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[midnight-in-town]

((Spoilers for anime-only watchers !))

For manga readers: sounds familiar?

In the final arc, Sensei slowly developed settings (ch195) that are unfortunately probably heading towards a similar predicament:

(i love u Gudrid, thank you for supporting Thorfinn so well)

I don't think the Lnu people will be the real threat, though it's true that the rampaging epidemic is certainly a cause for concern and I'm looking forward to finding out how Thorfinn will handle the whole "kill a few to save the many" approach that Canute is meanwhile conducting in Europe.

TBH I'm wayyy more worried about that guy Styrk...

...because his identity is a misery for a probably very relevant reason. I first thought he was Garm (because of the fake face marks and the spear), but at times he sounds too clever to be Garm lmao. He makes me think of Askeladd (purposely written that way by Sensei), though we know for certain that Askeladd is dead.

However, since it's the final arc, it is also to be expected that some events to come will parallel prior events of the series, so that Thorfinn realizes and proves how far he's come since the Prologue. That's why I think Karli might eventually be in danger, leading Thorfinn to live exactly through the situation that caused his own father's death, during the Prologue.

Meanwhile, in the village, since men slowly get ready for war against the Lnu people (thanks for nothing, Styrk), there will probably be a decisive moment in which the left alone women and children will be in danger, exactly like it happened to Arnheid, from the Ketil Farm Arc.

Hopefully, Thorfinn and his allies (Einar, Gudrid, Hild, Bug-Eye, Cordelia, etc) will both times manage to outlive these parallels.

Oh and by the way, I don't know yet if Sensei did it on purpose, but Thorfinn's village of settlers in Vinland is even called Arnheid's Village. If that's not possible foreshadowing, I don't know what is. T_T