Spoilers for this episode.
Judith seeks help for a lump in her breast and discovers Lagertha with a healer. Lagertha has survived the battle but remains deeply shaken, experiencing visions of Ragnar's death. Judith brings her back to Alfred's court and tells her about Aethelred's murder. Elsewhere in Wessex, Ubbe and Torvi offer land to the invading Viking kings. Two accept the proposed settlement, but Frodo refuses, prompting Ubbe to challenge him to single combat.
Bjorn marries Gunnhild while Harald struggles with his jealousy. Their intended attack on Ivar remains dependent on an alliance strained by both ambition and personal resentment. Hvitserk, sent to secure Olaf's support for Ivar, instead asks Olaf to turn against him. Olaf initially subjects him to confinement and punishing heat before agreeing to help. In Iceland, Floki refuses to answer Kjetill's killings with another massacre. He abandons the settlement and finds a cave that he believes leads toward the gods.
Thora's destruction of Ivar's image brings her before the king. He lets her leave the encounter, then sends men who burn her and her family alive. Freydis gives birth to Baldur and welcomes the child's difference as a divine sign, but Ivar sees it as a challenge to the identity he has claimed for himself. He carries the baby into the woods and abandons him there, leaving the child exposed to the cold while Freydis remains unaware of what has happened.