Vinland Saga 8

"6.5/10 felt like a filler book, but had significance to the story. Just not the crazy brutal Vinland saga we use to know, but that is most likely the point, that there is no need for violence now is the time of peace. Basically, Leif Erickson has a sister in law Gudrid. Her husband (Leif’s brother) died quickly after marriage, so she was set to remarry asap, but she wanted to go against the grain and do things women usually didn’t do. She wanted to sail and travel the world. She would sneak of Leif’s ship over and over and over through her life, this time to escape her wedding. Little did she know, Leif wanted to borrow money from her future husbands father because they are rich and Leif and thorfinn need money to go to Vinland. They deny thorfinn a loan because he has nothing to their name, halfdan (the rich father) only loans people things when he knows they won’t return it and have to give him something else they own and lose their pride in the process. His son, sigurd aka SIGGYYY, is marrying Gudrid for Leif’s farm and to keep Leif close in case they find Vinland and gain its riches. Siggy wants to take everything Leif has in that case, but Gudrid stabs siggy in the leg during the consummation of their marriag out of instinct. She runs off and hides on life’s boat but he finds her and she explains herself. Thorfinn tells her to hide and they depart early for Greece, in the mean time they make a couple of stops to Leif’s homies. One of the homies villages got merc’d and there was only a baby survivor and thorfinn thought it was only right to take it in since the remaining relatives want nothing to do with it. Then siggy finds them, but they make quick escape by having Gudrid and Leif’s son bug eyes jump off a cliff onto the boat. Then they land on a snowy land and get attacked by a bear where a hunter helps them. The hunter ends up being the girl who was the only survivor when Askeladd murdered an entire village in England. She recognized thorfinn from the jump and the volume ends with her ready to take revenge. "