and giggled after which he answered'it's going well and you'll have the fleet you want by the time you travel to England again.' Harold stand noticed that Olaf was holding something in his hand and asked 'brother what are you holding?' This question got everyone curious about what he was holding and Olaf looked at his hand and said 'well brother you remember the monk you wanted to kill and I asked you to spare,' to which Harold nodded, Olaf continued 'well he can speak our language and has lived on the lands of England for most of his life and with that I got him to draw a map of the territory of England,' after which he opened the map and placed it in the middle of the room and said 'it's a rough sketch of England after sometime we will make a better one, but the land is divided in too 4 kingdoms, Wessex,Mercia,east Anglia and the top is Northumbria, which we attacked before.' This was informative to the warriors as they now knew more about the land they attacking, and Astrid looked at Olaf and said 'you have a plan for where the next raid will be,' to which Olaf looked and smiled.