Slightly off topic, but I just watched a film about a Viking mercenary. He turns up and nobody knows his name, one half of the village is Christian, the other Pagan. He plays both ends against the middle taking silver from both sides. It ends with a massacre of the Christian god botherers. The Viking with no name then strolls out of the mist (he got badly beaten and had to hide out till he was mended) and kills all the baddies....
I kind of thought...
'ang on, 'ang on this looks familiar!