The Vikings were returning back to Norway back from their great voyage that the took after days of sailing, they reach on the coasts of Spain and sailed nearby till they reached Lisbon where they took all their treasure they left and moved up to the Frankish's kingdom and sailed on the coastline till they reached east frankia and Olaf decided to stop at Bremen to pick more supplies and see how the city is, as they sailed to Bremen Olaf saw the lands around claimed by Vikings who were farming on it and this brought a smile to him as his hope for his people to flourish here was coming to fruition.
They stopped at the city and were welcomed by Leif who ruled the city in name but it belonged to Olaf and as the stayed and feasted Leif told them that they have thrived here.
He told them that there have been few skirmishes but it was locals who were angry with our attacks but they didn't threaten anything. This made Olaf relieved and told his friend that they were staying for the day as they would travel back home.
This made leif have worry which was noticed and Olaf asked " what's wrong my friend?"
To which leif explains that there have been danish ships sailing around and looking at boats one of them was found to have asked if Olaf was on it and where he might be, this alerted Olaf as he realized that he was being hunted, and that it was danish which narrowed it down to horik.
Olaf said " well it looks like horik wants revenge for what I said about his son and he is searching for me on the seas which would mean that he has a fleet nearby which will attack when we go home, this would be his best chance to weaken Norway and allow him to claim he kill Olaf and make himself famous because of it."
As they stayed in the city now the Vikings would have to make a plan as to deal with
horik, sweyn said "they have the advantage, they must have large army readied to attack when we return and we don't know where they are?"
This questions gave Olaf an idea that may be useful and started on what was to be done.
On the coast of Denmark, horik was with his family and army waiting for Olaf's return as to ambush, when the boat that returned and his solider came and told him that there was a lot of smoke they saw and when the went to check they saw it was olafs banner.
This made Canute ask where are they going to which the solider said they stared to try to move away as the fire caught on some ships and them smoke got large it seems there was issues with army. This made horik smile as he saw this as symbol of that what he was doin was right and got his army to sail to attack the distracted army.
As they got near the ships they notice only smoke and that it was blocking their view of it and so they get closer as to not let the army of Olaf run if they are seen but the burning ships was sent forward and horik knew this was an ambush and the smoke blocked their view as this was happening horik could hear the sounds of battle happening around him and knew this was turning against him and sounded the retreat.
While the danish retreated Olaf was watching this happening, sweyn came to him and said "to think burning a few ships and put your flag up would be all it takes for horik to take the trap," which Olaf agreed with as he thought that horik would just bring his ships out in the open and they would go to battle but he didn't think that the man would said that close that his men just push the burning boats and cause massive chaos and allowing them to attack the flanks.
When Ragnar and Sigurd returned they came joyous from their victory and Sigurd said " father did you see the way they flee," to which Ragnar added "well they would have too after we destroyed have their ships, it'll teach that coward not to challenge us,"
Olaf looked at sweyn and said "I need you to get men to Denmark to spread word of horik's defeat and that he wanted to attack us with no honor, he has enemy's this will encourage them to get bolder against him."
After the the talk they went to pick up their treasure and sailed back home.