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RAGNAR:
Tell me about Paris.

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It has these walls all around.

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This city is impregnable.

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Give us the name of the
father of your child?

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Athelstan.

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(SCREAMING LOUDLY)
Athelstan.

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ATHELSTAN:
The Lord has come to me.

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RAGNAR:
Then you're a Christian again?

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With all my heart.

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It is better that I leave Kattegat now.

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What do you mean? You cannot leave!

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You're the only one I can
trust so you must stay.

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FLOKI:
Blood must be spilled.

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A sacrifice be made.

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My purpose is clear.

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Lord, receive my soul.

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There is nothing that
can console me now.

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Forgive me, my friend,
not for what I have done.

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But for what I am about to do.

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(IF I HAD A HEART PLAYING)

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BOATER:
Lord Ragnar.

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It is all very well to criticize others.

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If they had agreed to act,

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the progress of the Northmen
would have been frustrated

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at every reach of the river.

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But while others have neglected
their responsibilities,

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I have not been idle.

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Paris has been prepared for this attack.

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We are well-provisioned
with food and water,

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enough to last the whole summer.

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I am relieved to hear it.

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To some extent,

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we are at your mercy, Count Odo,

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for you must protect us
against these pagans.

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Your Highness, it is still not too
late for you to leave the city.

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Many here would urge
you to save yourself.

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Surely,

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they would blame me for abandoning

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our capital at such a time?

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Perhaps they would think it
is a sensible precaution.

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Allow me a moment to reflect, Count Odo.

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GISLA:
Father?

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Count Odo thinks it might be
a good idea for me to leave.

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You must tell Count Odo that you have
no intention of abandoning your people.

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That whatever happens,

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you will stay with them,

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be with them,

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protect them.

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I am sure, father,
that that was always your intention.

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Count Odo,

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I am determined not to quit the city.

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Not in its most urgent hour of need.

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These next few days and weeks

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will test the faith of all of us.

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I pray to God Almighty
that not one of us

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is found wanting

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in either courage

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or belief.

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Yours is a heavy burden,

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Count Odo.

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You have many Christian
souls in your care.

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I carry this burden with a light heart,

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knowing I share it with our Lord,
and with your Highness.

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But I must ask your Highness
if you have appealed to

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your brother,
the Eastern Emperor, for help?

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He could surely provide
an army for our relief.

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I will not ask either
of my brothers for help.

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I must prove myself better
than my brothers, Count Odo,

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and these Northmen have
provided the opportunity.

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Defeat them,

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and I will be seen as a worthy successor

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to my grandfather,

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to the great Charlemagne.

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So you see, Count Odo,

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that your burden is...

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really much heavier than you imagined.

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(MAN SHOUTING WAR CRY)

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Raise shields!

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(MAN SHOUTING ORDERS)

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ROLLO: Guard! Row the boats!

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Row! Row!

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KING ECBERT:
Mmm.

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Forgive me

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for asking, my son,
but how is your marriage?

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It's a marriage.

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It is hard to forget
what happened, and...

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I try hard to forgive,

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as our Lord requires us to do.

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"Even those who trespass against us."

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I'm glad to hear it.

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There is something I wanted to ask you.

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Judith is King Aelle's daughter.

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What does she think of her father?

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And...

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What would she think if we
decided to overthrow him?

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You would really do that?

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Of course.

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How else would I become Bretwalda,
King of Kings?

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King of all England.
Of course I must overthrow him.

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I just wondered how
upset your wife would be.

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From what Judith has told me,
there is no love lost between them.

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That is what I thought.

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Do you plan to invade?

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Not initially.
I have certain plans in place.

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Various suggestions to invite chaos.

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Including, perhaps, assassination.

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My god! Father,
Aelle is your ally and your friend.

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Oh, no.

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Not my friend.

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I don't have any friends.

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It's better that way.

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(BABY CRYING)

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Come here, Alfred.

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Come to your grandfather.

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A magnificent boy!

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ECBERT:
I wonder how he is?

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JUDITH:
Who?

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Athelstan.

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It's that name again.

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Why must you forever bring him to mind?

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For when I think of
that filthy apostate,

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it reminds me of how my
wife whored with him.

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And how much more
she should have suffered for it.

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- ECBERT: Aethelwulf!
- This is not to do with you, father!

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This is between me and this Jezebel!

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This harlot!

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(BABY CRYING)

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Leave. Now.

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Here.

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(SNAKE HISSING)

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(HISSING)

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You wanted to talk to me, Ragnar?

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I miss him.

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Athelstan.

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I wish he was here with us.

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Since you carry his cross,
he still is here with us.

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He would have been useful.

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We will manage without him.

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Well.

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We have no choice now.

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(GRUNTS)

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Father, forgive me.

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(CRIES OUT IN PAIN)

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Holy Father, forgive me.

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For behold, I am a miserable sinner.

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(SNIFFING)

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MESSENGER:
I must speak with the prince.

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Prince Aethelwulf!

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Prince Aethelwulf!

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You have interrupted the sacred.

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There is no excuse.

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There is one, my Lord.

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Death waits for no man!

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Who is this?

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You sent nobles with Queen Kwenthrith,
to look after our interests in Mercia.

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What happened to you?

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The Queen

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repudiated the contract
she signed with us.

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She wants to rule alone.

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(GROANS)

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She tried to kill all of us that were sent
to safeguard the interests of Wessex.

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She is quite mad.

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Speak no more.

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Rest, my Lord.

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I know we have had our
differences of late.

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Perhaps it is my fault,
I have not been myself.

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I want you to know, Floki,

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that I need you.

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Now more than ever.

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I've always

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believed in you.

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That is why...

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I want you to be in
command of this raid.

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Me?

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Sit, sit.

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It's okay, sit.

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King Ragnar, we have reached Paris.

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Now...

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- Now, we all want to know...
- Puh, puh, puh, puh...

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The king...

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my oldest friend has
asked me to take command.

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So...

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How do we best attack the city?

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(CLEARS THROAT)

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Some of us...

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have taken a closer look
at the city from further up the bank.

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And we suggest a plan.

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To mount simultaneous attacks both
from the water and from the land.

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LAGERTHA: I will lead an assault on
the tower and the gates of the city.

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We will attack the gates together.

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LAGERTHA:
I said I would lead the assault.

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We may need the tools Erlendur made.

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I will make that decision,
if and when we need to make it.

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I trust Earl Kalf to make it.

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I don't think you were listening.

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At the same time as the
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there will also be

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a river-borne attack.

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The ships will be filled with
warriors and means of scaling,

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we will beach beneath the walls.

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We will climb up and gain entry
to the city that way as well.

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In which case, Floki,
you will be responsible for constructing

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whatever it is we need
to scale these walls.

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(SNICKERS) Oh, don't you worry
about me, Rollo.

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I will make something truly astonishing.

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Just wait and see.

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All those who agree with the plan,
say aye.

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ALL:
Aye!

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Aye.

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Let's hope the gods bless your efforts.

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(SNICKERS)

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(ASLAUG SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE)

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Please take her.

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Take my baby.

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What are you talking about?

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I cannot care for her.

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Of course you can.

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I can't.

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I want her to be like your sons.

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I want her to be Viking.

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What does it matter
what you call someone?

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Whether she's Viking
or not Viking is not important.

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What is important is that
you love and nurture her.

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For if you are fortunate,
she will grow up healthy.

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And give you grandchildren
to be proud of.

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Think of Bjorn.

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I am...

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This is why I want you
to raise his daughter.

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Bjorn loves you.

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Bjorn will be much happier

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and better off without me.

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That is not true.

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It is what I believe.

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It is a very selfish thing to believe.

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(SNIFFLING)
I cannot help it.

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Your daughter needs you.

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She needs her mother.

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You must not talk this way.

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Pray to Freya.

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Freya will comfort you
as she comforts me.

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We women bear heavy burdens.

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But it is not to be helped.

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And even when we are dealt with harshly,

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remember, it is the gods who
have woven our destinies.

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Not ourselves.

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My son.

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I have another mission
for you on our behalf.

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You must go to Mercia and
persuade Queen Kwenthrith

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that her interests and
ours are one and the same.

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She has killed six of our nobles.

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Yes.

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That is certainly...

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unfortunate.

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And she ought to be punished.

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So much for gratitude.

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What kind of a world do we live in,

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when the friends of our friends,
kill our friends?

267
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But still, there is a way for this
deluded Queen to find some redemption.

268
00:21:03,245 --> 00:21:04,245
There is?

269
00:21:08,351 --> 00:21:09,984
My son,

270
00:21:10,086 --> 00:21:13,921
Mercia has been weakened
by years of civil wars.

271
00:21:13,990 --> 00:21:18,759
She is no longer what she was,
and must acknowledge the power of Wessex.

272
00:21:18,861 --> 00:21:21,528
Without Wessex,
Mercia is now more than ever

273
00:21:21,631 --> 00:21:23,664
at the mercy of the Northmen.

274
00:21:23,749 --> 00:21:26,333
As well as other Saxon neighbors.

275
00:21:27,236 --> 00:21:28,535
Like Northumbria?

276
00:21:28,604 --> 00:21:31,338
Precisely. Like Northumbria.

277
00:21:32,508 --> 00:21:33,741
Yes.

278
00:21:33,843 --> 00:21:36,977
Those closest, but unexpected,
can sow a terrible harvest.

279
00:21:38,848 --> 00:21:41,899
I charge you to go to Mercia.

280
00:21:41,984 --> 00:21:46,253
And tell the Queen that she may be
forgiven for slaughtering our nobles

281
00:21:46,389 --> 00:21:51,608
but only if she begs mercy and
reconfirms her subjugation to Wessex.

282
00:21:51,694 --> 00:21:52,694
If not,

283
00:21:53,362 --> 00:21:55,462
we will show her the iron fist.

284
00:21:55,564 --> 00:21:58,532
We will invade and we will destroy her,

285
00:21:58,601 --> 00:22:03,837
and her limbs being fastened to four
horses, her body will be torn apart.

286
00:22:07,476 --> 00:22:10,310
Or something of that sort.

287
00:22:10,396 --> 00:22:14,348
But also tell her that we have
a repugnance for such measures,

288
00:22:14,417 --> 00:22:15,749
being Christians.

289
00:22:50,019 --> 00:22:51,019
Torvi...

290
00:22:58,127 --> 00:23:00,127
Torvi, I should have spoken before.

291
00:23:00,496 --> 00:23:01,496
Why?

292
00:23:07,770 --> 00:23:08,836
You know why.

293
00:23:10,106 --> 00:23:11,371
It doesn't matter.

294
00:23:12,374 --> 00:23:15,309
I am not with child,
neither am I a child.

295
00:23:17,580 --> 00:23:18,846
I took advantage.

296
00:23:19,381 --> 00:23:20,514
So did I.

297
00:23:27,289 --> 00:23:28,289
Uh...

298
00:23:32,895 --> 00:23:34,027
This is for you.

299
00:23:48,110 --> 00:23:49,143
What's that?

300
00:23:49,211 --> 00:23:50,211
Nothing.

301
00:23:51,347 --> 00:23:52,930
- Let me see!
- No.

302
00:23:53,015 --> 00:23:54,198
You are hurting me.

303
00:23:59,989 --> 00:24:01,488
It's far too good for you.

304
00:24:01,757 --> 00:24:02,757
Whore.

305
00:25:17,644 --> 00:25:21,113
ODO: The Northmen have been scouting
the countryside, and our defenses.

306
00:25:21,181 --> 00:25:23,315
We must expect an attack any day now.

307
00:25:23,417 --> 00:25:24,417
EMPORER CHARLES:
Gisla,

308
00:25:24,451 --> 00:25:26,985
I regret not sending
you to safety in time.

309
00:25:28,288 --> 00:25:30,422
It is much on my mind.

310
00:25:30,524 --> 00:25:32,390
I did not want to be sent away.

311
00:25:32,459 --> 00:25:34,526
I wanted to stay here with you.

312
00:25:34,628 --> 00:25:37,429
There is nowhere I would
rather be than here in Paris,

313
00:25:37,531 --> 00:25:39,331
beside you, in your hour of need.

314
00:25:40,167 --> 00:25:41,800
But I must tell you both,

315
00:25:41,902 --> 00:25:44,136
I have been much about the city.

316
00:25:44,238 --> 00:25:47,606
The people of Paris are frightened
to death by this pagan army.

317
00:25:47,708 --> 00:25:50,876
So far, only their firm belief
in god's grace and protection,

318
00:25:50,978 --> 00:25:53,612
prevents them from becoming
hysterical and violent.

319
00:25:53,714 --> 00:25:56,081
I am aware of the need to pacify
and control the population.

320
00:25:56,183 --> 00:25:58,450
Thank you, Princess Gisla.

321
00:25:58,552 --> 00:26:00,852
Perhaps you yourself might
help to reassure them

322
00:26:00,954 --> 00:26:04,723
that we are well-protected, and have
enough supplies to withstand a long siege.

323
00:26:04,825 --> 00:26:06,725
Though, god willing,
it will not come to that.

324
00:26:06,827 --> 00:26:09,027
You may rely upon me to
do everything possible to

325
00:26:09,129 --> 00:26:11,530
persuade the people of
our ultimate victory.

326
00:26:11,632 --> 00:26:13,832
Even your presence in the city,
Princess,

327
00:26:13,901 --> 00:26:15,700
helps them to believe in that.

328
00:26:15,802 --> 00:26:18,537
Yet it is for my father to
lead us to that victory.

329
00:26:19,439 --> 00:26:20,772
Is it not, father?

330
00:26:27,714 --> 00:26:29,147
I must to bed.

331
00:26:30,334 --> 00:26:31,334
I am tired.

332
00:26:33,420 --> 00:26:36,788
But I am glad we have
had this conversation,

333
00:26:36,890 --> 00:26:41,660
and I am also very glad that I have
placed my faith in you, Count Odo,

334
00:26:42,796 --> 00:26:45,514
as well as in God Almighty,

335
00:26:45,599 --> 00:26:48,667
for the successful
outcome of this matter.

336
00:26:58,128 --> 00:26:59,327
I must too go to bed.

337
00:26:59,846 --> 00:27:01,213
Of course.

338
00:27:01,298 --> 00:27:05,033
And yet I beg you to stay
a moment and listen to me.

339
00:27:06,420 --> 00:27:08,753
You once refused my offer of marriage.

340
00:27:13,227 --> 00:27:16,578
What had I achieved?
What could I offer you?

341
00:27:16,697 --> 00:27:19,564
But then I heard how many other
offers of marriage you had declined,

342
00:27:19,666 --> 00:27:22,534
from men far richer,
far grander than me, and...

343
00:27:22,669 --> 00:27:25,170
So, it gave me hope.

344
00:27:25,239 --> 00:27:29,741
And my hope is that once I have
successfully managed the defense of Paris,

345
00:27:29,843 --> 00:27:32,244
and the defeat of the Northmen, and...

346
00:27:32,329 --> 00:27:34,613
gained a new and high reputation,

347
00:27:35,482 --> 00:27:37,515
you will look again at my proposal?

348
00:27:39,486 --> 00:27:41,269
If you save Paris,

349
00:27:41,388 --> 00:27:43,021
I will forever be in your debt.

350
00:27:44,224 --> 00:27:46,691
But your first duty, Count Odo,

351
00:27:46,793 --> 00:27:49,311
is to concentrate on the
defeat of the Northmen.

352
00:27:50,564 --> 00:27:52,330
On that, I am sure we both agree.

353
00:28:34,007 --> 00:28:35,256
FLOKI:
Higher up.

354
00:28:36,893 --> 00:28:39,911
FLOKI: Pull again, pull again.
It needs to be more at an angle.

355
00:28:43,383 --> 00:28:46,451
You must be hungry.
I have brought you something to eat.

356
00:28:46,536 --> 00:28:47,536
I'm not hungry.

357
00:28:47,587 --> 00:28:49,187
My work nourishes me.

358
00:28:50,390 --> 00:28:53,191
I have so many responsibilities now,
Helga.

359
00:28:53,927 --> 00:28:55,760
Everyone is depending on me.

360
00:28:55,846 --> 00:28:59,264
My inventions will
allow us to enter Paris.

361
00:28:59,366 --> 00:29:00,498
You will see, Helga.

362
00:29:00,567 --> 00:29:02,634
Our warriors will storm the walls

363
00:29:02,769 --> 00:29:05,437
and we will all win the greatest renown.

364
00:29:05,522 --> 00:29:06,955
Especially me.

365
00:29:07,074 --> 00:29:09,591
Floki, the boat builder.

366
00:29:09,676 --> 00:29:13,194
Floki, the tower maker.

367
00:29:16,550 --> 00:29:18,733
But, of course...

368
00:29:18,852 --> 00:29:21,102
it's not me making these towers.

369
00:29:21,655 --> 00:29:23,121
It's the gods

370
00:29:23,156 --> 00:29:24,923
using my poor hands.

371
00:29:26,827 --> 00:29:29,260
Do you know why
they are helping me, Helga?

372
00:29:30,013 --> 00:29:31,013
Do you know why?

373
00:29:32,065 --> 00:29:35,233
It's because I gave
them a great sacrifice.

374
00:29:35,318 --> 00:29:36,901
I appeased them.

375
00:29:36,937 --> 00:29:38,353
I delighted them.

376
00:29:38,438 --> 00:29:40,271
I filled them with joy.

377
00:29:40,357 --> 00:29:41,557
Do you know what I did, Helga?

378
00:29:42,442 --> 00:29:43,442
Do you know what I did?

379
00:29:45,112 --> 00:29:46,611
I killed Athelstan!

380
00:30:03,297 --> 00:30:05,213
(HORSES GALLOPING)

381
00:30:08,102 --> 00:30:09,267
Whoa! Whoa.

382
00:30:12,389 --> 00:30:13,389
Who are you?

383
00:30:13,490 --> 00:30:14,823
You know who I am.

384
00:30:14,908 --> 00:30:16,475
Now take me to her.

385
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,244
Not until you tell me the purpose of
your visit, the Queen will need to know.

386
00:30:19,363 --> 00:30:22,264
Queen Kwenthrith knows perfectly well,
that the son

387
00:30:22,366 --> 00:30:25,200
of King Ecbert of Wessex
wishes to speak to her.

388
00:30:25,302 --> 00:30:27,702
She would certainly be ill-advised
if she refused to meet me.

389
00:30:29,807 --> 00:30:31,073
Look! You...

390
00:30:33,477 --> 00:30:35,110
Do as you're told.

391
00:30:35,195 --> 00:30:36,528
If you want to spare your life.

392
00:30:56,900 --> 00:30:57,900
Judith...

393
00:31:02,005 --> 00:31:05,624
You spoke before in the
baths of the Romans.

394
00:31:05,709 --> 00:31:06,709
I was surprised.

395
00:31:07,611 --> 00:31:10,412
Most of our people know
nothing about them.

396
00:31:10,497 --> 00:31:13,448
I still know very little,
but I was always curious.

397
00:31:14,284 --> 00:31:16,218
I have some words, here...

398
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:17,719
from the Romans themselves.

399
00:31:19,089 --> 00:31:21,690
Athelstan helped me to translate them.

400
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:24,560
Athelstan?

401
00:31:27,898 --> 00:31:31,366
(READING IN LATIN)

402
00:31:38,041 --> 00:31:43,969
"Don't ask, we may never know, Leuconoe,
what the gods plan for you and me.

403
00:31:44,348 --> 00:31:46,615
Leave the Chaldees to parse

404
00:31:46,717 --> 00:31:48,683
the sentence of the stars."

405
00:31:49,419 --> 00:31:50,519
So strange.

406
00:31:52,055 --> 00:31:54,990
As though he is here, talking to us now.

407
00:31:58,896 --> 00:32:01,847
"Of expectation. Life's short.

408
00:32:01,932 --> 00:32:07,602
Even while we talk, time,
hateful, runs a mile.

409
00:32:07,688 --> 00:32:11,473
Don't trust tomorrow's
bough for fruit,

410
00:32:11,575 --> 00:32:15,143
Pluck this, here, now."

411
00:32:17,814 --> 00:32:21,883
Well, whoever wrote those
words must be very wise.

412
00:32:28,258 --> 00:32:29,258
Judith.

413
00:32:31,061 --> 00:32:34,896
As long as there is breath in my body,
I will protect you

414
00:32:34,965 --> 00:32:38,333
and your son, Alfred. Believe me.

415
00:32:55,419 --> 00:32:56,419
Hm.

416
00:33:11,552 --> 00:33:14,970
(WOMAN MOANING)

417
00:33:39,179 --> 00:33:40,862
(BIRDS CHIRPING WILDLY)

418
00:33:48,939 --> 00:33:51,556
(ATHELWULF GRUNTING ANGRILY)

419
00:33:53,126 --> 00:33:54,292
KWENTHRITH:
Prince Athelwulf.

420
00:33:56,046 --> 00:33:57,679
Do forgive me for keeping you waiting.

421
00:33:59,016 --> 00:34:00,215
I was bathing.

422
00:34:00,317 --> 00:34:03,551
Queen Kwenthrith,
I bring a message from my father.

423
00:34:03,687 --> 00:34:07,188
He condemns the murder of our nobles,
who accompanied you here in good faith.

424
00:34:07,291 --> 00:34:11,109
He insists that you reaffirm the status
of Mercia as a client state of Wessex.

425
00:34:11,194 --> 00:34:13,728
Ah, so much talk of business.

426
00:34:15,932 --> 00:34:17,132
Come, now.

427
00:34:18,652 --> 00:34:20,752
May I offer you a cup of wine?

428
00:34:28,312 --> 00:34:29,377
To our alliance.

429
00:34:33,950 --> 00:34:34,950
(TUTS)

430
00:34:41,875 --> 00:34:43,091
There.

431
00:34:43,176 --> 00:34:44,826
Now, come.

432
00:34:45,262 --> 00:34:46,394
Sit.

433
00:34:48,799 --> 00:34:51,166
(SIGHS)
So...

434
00:34:59,576 --> 00:35:01,910
I'm quite happy to discuss
these matters further.

435
00:35:01,995 --> 00:35:03,244
What is there to discuss?

436
00:35:03,347 --> 00:35:04,347
My father insists that...

437
00:35:04,448 --> 00:35:05,897
My father, my father!

438
00:35:07,334 --> 00:35:09,651
How old are you, Aethelwulf?

439
00:35:10,387 --> 00:35:11,486
Hm?

440
00:35:11,555 --> 00:35:13,405
Do you always do what
your father tells you?

441
00:35:13,490 --> 00:35:15,323
Don't you have your own
thoughts and your own feelings?

442
00:35:15,459 --> 00:35:17,542
I have feelings of duty.

443
00:35:17,661 --> 00:35:19,361
I try to do what is right.

444
00:35:19,463 --> 00:35:20,862
For my country and for my god.

445
00:35:20,931 --> 00:35:22,464
(LAUGHING)

446
00:35:25,635 --> 00:35:26,635
Oh.

447
00:35:28,872 --> 00:35:30,088
Do you know what I wonder?

448
00:35:31,375 --> 00:35:34,242
I wonder what your father
threatened to do to me.

449
00:35:35,445 --> 00:35:37,162
Hm... Let's see.

450
00:35:39,883 --> 00:35:41,616
Did he want to tear me apart?

451
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:44,402
Violate me?

452
00:35:45,789 --> 00:35:46,821
Whip me?

453
00:35:48,975 --> 00:35:49,975
Oh, whip?

454
00:35:51,545 --> 00:35:53,628
Would you like to whip me?

455
00:35:56,433 --> 00:35:58,066
Would it excite you?

456
00:36:01,338 --> 00:36:02,887
Oh...

457
00:36:04,007 --> 00:36:05,473
Come to my bed.

458
00:36:07,277 --> 00:36:09,861
After all, why not enjoy
what your father enjoyed?

459
00:36:13,650 --> 00:36:16,151
Lead me not into temptation,

460
00:36:17,571 --> 00:36:19,621
but deliver me from evil.

461
00:36:20,624 --> 00:36:21,873
Goodnight.

462
00:36:31,218 --> 00:36:32,250
Sweet dreams.

463
00:36:52,904 --> 00:36:53,904
Come.

464
00:36:59,744 --> 00:37:00,810
Prince Aethelwulf?

465
00:37:01,980 --> 00:37:03,613
May I present to you, my son,

466
00:37:04,716 --> 00:37:05,716
Prince Magnus.

467
00:37:06,885 --> 00:37:08,184
Hello darling.

468
00:37:08,253 --> 00:37:10,520
That is a Northern name,
that is not one of ours.

469
00:37:12,157 --> 00:37:13,790
Oh, clever you.

470
00:37:13,892 --> 00:37:15,892
Yes, he's named after his father.

471
00:37:15,994 --> 00:37:17,260
His father?

472
00:37:17,329 --> 00:37:18,495
I think you may know him.

473
00:37:19,381 --> 00:37:20,530
Ragnar Lothbrok.

474
00:37:25,804 --> 00:37:27,637
Our nobles...

475
00:37:27,689 --> 00:37:29,472
before you killed them...

476
00:37:29,574 --> 00:37:31,274
never reported that you were with child,

477
00:37:31,343 --> 00:37:33,184
still less that the father
was Ragnar Lothbrok.

478
00:37:33,245 --> 00:37:36,646
Nevertheless, he is Ragnar's son.

479
00:37:36,731 --> 00:37:38,932
And nothing will stop him
from returning to these shores

480
00:37:38,950 --> 00:37:41,417
both for Magnus and for his settlement.

481
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,753
We have destroyed his settlement.

482
00:37:46,508 --> 00:37:48,241
Then he will return

483
00:37:48,326 --> 00:37:49,859
with vengeance upon you.

484
00:37:49,961 --> 00:37:52,228
In which case,
it will inconvenience us a great deal

485
00:37:52,330 --> 00:37:54,797
if he were to find a
ready ally here in Mercia.

486
00:37:56,768 --> 00:37:59,602
So whether or not this
poor child is Ragnar's son,

487
00:37:59,704 --> 00:38:01,254
makes no difference.

488
00:38:01,339 --> 00:38:03,106
He cannot help you.

489
00:38:03,208 --> 00:38:05,608
And you can't threaten us with him.

490
00:38:06,378 --> 00:38:07,378
Guards!

491
00:38:10,315 --> 00:38:12,665
(CHUCKLING)

492
00:38:13,385 --> 00:38:14,484
Queen Kwenthrith,

493
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,171
You would be unwise to kill us.

494
00:38:18,290 --> 00:38:20,957
It would give my father
the very pretext he needs.

495
00:38:21,059 --> 00:38:23,009
A pretext to invade Mercia

496
00:38:23,128 --> 00:38:24,961
and become its king.

497
00:38:27,399 --> 00:38:31,134
He may even have been
prepared to sacrifice me

498
00:38:31,236 --> 00:38:33,169
to attain his ends.

499
00:38:33,238 --> 00:38:35,021
So, if you value your life,

500
00:38:35,774 --> 00:38:37,073
and that of your son,

501
00:38:37,142 --> 00:38:40,343
then I suggest you sign the
documents we have brought with us,

502
00:38:40,478 --> 00:38:43,413
reaffirming the fact that Mercia
is a vassal state of Wessex,

503
00:38:43,481 --> 00:38:47,283
and must, in future, pay not only homage,
but also taxes to Wessex

504
00:38:47,385 --> 00:38:48,835
for the privilege.

505
00:39:58,289 --> 00:39:59,656
Everything ready, Floki?

506
00:40:02,293 --> 00:40:03,393
Yes.

507
00:40:03,461 --> 00:40:04,727
Everything is ready.

508
00:40:06,164 --> 00:40:08,648
Tomorrow we attack Paris.

509
00:40:09,334 --> 00:40:10,334
(GIGGLES)

510
00:40:16,791 --> 00:40:17,791
(BELL TOLLING)

511
00:41:52,383 --> 00:41:54,084
__

512
00:41:54,692 --> 00:41:56,319
__

513
00:41:57,225 --> 00:41:59,633
__

514
00:42:00,428 --> 00:42:03,546
(REPEATING WITH CROWD AS CHANT)

515
00:42:29,463 --> 00:42:32,451
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