Olaf looked at the battlefield as they had defeated the Leon army when the emir son came and said "the king has left and most likely running back to his capital."
"That was smart of him,he may have been defeated but he still lives and that means the king will be weaken but if he's good he should recover with time," he looked at the city and said " my men will want to raid the city, you don't mind," to which the emir son smiled and said "all the wealth you take in the city is yours," to which Olaf looked to his men and said "well what are you waiting for go and take the city," to which got the men happy as they ran to the city to loot it and Olaf walk to the fields and admired it when sweyn and Sigurd came and Olaf said "look at all this land and how fertile the land is, and the weather it's nice," he looked around and said "after we are done here we will return and rest in cordoba then we will sail even deeper to the Mediterranean Sea," sweyn asked "what about all the loot we get from and payment," to which Olaf said the emir will move it to Lisbon after we return we will pick it up," Sigurd now worried "you trust them?" Olaf smiled to the question and said "I trust them to be afraid of us and the consequences if the try to fool us."
Back in kaupang in the hall Astrid was alone as it was late when she heard the door open and saw Harold walk in and she asked "what are you doing here?" To which he smiled and and approach her and held her as he want more and said "you know we both want this," but it was interrupted when they her gyda calling for Astrid who said "don't come again," and went, when she went to her daughter and asked "gyda what happened?" To which gyda said " I called you to stop what you were about too do," this worried her as she said "what do you mean by that?" The reply she got was " uncle went to see you, I know he has feelings for you and you are interested in him I have seen it," to which Astrid said " nothing has happened between us," but gyda didn't buy it and said " don't insult me I know and it's not fair to dad, he has always been good to us why are you looking to a man who is jealous of his younger brother, I have seen the hatred that uncle has for father, that's why he comes to you, to get at him, don't let him," Astrid looked at her and said "I know what I am doing dear you are thinking to much on nothing," to which she said "father will kill him if he finds out," this made Astrid looked and said "you'll tell him?" She replied "no, as long as you don't let him in," and that ended the conversation.
In hedeby, Denmark horik was with anger as he saw his son erlendur and said "why did you go and claim you represent me, when I never sent you," to which he replied "I thought that if I could get the marriage with Olaf daughter that would make an alliance with Norway strongest ruler and that would let us destroy them, I didn't think he would disrespect our family, father we must punish them for it," that was interrupted by the older brother Canute who said " well what did you expect when there is rumors of us killing borgs sister, no man would send their daughter and Olaf saw this more of a disrespect to him when you offered it and now the alliance may be impossible thanks to you," the younger brother wanted to argue but the king shout to silences them and said " for now I will not let us be seen as weak, with this incident there is rumors that there are danish rulers and some kings that want to get support from him, I will halve to make a plan or attack him, he has gone for a raid so we attack him when he returns, he will have loot and 60 ships maybe less this is an opportunity to show our power and weaken Norway,Canute go and raise a 100 ships," and the son and horik sat in his chair as he thought on his course and whether it was right or wrong.