Valkyries Calling - Chapter 14: The Sea is Closed

... Fog coiled about the masts like wraiths, thick and clinging.

Behind them lay Vestmannaeyjar, now claimed in the name of the Westfjord Jarldom. Before them, in the gray, ghost-lit distance, a lone knarr fled northward. Its sail drawn tight, as though it could outrun fate itself.

It was a merchant's vessel, small and swift with the wind. But against six longships, it had no hope of flight.

Unaware that Vestmannaeyjar had already fallen to the pagans, the Althing had sent i ...