In the Winland Saga chapter 181, the Torfin and Ainar's expedition reaches Winland and establishes a village there, named after their dead friend Arnhed. A slave killed by her capital, Arnhaid is the type of person Torfin and Einar have pledged to build a new nation. But from history we know that the real neighborhood of Torfin Carlsefini failed, and that knowledge casts a shadow over the last bow.

The country they call Winland is certainly at home to indigenous tribes. The attempt to trade and co -operation fails when the natives get sick of the bacteria that Norsman has brought through the sea.

The last 29 chapters of Winland Saga are collectively called "thousands of annual trips", followed by the breakup of the Winland neighborhood and the short war between the natives and the settlers. It also drives a wedge between Torfin, who accepts that Norrsen should leave, and Einar, who does not. Torfin is driven by guilt and the need to make up for the lives he took. If Winland becomes another nation protected from violence, then there is no reason for the existing ones. However, Ainar came to Winland to make up for Arnhaide's savings, and he refuses to let the village build so easily for her memory. In running other immigrants in battle, he finally takes life and understands Torfin's burden.

The fighting ends with a truce mediated by Torfin, but Einar dies stopping another settler, Stirk, from the continuation of the war. Torfin and Ainar made a promise of Arnheide's grave, and their promise ends with Torfin burying Einar in Winland.

But while Torfin's goal failed, manga is not a tragedy, nor does he suggest his pacifism was stupid. Winland Saga chooses an open end because Torfin's trip took it, even a thousand years later, not over.

Not only did we not know in advance that the real colony of Torfin would fail, we also knew that he would not free the world from war or slavery. We haven't done so in the 21st century yet. During the manga, whenever a character is asked where paradise can be, the answer is always "somewhere not here". We have mapped the whole planet many times, but we have not yet discovered the Earth that Torfin really was looking for. Not the physical Winland, but the country where people choose to coexist in peace. Chapter 220 is even titled "Somewhere Not Here" to show the search for that place continues.

Much earlier in Winland Saga, a priest named Willibald suggests that maybe the real Loveub's exists only in death, when we cannot hurt others or "discriminate" to whom we choose to love. Remember, how did she call William Shakespeare? Undiscovered country.