Maybe if the two of you learned how to defend yourselves like any proper man should, I wouldn't have had to be there at all.

[For Vikings, not being able to fight made a person lower than man, woman, and child. They might as well have been a slave or beast of burden for all the use they had to contributing anything useful.

As far as for leaving Ronan alone, Ivar's face was impassive and might as well have been set in stone.]

No. I'm teaching him to fight so he doesn't die if I don't happen to be around next time.