This year's English payment of Danegold comes to Emporer of the Danes in a large velvet purse normally used to carry large sums of gold. Puzzled at the sight (since English payment is only 2 gpt), the Emprorer laughs it off and attributes it niavete of the English people and his own superior power. Openning the gold purse, he finds the severed head of one of his Beserks; the only gold to be found is that of the Dane's long, blonde hair drenched in his own blood. It seems the English don't take too kindly to having their cities razed either and the citizens of Cumbria have sent an army to kill this mofo before he boards a boat. Does this mean war???