The King and the Sword / Kings and Swords Canute spars with Wulf, captain of his guard, and manages to defeat him, garnering the necessary respect among his men as a warrior. However, Canute is faced with a shortage of revenue to fund his domains of Denmark and England and considers a plan to requisition farmland from wealthy landowners to fund the military. Ketil arrives in Jelling with a generous tribute for Harald, but learns of his death from Thorgil, and offers it to Canute instead. Meanwhile in the street, Olmar picks a fight with "Bug-Eyes" Thorfinn who Leif Erikson adopted during his search for Thorfinn. Ketil and Leif resolve the incident and Leif becomes convinced that the Thorfinn he is searching for is a slave at Ketil's farm...