Chapitre 22: Chapter 22

After settling in and taking their sits and getting food and drinks Olaf started 'welcome all of and am sure you have questions so let's talk,' to which auslag asked 'Olaf am curious since you challenged harkon you believe you can defeat him?' To which Olaf responded 'I know, not believe plus I am not even think of the fight harkon is but a distraction to my true goals and dreams,' to which sweyn said 'the west,' Olaf said 'yes the west is the future of our people,' Ragnar who was confused by this said 'how is it the future of our people?' Olaf smiled and said 'think of it this way someone like harkon is more focused on fighting with his own people killing them and decreasing population for lands here where it's cold and hard to grow food, in the west the land is very fertile and food grows easily I saw this in englands and from the people who I have captured say the same for frankia, these lands are more wealthy than the lands in the east,why fight against each other instead we should Unite together and use all we have to raid them,' he stood up and went to the table to take parchments and placed them on the table opened them they showed England,Scotland,Ireland, and frankia and he said 'this map shows all the land that is up to be raided and taken by our people and later settled on for our people expand the reach of Vikings I believe if we do this the golden of Vikings will last for centuries to come,' after hearing they all sat there shocked at all the land that was shown as they have never seen the west and for all the dreams Olaf has said was something they never thought off and Ragnar said 'I don't believe all this land is there it's beyond Imagination,' Olaf smiled and said 'I know and there is more land below frankia that we don't know off and maybe more further west it only takes the will of our people to find it,' auslag looked at the map and asked Olaf 'so you want our people to forget petty feuds with each other and instead take the west as our future,' Olaf said 'yes and I plan soon to go on a raid and if your all willing come join me on this raid as I plan to a attack a large city,' hearing this sweyn asked 'I see so this was your plan all along,' both the other jarls looked at sweyn with confusion but Olaf smiled and said 'it looks like you took my advise seriously if you could figure out my thoughts,' Ragnar said 'what do you mean sweyn?' The man replied 'Olaf was never interested in harkon we were the targets order for him to give us a look at the opportunity of raiding in the west with him,' Olaf said 'well is true but I give you the choice be part of history, we'll what do you say?' Ragnar said 'if you defeat harkon you will have my support, I like you your interesting plus this sounds like one wild adventure,' auslag said 'you have my support as well,' and Olaf hearing this smiled and looked to sweyn who looked at the map and said 'you have my support, but I am curious where will we raid them,' Olaf look at the map picked one and put it at the top and said 'this we will raid the kingdom known as east frankia,' the others looked at the map of the territory wanted to know more so the looked back at Olaf expecting him to explain why, Olaf who say this smiled and said 'Bremen is the target a port city that is close to middle frankia almost borders it and does a lot of business and is a very wealthy city, that's where I want to go and attack it,' Ragnar hearing this was excited as new land and great battles to come auslag was in thought of all the wealth that would come if the raid goes well but sweyn who was in thought looked at Olaf and said 'that's not all is it?' Olaf smiled and said 'your bright I might want to adopt you as a son I like smart people,' hearing this sweyn felt pride Olaf continued 'yes that's not all I plan, after the raid I will leave a garrison to keep the city as a Viking strong hold the first of what I hope will be many,' sweyn who heard this asked why hold it?' Olaf continued "with Bremen as a stronghold we can raid deeper in to both east and middle frankia and we will not have to worry about supplies as there will be a home base on the land we raid, our armies can travel all the way to Frankfurt or further the distance will be like nothing Vikings have done before,' after hearing the plans they all stood in respect for the vision and ideas that Olaf had and took their drinks and said 'skol!' Olaf hearing this stood up and said 'skol!'