Vikings

Vikings...

To battle! For England!

God works in mysterious ways.

Ask yourselves, do you know his ways?

What's wrong with you? The gods are watching!

Lagertha!

The day and the battle had belonged to us!

My mother always carried Thor's hammer around her waist.

I don't think we are going to find her.

Eyvind and his entire family

are expelled from the settlement.

The conspiracy against you.

I know their names.

Aethelred is their leader.

Well?

No one has seen her.

If she's still alive, she has vanished.

I swore upon my life and my God,

if with your help we defeated our enemies,

that I would honor the pledges made to you

by my grandfather, King Ecbert.

Here is the treaty giving you, by our royal consent,

all the lands that constitute the ancient kingdom of East Anglia.

These lands I grant you in perpetuity,

to settle and to farm as you see fit.

Now, there is not a great population there.

But still, there are settlements and farms.

Some have moved away but others have chosen to remain.

I suggest you treat them well.

They are not so ill disposed towards you,

but they will be wary and apprehensive.

- The last time this happened... - Yes.

All I can say is that this time will be different.

I will leave some of my bodyguards as a gesture of my support,

and I will use my authority as King to protect your rights.

You have no reason to fear otherwise.

Here I do affix the royal seal.

And so it is done.

And now I welcome you,

formally, as allies and as friends.

That is not the end of our business today.

Guards!

Arrest the traitors!

No! You can't do this!

Take your hands off me!

- Unhand me! - No, Lord! I'm innocent!

You'll soon have cause to regret these actions, Lord Alfred!

That I promise you!

I'm innocent! I'm innocent!

So, King Harald, you return... Defeated.

Having been made a fool of by Bjorn Ironside.

And with no sign of Jarl Olavsson, our leader.

Jarl Olavsson died well in battle...

And is certainly now in Valhalla.

What is that to us?

You must believe in your leaders.

They can suffer reversals, defeats...

But you must give them a chance to prove

just why they rose in the first place.

I don't believe in giving second chances.

Not to fools and failures.

No.

Exactly my words when I was younger,

but, uh...

You live and you learn.

Friends. I didn't have the chance to present to you

Magnus, son of Ragnar Lothbrok.

Hail Ragnar!

With him beside us, we can achieve great things.

This city of York will be a great city!

The center of an empire! Our empire!

That will stretch from here to Kattegat,

from Ireland to Frankia,

from Scotland to the steppes of Russ!

Yeah!

Sit.

You killed Heahmund,

one of the greatest of all Saxon warriors.

He was already badly wounded.

I just finished him off.

Why are you fighting for King Harald?

I was at York, with my husband, Jarl Olavsson.

We agreed to join the King's army.

And where is your husband now?

He was killed in the battle.

It's a pity, he was a good husband.

A good man.

I lost my mother in the battle.

Your mother? Who are you?

Bjorn. Bjorn Ironside.

You're famous.

I suppose that means you can do what you want.

Ask people anything you want.

What is your name?

Gunnhild.

Gunnhild.

I would like to know you better.

What am I supposed to say?

You see how it is with me. I am bound. Prisoner.

My husband is dead.

Am I supposed to refuse your advances?

I could take advantage of you.

But I don't want to.

You and I, we are equals.

I will cut your ropes if you answer me a question.

Yes?

After Heahmund died,

my mother was wounded and she vanished.

I need to know if you were witness to anything

that could give me answers.

I need to know if her disappearance was of her own making...

Or against her will.

I cannot help you. I saw nothing.

You're a free woman. You can do anything you like.

What was that for?

I was just exercising my freedom.

Perhaps we shall meet again.

Who knows?

You can leave now.

What happened to her?

How do people just disappear?

Well, you know how.

Didn't our father just disappear?

Lagertha isn't like that.

She doesn't just run away.

And in the middle of a battle?

And how did she even manage that?

It was like she was sucked into thin air.

- I know her... - No, you don't!

You know nothing.

Lagertha killed your mother.

As far as you're concerned, you'd rather she be dead.

Why am I even talking to you?

I do know Lagertha.

I loved her and I trusted her,

and she loved and trusted me.

She wouldn't have just disappeared, not unless there was a reason.

What does that even mean?

Perhaps she had come to the end of reason.

He saved my life.

He was implicated.

- You have... - I've already decided to forgive him.

Have you told him that?

Alfred...

He has to talk about it.

He has to be honest.

Then, then you can forgive him.

For God's sake!

I understand. I do.

But if you won't talk to him,

please give me your permission to do so.

Please. I need to know why...

so perhaps I can forgive him.

Treacherous scum.

Treason.

Death to the King!

Traitor!

Long live the King.

Ugh.

Food!

Floki!

What was that?

Floki!

Wait here.

Helgi!

Come inside.

You have bad frostbite.

You will lose at least one of your fingers.

Why did you travel all this way in such weather?

I... I had no choice.

Why?

Everyone is dying.

What do you mean, Helgi?

Who is dying?

Soon after we left here, my father fell ill.

We went a long way. We built a house.

But there is so little food and everyone is sick.

I think Eyvind is dying.

And my sister Jorunn was very sick when I left.

And we've already had to bury two of the...

Two or three of the young ones.

Shh, don't talk anymore.

I beg you. Please help us!

Go and save my family.

I know we don't deserve to be saved, but please, Floki.

Try and save them before it's too late.

Please!

Think of Mjolnir, Thor's hammer, for strength.

Why do you want to see me?

You know why.

If I knew, then I would not ask.

All your friends are arrested, Aethelred.

Lord Cyneheard confessed everything.

Very well.

It's true. I was approached by them.

I was still angry that I had been forced,

so it seemed, to renounce the crown that I thought was mine by right.

They persuaded me that Alfred had no support as king,

that he'd be overthrown in any case...

But that, if I agreed to replace him, the coup would be bloodless.