Since the shaman of the Gitpi tribe saw in a dream the future that the European colonists held for his people, he is willing to do anything to drive the Norsemen out of Vinland. Now that Ivar has cut off his hand in front of everyone, tension is rising on both sides, exacerbated by those for whom Thorfinn's pacifism is merely a coward's utopia. Yet, many are repulsed by conflict... Until a strange malady begins to decimate the Lnu'g. Will the dream of a utopian Vinland end in a bloodbath?