One day, word comes that a ship of berserkers has been spotted. The villagers want to arm themselves to fight, but the Bard advises them to flee. He and Jack will raise a dense fog to confuse the Northmen and hopefully drive them away. The plan works - Jack is controlling the dense fog when a band of Northmen come striding down the road. The marauders are about to turn back, when Lucy, who is Jack's young sister, calls out in delight to the Northmen. Lucy imagines that the armed men are knights coming to take her away to a castle. Jack and Lucy are captured, and a grave fate awaits them - they will be sold into slavery to the Picts. Jack is desperate not to be separated from his sister, so he tells the captain of the Northmen, a giant of a man named Olaf, that he is a bard with great abilities. Jack's plan works, Olaf does not sell him nor Lucy, but instead keeps them as captives as the ship of raiders sails back across the seas to their homeland. It turns out Olaf serves none other than Ivar the Boneless! Maybe slavery would have been a better fate.