1 00:00:01,225 --> 00:00:02,875 Previously on Vikings... 2 00:00:02,943 --> 00:00:03,943 Seize him! 3 00:00:03,956 --> 00:00:06,256 Why have you taken so long to return? 4 00:00:06,363 --> 00:00:07,563 It was part of a larger, 5 00:00:07,986 --> 00:00:09,786 bolder strategy. 6 00:00:10,601 --> 00:00:12,401 I thought you wanted to find some way 7 00:00:12,503 --> 00:00:14,308 that our peoples could mutually benefit. 8 00:00:14,338 --> 00:00:17,672 You thought killing all of my people was mutually beneficial? 9 00:00:17,982 --> 00:00:19,013 Mea culpa. 10 00:00:19,043 --> 00:00:20,647 You have to kill me. 11 00:00:20,677 --> 00:00:23,378 My sons know that I have come to Wessex to see you. 12 00:00:23,408 --> 00:00:26,448 What do you think they'll do once they hear of my death? 13 00:00:26,478 --> 00:00:27,666 I cannot kill you. 14 00:00:27,696 --> 00:00:29,440 Then hand me over to King Aelle. 15 00:00:29,470 --> 00:00:31,175 Let my son Ivar go home. 16 00:00:31,205 --> 00:00:32,337 And in return? 17 00:00:32,439 --> 00:00:34,306 I will tell Ivar to tell his brothers 18 00:00:34,408 --> 00:00:38,143 that King Aelle was solely responsible for my death. 19 00:00:43,951 --> 00:00:45,751 Don't be afraid. 20 00:02:22,249 --> 00:02:26,150 I have a ship waiting to take your son, Ivar, back to your kingdom. 21 00:02:29,022 --> 00:02:30,822 The captain wishes to leave today. 22 00:02:33,493 --> 00:02:35,310 I need to say goodbye to him. 23 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:41,933 I'll have him brought to you. 24 00:02:44,542 --> 00:02:46,479 I want to talk to him alone. 25 00:03:57,742 --> 00:03:59,780 We have orders to take the cripple. 26 00:04:03,326 --> 00:04:04,947 I have some good news. 27 00:04:05,449 --> 00:04:07,416 King Ecbert has arranged for a boat. 28 00:04:08,219 --> 00:04:09,864 You are going home. 29 00:04:11,246 --> 00:04:12,783 I'm not going without you. 30 00:04:18,681 --> 00:04:20,505 They aren't going to release me. 31 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:24,666 I have to die. 32 00:04:28,816 --> 00:04:29,943 Then I'll die too. 33 00:04:29,973 --> 00:04:32,407 - I'm thinking of being burned alive. - Don't be stupid. 34 00:04:35,078 --> 00:04:36,953 I don't want you to die. 35 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:43,075 It is far more important that you stay alive. 36 00:04:52,144 --> 00:04:54,194 People think that you are not a threat. 37 00:04:55,898 --> 00:04:57,560 But I know differently. 38 00:04:59,436 --> 00:05:03,688 Out of all of my sons, it was you I wanted to bring here, 39 00:05:04,469 --> 00:05:07,858 and it is you that I believe 40 00:05:07,888 --> 00:05:11,188 is the most important to the future of our people. 41 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,203 I'm just about prepared to believe you. 42 00:05:18,515 --> 00:05:20,659 Shut up and listen, idiot. 43 00:05:20,689 --> 00:05:23,213 You have many gifts, and anger is a gift. 44 00:05:23,243 --> 00:05:25,596 What is in here is a gift. 45 00:05:27,333 --> 00:05:28,800 You do not think like other men. 46 00:05:28,830 --> 00:05:30,630 You are unpredictable. 47 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:33,532 And that will serve you well. 48 00:05:35,449 --> 00:05:38,427 Use your anger intelligently 49 00:05:38,457 --> 00:05:40,089 and I promise you, my son, 50 00:05:40,119 --> 00:05:42,894 that one day, the whole world 51 00:05:42,924 --> 00:05:45,561 will know and fear Ivar, the Boneless. 52 00:05:55,197 --> 00:05:57,222 I wish... 53 00:05:57,325 --> 00:05:59,925 I wish I wasn't so angry all the time. 54 00:06:05,582 --> 00:06:07,257 Then you would be nothing. 55 00:06:10,658 --> 00:06:12,576 I might have been happy. 56 00:06:12,606 --> 00:06:14,473 Happiness is nothing. 57 00:06:17,675 --> 00:06:21,332 I was only joking. Idiot. 58 00:06:37,931 --> 00:06:40,998 Ecbert is handing me over to King Aelle, 59 00:06:42,313 --> 00:06:43,813 who will kill me. 60 00:06:44,845 --> 00:06:46,916 If this Aelle is going to kill you, 61 00:06:46,946 --> 00:06:49,430 then me and all my brothers will seek him for revenge, 62 00:06:49,460 --> 00:06:50,546 and you know that. 63 00:06:50,576 --> 00:06:51,797 Yes. 64 00:06:52,711 --> 00:06:55,286 Oh, you must seek revenge, 65 00:06:56,731 --> 00:06:58,431 but not on Aelle. 66 00:07:02,435 --> 00:07:04,092 On Ecbert. 67 00:07:16,368 --> 00:07:19,305 Everyone will always underestimate you. 68 00:07:21,164 --> 00:07:24,164 You must make them pay for it. 69 00:07:42,798 --> 00:07:45,204 I will, Father. 70 00:07:49,524 --> 00:07:51,499 Be ruthless. 71 00:08:12,133 --> 00:08:13,646 Move! 72 00:08:25,952 --> 00:08:27,685 Move out! 73 00:09:04,233 --> 00:09:07,674 I would wish things were otherwise, 74 00:09:07,704 --> 00:09:10,577 but I have no power to change them. 75 00:09:14,742 --> 00:09:17,692 I must do something that I would not wish on anyone. 76 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,268 I have to destroy something, 77 00:09:23,716 --> 00:09:25,237 someone, 78 00:09:26,219 --> 00:09:27,885 truly great. 79 00:09:30,682 --> 00:09:34,382 And I have to commit a friend to death. 80 00:09:43,969 --> 00:09:45,235 You have no choice. 81 00:09:45,337 --> 00:09:48,620 Oh, is that true? 82 00:09:50,321 --> 00:09:52,543 Is that really true? 83 00:09:52,979 --> 00:09:56,379 So, do I just wash my hands of him? 84 00:09:57,223 --> 00:09:58,898 Like Pontius Pilate? 85 00:10:08,651 --> 00:10:11,460 Well, I have no doubt Aelle will enjoy the sight of your death. 86 00:10:11,540 --> 00:10:13,040 Mmm. 87 00:10:13,565 --> 00:10:16,065 I'm sure he'll make it a big spectacle. 88 00:10:20,367 --> 00:10:22,480 So I will have the chance to speak? 89 00:10:25,113 --> 00:10:27,037 I'll talk about the gods, 90 00:10:29,022 --> 00:10:32,659 about my joy of entering Valhalla. 91 00:10:36,187 --> 00:10:38,295 Even though you don't believe it. 92 00:10:42,287 --> 00:10:43,559 I don't. 93 00:10:46,388 --> 00:10:48,238 But my sons do. 94 00:10:49,582 --> 00:10:51,220 My people do. 95 00:10:52,524 --> 00:10:55,313 Faith is as important to them 96 00:10:55,343 --> 00:10:57,957 as it is to you, King Ecbert. 97 00:12:59,254 --> 00:13:01,180 This was your father's. 98 00:13:05,140 --> 00:13:07,766 May it comfort you 99 00:13:08,217 --> 00:13:10,317 as it has comforted me. 100 00:13:18,969 --> 00:13:20,369 Thank you. 101 00:13:21,213 --> 00:13:22,780 I will never forget you. 102 00:13:29,989 --> 00:13:33,731 I think it will console you to know in the end... 103 00:13:34,488 --> 00:13:36,888 Athelstan chose your god. 104 00:13:49,069 --> 00:13:52,832 Soldiers, turn! 105 00:13:54,385 --> 00:13:56,367 Prisoner escort, 106 00:13:56,397 --> 00:13:58,109 advance! 107 00:14:42,263 --> 00:14:44,296 I've heard a lot about you. 108 00:14:45,266 --> 00:14:47,915 Eight foot tall, 109 00:14:48,546 --> 00:14:51,596 killed thousands of my countrymen, 110 00:14:52,447 --> 00:14:54,422 eats children. 111 00:14:56,777 --> 00:14:58,627 The last one's not true. 112 00:15:01,122 --> 00:15:03,085 Maybe none of it's true. 113 00:15:04,329 --> 00:15:05,649 Still, 114 00:15:05,913 --> 00:15:09,743 I can smell the fear of everyone around. 115 00:15:09,773 --> 00:15:12,998 They're terrified you are going to kill 'em. 116 00:15:15,869 --> 00:15:17,519 Tell me, 117 00:15:18,798 --> 00:15:20,865 how are you going to escape? 118 00:15:22,001 --> 00:15:25,056 I have no intentions of escaping. 119 00:17:07,116 --> 00:17:08,216 Ecbert? 120 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:09,240 Hmm. 121 00:18:21,154 --> 00:18:23,817 Doesn't go far on an empty stomach. 122 00:18:30,785 --> 00:18:32,406 Where are we? 123 00:18:33,654 --> 00:18:35,442 I don't know. 124 00:18:36,161 --> 00:18:38,561 You'd do better to ask the horses. 125 00:18:40,722 --> 00:18:42,110 They know. 126 00:18:44,398 --> 00:18:45,931 You're blind. 127 00:18:46,033 --> 00:18:47,674 Sure am. 128 00:18:48,068 --> 00:18:50,218 But the horses know the way. 129 00:18:51,044 --> 00:18:53,147 But don't worry, 130 00:18:53,335 --> 00:18:56,886 I can see you, Ragnar Lothbrok. 131 00:18:57,761 --> 00:18:59,674 I can see you. 132 00:19:09,335 --> 00:19:11,335 When will we reach King Aelle's? 133 00:19:11,456 --> 00:19:13,246 Not until tomorrow. 134 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:28,320 It will be at least another day before I am put to death. 135 00:19:29,025 --> 00:19:30,964 You and your gods are wrong. 136 00:19:30,994 --> 00:19:33,297 You see, I guided my fate. 137 00:19:34,377 --> 00:19:37,727 I fashioned the course of my life and my death. 138 00:19:37,757 --> 00:19:40,088 Me. Not you. Not the gods. 139 00:19:40,118 --> 00:19:41,326 Me. 140 00:19:41,820 --> 00:19:45,602 It was my idea to come here to die. 141 00:19:46,108 --> 00:19:47,708 You believe that, 142 00:19:47,810 --> 00:19:50,668 so it is true to you. 143 00:19:51,518 --> 00:19:53,768 I don't believe in the gods' existence. 144 00:19:55,150 --> 00:19:57,818 Man is the master of his own fate, not the gods. 145 00:19:57,920 --> 00:19:59,453 The gods are man's creation, to give answers 146 00:19:59,483 --> 00:20:03,233 that they are too afraid to give themselves. 147 00:20:04,181 --> 00:20:07,177 You may be right, Ragnar Lothbrok. 148 00:20:07,763 --> 00:20:09,513 I am only the Seer. 149 00:20:09,859 --> 00:20:13,236 I have walked among the lowest of the dead. 150 00:20:13,832 --> 00:20:15,882 And I have groped for meaning. 151 00:20:17,202 --> 00:20:19,074 And I may have been wrong. 152 00:20:22,083 --> 00:20:23,496 What did you say? 153 00:20:25,526 --> 00:20:27,500 I didn't say anything. 154 00:21:04,131 --> 00:21:05,680 Brother. 155 00:21:39,217 --> 00:21:41,634 In nomine Patris et Filii... 156 00:21:46,964 --> 00:21:48,700 Don't kill me. 157 00:21:52,884 --> 00:21:54,534 Without the word of God, 158 00:21:56,150 --> 00:21:57,954 there is only darkness. 159 00:23:42,348 --> 00:23:45,872 It's taken you a long time to return, Ragnar Lothbrok, 160 00:23:47,148 --> 00:23:50,012 but at last you are here. 161 00:23:50,268 --> 00:23:53,033 And I thank God and all his angels 162 00:23:53,063 --> 00:23:55,578 that I have kept my promise 163 00:23:55,608 --> 00:23:58,858 and am still alive to witness this day. 164 00:24:01,896 --> 00:24:03,798 And I swear, 165 00:24:04,054 --> 00:24:05,734 before you die, 166 00:24:05,955 --> 00:24:11,165 you will atone for your sins against my countrymen. 167 00:25:05,685 --> 00:25:07,506 Burn the dog! 168 00:25:55,797 --> 00:25:58,989 This is a good day, Ragnar Lothbrok. 169 00:25:59,091 --> 00:26:01,380 For this is the day 170 00:26:01,410 --> 00:26:05,893 that the souls of every innocent Christian man, woman, and child 171 00:26:05,923 --> 00:26:08,573 that you and your pagans slaughtered 172 00:26:09,948 --> 00:26:13,829 shall escape from their purgatory and sing Hallelujah. 173 00:26:14,625 --> 00:26:17,525 For I am about the Lord's work. 174 00:26:18,002 --> 00:26:21,211 God has chosen me, without doubt, 175 00:26:21,241 --> 00:26:24,271 as the instrument of his judgment. 176 00:26:53,681 --> 00:26:55,315 Yeah! Kill him! 177 00:26:57,098 --> 00:26:58,668 Get up! Kick him! Get up! 178 00:26:58,698 --> 00:27:00,332 Leave him! 179 00:27:02,569 --> 00:27:04,680 Get him up! 180 00:27:04,704 --> 00:27:06,704 Bring him! 181 00:27:15,194 --> 00:27:17,332 Ask for absolution. 182 00:27:36,180 --> 00:27:38,830 That's why we should sail west. 183 00:27:39,532 --> 00:27:41,879 I've heard such tales, Rollo. 184 00:27:42,084 --> 00:27:44,916 Great towns and cities and treasures. 185 00:27:44,946 --> 00:27:48,659 Hoards of gold and silver, and a new god. 186 00:27:59,143 --> 00:28:02,054 Ask for absolution. 187 00:28:33,892 --> 00:28:36,564 Ask for absolution. 188 00:29:30,547 --> 00:29:34,466 How the little piggies will grunt 189 00:29:34,496 --> 00:29:39,096 when they hear how the old boar suffered. 190 00:31:47,438 --> 00:31:49,123 My brother. 191 00:32:05,665 --> 00:32:08,780 Our Father, who art in Heaven... 192 00:32:09,898 --> 00:32:11,361 Our Father, 193 00:32:11,786 --> 00:32:13,264 who art in Heaven... 194 00:32:13,485 --> 00:32:15,340 Hallowed be Thy name. 195 00:32:15,527 --> 00:32:20,256 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. 196 00:32:20,286 --> 00:32:22,525 Give us this day our daily bread 197 00:32:22,555 --> 00:32:24,721 and forgive us our trespasses 198 00:32:24,751 --> 00:32:28,038 as we forgive those who trespass against us. 199 00:32:28,068 --> 00:32:30,414 And lead us not into temptation, 200 00:32:30,444 --> 00:32:32,089 but deliver us from evil. 201 00:32:32,119 --> 00:32:33,831 Amen. 202 00:32:40,130 --> 00:32:41,441 To your ropes! 203 00:32:49,511 --> 00:32:50,821 Pull! 204 00:33:08,427 --> 00:33:10,321 Not unto us, O Lord. 205 00:33:10,552 --> 00:33:15,317 Not unto us, but unto Thy name give glory. 206 00:33:15,522 --> 00:33:18,762 Their idols are silver and gold, 207 00:33:19,129 --> 00:33:20,979 the work of men's hands. 208 00:33:21,698 --> 00:33:23,033 They have mouths, 209 00:33:23,135 --> 00:33:24,831 but they speak not. 210 00:33:26,072 --> 00:33:27,938 Eyes have they, 211 00:33:28,492 --> 00:33:30,279 but they see not. 212 00:33:52,896 --> 00:33:54,496 Yes! 213 00:34:26,397 --> 00:34:29,792 Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man. 214 00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:35,194 Preserveth me from the violent man. 215 00:34:37,296 --> 00:34:39,151 Surely the righteous... 216 00:34:40,506 --> 00:34:42,897 ...shall give thanks unto Thy name. 217 00:34:43,984 --> 00:34:45,334 The upright 218 00:34:45,913 --> 00:34:48,777 shall dwell in Thy presence. 219 00:35:00,282 --> 00:35:04,418 O Lord, hear my prayer. 220 00:35:37,795 --> 00:35:42,603 It gladdens me to know that Odin prepares for a feast. 221 00:35:43,003 --> 00:35:47,739 Soon I shall be drinking ale from curved horns. 222 00:35:52,064 --> 00:35:54,241 This hero that comes into Valhalla 223 00:35:54,271 --> 00:35:56,321 does not lament his death! 224 00:35:58,505 --> 00:36:02,454 I shall not enter Odin's hall with fear. 225 00:36:11,322 --> 00:36:14,284 There I shall wait for my sons to join me. 226 00:36:14,893 --> 00:36:16,393 And when they do, 227 00:36:17,350 --> 00:36:21,469 I will bask in their tales of triumph. 228 00:36:29,697 --> 00:36:32,097 The Aesir will welcome me! 229 00:36:34,749 --> 00:36:37,966 My death comes without apology! 230 00:36:40,114 --> 00:36:45,938 And I welcome the valkyries to summon me home! 231 00:36:49,093 --> 00:36:51,051 Deliver me, O Lord, 232 00:36:52,413 --> 00:36:54,678 from mine enemies! 233 00:40:50,946 --> 00:40:52,631 Where is our father? 234 00:40:57,508 --> 00:40:59,061 Where is Ragnar? 235 00:41:03,797 --> 00:41:06,898 King Ecbert handed him over to King Aelle, 236 00:41:06,928 --> 00:41:09,978 knowing that Aelle would kill him. 237 00:41:15,912 --> 00:41:17,629 Why would he give him to Aelle? 238 00:41:17,659 --> 00:41:19,125 It doesn't matter. 239 00:41:19,227 --> 00:41:21,927 Our father is probably dead by now. 240 00:41:23,862 --> 00:41:25,939 And we will have to avenge him. 241 00:41:30,221 --> 00:41:32,212 That is what matters. 242 00:41:50,361 --> 00:41:52,148 We have something to tell you. 243 00:41:56,950 --> 00:41:58,227 Ubbe? 244 00:42:08,030 --> 00:42:09,580 Mother is dead. 245 00:42:19,258 --> 00:42:20,688 It's true. 246 00:42:23,365 --> 00:42:25,152 Lagertha killed her. 247 00:42:27,590 --> 00:42:30,190 Lagertha is now Queen of Kattegat. 248 00:42:39,409 --> 00:42:41,145 And Mother is dead.