Freya awakens after being pulled from beneath Yggdrasil and reunites with Bjorn, who is muddy, bloodied, and convinced he nearly lost her. Freya tells him that Harald is dead and that she killed him with Bjorn’s axe. Geir, still among the draugr, praises Freya for uniting Skaland and Nordeland and defeating Harald; when Freya offers him release, Geir asks only that she protect his family and tell his stories. Freya releases Geir and the other draugr, sending them on from the mortal realm, and then grieves her brother’s final departure.

Freya also tells Bjorn that Saga took Harald’s soul into Helheim and left Bjorn a final message of love. The group pauses in the aftermath of battle, and Steinunn approaches Freya in remorse, apologizing for helping Harald and accepting whatever punishment Freya chooses. Rather than condemn her, Freya orders Steinunn to compose and sing the true account of everything that happened, including her own wrongdoing, so that all Skaland and Nordeland will know the truth. The laughter that follows eases the tension, but Freya remains exhausted and increasingly certain that she wants peace rather than more war.

The survivors gather in Torne, where the jarls loyal to Snorri have assembled. Freya enters the mead hall with Bjorn and announces that Harald is dead and being watched in Helheim by Saga. When a jarl asks whether Freya now claims both thrones, Freya refuses the idea outright. She argues that their people are meant to be led by local jarls who know their clans, not by a single ruler seeking power, and she declares that the alliance existed only to defeat a common enemy. Freya urges the jarls to take their people home, heal, and remember the unity they briefly shared.

Freya then addresses Leif and Ylva directly, acknowledging Leif as Snorri’s heir and trusting Ylva to guide him. Leif offers Freya and Bjorn places in his war band, warning that other jarls may attack a weakened Grindill, but both decline because neither wants to continue living for war. Leif’s desperate insistence makes Freya fear that she is still bound by her blood oath, only for Ylva to explain that death breaks mortal runic magic. Freya realizes the oath ended when she briefly died in Helheim, and the discovery that she has already been freed changes everything. With her autonomy restored, Freya warns Leif not to command her and leaves the hall with Bjorn.

After Volund tends Bjorn’s injuries, Freya and Bjorn leave crowded Torne on horseback and ride through the night. At dawn, Bjorn brings Freya to the ruined site of Saga’s cabin and its hot springs, revealing that he has been imagining a future for them there. In the water, after both admit they want a life beyond battle, Bjorn asks Freya to marry him and build a life with him in that place. Freya, certain at last that she has fought for and won her own fate, says yes.