 While raiding with his band of vikings in Courland, Icelandic chieftain Egil Skallagrímsson and his 12 of his men are captured in a clever ambush by a farmer's son and kept in a wooden stronghold overnight to be tortured and interrogated the following day.Egil frees himself and his crew and then while searching for an escape they come across a trap door to a pit from which they hear voices coming.Three Danish captives are released from the pit who happen to be Aki and his two sons.