‘The Dead King is persuasive. If I brought this wife and son of yours here, to this room, held a hot iron to their faces … you might find me persuasive, no?’ ‘Vikings don’t make war on children.’ Snorri knew defeat. Better to have let the ice claim him than come here to fail his family. ‘The Undoreth leave orphans and widows untouched when they raid?’ A snort of derision at that from the men around the hearth. ‘Snorri Red-Axe has adopted the sons and daughters of the
