"Raiding" is the fifth book in the series. Three and a half years have passed since young Styrbjorn, Edwina and Hauge's son, was born and Edwina is pregnant again. The winters have been extremely hard and the harvests have been poor. Famine and hunger threatens. In the autumn Edwina gives birth to twin girls. But everything goes wrong. The grain rots, only some of the ships return from the summer voyage; late, empty, and battered. Then Hauge decides to go on a quest for food and riches in England. A new ship is built for the voyage: Long and slender; fast and seaworthy. In England they cause terror and devastation. Town after town is raided; left pillaged and plundered. However, in the last town they have decided to raid, only one person is left, the priest in the church.