At the end of this episode we hear Astrid give a voiceover eulogy to say goodbye to those who died on the fishing boat and then the Dragon Riders set the boat on fire as a funeral pyre. The eulogy and this scene appear to be directly taken from a very similar scene early in the 1999 movie "The 13th Warrior" when Ahmad Ibn Fadhlan sees a Viking funeral and eulogy when those same words are spoken as they set a boat on fire as a funeral for their warrior king who was placed aboard after death. At the end of that movie those words are repeated again this time including Ahmad.
This episode Introduces the Buffalord Dragon.