Resistance?

The night was dark and long, the weather was cold and the wind furious but no one expected this path to be easy. They knew that this was what it meant to journey into an unknown land.

Birger's help was pivotal and the allies he made, so they could cross over, was a welcomed move despite it being suspicious.

They used the darkness to their advantage but they encountered something hours in, it was the forces that the patrol slain had said, the information he gave was accurate but the numbers he gave were nowhere close to what they were seeing.

"How many men do these people have!?" Skarde asked Ragnar because the numbers they saw were easily more than a thousand, as opposed to the two hundred the man had told them.

This was misleading information, the man managed to hide a subtle lie in his truth and Askild looked indifferent to this development because if these many men were here, there was no way they could leave them as they could prove troublesome much later in the war.