'One-Eye's' spirit walks into the estuary next to his cairn and disappears below the surface. One of the warriors, understanding what he wants them to do, fells him with one blow to the back of the head, before the other warriors finish him off.
He drops his axe and his knife and closes his eye. He puts his hand on the boy's arm, then walks into the middle of the tribesmen. 'One-Eye' regards them knowingly, as he has already foreseen this event in a vision. 'One-Eye' and the boy eventually reach the coastline and are soon met by over a dozen clay-covered warriors. The fate of these two men is left unknown. The leader's son decides to go back so as not to leave his father, and the second in command is left to presumably die on the mountain. As the remainder of the group reaches the peak of a mountain, the son asks 'One-Eye' to tell him why he had to go through the horrible journey, but 'One-Eye' remains ever silent. The leader's son then arrives to follow, as the leader stays behind to be killed by arrows. 'One-Eye' and the boy then leave and walk into the forest, followed by the group's second in command who has been stabbed by the leader for choosing to follow them. Some of the group members begin to angrily blame 'One-Eye' for their predicament, and he kills them in self-defence. Their leader, a Christian zealot, nevertheless contemplates attempting to conquer the locals and claim the land in the name of God, while 'One-Eye' has a vision of him trying to build a cairn. The party realises that they are nowhere near the Holy Land. Sailing up a river, they are attacked by Skrælings armed with stone arrowheads. After many days, with supplies dwindling, land is sighted. The expedition encounters thick fog not long after setting sail and gets hopelessly lost in the North Atlantic. 'One-Eye' and the boy agree to sail with them to the Holy Land on a Crusade. The leader of the group asks the boy about the man's origins and he, dubbing the man as 'One-Eye', tells that he came from Hel. They reach a small group of Christian Norsemen who are persecuting the heathens of Scandinavian Scotland. One-Eye takes him in and has a vision of them travelling on a ship. As he sets out across the land on foot, the man soon realizes that the boy is following him. Using the arrow, the man manages to break free, killing the chieftain and his entourage and impaling the chieftain's head on a nithing pole. After dreaming of finding an arrowhead in a pool, the vision comes true when he is bathed. During his imprisonment, the man is brought his meals by a young thrall boy, who seems to sympathise with him. Somewhere in the Scottish Highlands, a mysterious mute thrall with one eye is held captive by a Norwegian chieftain from Sutherland and forced to fight to the death against others.
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