"No need to be sorry. We're both learning. We'll work it out as we go." Jess is quick to wave off the other's abashment, not wanting someone to feel aggravated about the language barrier on his account. If anyone's at fault, it's Jess for not being faster on the uptake, but he thought they'd be fine so long as they went slow and kept it simple.

But since when had any battles been fought at the London Bridge? And involving people from so far north, no less?

"When? When was this?" Jess had a strange feeling about this supposed battle in the middle of Central London where the London Bridge stood as a popular historical landmark. "I think I understand--it's a family name, that it? I was thinking of one Thor in particular. The thunder god. Wields Mjölnir."

It's a blatant cultural stereotype, but it's hard not to think it with Thorfinn looking like part of an old Norse saga with warriors, and giant serpents, and Ragnarok.