Ivar: When the moon waxes full again,
we shall seize our fame and fortune,
and fight such a battle that the world will tremble.
And the winner shall inherit the earth.
Home.
Honestly, I don't know anymore.
What is home?
I'm aviking.
But there's something else.
The mother of my children,
torvi.
I don't love her anymore.
She doesn't deserve it.
I feel bad about it.
Well, what we deserve and what we get,
bjorn Ironside,
it's never in balance.
It appears the gods are not much interested in fairness.
Ah!
Yah!
Good?
Eyvind: How much further, floki?
We've been walking for days.
I'm so greatly looking forward
to seeing the house that thorgrim built for floki.
If it exists.
Oh, it exists.
I saw it in a dream.
It's made of gold.
It is a house built by the gods.
It should be big enough for all of us, not just floki.
Why won't you speak to us, floki?
Because you wouldn't understand.
Welcome home, my son.
Why are the sami here?
King Harald and your brother, ivar, are planning to attack us.
When? At the next full moon.
Well, it seems I've returned just in time.
We need even more help.
We can't underestimate the forces
that Harald and ivar will bring to battle.
That is why I invited the sami to join us.
Come and meet them.
Ubbe. Welcome.
Princess.
Lagertha: Tell me, halfdan.
What was the most amazing thing you saw on your travels?
Nothing.
Nothing? They call it "the desert."
It's just miles and miles of sand.
Sand as far as you can see.
And nothing but sand.
And what was the second most amazing thing you saw?
Everything.
Ubbe.
Why have you fallen out so violently with ivar?
How can you even ask me that question?
You know what ivar is. You saw.
Hvitserk chose to go with him. The traitor.
He'll destroy our father's legacy for all time.
We can fight to preserve as much as we can.
Our father lives through us, bjorn.
Or he doesn't live at all.
What are you going to do, halfdan?
Are you going to rejoin your brother?
Bjorn saved my life.
And I have sworn allegiance to him.
And nothing
will make me change my mind.
While you were away, your brother came here.
He swore to me that he no longer had any designs on my kingdom,
but he was lying.
How do I know that you're not lying?
You don't.
Even though I swore on my sacred ring.
Do you think I'm lying,
bjorn?
You and I crawled out from under the same rock.
I believe you'll fight against your brother.
Guthrum, I brought something back for you.
It belonged to a man named commander euphemius,
a byzantine prince.
Thank you, bjorn.
It's beautiful.
Perhaps, one day, I will get to meet this euphemius.
Alas.
No, you will not.
Halfdan and I ate him.
You ate him? Well, not on purpose.
No, you have to understand that many strange things happen
in that other world.
Perhaps, one day, you will see for yourself.
Here is the place.
Here is where we shall live.
Here's what?
And the settlement?
I can't even see a single house.
You must be joking.
You're not looking.
That's been your problem all the way through, eyvind.
You don't know how to look.
I can see everything with my own eyes.
I don't need to be tricked.
What I see is nothing.
Where is the house the gods have built?
It's not here!
I have to cutoff your cursed head right now, floki.
Rafarta: You see?
This is the land of loki and the giants.
This is the land of evil.
Look at the hot water spurt.
I'm sure hel is close by.
Stop this stupid talk.
This is just water the gods have made hot
for the very purpose of helping us.
Here, we can wash our clothes, and even bake bread.
Is there not a soul here
who would not enjoy a slice of hot bread?
I can see she interests you.
Don't worry.
I'm notjealous.
Not anymore.
When you didn't come back from england,
I knew the love we had was over.
I only want to know
that you will always look after our children.
I swear, torvi.
I will always take care of you and the children.
This is for you.
Why don't you give it to someone else?
Because I want you to have it.
Thank you.
Sweet bjorn.
What is it?
I want her.
You don't know anything about that girl.
Ask the king.
What about torvi?
It's finished.
Come.
My son would like to sleep with your daughter.
Ubbe1torvi?
It's all right.
I understand.
He wasn't my fate after all.
I don't blame bjorn.
But still.
You have his children.
Children die.
We all die.
We mustn't try to hold on to things that pass.
You're very wise, aren't you?
Hmm. No.
I want you to give this to margrethe.
Margrethe: You love torvi?
I felt sorry for her.
If you feel sorry for someone, you don't have to kiss them.
We don't have time to play games.
The world is coming to an end.
Ivar and Harald are coming.
We have to know what we are fighting for.
We have to know why we are fighting.
I agree.
Lagertha has been weak.
Do we really want to fight for someone like that?
She's the rightful ruler of kattegat.
No, she killed the legitimate ruler of kattegat.
What are you saying?
Don't fight ivar.
Why would you?
Let them come. Let them overthrow her.
Don't stand in their way.
You are the oldest son.
If they kill bjorn...
If they kill bjorn,
then you will be king of kattegat,
and I will be queen.
What an amazing outcome for a slave,
to end up as a queen?
Is that what you want?
Yes, ubbe.
It's what I want.
I still miss ragnar even now.
I often remember when we were farmers.
You've come along way since then.
Perhaps.
One day, I would like to go back to being a farmer.
Living a simple life,
watching the sun rise in the morning, and set in the evening.
You deserve it.
Your life has never been easy, I know that.
But as your son, I am so proud of you.
Of what you have achieved.
King Harald kidnapped Astrid and took her away.
I miss her, too.
My life is full of ghosts now.
You sound as if you think it might all be over soon.
But that is not you.
Lagertha doesn't look back.
She faces what is to come.
And I know you will do that now.
For war is coming.
It will be like ragnarok.
Ivar will be like the wolf, fenrir.
And flames will dance in his eyes.
And he will try to tear the sky apart.
You wouldn't want to miss that now, would you?
No, it's true.
I wouldn't want to miss that.
You will be fighting against your brothers.
Yes?
Yes.
Perhaps even my brother, bjorn,
if he returns from his travels.
Do they frighten you,
your brothers?
Maybe bjorn. Just a little.
I don't find him very smart, but he is a great warrior.
They call him "bjorn Ironside."
And the woman,
the one who killed your mother?
Lageflha? Heahmund: Hmm.
I've sworn to kill her.
And she knows that I'll do it.
She just doesn't know how bad it's going to be.
Where will you fight? I don't know.
Perhaps they'll placate themselves in kattegat, the main town.
That would be foolish.
Maybe you can help me think of a strategy.
Ivar: Hmm?
You would trust me to do that
even though I don't care which side wins?
Ah, but you want to win. I see that.
And I want to be around people who want to win.
What they do afterwards, who cares?
The fact is,
I will only fight for you because I am certain,
as certain as I can be,
that god wishes me to do so.
That I am part of some plan which I cannot comprehend.
Then you believe, like us, that you are fated, huh?
I still believe I have free will.
I choose to fight for you.
If you are fated, it doesn't matter if you choose or not.
You simply have the illusion of being free to choose.
Hvitserk: I don't know.
Excuse me?
I just don't know if, when I joined your side,
whether it was fate or free will.
What does it matter?
I was looking for you. I didn't know where you were.
I don't have to be attended at all times, do I?
Of course not. I just like to know where you are.
You are so precious to me.
I saw you being sick.
Are you ill?
Please tell me you're not ill.
No, I don't think I'm III.
Then?
I think I might be with child.
By all the gods.
My wife is with child.
Yes, it's possible.
You make me so very happy.
Well, I'm glad. I, um...
Don't cry.
This is astonishing news.
First, I find a woman,
and then she tells me she's going to have my child.
Oh, don't cry, Astrid.
Astrid.
You have just made me the happiest man in midgard.
Why don't you show yourself to these people
as you show yourself to me?
They want to believe.
That's why I chose them.
We just need a sign.
Can you feel him?
You are with child?
Don't you feel him?
Yes.
The first child of the new world.
Ivar: What's the matter with you?
I'm going to be a father.
Skol.
Huh.
Hmm.
I want to marry your daughter.
She is worth far more than you can ever give.
I know.
So, I will give far more than I can ever afford.
Very well.
If she wants to.
Snaefrid?
We have a strange custom in the north.
We half-castrate a reindeer.
But we don't cut the balls out of the sack.
Instead,
the men hold the reindeer down.
We women chew the balls to pieces inside the sack.
So, tell me, bjorn.
Did you think this was the way we sami always got married?
I bet you thought this was all our custom. Huh?
That's why you allowed me to tie you up.
I told my father I was going to marry you
the moment I saw you.
Maybe I won't chew your balls.
Sami men can last for many hours.
Freya,
beloved goddess,
think well of me.
See my suffering.
Heal my heart.
And let my prayers come unto you.
It delights my eyes to see all of you working together.
This was my dream.
That we would create a new kind of world
in which everyone is equal,
contribute equally to the community, to the best of their ability.
And those who fall sick or are injured,
can expect to be looked after by the rest of us.
We will parcel out the land fairly,
and only tax those who can afford to pay.
So, no reason for anyone to feel hard done by.
We will find a place for our meetings, and we will elect a law giver
who will decide upon the merits of every case.
There will never be any reason to use the ax
to settle disputes among us.
This is a new place,
a new land.
And we must try to be better people,
different people than we were.
Eyvind: That is all good and well, floki.
But who will rule us?
Nobody.
We will rule ourselves.
I don't believe you, floki.
Not for a moment.
I know fairly well that you want to rule us.
You want to be king.
It's true, isn't it?
Don't deny it.
You want to be king.
It is beautiful.
Lord Abbot: Then the lord said unto me,
"out of the north, a great evil shall break forth
"upon all the inhabitants of the land."
Never before in england had such a terror appeared,
and it first appeared here, at lindisfarne.
If the young monk you mentioned, athelstan, was here at that time,
he would have worked in this scriptorium,
illuminating the words of our lord.
He may even have painted icons.
Although, of course, he would never have signed his work.
Even the greatest artists recognize that they owe their talent to god.
And that their work is for his glory and not for their own.
I never actually met my...
Met athelstan,
but from what I've heard about him, he was a kind and humble man.
Lord Abbot: Lwish I could tell you more about him.
All I know is that on that terrible day,
which some thought was the day of judgment,
many of the monks were killed here.
Others drowned themselves,
trying to escape the wrath of the northmen.
But I understand some were taken away in their boats,
and sold into slavery.
There is even a story that one of them returned later to these shores.
He was an apostate who had abandoned god,
and embraced the pagan way of life.
Perhaps it was all part of god's will.
It seems unlikely.
Which doesn't make it untrue.
Prince, may I ask you,
who was this monk to you?
An inspiration.
Was he not crucified as an apostate?
Yes.
But he Rose again.
I have his cross, here.
But if you never met him...
It was given to me
by ragnar lothbrok.
Ragnar lothbrok?
He led that raid on this island.
He is the devil incarnate!
My lord abbott,
all I know is that the world is not a simple place.
There is good and evil in everything and in everyone.
We are all, all of us, devils and angels.
You might like to put that into one of your sermons.
There is something else you might consider.
Are you still conducting all your business in Latin?
Most people don't speak Latin, so they think of you as superior beings,
which, as you explained, isn't true.
Since you are so humble and work only for the glory of god,
god can be glorified and addressed in English.
And that way, all the people here can share your love
and understanding for him,
as well as share all the knowledge
contained in all those books in your library.
It's only a thought.
Heahmund: "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven,
"a woman clothed with the sun,
"and the moon beneath her feet.
"And upon her head, a crown of 12 stars."
Who is the woman? The virgin.
Mary, mother of our god, Jesus Christ.
If she was a virgin, how could she be a mother?
It was a miracle.
I would say so.
Are there not many miraculous things in your faith?
Like the serpent whose body holds in the sea.
Well, that's not a miracle. That is true.
One day, Thor was fishing,
and hooked the serpent by mistake.
And the two of them, they fought an almighty battle.
I can imagine.
The moon is a woman.
That's true.
But not a woman you can trust.
A devious woman, a woman who drives men insane.
She promises them her love,
and her favors.
But then she changes her mind, cheats on them,
goes with someone else.
Do you understand what I am thinking?
You're thinking I can't be trusted.
That my promises are worthless.
That I will be as fickle as the moon.
In my experience, it happens.
But if you kill me now,
you deny yourself the pleasure of proving yourself right.
Heahmund, I do not want to be right.
I want to believe in you.
I want to believe that in this world,
there is someone who never lies,
cheats,
or compromises.
Who is always
noble.
I am the one,
ivar.
You can believe in me.
We'll see.
Bjorn: Our numbers are growing.
Good.
Lagertha: Where shall we meet them?
Bjorn: They would expect us to defend kattegat by a seaborne attack.
So, they won't attack by sea?
Bjorn: I don't think so.
In my experience, ivarneverdoes what you expect him to do.
So, what should we do?
If ivar brings his army across the land,
we should try and intercept him.
And choose a battleground that suits us.
Exactly.
Ivar always likes to scout his battlegrounds before any battle,
so he can use the features of the land to his advantage.
However, if we take that ability away, then we have the advantage.
The battleground must include forest.
That is where the sami best use their skills.
If they attack from the east?
We should fight them on scar mountain.
There's one more thing.
In his cleverness,
if ivar does bring his army across the land,
the ships he leaves behind will be vulnerable.
Halfdan: Yes.
And once we engage with them,
he will become very aware of that.
Then he will have to keep back a significant amount of his warriors
and my brother's warriors
to prevent us outflanking them,
and reaching their ships first.
I like that.
The less warriors he commits to the field...
The greater our chances of prevailing.
On the other hand,
ivar may have anticipated all of this.
In which case...
In which case, he will attack kattegat by sea, after all.
And we won't be here.
He will just take kattegat without even a fight.
We have to choose.
And I think bjorn is right.
Father, I came here to try and find you,
but you are not here.
But I'm not worried.
You are everywhere, especially in my heart.
I think you are here now,
looking down and smiling at your foolish son.
I know you for a humble man, father.
But I cannot promise to follow you in those footsteps.
I do not aim to be humble.
All I can think of is that we say our lord's prayer together,
you and I.
Our father, which art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Alfred and athelstan: Give us this day our daily bread...
Father.
And forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil,
forever
and ever.
Amen.
It's time.
The end of our world is here.