The general's son, horsemaster Löwensköld, vengefully gathers a fighting force to hunt down Ingilbert.

In the forest, they meet the Ivarsson brothers with their foster son Paul, who is carrying the dead Ingilbert on a stretcher.

Thirty years later, Erik Ivarsson's daughter Marit, Paul's fiancée, lives alone and still bitter about the crime the Löwensköldarna committed against her.

When she accidentally finds the general's ring sewn into Ingilbert's cap, she sees her chance for revenge.

She also falls in love with the now grown Adrian, who confides in her that he hopes to free his ancestor and give him peace.

At the cemetery, Malvina manages to slide the ring into the burial mound through a hole in the ground, and when she returns to Hedeby, she is greeted by the news that Adrian has woken up.