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So on page 173 (Chapter 160) of the Vinland Saga Deluxe Volume 8, there is the following page.

Notice the horizontal line in the middle and the misalignment

I was immediately struck by the jarring black, horizontal line running through the rightmost panel and starting again from the edge of the leftmost panel and to the border of the page, as well as the jagged misalignment between the top and bottom of the panel borders before and after this horizontal line. Because of this, I opted to check in some online scans if this weird line appears in them. And here's what I found:

https://preview.redd.it/9x6jep90dh2h1.png?width=783&format=png&auto=webp&s=d62269d6229f505e333d596b9cf137d39ec40d62

So... what's up there? Does anyone else have this weird horizontal line in their Deluxe 8 at page 173 (Chapter 160)? Does anyone know what could have caused it? Is it a printing error?

So, in the Eastern Expedition Arc, which I have just finished reading, it is revealed that Floki did all of the horrible things he did, including ordering the assassination of Thors, for his son Baldr, or, more accurately, to ensure that his son becomes the next ruler of the Jomsvikings. At the end it was kind of unclear to me whether one could say that Floki really loves Baldr all that much or if he just wanted him as a political puppet. It seems to be a complex mix of the two, considering how he cries to Thorfinn for Baldr to be spared at the end. But I digress. What I was confused about, was that Thorfinn never questions this narrative, in spite of the fact that Baldr is something like ten years old and his father was killed some 17 years ago at the time of the "War in The Baltic" chapters. Did Floki really plan to have a grandson that would take the seat of chieftain, 7 years in advance or was Baldr's politically assassinated father meant to be the original chieftain and Baldr became a plan B after the death of his parents? Even still, it doesn't explain how nobody questions Baldr's utterance of how the death of Thors was "his fault", which would imply that Floki's ambitions had been set on Baldr from the start and for over 17 years (and 7 years before his birth) to boot.

Feel free to correct anything here, if I got something wrong timeline wise.

Also, side note: Kinda wish the final two arcs didn't do this whole "chapters with 20 parts" thing. I really liked the unique names for each part hitherto. Titles can be quite important and hard-hitting in their own right. Drawing attention to what the reader is meant to be focusing on in each part the most.

Vinland Saga Deluxe Edition Vol. 5, Chapter 107

I re-read this page like five times to try and figure out if I was having a stroke, but I think there might have genuinely been a major mistranslation in the Deluxe Edition. I went onto the web, to check for a fan translation and confirm my suspicions. Leif, Thorfinn, Einar and Bug-Eyes discuss sailing to Greece. Everyone, one after the other, resolutely agrees to go, including Bug-Eyes. The deluxe edition translation incorrectly makes it seem, only a few pages later (at the start of the next chapter), as if Leif wants to leave Bug-Eyes behind, saying: "Then you take Tulla's ship back to Greenland. You'll take Bug-Eyes, and no one else."

Same scene as first screenshot, but from a random fan translation.

Am I just having a stroke, reading the deluxe edition translation wrong over and over somehow, or is this a translation error that others have noticed? (Of course, the rest of this unofficial translation is totally wrong, but I'm only including it here to bring attention to the seeming issue with the former).