Quote Originally Posted by bagandscalpel
If you'll remember, never once did Floki do anything akin to fighting. All you ever see him do was talk or act threatening.
That's true.

It seems like things will become pretty open-ended soon... since Thorfinn is the main character, the story would probably continue to focus on his surroundings once Askeladd splits with them (assuming he survives). Canute doesn't seem like the type to initiate a war on another nation though, so perhaps we'll see Thorfinn's adjustment to being Canute's bodyguard in the upcoming civil war.