People in these times call them Vikings. [Athelstan smiles a little to himself at the implication- not exactly the right word, but he supposes it's better than Those Guys In The North That Everyone Is Afraid Of.]

And I- I have taken their gods for my own, but it was not always so. They are brutal and passionate, and I had thought their gods would be equally so, but it seems that things are far more... political here than I had thought.