"He will try," Ragnar says, smiling.

He drapes his arm around both Sinric and Athelstan, gathering them close and comfortably.

"If it works, it would tell me in which direction is Wessex while we are still at sea," he adds. "The last time we ended up there accidentally, after all. And once we make landfall, it would tell me where you are, so we can find Ecbert's villa. You would literally be the star I steer by."