“Rotta slew Orna and Ulfrir’s daughter, Valkyrie, and cast the blame upon Lik-Rifa,” Gunnar said. “He strangled Valkyrie, skinned her and left her hanging from a tree. But Orna and Ulfrir saw through his deceit and so he fled from them. Came here, where he wrote the Raudskinna, his red-skinned book that holds the secrets of the gods, all of it carved into Valkyrie’s flayed skin.”