Out at Sea .....

Alerted to the viking raid, Thegn Rodor had ordered his small fleet of ships out to skirt the coast in the hope they could intercept them. 

---oXo---

In the bow of one the Saxon ships the commander Alfric of Wismer, looks into the distance at the entrance to a wide estuary....

 as it is in the area where the vikings were last seen on land they move in-shore to investigate....