They represented two different chapters to the saga of Ragnar Lothbrok's life. One when he had been at the start, young and bold, full of life. Then there was the cycle of tragedy at the end, broken down and old, when he had nothing left to give his people but his own life to further their cause.

"I don't know. I think I heard something about a water filtration system?" Ivar could be shockingly ignorant when it came to understanding technology or how things worked. He just chalked a lot of things up into the category of 'that's the way things are' and left it like that. He seemed to lack a scientific curiosity,