1 00:00:01,419 --> 00:00:03,754 I am uhtred, son of uhtred. 2 00:00:04,547 --> 00:00:08,634 On the Eve of his death, I finally made peace 3 00:00:08,718 --> 00:00:10,928 with the great king Alfred. 4 00:00:11,012 --> 00:00:13,639 [Alfred] You are hereby pardoned. 5 00:00:14,307 --> 00:00:15,307 [Uhtred] He is gone. 6 00:00:17,101 --> 00:00:18,728 Wessex is in chaos. 7 00:00:19,145 --> 00:00:21,355 Aldhelm, have a messenger return to mercia, 8 00:00:21,439 --> 00:00:23,608 I would like the comfort of further hearth guards. 9 00:00:23,691 --> 00:00:27,486 [Uhtred] And his vision of one england, is incomplete. 10 00:00:27,737 --> 00:00:30,573 It is the purpose of the witan to choose a king. 11 00:00:30,656 --> 00:00:32,783 Uhtred cannot be allowed to ally himself to Edward. 12 00:00:32,867 --> 00:00:33,951 [Screams] 13 00:00:34,035 --> 00:00:37,371 [Uhtred] This is the moment the Danes have long waited for. 14 00:00:38,539 --> 00:00:40,458 But brida seeks the truth. 15 00:00:40,541 --> 00:00:42,728 [Brida] Men are saying freely it was him who killed ragnar. 16 00:00:42,752 --> 00:00:43,628 Aethelwold? 17 00:00:43,711 --> 00:00:44,795 Was it him? 18 00:00:44,879 --> 00:00:47,256 [Cnut] He was in fear of ragnar. 19 00:00:47,340 --> 00:00:48,674 Then he's mine to kill. 20 00:00:48,758 --> 00:00:53,346 [Uhtred] Only with thyra's blood can we send my brother ragnar to Valhalla. 21 00:00:53,429 --> 00:00:56,724 You will tell your friend uhtred that his pardon is to be rescinded. 22 00:00:56,807 --> 00:00:59,894 He must leave Winchester or I shall have him taken. 23 00:00:59,977 --> 00:01:03,105 [Uhtred] The lady aelswith has dishonoured her husband's wishes 24 00:01:03,189 --> 00:01:04,440 and I am imprisoned... 25 00:01:05,274 --> 00:01:09,153 At a time when my sister is seen only as a Dane. 26 00:01:10,238 --> 00:01:11,447 Is that not what she is? 27 00:01:11,864 --> 00:01:12,949 [Uhtred] An enemy. 28 00:01:13,699 --> 00:01:16,285 In a hole is where you belong. 29 00:01:20,373 --> 00:01:21,749 [Uhtred] Destiny is all! 30 00:01:23,751 --> 00:01:25,753 [Theme song playing] 31 00:02:06,460 --> 00:02:08,045 Beocca! 32 00:02:09,422 --> 00:02:10,840 Beocca! 33 00:02:12,967 --> 00:02:14,635 Beocca! 34 00:02:16,137 --> 00:02:17,263 Beocca my love. 35 00:02:20,433 --> 00:02:23,185 [Priest chanting] 36 00:02:38,117 --> 00:02:39,827 Beocca! 37 00:02:45,166 --> 00:02:46,584 [Erkenwald] He is with god. 38 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:53,382 May his soul rest in peace for all eternity. 39 00:02:54,050 --> 00:02:54,925 Amen. 40 00:02:55,009 --> 00:02:56,135 [Woman] Fire! 41 00:02:56,677 --> 00:02:58,137 Sound the bell! 42 00:02:58,220 --> 00:02:59,263 Fire! 43 00:02:59,764 --> 00:03:00,890 Fetch the water barrels! 44 00:03:03,434 --> 00:03:04,852 We should meet, lord, 45 00:03:05,102 --> 00:03:07,021 continue our previous discussion. 46 00:03:07,104 --> 00:03:08,314 For what purpose? 47 00:03:08,397 --> 00:03:11,192 The Danes will hear of Alfred's death and they will attack. 48 00:03:11,275 --> 00:03:12,275 Mercia. 49 00:03:12,318 --> 00:03:14,904 - Mercia will be ready. - To die? Or to thrive? 50 00:03:16,072 --> 00:03:17,323 Find me. 51 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:22,661 I find him to be lower than a snake's belly. 52 00:03:23,871 --> 00:03:25,414 That does not mean that he is wrong. 53 00:03:25,498 --> 00:03:27,124 - [Crowd shouting] - [Bells ringing] 54 00:03:31,379 --> 00:03:33,172 We need to stop the fire spreading! 55 00:03:33,464 --> 00:03:34,840 Get more water! 56 00:03:34,924 --> 00:03:37,218 Faster! Get more water! 57 00:03:37,551 --> 00:03:38,719 Oh bejesus! 58 00:03:40,513 --> 00:03:41,764 Oh, dear lord! 59 00:03:41,847 --> 00:03:43,849 Fetch father beocca! Fetch him now! Go! 60 00:03:43,933 --> 00:03:45,173 - More water! - [Finan] Sihtric! 61 00:03:45,518 --> 00:03:47,103 Thyra? Is she inside? 62 00:03:47,186 --> 00:03:48,938 I thought, I thought she was at the palace? 63 00:03:49,021 --> 00:03:52,108 - No. No, she left. She walked out! - [Man] More water! 64 00:03:54,151 --> 00:03:55,986 [Gasdingl 65 00:03:58,906 --> 00:04:00,032 father beocca? 66 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,078 We would like a last moment with the king. 67 00:04:05,538 --> 00:04:06,831 Alone. 68 00:04:07,623 --> 00:04:08,624 Yes, of course. 69 00:04:11,377 --> 00:04:13,629 - Lady aelswith, forgive me... - [Whispers] 70 00:04:14,505 --> 00:04:16,545 You appear to be going against the king's wishes. 71 00:04:16,590 --> 00:04:17,590 Father beocca? 72 00:04:17,716 --> 00:04:18,843 You may be needed. 73 00:04:24,557 --> 00:04:26,934 Get the door! Get the door! 74 00:04:27,017 --> 00:04:29,145 [Man] Get back! Get back! It's falling! 75 00:04:29,228 --> 00:04:30,312 [Clamouring] 76 00:04:39,447 --> 00:04:42,158 No! No, this is not happening! 77 00:04:42,241 --> 00:04:43,576 Thyra! 78 00:04:43,909 --> 00:04:45,828 [Indistinct yelling] 79 00:04:45,911 --> 00:04:47,204 I am here! 80 00:04:48,497 --> 00:04:49,707 Thyra! 81 00:05:01,093 --> 00:05:02,093 [Inaudible] 82 00:05:09,393 --> 00:05:11,604 [Crying] 83 00:06:05,783 --> 00:06:08,953 Father, she is with god now, you know that. 84 00:06:09,995 --> 00:06:11,372 And he will welcome her, I'm sure. 85 00:06:13,165 --> 00:06:16,335 It's how her family died, within a fire. 86 00:06:18,921 --> 00:06:21,674 You think that would been a comfort? Or would it terrify her further? 87 00:06:21,757 --> 00:06:24,260 Father, all we know is that she's at peace now. 88 00:06:26,554 --> 00:06:28,055 She's at peace. 89 00:06:28,806 --> 00:06:30,446 [Finan] You need to walk away now, father. 90 00:06:32,101 --> 00:06:33,227 A drink of ale maybe? 91 00:06:38,649 --> 00:06:41,193 Once the heat has gone, I shall recover her 92 00:06:41,277 --> 00:06:42,820 and wrap her for you to Bury. 93 00:06:43,571 --> 00:06:47,408 No. No I will find her. She is my wife. 94 00:06:47,491 --> 00:06:48,951 She is. 95 00:06:49,535 --> 00:06:50,744 We'll help you then. 96 00:06:51,203 --> 00:06:53,998 This fire did not just happen, it did not. 97 00:06:59,044 --> 00:07:03,215 These are dark and important days for both wessex and mercia. 98 00:07:03,716 --> 00:07:05,718 Just as soon as the Danes hear of Alfred's death... 99 00:07:05,801 --> 00:07:07,886 They will attack, you have said, and we agree. 100 00:07:07,970 --> 00:07:09,555 - We will fight. - Why? 101 00:07:10,639 --> 00:07:13,517 - Why fight only to lose? - Who says we must lose? 102 00:07:13,601 --> 00:07:14,869 To have even the smallest chance of victory, 103 00:07:14,893 --> 00:07:16,020 mercia would need wessex 104 00:07:16,103 --> 00:07:19,106 and wessex has been left with a pup as its master. You will lose. 105 00:07:19,189 --> 00:07:21,501 The Danes will march and we will have no choice other than to fight. 106 00:07:21,525 --> 00:07:22,525 We negotiate. 107 00:07:23,027 --> 00:07:25,863 Then let them slaughter Edward, and the small number of idiots 108 00:07:25,946 --> 00:07:27,406 who choose to follow him. 109 00:07:27,489 --> 00:07:28,489 Small number? 110 00:07:28,532 --> 00:07:30,510 Edward does not have the whole of wessex behind him. 111 00:07:30,534 --> 00:07:32,161 Some will follow, but not all. 112 00:07:32,244 --> 00:07:33,996 Wessex will not have great numbers of men. 113 00:07:34,747 --> 00:07:36,498 Lord sigebriht is about to return to cent 114 00:07:36,582 --> 00:07:38,542 and ready his own considerable guard and fyrd. 115 00:07:38,626 --> 00:07:41,003 To do what? To join the Danes? 116 00:07:41,086 --> 00:07:43,422 Edward is not Alfred and never can be but... 117 00:07:45,007 --> 00:07:47,968 - There will be no need for swords! - I am merely introducing myself! 118 00:07:48,052 --> 00:07:50,012 - You will let me go! - Not until there is calm! 119 00:07:50,095 --> 00:07:51,513 There is madness. 120 00:07:52,097 --> 00:07:53,515 Father beocca, you are suffering. 121 00:07:53,599 --> 00:07:55,643 I do not wish to hear your voice! 122 00:07:57,102 --> 00:08:01,940 It was you who killed her, not some stray Ember on a bed of straw! 123 00:08:02,024 --> 00:08:03,942 I am not to blame for your misfortune. 124 00:08:04,026 --> 00:08:07,696 It was you, if not directly, then by the words you whisper, 125 00:08:07,780 --> 00:08:10,783 by the lies you tell, the bile you spew 126 00:08:10,866 --> 00:08:12,618 I think we should find another table. 127 00:08:12,701 --> 00:08:16,914 In the eyes of some, a gentle woman became an enemy and nothing more. 128 00:08:18,540 --> 00:08:20,584 You should turn a deaf ear to this man. 129 00:08:20,668 --> 00:08:23,796 Father beocca, I will forgive this display, just once! 130 00:08:24,213 --> 00:08:26,173 Another word and you will pay. 131 00:08:39,853 --> 00:08:42,173 [Aethelwold] What have I been saying? Wessex is splintered. 132 00:08:43,315 --> 00:08:44,566 I will have no more of it. 133 00:08:58,872 --> 00:09:00,666 [Crowd shouting] 134 00:09:07,131 --> 00:09:08,799 Haesten? What is this? 135 00:09:08,882 --> 00:09:11,260 It is the beginning, my friend. 136 00:09:11,343 --> 00:09:12,343 [Laughs] 137 00:09:12,511 --> 00:09:15,639 Alfred, king of the shit-eating saxons... 138 00:09:16,557 --> 00:09:18,183 Has breathed his last! 139 00:09:18,267 --> 00:09:20,018 The king is dead! 140 00:09:20,102 --> 00:09:21,729 [Men cheer] 141 00:09:22,521 --> 00:09:25,315 Haesten, and you are certain this time? 142 00:09:25,399 --> 00:09:26,442 Dagfinn? 143 00:09:27,151 --> 00:09:28,193 It is true, lord. 144 00:09:28,652 --> 00:09:32,364 We have heard it many times, from priests, and warriors, 145 00:09:32,448 --> 00:09:33,907 and peasants alike. 146 00:09:34,366 --> 00:09:37,536 They cry in the streets of Winchester. 147 00:09:37,619 --> 00:09:38,787 [Laughing] 148 00:09:38,871 --> 00:09:40,038 Then it begins. 149 00:09:41,790 --> 00:09:43,167 It begins. 150 00:09:43,917 --> 00:09:45,419 Sharpen your blades! 151 00:09:46,295 --> 00:09:47,421 It begins! 152 00:09:48,255 --> 00:09:50,799 [Men shouting] 153 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:10,652 Is there to be a trial, or just a simple execution? 154 00:10:10,736 --> 00:10:14,031 Uhtred, it was mother's intention to cut your throat, 155 00:10:14,114 --> 00:10:16,617 but she has been persuaded to revert to banishment. 156 00:10:17,576 --> 00:10:20,829 You are to leave Winchester and wessex and never return. 157 00:10:20,913 --> 00:10:21,997 And what of Edward? 158 00:10:22,372 --> 00:10:25,250 What of the king's letter, his pardon? Does that count for nothing? 159 00:10:25,334 --> 00:10:29,421 Uhtred, you must leave or she will have you killed. 160 00:10:31,381 --> 00:10:32,716 Find beocca. 161 00:10:35,761 --> 00:10:37,763 I must speak to beocca. Fetch him, please. 162 00:10:37,846 --> 00:10:39,181 I cannot fetch him... 163 00:10:40,808 --> 00:10:42,267 He has trials enough. 164 00:10:44,311 --> 00:10:45,311 What trials? 165 00:10:47,189 --> 00:10:48,189 I am here. 166 00:10:50,025 --> 00:10:53,237 I have heard what the lady has said and I am here to beg you, 167 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:54,404 uhtred, to beg you to stay. 168 00:10:54,488 --> 00:10:56,865 - Father beocca, he cannot stay. - There will be a hearing. 169 00:10:56,949 --> 00:10:57,950 Perhaps. 170 00:10:58,033 --> 00:11:00,410 And we shall be heard. We must be heard. 171 00:11:00,494 --> 00:11:01,494 What has happened? 172 00:11:01,662 --> 00:11:02,955 Accept a trial and speak out. 173 00:11:03,038 --> 00:11:04,557 If you do not, then the devil will have won! 174 00:11:04,581 --> 00:11:05,415 Beocca? 175 00:11:05,499 --> 00:11:07,543 Do not abandon what you helped to build! 176 00:11:08,126 --> 00:11:09,586 There is a change in you. 177 00:11:22,015 --> 00:11:24,560 Thyra is with god... 178 00:11:26,478 --> 00:11:27,688 The gods even. 179 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:34,360 How? 180 00:11:34,903 --> 00:11:35,903 Fire. 181 00:11:37,781 --> 00:11:39,491 Set by good Christian men... 182 00:11:40,284 --> 00:11:41,285 No doubt. 183 00:11:42,202 --> 00:11:43,287 Which men? 184 00:11:43,996 --> 00:11:47,249 She is with gisela now, she is with her mother! 185 00:11:49,877 --> 00:11:52,754 We cannot allow ourselves to be consumed by her death. 186 00:11:54,798 --> 00:11:56,967 All that Alfred stood for is crumbling. 187 00:11:57,551 --> 00:12:00,554 You, uhtred, cannot be dragged into the shadows! 188 00:12:01,305 --> 00:12:03,140 You must become the light. 189 00:12:12,065 --> 00:12:13,734 [Sobbing] 190 00:12:19,781 --> 00:12:20,908 My lady aethelflaed... 191 00:12:22,576 --> 00:12:25,203 You will inform your brother and your mother, 192 00:12:25,454 --> 00:12:26,663 that mercia has a king 193 00:12:27,164 --> 00:12:28,206 with his own mind. 194 00:12:28,624 --> 00:12:30,417 I will do nothing of the sort. 195 00:12:30,834 --> 00:12:32,169 Alfred is gone. 196 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,380 Therefore all agreements made with Alfred no longer stand. 197 00:12:35,464 --> 00:12:37,841 Mercia will remain allied with wessex, 198 00:12:37,925 --> 00:12:40,218 the two countries will stand together or they will fail. 199 00:12:40,302 --> 00:12:41,803 The two countries are equals! 200 00:12:43,305 --> 00:12:47,059 Each free to choose who to befriend and who to fight. 201 00:12:47,893 --> 00:12:49,144 Who to fight? 202 00:12:51,355 --> 00:12:52,481 Lord aldhelm... 203 00:12:53,148 --> 00:12:55,734 You must remind my husband what it means to be mercian. 204 00:13:00,113 --> 00:13:01,114 Lord king... 205 00:13:02,950 --> 00:13:05,285 I must say I do not disagree with her. 206 00:13:07,746 --> 00:13:10,165 I need assuring, lord, that you will not align mercia 207 00:13:10,248 --> 00:13:11,750 with aethelwold, nor the Danes. 208 00:13:12,376 --> 00:13:14,419 - It would be a betrayal. - You need assuring? 209 00:13:15,003 --> 00:13:16,546 We are proud mercians, lord. 210 00:13:16,630 --> 00:13:17,881 Do you question me? 211 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,218 I am concerned. 212 00:13:22,260 --> 00:13:23,470 Do you doubt me? 213 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:26,890 I simply wish to understand your thinking. 214 00:13:26,974 --> 00:13:28,517 My guard of 50 men... 215 00:13:30,060 --> 00:13:31,353 Did you send for them? 216 00:13:31,770 --> 00:13:33,289 You will agree they are needed at home, lord. 217 00:13:33,313 --> 00:13:37,192 Did you send for my guard of 50 men? 218 00:13:39,653 --> 00:13:40,946 I did not. 219 00:13:47,536 --> 00:13:49,371 Should you live, aldhelm? 220 00:13:49,788 --> 00:13:51,164 Never disobey me again. 221 00:13:52,290 --> 00:13:53,291 Never. 222 00:13:57,921 --> 00:13:59,965 Your wound is from an alehouse brawl. 223 00:14:06,888 --> 00:14:09,182 I have been considering my defection to the Danes. 224 00:14:09,266 --> 00:14:11,810 I will hold until the very last moment. 225 00:14:12,102 --> 00:14:13,562 Meaning what? 226 00:14:13,645 --> 00:14:15,605 Edward will march and I will promise to join him, 227 00:14:15,689 --> 00:14:17,566 but I will arrive late. 228 00:14:17,649 --> 00:14:19,234 As the Danes attack from the front, 229 00:14:19,317 --> 00:14:20,652 I will attack from the rear. 230 00:14:21,737 --> 00:14:24,281 My army against a fyrd of peasants, 231 00:14:24,364 --> 00:14:27,492 it'll be a slaughter and my men will survive. 232 00:14:29,327 --> 00:14:31,204 I can almost hear the screams of panic. 233 00:15:00,525 --> 00:15:01,902 [Sighs] 234 00:15:07,365 --> 00:15:10,869 Lady, forgive me, I did not know where else to go. 235 00:15:11,203 --> 00:15:12,287 [Exhales] 236 00:15:16,708 --> 00:15:18,335 He believes he can negotiate... 237 00:15:21,296 --> 00:15:24,007 [Groans] ...Or is at least considering the possibility. 238 00:15:26,343 --> 00:15:28,428 The bleeding has stemmed. I hope. 239 00:15:30,597 --> 00:15:32,516 A gut wound is a slow death. 240 00:15:32,599 --> 00:15:34,017 A gut wound can heal. 241 00:15:34,601 --> 00:15:35,644 It will heal. 242 00:15:45,529 --> 00:15:46,863 Lady... 243 00:15:50,992 --> 00:15:52,119 You have my heart. 244 00:15:55,455 --> 00:15:56,873 I fear that I love you. 245 00:16:00,293 --> 00:16:02,373 If I can't say it when I'm dying, when will I say it? 246 00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:03,463 You're not dying. 247 00:16:07,217 --> 00:16:09,678 Lady, you must act, for mercia. 248 00:16:10,846 --> 00:16:11,888 You must. 249 00:16:12,806 --> 00:16:15,809 Call the men to arms and save us. 250 00:16:25,777 --> 00:16:27,445 [Lock opens] 251 00:16:31,575 --> 00:16:32,617 It's time. 252 00:16:34,077 --> 00:16:36,705 I am to take you to the frontier of mercia... 253 00:16:37,497 --> 00:16:39,124 To witness you leaving wessex. 254 00:16:47,090 --> 00:16:51,094 Lord? What is this? A hunting party? 255 00:16:51,178 --> 00:16:52,762 I am an outlaw once again. 256 00:16:53,263 --> 00:16:54,764 To be banished or executed. 257 00:16:55,098 --> 00:16:56,349 Shall we follow you, lord? 258 00:16:58,059 --> 00:16:59,603 Leave Winchester for the Danes? 259 00:17:05,442 --> 00:17:06,442 Lord... 260 00:17:07,903 --> 00:17:08,945 Walk. 261 00:17:10,989 --> 00:17:11,989 What is he doing? 262 00:17:13,742 --> 00:17:14,951 He's standing still, lady. 263 00:17:24,085 --> 00:17:25,212 Uhtred! 264 00:17:25,420 --> 00:17:28,298 You will walk and you will get up onto your horse! 265 00:17:40,060 --> 00:17:41,478 I am a free man. 266 00:17:43,063 --> 00:17:44,689 I have a letter of pardon. 267 00:17:45,565 --> 00:17:46,942 It bears the king's seal. 268 00:17:47,776 --> 00:17:50,862 - It is written in the king's hand. - Someone take his tongue. 269 00:17:50,946 --> 00:17:53,990 Does the word of Alfred count for nothing in Winchester, now that he is gone? 270 00:17:54,074 --> 00:17:57,410 And you are a man who once held a knife to the king's throat! 271 00:17:57,494 --> 00:18:01,539 Show us one witness who can say this letter was written willingly, 272 00:18:01,623 --> 00:18:02,457 one witness. 273 00:18:02,540 --> 00:18:03,708 There was no witness. 274 00:18:03,792 --> 00:18:05,543 We are gifting you your life! 275 00:18:05,835 --> 00:18:08,755 You should be grateful and you shall leave this land in peace! 276 00:18:08,838 --> 00:18:10,382 There will be no peace, lady. 277 00:18:11,299 --> 00:18:12,550 War is coming. 278 00:18:12,634 --> 00:18:13,677 [Crowd murmuring] 279 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,763 There is a Dane army marching this very moment. 280 00:18:17,973 --> 00:18:20,141 And I will not abandon the people of wessex. 281 00:18:20,225 --> 00:18:21,225 Who do you think you are? 282 00:18:21,268 --> 00:18:22,310 Steapa! 283 00:18:22,394 --> 00:18:24,020 Mother, the entire city is watching. 284 00:18:24,104 --> 00:18:25,122 [Aethelflaed] Uhtred speaks the truth. 285 00:18:25,146 --> 00:18:26,523 And you are nothing but smitten. 286 00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:27,607 Lady aelswith! 287 00:18:28,483 --> 00:18:31,152 I cannot let this injustice to go unchallenged! 288 00:18:31,236 --> 00:18:34,197 If uhtred of bebbanburg claims to have been made a free man 289 00:18:34,281 --> 00:18:35,907 by king Alfred himself... 290 00:18:37,409 --> 00:18:39,411 We cannot dismiss it so lightly. 291 00:18:39,911 --> 00:18:41,579 Only a king can deny a king. 292 00:18:41,663 --> 00:18:42,539 Wessex has no king. 293 00:18:42,622 --> 00:18:44,040 Wessex has no king! 294 00:18:44,124 --> 00:18:45,375 We have Edward Rex! 295 00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:47,711 [Aethelwold] It is for the witan to decide who is king. 296 00:18:47,794 --> 00:18:50,505 [Uhtred] Edward is the aetheling. [Aethelwold] He has no authority. 297 00:18:51,589 --> 00:18:53,466 He is Alfred's son and nothing more! 298 00:18:53,550 --> 00:18:55,844 I'm sure the monasteries are full of Alfred's sons. 299 00:18:56,177 --> 00:18:58,305 Do all bastards have a claim to the crown? 300 00:18:58,388 --> 00:19:00,598 Bishop erkenwald, you will end this display. 301 00:19:00,682 --> 00:19:04,060 King or not, if Edward believes the letter of pardon to be untrue... 302 00:19:04,936 --> 00:19:06,021 Then I will leave wessex! 303 00:19:06,104 --> 00:19:09,065 Steapa, you will return the prisoner to the palace, 304 00:19:09,149 --> 00:19:11,151 this is not the place for such decisions. 305 00:19:11,234 --> 00:19:13,069 This is precisely the place! 306 00:19:13,486 --> 00:19:14,988 Justice must be seen to be done! 307 00:19:15,071 --> 00:19:16,197 Steapa! 308 00:19:16,698 --> 00:19:18,658 Unhand the prisoner. 309 00:19:19,534 --> 00:19:21,119 Though he remains a prisoner... 310 00:19:22,579 --> 00:19:25,582 I will allow lord uhtred to speak. 311 00:19:25,665 --> 00:19:26,583 He has earned that right. 312 00:19:26,666 --> 00:19:30,628 Though you have not, lord, not yet, you have no authority. 313 00:19:30,712 --> 00:19:32,872 Do you object to the people bearing witness to justice, 314 00:19:32,922 --> 00:19:34,132 lord aethelwold? 315 00:19:35,467 --> 00:19:36,551 I do not. 316 00:19:38,261 --> 00:19:41,723 Uhtred, the king swore that you were to die. 317 00:19:42,390 --> 00:19:43,600 Why the change in his heart? 318 00:19:43,683 --> 00:19:46,019 Because he believed that I deserved his forgiveness. 319 00:19:46,102 --> 00:19:47,102 Is that a boast? 320 00:19:47,145 --> 00:19:49,397 Look to his chronicle. I am there on every page. 321 00:19:49,481 --> 00:19:50,815 That is a lie! 322 00:19:50,899 --> 00:19:53,151 You are not named, even once! 323 00:19:53,234 --> 00:19:54,361 But I am there! 324 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,364 Unwritten, lady, but I am there! 325 00:19:57,447 --> 00:19:59,449 The warriors of wessex know it. 326 00:20:01,701 --> 00:20:03,036 The Danes know it. 327 00:20:04,371 --> 00:20:06,414 And it is what the king has told me himself. 328 00:20:06,498 --> 00:20:07,582 I have heard enough. 329 00:20:07,665 --> 00:20:11,378 I am with him from the somerset marshes to ethandun and all of the battles 330 00:20:11,461 --> 00:20:12,921 that have followed! 331 00:20:15,298 --> 00:20:16,925 We were bonded, him and I. 332 00:20:18,843 --> 00:20:20,887 He was the man that I could never be... 333 00:20:21,846 --> 00:20:23,139 Nor did I wish to be. 334 00:20:25,350 --> 00:20:28,395 He was a man that I loved and despised... 335 00:20:31,022 --> 00:20:34,067 But it was never less than an honour to serve him. 336 00:20:36,611 --> 00:20:37,904 He was my king! 337 00:20:39,656 --> 00:20:41,991 And he did not wish to go to his god 338 00:20:42,075 --> 00:20:46,162 without granting me what I have earned, many times over! 339 00:20:46,955 --> 00:20:47,997 My freedom! 340 00:20:49,874 --> 00:20:53,795 But the question remains, why did he choose not to announce it? 341 00:21:17,777 --> 00:21:20,363 You will remember my great friend leofric... 342 00:21:21,865 --> 00:21:24,200 A warrior and a Saxon to the bone! 343 00:21:26,161 --> 00:21:30,039 He told me once that I could never better Alfred... 344 00:21:31,374 --> 00:21:34,085 "Because the bastard thinks", he said. 345 00:21:34,169 --> 00:21:36,671 [Scattered laughter] 346 00:21:38,798 --> 00:21:42,510 Perhaps your father chose not to announce my freedom for this very reason... 347 00:21:44,137 --> 00:21:47,348 So that the people could witness their new king Edward... 348 00:21:48,224 --> 00:21:50,143 Dispensing justice... 349 00:21:51,227 --> 00:21:52,312 And fairly I hope. 350 00:21:54,230 --> 00:21:56,441 Will you accept the decision of Edward Rex? 351 00:21:56,941 --> 00:21:58,359 I will. I give you my word. 352 00:21:59,194 --> 00:22:00,028 Lord... 353 00:22:00,111 --> 00:22:02,697 Again, I say and with respect, 354 00:22:02,780 --> 00:22:05,658 the boy does not have the power to make such a statement! 355 00:22:05,742 --> 00:22:07,702 He is an aetheling and nothing more. 356 00:22:08,495 --> 00:22:10,455 He is no more an heir to the crown than myself. 357 00:22:10,538 --> 00:22:11,623 Lord... 358 00:22:12,457 --> 00:22:14,083 Decision is yours to make. 359 00:22:14,167 --> 00:22:16,044 [Crowd chatters] 360 00:22:25,094 --> 00:22:29,849 My father, king Alfred, demanded loyalty, unity. 361 00:22:30,433 --> 00:22:33,937 He believed in his god and doubted those who did not. 362 00:22:35,313 --> 00:22:39,359 A heathen would not be trusted completely until he had embraced 363 00:22:39,817 --> 00:22:41,736 Alfred's god as his own. 364 00:22:48,201 --> 00:22:49,202 And yet... 365 00:22:52,163 --> 00:22:56,292 It was a heathen he did trust most. 366 00:22:57,502 --> 00:23:01,798 It was the word of uhtred that he respected most. 367 00:23:05,718 --> 00:23:07,011 Uhtred of bebbanburg... 368 00:23:08,012 --> 00:23:11,099 I find the letter written by my father to be true... 369 00:23:11,558 --> 00:23:14,435 Alfred's pardon does stand. 370 00:23:14,644 --> 00:23:17,772 You are a free man, able to choose your own path. 371 00:23:17,855 --> 00:23:19,440 [Crowd cheers] 372 00:23:20,024 --> 00:23:23,027 [Beocca] May I ask... Lord uhtred, may I ask? 373 00:23:23,945 --> 00:23:27,740 Now that you are a free man once more, where will your path lead? 374 00:23:28,533 --> 00:23:29,617 I would like to know. 375 00:23:31,619 --> 00:23:32,954 Steapa, my sword. 376 00:23:38,626 --> 00:23:39,794 One day, father... 377 00:23:40,962 --> 00:23:44,632 I hope that my path will eventually lead north, to bebbanburg... 378 00:23:46,384 --> 00:23:47,824 But now, I believe I am needed here. 379 00:23:49,470 --> 00:23:51,180 I will follow Edward Rex! 380 00:23:51,264 --> 00:23:53,141 [Crowd cheers] 381 00:24:12,243 --> 00:24:13,243 Cnut! 382 00:24:13,578 --> 00:24:15,997 Swear to the gods that it was aethelwold who killed ragnar. 383 00:24:17,749 --> 00:24:19,876 It was. I swear. 384 00:24:19,959 --> 00:24:21,753 He must not fall in battle. 385 00:24:22,295 --> 00:24:24,273 If you wish to see ragnar in the hall of the slain, 386 00:24:24,297 --> 00:24:26,299 then aethelwold must not just fall to any sword. 387 00:24:26,382 --> 00:24:27,383 I do not understand. 388 00:24:27,467 --> 00:24:28,801 Keep him safe until I'm ready. 389 00:24:29,594 --> 00:24:32,263 Do it for me and for ragnar. 390 00:24:33,056 --> 00:24:35,016 I will. I will keep him safe. 391 00:24:35,850 --> 00:24:38,102 We fight for ragnar! 392 00:24:38,186 --> 00:24:41,147 And for every Dane that has ever fallen to a Saxon sword! 393 00:24:41,230 --> 00:24:42,357 Yeah! 394 00:24:46,194 --> 00:24:48,112 If the Danes are moving through east anglia 395 00:24:48,196 --> 00:24:50,573 and towards eastern mercia, then that land is danelaw. 396 00:24:51,658 --> 00:24:53,076 Their army can only grow. 397 00:24:55,578 --> 00:24:57,497 As before, we must march out to meet them. 398 00:24:57,580 --> 00:24:59,415 I have spies inside danelaw. 399 00:24:59,499 --> 00:25:01,876 They have confirmed that they are moving closer. 400 00:25:02,377 --> 00:25:04,730 I have issued an order for my men at the frontier to retreat. 401 00:25:04,754 --> 00:25:07,215 - Retreat? - It is good sense, lord. 402 00:25:07,298 --> 00:25:09,384 Every warrior must be made to count. 403 00:25:09,467 --> 00:25:10,885 But how far do I retreat? 404 00:25:12,178 --> 00:25:14,931 Where and when does mercia make a stand? 405 00:25:15,014 --> 00:25:16,974 Where and when will we be joined by wessex? 406 00:25:17,058 --> 00:25:18,434 That is to be decided. 407 00:25:18,518 --> 00:25:19,894 I would like to know... 408 00:25:20,395 --> 00:25:23,231 Because wessex appears to be in a land of chaos and doubt. 409 00:25:24,482 --> 00:25:27,151 Does each of the handful of ealdormen here stand with Edward? 410 00:25:27,235 --> 00:25:28,611 We do. 411 00:25:29,404 --> 00:25:30,613 Of course, we do. 412 00:25:31,781 --> 00:25:33,157 He is to be king. 413 00:25:35,910 --> 00:25:37,120 Lord sigebriht? 414 00:25:39,455 --> 00:25:40,456 We do. 415 00:25:40,873 --> 00:25:42,273 And what of those who are not here? 416 00:25:43,584 --> 00:25:45,521 Those who have already hurried back to their halls, 417 00:25:45,545 --> 00:25:47,255 despite knowing there must be talk of war? 418 00:25:47,338 --> 00:25:48,965 They are with us, lord aethelred! 419 00:25:49,048 --> 00:25:51,634 Wessex will not have great numbers, I am hearing. 420 00:25:51,718 --> 00:25:54,595 We shall be marching and we shall be marching to fight, lord. 421 00:25:54,679 --> 00:25:55,596 Lord king. 422 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,557 Do not dare believe there is another option. 423 00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,350 Haesten and cnut are men without honour. 424 00:25:59,434 --> 00:26:02,729 They will take your land, your silver, and the tin crown from your head. 425 00:26:09,110 --> 00:26:10,361 All of you hear me. 426 00:26:11,446 --> 00:26:14,907 Yes, it is likely that the Danes will have greater numbers, 427 00:26:14,991 --> 00:26:17,452 but this is a battle that we can win. 428 00:26:18,536 --> 00:26:21,622 Though it will take all of us, every man and every sword 429 00:26:21,706 --> 00:26:25,626 and we will fight with all the guile and wit that Alfred has instilled. 430 00:26:28,296 --> 00:26:29,296 God is with us. 431 00:26:35,011 --> 00:26:36,345 I shall return to mercia. 432 00:26:37,555 --> 00:26:41,225 Send word of your intentions and soon, but, I warn you, 433 00:26:41,309 --> 00:26:42,995 I will not fight a battle that cannot be won. 434 00:26:43,019 --> 00:26:45,205 I will not be seen to send my subjects into a slaughter. 435 00:26:45,229 --> 00:26:47,648 Do you wish to become a puppet, lord aethelred? 436 00:26:49,984 --> 00:26:50,985 Send word. 437 00:26:58,367 --> 00:26:59,368 [Aethelhelm] Lord. 438 00:27:07,043 --> 00:27:08,044 He is right. 439 00:27:10,338 --> 00:27:11,589 I am not my father. 440 00:27:16,844 --> 00:27:19,263 When Winchester fell to guthrum, 441 00:27:19,347 --> 00:27:23,476 your father hid himself away in the marshes, for months. 442 00:27:24,227 --> 00:27:26,646 He hid in fear for his life and of failure, 443 00:27:27,438 --> 00:27:28,773 but he overcame that fear. 444 00:27:32,193 --> 00:27:34,153 We will find the words and you will write letters 445 00:27:34,237 --> 00:27:37,031 to each and every ealdorman and thegn of wessex 446 00:27:37,114 --> 00:27:40,326 and they will answer your call. They will come. 447 00:27:45,623 --> 00:27:46,623 To where? 448 00:27:46,916 --> 00:27:48,209 [Finan] Lord. 449 00:27:48,918 --> 00:27:51,212 If we have fewer men, 450 00:27:51,295 --> 00:27:54,924 the very last place we want to fight is open ground. 451 00:27:56,425 --> 00:27:57,635 Bedanford. 452 00:27:59,053 --> 00:28:01,430 Bedanford is a good distance away. 453 00:28:01,973 --> 00:28:03,641 That is the path they would take. 454 00:28:05,309 --> 00:28:09,313 It is a long march, lord, but the land could be to our advantage. 455 00:28:10,314 --> 00:28:11,357 It could, lord. 456 00:28:13,526 --> 00:28:15,361 Bedanford it must be. 457 00:28:21,367 --> 00:28:22,535 Then I will do it. 458 00:28:23,953 --> 00:28:24,996 With your help... 459 00:28:27,081 --> 00:28:28,749 I will find the words. 460 00:28:36,215 --> 00:28:40,845 The devil cannot win. The devil will not win. 461 00:28:42,013 --> 00:28:45,975 I will need a sword or an axe, a shield. 462 00:28:47,602 --> 00:28:49,312 This is a battle I will not watch. 463 00:28:50,521 --> 00:28:53,441 I need to fight, uhtred, 'til I can fight no more. 464 00:29:08,331 --> 00:29:09,331 Lord sigebriht... 465 00:29:11,375 --> 00:29:12,877 You are leaving in the night? 466 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,462 There is an army to raise. 467 00:29:16,923 --> 00:29:19,300 You have been sitting with aethelwold for some time. 468 00:29:19,383 --> 00:29:22,219 If you are questioning my loyalty, do not. 469 00:29:22,303 --> 00:29:25,765 I am wessex, as was my father and my grandfather. 470 00:29:25,848 --> 00:29:27,141 But you are not for Edward? 471 00:29:27,808 --> 00:29:29,852 That does not make me a traitor to my country. 472 00:29:29,936 --> 00:29:31,562 Then you will be there, in battle? 473 00:29:31,896 --> 00:29:32,897 I will. 474 00:29:34,774 --> 00:29:36,484 Wessex will need the men of cent. 475 00:29:38,402 --> 00:29:40,029 A letter will soon find you. 476 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:42,406 We will be there, 477 00:29:43,366 --> 00:29:46,202 for the good of cent and for wessex. 478 00:29:46,535 --> 00:29:49,372 Yes, for wessex, lord sigebriht. 479 00:29:52,166 --> 00:29:55,461 You are one day Saxon, the very next day Dane, uhtred. 480 00:29:58,089 --> 00:30:01,050 I have not yet offered you my condolences for ragnar. 481 00:30:04,303 --> 00:30:06,347 Your brother deserved a warrior's death, 482 00:30:07,181 --> 00:30:09,475 I am sorry you will not see him in Valhalla. 483 00:30:09,892 --> 00:30:11,686 This is where you belong, aethelwold. 484 00:30:12,561 --> 00:30:13,729 Winchester? 485 00:30:13,938 --> 00:30:16,941 Standing on a stable floor like a horse's turd. 486 00:30:18,734 --> 00:30:19,944 Will you be riding for Edward? 487 00:30:20,027 --> 00:30:21,362 Like sigebriht, I will be there, 488 00:30:21,445 --> 00:30:23,155 and I will be praying for a great victory. 489 00:30:23,239 --> 00:30:24,490 For Saxon or for Dane? 490 00:30:24,573 --> 00:30:26,492 Do you care? You belong to neither. 491 00:30:30,454 --> 00:30:31,831 I did once fear you, uhtred, 492 00:30:31,914 --> 00:30:35,710 but now I see you are nothing but a sword, a lump of metal. 493 00:30:37,753 --> 00:30:40,006 Yes, you have reputation, but that will fade. 494 00:30:41,007 --> 00:30:43,884 And you will die forgotten and unwritten. 495 00:30:45,511 --> 00:30:47,847 You will go neither to heaven nor to Valhalla. 496 00:30:59,984 --> 00:31:03,779 This letter from Edward, it had better be good. 497 00:31:15,332 --> 00:31:16,751 [Uhtred] A letter has been sent. 498 00:31:18,461 --> 00:31:20,296 Speaks out to every man in the kingdom 499 00:31:20,379 --> 00:31:25,926 demanding that he answers the call and joins us on the road to battle. 500 00:31:26,677 --> 00:31:28,971 It says that this will be a battle 501 00:31:29,055 --> 00:31:32,308 that will be spoken of for lifetimes to come. 502 00:31:33,142 --> 00:31:38,105 It is a battle that no man can ignore, no man can stand by and watch. 503 00:31:39,648 --> 00:31:43,736 Every man must find a weapon and every man must fight! 504 00:31:44,695 --> 00:31:47,823 Wessex will always be the light. 505 00:31:48,741 --> 00:31:51,911 And no matter how heavy our swords become, 506 00:31:52,703 --> 00:31:56,290 we must fight, fight, fight, 507 00:31:56,373 --> 00:32:00,252 and keep on fighting until the victory is ours! 508 00:32:00,336 --> 00:32:02,338 [Men cheer] 509 00:32:10,679 --> 00:32:11,972 We march! 510 00:32:55,182 --> 00:32:57,182 [Sihtric] I have noticed aethelwold is not with us. 511 00:32:58,060 --> 00:32:59,812 I wondered why the stench had gone. 512 00:33:00,104 --> 00:33:02,356 No doubt he's making his way to the Danes. 513 00:33:03,482 --> 00:33:05,568 He may know of bedanford, he will tell them. 514 00:33:06,402 --> 00:33:09,947 Which is why we're heading towards the woods, beyond bedanford. 515 00:33:10,447 --> 00:33:11,282 [Osferth] We are? 516 00:33:11,365 --> 00:33:13,659 We assemble at bedanford as requested in the letter, 517 00:33:13,742 --> 00:33:17,121 but then we march on to attack the Danes in the woodlands, 518 00:33:17,705 --> 00:33:19,874 a small advantage for our smaller numbers. 519 00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:22,500 Hmm. 520 00:33:24,712 --> 00:33:25,872 You have the blood kept safe? 521 00:33:26,463 --> 00:33:28,507 I do, lord, always. 522 00:33:28,591 --> 00:33:29,675 And it is blessed. 523 00:33:33,304 --> 00:33:34,346 Thyra's blood? 524 00:33:35,431 --> 00:33:36,473 Yes. 525 00:33:38,058 --> 00:33:40,060 And it will save ragnar's soul? 526 00:33:40,144 --> 00:33:42,688 It will take him from niflheim to Valhalla, yes... 527 00:33:44,398 --> 00:33:45,608 From hell into heaven. 528 00:33:49,987 --> 00:33:51,822 I must kill the man who killed ragnar, 529 00:33:51,906 --> 00:33:53,532 with a blade marked with ragnar's blood. 530 00:33:54,408 --> 00:33:55,534 Thyra's blood. 531 00:33:56,702 --> 00:33:57,870 It is the same. 532 00:33:59,788 --> 00:34:01,207 Who is this man you will kill? 533 00:34:03,626 --> 00:34:04,710 I do not know. 534 00:34:59,139 --> 00:35:00,349 [Brida] So uhtred lives... 535 00:35:02,393 --> 00:35:03,644 Now rides with Edward? 536 00:35:03,978 --> 00:35:04,978 Yes. 537 00:35:06,730 --> 00:35:08,023 You were supposed to kill him. 538 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:10,484 And I did not. 539 00:35:10,943 --> 00:35:12,223 Could you not find him sleeping? 540 00:35:22,204 --> 00:35:24,206 It barely matters because wessex is broken. 541 00:35:25,332 --> 00:35:27,310 Half of the ealdormen will not answer Edward's call 542 00:35:27,334 --> 00:35:29,086 and in one that will, we have an ally. 543 00:35:30,170 --> 00:35:31,714 Sigebriht of cent, 544 00:35:32,881 --> 00:35:36,010 he commands one of the greatest armies of wessex and he is with us. 545 00:35:36,343 --> 00:35:37,344 He is? 546 00:35:38,345 --> 00:35:40,180 Then he will join us, when? 547 00:35:42,474 --> 00:35:43,600 He will join us in battle. 548 00:35:45,019 --> 00:35:47,104 My plan is that he will arrive to attack the saxons 549 00:35:47,187 --> 00:35:49,148 from the rear, once battle has begun. 550 00:35:52,443 --> 00:35:53,443 Good. 551 00:36:02,202 --> 00:36:03,287 Jackdaw! 552 00:36:04,413 --> 00:36:05,497 What? 553 00:36:06,081 --> 00:36:09,001 Cnut will be sending out spies in search of the Saxon camp. 554 00:36:09,418 --> 00:36:10,419 You will follow. 555 00:36:11,337 --> 00:36:12,212 I will? 556 00:36:12,296 --> 00:36:14,340 You will find uhtred and give him a message. 557 00:36:33,901 --> 00:36:35,986 [Edward] There's still no word from lord sigebriht. 558 00:36:36,070 --> 00:36:38,322 I'd hoped some men would be here already. 559 00:36:38,405 --> 00:36:39,907 [Uhtred] They will come, lord. 560 00:36:40,366 --> 00:36:43,160 We must continue on to the woodland and begin the fight. 561 00:36:43,243 --> 00:36:44,953 We cannot allow them into open ground. 562 00:36:47,122 --> 00:36:50,376 Then this may well be the place we die, uhtred. 563 00:36:51,001 --> 00:36:53,545 Or it may well be the place you become king, lord. 564 00:36:54,505 --> 00:36:57,758 A great king, like your father at ethandun. 565 00:37:11,105 --> 00:37:14,733 There is nothing more useless than a dead spy. 566 00:37:20,406 --> 00:37:21,448 Finan? 567 00:37:31,291 --> 00:37:32,209 Jackdaw? 568 00:37:32,292 --> 00:37:33,794 He says he has a message, lord. 569 00:37:34,670 --> 00:37:35,712 I do, lord. 570 00:37:36,130 --> 00:37:37,130 It's from brida. 571 00:37:39,716 --> 00:37:40,716 Say it. 572 00:37:42,344 --> 00:37:43,804 Am I to be spared? 573 00:37:44,263 --> 00:37:45,389 Yes, you will be spared, 574 00:37:45,472 --> 00:37:47,391 but you will not be returning to the Danes. 575 00:37:48,142 --> 00:37:49,142 Say your message. 576 00:37:50,477 --> 00:37:52,604 She says, "aethelwold", lord. 577 00:37:54,731 --> 00:37:56,191 She says, "do not fail." 578 00:38:06,702 --> 00:38:07,828 How long? Before they come? 579 00:38:09,746 --> 00:38:10,747 They are near. 580 00:38:12,291 --> 00:38:14,209 You are facing death, for certain. 581 00:38:14,293 --> 00:38:16,336 You are wrong, jackdaw. I will not die. 582 00:38:20,507 --> 00:38:21,550 Osferth! 583 00:38:24,136 --> 00:38:25,137 The blood. 584 00:38:40,694 --> 00:38:46,116 Today, I ask you not to fight for Alfred. 585 00:38:46,909 --> 00:38:50,245 I ask you not to fight for Edward, nor the crown. 586 00:38:51,205 --> 00:38:55,167 But to fight for yourselves and your forefathers! 587 00:38:56,210 --> 00:39:00,172 They are buried in the soil of wessex 588 00:39:00,255 --> 00:39:03,300 and mercia and they have become the soil! 589 00:39:04,551 --> 00:39:05,844 They are the land. 590 00:39:07,095 --> 00:39:13,727 And even as I speak, it is for them, we are fighting! 591 00:39:13,810 --> 00:39:15,229 [Men cheer] 592 00:39:22,736 --> 00:39:24,696 [Indistinct chatter] 593 00:39:25,656 --> 00:39:27,449 [Bird caws] 594 00:39:43,423 --> 00:39:45,133 [Men shouting] 595 00:40:16,999 --> 00:40:18,542 They're attacking the rear! 596 00:40:18,625 --> 00:40:20,752 Defend the line! Move! 597 00:40:20,836 --> 00:40:23,046 Everyone! Attack! Attack! 598 00:40:24,006 --> 00:40:25,340 - [Cnut] Move! - Now! 599 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,935 Kill every shit eating Saxon bastard! 600 00:40:40,439 --> 00:40:42,941 [Finan] There's just too many of the bastards! 601 00:40:51,241 --> 00:40:52,868 Give no ground! 602 00:40:54,911 --> 00:40:56,705 Where are the mercians! 603 00:41:16,850 --> 00:41:20,687 [Finan screams] Uhtred, the line is breaking! 604 00:41:21,897 --> 00:41:23,231 [Uhtred] Push back! 605 00:41:27,944 --> 00:41:29,363 Where is sigebriht? 606 00:41:42,793 --> 00:41:46,004 Lord! Horses! Horses! 607 00:41:47,172 --> 00:41:49,841 [Uhtred] It is aethelflaed! It is mercia! 608 00:42:04,648 --> 00:42:05,875 [Haesten] They are holding firm! 609 00:42:05,899 --> 00:42:08,026 Aethelwold, when will your man attack? 610 00:42:08,110 --> 00:42:09,152 Soon! 611 00:42:09,444 --> 00:42:11,446 When they are tired! Very soon! 612 00:42:29,297 --> 00:42:31,425 There! There! There he is! 613 00:42:31,508 --> 00:42:33,385 Did I not say? 614 00:42:33,468 --> 00:42:35,554 What position is he taking? 615 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:51,862 For our forefathers! 616 00:42:52,112 --> 00:42:53,905 [Men shouting] 617 00:42:55,741 --> 00:42:58,452 And for wessex! 618 00:42:59,369 --> 00:43:01,079 Is he joining our line? 619 00:43:07,961 --> 00:43:09,629 That is your man! 620 00:43:10,964 --> 00:43:12,090 That is your man. 621 00:43:12,174 --> 00:43:13,383 And he's fighting for Edward! 622 00:43:13,467 --> 00:43:15,302 He has betrayed us! 623 00:43:15,385 --> 00:43:16,762 We still have the numbers! 624 00:43:16,845 --> 00:43:18,638 That is your man! 625 00:43:23,351 --> 00:43:25,604 Push! With me! 626 00:43:30,358 --> 00:43:31,485 Fight! 627 00:43:31,568 --> 00:43:33,820 Stand your ground and fight! 628 00:43:48,668 --> 00:43:50,128 We have been betrayed. 629 00:43:59,888 --> 00:44:01,056 [Grunts] 630 00:44:03,767 --> 00:44:04,767 [Groans] 631 00:45:23,305 --> 00:45:25,390 - They are possessed by devils! - [Grunts] 632 00:45:26,057 --> 00:45:27,058 It is lost. 633 00:45:55,211 --> 00:45:57,672 [Groans] 634 00:46:05,221 --> 00:46:07,641 [Breathes heavily] 635 00:46:22,072 --> 00:46:23,782 [Panting] 636 00:46:42,258 --> 00:46:43,258 Uhtred, please. 637 00:46:44,094 --> 00:46:46,346 [Breathes heavily] 638 00:46:47,847 --> 00:46:49,224 My arm is broken. 639 00:46:50,976 --> 00:46:52,477 I have no way of wielding a sword. 640 00:46:52,686 --> 00:46:54,562 - You have another arm. - Please. 641 00:46:55,563 --> 00:46:58,066 I will go north, east or west. 642 00:46:58,316 --> 00:47:01,736 I will go to frankia, to Ireland even. 643 00:47:01,820 --> 00:47:02,696 You killed ragnar. 644 00:47:02,779 --> 00:47:05,240 No. No, I didn't. I couldn't. 645 00:47:05,323 --> 00:47:06,533 - You killed him. - Never. 646 00:47:06,866 --> 00:47:07,866 Admit your guilt. 647 00:47:07,909 --> 00:47:11,079 Uhtred, I am guilty of nothing more than wanting what is rightly mine. 648 00:47:11,162 --> 00:47:11,997 Admit it. 649 00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,290 We are the same, our kingdoms stolen. 650 00:47:14,374 --> 00:47:15,792 You killed my brother! 651 00:47:16,835 --> 00:47:17,961 Admit it to me! 652 00:47:18,712 --> 00:47:20,088 [Panting] 653 00:47:23,466 --> 00:47:24,509 Yes! 654 00:47:25,802 --> 00:47:27,387 Or he would have killed me. 655 00:47:28,054 --> 00:47:30,932 It was a war of sorts between us. 656 00:47:36,771 --> 00:47:38,023 I am not worth it. 657 00:47:39,274 --> 00:47:40,859 I swear you will never see me again. 658 00:47:40,942 --> 00:47:45,030 I will go anywhere, travel as far away as you wish. 659 00:47:46,322 --> 00:47:47,322 Please. 660 00:47:49,242 --> 00:47:50,368 Please. 661 00:47:53,204 --> 00:47:56,041 Please. Please. 662 00:47:56,332 --> 00:47:57,417 Uhtred. 663 00:47:59,002 --> 00:48:00,128 Uhtred, please... 664 00:48:07,343 --> 00:48:09,095 You will need silver to travel. 665 00:48:11,306 --> 00:48:12,515 A ship's fare. 666 00:48:15,602 --> 00:48:16,603 Yes. 667 00:48:18,354 --> 00:48:19,354 I would. 668 00:48:20,565 --> 00:48:21,649 Not much. 669 00:48:24,611 --> 00:48:26,654 You will never see this face again. 670 00:48:34,621 --> 00:48:35,997 [Exhales] 671 00:48:36,372 --> 00:48:38,166 You will go to hell. 672 00:48:59,062 --> 00:49:02,774 Uhtred, look. 673 00:49:03,775 --> 00:49:05,068 A bridge. 674 00:49:06,945 --> 00:49:08,321 He's crossing to Valhalla. 675 00:49:13,201 --> 00:49:14,327 He's free. 676 00:49:17,831 --> 00:49:18,915 [Sniffles] 677 00:49:46,276 --> 00:49:49,320 [Uhtred] It will be written in the Saxon chronicle 678 00:49:49,404 --> 00:49:53,116 that Edward did gain a great victory over the Danes. 679 00:49:53,741 --> 00:49:57,078 Ensuring he would become king of wessex. 680 00:49:58,288 --> 00:49:59,998 But other battles lie ahead, 681 00:50:00,081 --> 00:50:03,710 both with the Danes and within wessex itself. 682 00:50:05,128 --> 00:50:08,256 A king must decide who he can trust... 683 00:50:09,507 --> 00:50:11,593 And who he must discard. 684 00:50:15,096 --> 00:50:20,351 He must understand the minds of both his enemies and his friends. 685 00:50:22,061 --> 00:50:25,690 He must recognise that the truth of a man 686 00:50:25,773 --> 00:50:31,154 lies not in the land of his birth, but in his heart. 687 00:50:38,745 --> 00:50:41,998 A king must be a king on his own terms. 688 00:50:42,498 --> 00:50:46,920 He cannot be his father, he can only be himself. 689 00:50:53,843 --> 00:50:57,722 The chronicle will grow, pages will be added, 690 00:50:58,056 --> 00:51:01,476 but uhtred of bebbanburg will not be mentioned. 691 00:51:02,477 --> 00:51:05,021 Although I too was victorious. 692 00:51:09,359 --> 00:51:12,695 My name is uhtred, son of uhtred. 693 00:51:14,405 --> 00:51:16,491 My name is uhtred ragnarson. 694 00:51:18,451 --> 00:51:20,954 Destiny is all. 695 00:51:28,503 --> 00:51:30,505 [Theme music playing] 696 00:51:31,798 --> 00:51:33,800 Subtitles (english sdh): Pixelogic media 697 00:52:02,495 --> 00:52:03,496 English sdh