Athelstan isn't particularly surprised by Ronan's sudden fixation on his admission. He's been around Vikings too long for such a thing to strike him as too odd. No one has really asked him about it. He's never really told Ragnar what happened and in Wessex -- everyone that had known him had already known what had happened. Too many people thought something greater about him for it.

"They said I was an apostate," Athelstan sighs. "I thought I was going to die. I was supposed to."

God had other plans, or at least King Ecbert had.