A missionary named Lebwin goes to the Saxons during one of their big assemblies that they have. They, to call them democratic would be false, but they didn't have a king who ruled over every little thing. And this story has Lebwin just sort of appearing amongst them. It's hard not to see how many of these figures would have made great superheroes in the Marvel cinematic universe.
This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster.