"For the baby to be raised to be a Viking, you would have to accept the fact that I'm a Viking by adoption, too," Uriel pointed out. "And if Odin truly is going to come back for me and the baby, you will just have to survive until then to teach it to ride Sleipnir and grow strong and courageous. I'm going to teach it in the use of knives and perhaps a sword, but I fear that if you want it to master the use of a spear you will have to teach it yourself."