Thanks, Lestavol!
Heck, that bug still crawled into the release, I thought I fixed it. There was another one, that made you invincible after death in a new run, I must've broken the first fix when working on this one. Oh well. Thanks for pointing it out!
Yeah, it was totally designed to not make much sense. My original idea was to introduce a wizard of sorts, that would ruin the vikings' evening and flee into space, and the vikings would start rowing on water gaining speed, and then they would just fly into space, and the first level would start. The idea was to show how silly everything is overall and how badass the vikings are. But I was struggling with the most basic things at first, so I had to drop the idea, since I couldn't pull it off. Making the level 2 scene served as a kind of mental redemption for myself.
P.S.: Your game is so polished. I suck at it though, but it almost felt like a steam release. Something for me to aspire to.