Ubbe smiled and his hand went to his beard for a moment. His father had looked very different the last time he saw him but he remembered somewhat a younger Ragnar, though not quite as young as when Gyda had known him.

There was a moment that Ubbe hesitated. "I think it pained him to remember you," he said. "Father too."

Ubbe at least wouldn't imagine that she had been only a passing thought for Ragnar or Bjorn. But neither Bjorn or Ragnar were ever good at speaking about what pained them.