Olaf riding for home with the army and with his son when they reached home it was to a crowd that was cheering him for his victory and they went through the cheers and the army disbanded for the winter.
Olaf and Sigurd went to the hall where Astrid and Gyda wait he went hug her then went to his wife kissed her and walked ti privacy and sat down to talk and Olaf started 'have the army."
Astrid who knew of his plan said 'that's good so how many men will you take?' He responded 'we will have 3 thousand warriors but I will recruit an extra 5 hundred that will be the garrison for Bremen, and there will be further expansion but I want to go to Paris from what the monk said it's a jewel of a city that and Aachen, he also told me of a place called Constantinople apparently it's even greater than all of them,think Astrid all the lands and seas that are there to be explored."
Astrid smiled at the excitement of her husband who looked to be a man fufilling his destiny and said 'I see and when Sigurd grows older he can join you in all your fights and so will our child,' she said holding her belly and Olaf smiled and did the same.
He looked away and said 'we need to build walls and make this place a fortress from the lack of defenses we will be overwhelmed if a large force comes and attacks, you can oversee the construction of the defenses of our home but just be careful I wouldn't want you to stress yourself out,' Astrid said 'sure it would be better to get it up and done,' as they talked ethewold came in with food and Olaf looked at the man and said 'priest I see that all your hair is back,' ethewold replied 'yes it has grown back,' Olaf continued 'you have some knowledge of the French language?' To which the monk replied 'yes I have learned during my travels of the frankia when it was one kingdom,' Olaf smiled and said 'good you'll teach me the language, I need to know to navigate the way to Bremen after all that will be a key stronghold of our people in the future,the. Will take a break from raiding for a at-most five years then we will make Paris the next target of the larger that will be recruited after the time passes,' they all sat there talking about the future plans.
The winter break has passed and spring has come and with it the time of raiding has come, but what Olaf doesn't know is that this raid will be harder than the previous ones that have come before.