Floki Vilgerðarson is a boat builder and incorrigible trickster, who also happens to be Ragnar Lothbrok's eccentric and closest friend. He is the husband of Helga, and they have a daughter named Angrboda. Floki, Ragnar's closest friend, has been secretly building a boat capable of sailing the open water. Floki is obsessed with this project. After Earl Haraldson rejects Ragnar's request to raid to the west during the Thing, he brings his son Björn to visit Floki. On the way to Floki's home…