Yeah, but I always wondered how much truth there was. At least when I got older. Vikings have been known to get things wrong. [He chuckles lowly and pats Toothless' scaly head, the fingers of the other curled loosely around the bar at the front of the saddle.

The next comment makes him snort out a laugh, and he looks down at the hand tracing icy swirls over his pauldron. Handsome? What? No.] See, there's a big exaggeration. [He remarks dryly.] And a slightly misleading statement! His plasma blasts aren't really very brimstone-y.