"Oh good. I thought I would have to forge anything I wanted." The phrasing does seem a bit odd to him. "What do you mean this place gives things to you? Do they merely fall from the sky then?" Yeah, someone needs to explain the rules to Ivar stat.

"No. Was there a reason I needed to?" He asks curiously. The Norse, like most other cultures of their time, do have a lot of rules revolving around hospitality and food, so the idea he was supposed to eat something doesn't seem all that strange to him.