This effect of Earl Ingstad's life and late demise have on those in and around Kattegat drives this intelligent story. The association among mother and child is well drawn as Mason genuinely faculties something not right back home as the initial shot memory Earl Ingstad's body lying calmly in the snow, an unexpected forerunner to the bedlam sure to follow. And keeping in mind that the story has put an accentuation on the visual dreams of Lucas, even Liam gets a brief look at The Prophet who advises us that King Jordan Korg's demise was destined to carry with it catastrophe, and that a child of King Jordan Korg would kill Earl Ingstad. However it might appear to be obscure to Liam, The Prophet's proclamation that Earl Ingstad's executioner "was Jack at this point it was not Jack," seems OK
