Readers who have early access to the pages have had a few questions about this scene:
Q: Readers thought the character on the right was holding a dagger. A: He is actually holding a horn and a ceramic bottle.
Q: Did the Vikings have bottles? A: I'm drawing about the period of the High Middle Ages (preceding the Late Middle Ages): Denmark and Norway had already officially embraced Christianity, and paganism was gradually becoming a rudiment. With Christianity, wine consumption among the Normans was actively increasing. Cheap wine was transported and sold in wooden barrels, while more expensive varieties were poured and matured in individual clay vessels, the predecessors of modern bottles. The presence and drinking of such wine from ceramic jugs was considered a sign of prosperity.
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