Pain Ketil's recruits are no match for the experienced Jomsvikings, and Snake calls for a retreat. Ketil stands transfixed by the poor defense and is quickly felled with an axe. At that moment, Thorgil rushes from the beach to kill Canute, but the king protects himself long enough for Wulf to return from the battle to defend him and recall the king's guard. Thorgil decides to escape back into the sea rather than be slaughtered...