Thanks to their efforts and hard labor, Thorfinn and Einar can finally glimpse their freedom. But the declining health of the old master, Sverker, is far from the only shadow looming over the happiness of the two slaves. In a neighboring farm, the owner, Carrock, along with his entire family, are massacred by one of their slaves, eager to avenge the humiliations he suffered from his master. After burning the farm, he collapses in nature... But the greatest threat to Ketil's farm will come from the capital of the Danish kingdom, Jelling.