[being educated to be used as a political tool would make perfect sense to Geir. it's still convenient when the tool enjoys the process more than otherwise, isn't it? getting thrown in the ocean was far less interesting...]

I'm not! I've heard that's the name for some people who knew our legends in other worlds, but I don't know anything about them. They might not even have been talking about us.

All the worlds where people talk about "Norse" have sounded very different from mine, anyway.