(If I had a heart playing)
(Singing) More, give me more give me more
if I had a heart I could love you
if I had a voice I would sing
after the night when I wake up
I'll see what tomorrow brings
(vocalizing)
If I had a voice I would sing
(Intense music playing)
(People shouting)
(Chanting)
Ivar: People of kattegat,
we have a great sacrifice.
This is lagertha.
(Wwflmpemng) (Peoplegasp)
That's not lagertha.
That's not lagertha!
Hail lagertha!
All: Hail lagertha!
Take her away.
Take them away!
All: Hail lagertha!
Ivar: Take them away!
(Woman continues shouting)
Thora: I know who you are.
Why aren't you at the ceremony?
Crowd: (Chanting) All hail ivar!
Kill him! Hail lagertha!
This is the witch who murdered my mother in cold blood.
This is lagertha.
Shut your mouth!
A Danish king
handed her over to us.
She was trying to make a deal with him
to persuade him to join her in attacking kattegat.
Man: Traitor! Traitor, yes.
Traitor! All: Traitor!
She would do anything for power.
Thank the gods
hermanshaveah cometonoflflng no, no, no.
Her wild ways and blind ambitions...
No, I'm not lagertha.
I sacrifice her in the name of Odin
and in the name of five fellow gods.
I sacrifice her to cleanse this kingdom
of its evil spirits!
(Yells)
(Grunting)
(Screams)
Man 1: Is she dead? Man 2: Burn the witch!
Ivar: Here is the blood of the witch who murdered our mother.
(All cheering)
You know very well that wasn't lagertha.
You will drink to lagertha's death.
Hvitserk: She's not dead.
And you're not a god.
Of course, he is a god.
How dare you say that I'm not a god. Huh?
(Thunder rumbles)
Can't you hear Thor beating his mighty hammer
welcoming me into the hall of the aesir.
(All cheer)
Skol. All: Skol!
(Rain pattering)
My brother, ivar the god.
(Chuckles)
Thora: Why do you stay here?
Why not leave?
Let's go away together.
Don't you want to?
I want to leave, but I can't.
The gods won't let me.
For some reason, I have to stay here.
I love my brother, ubbe.
But one day I abandoned him.
Ijumped ship and joined ivar.
I still don't know why, but one day I will.
(Sighs) One day I will understand.
Helgi: Thorunn!
I can't find her.
I can't find my wife.
Tell me where is she? Ingvild: No, stop.
What have you done with her?
I haven't done anything with her.
I don't know what happened to your wife. Believe me.
You're lying.
(8088) You've killed her.
She's carrying my grandchild.
I want her to be alive. I want to meet my grandchild.
Where is she?
You have to tell me.
Helgi. Helgi! We don't know, we've been looking.
Someone knows.
It's impossible to survive out here.
Nobody chooses to walk away.
Tell us the truth.
If you killed thorunn you need to tell us where the body is.
I tell you again.
I don't know what's happened to her.
Rafarta: I do.
She came to me to speak privately.
She said that she was unhappy,
that she did not want to bring a child
into this terrible world.
And that she would make sure that it did not happen.
Aud: She wouldn't.
Helgi: It's not true. It's not true.
(Sobs)
She would never have.
(Thunder rumbles)
(Thunder rumbling)
Hello, thorunn.
Where have you been?
At the waterfall.
I had a message from aud. She wanted to see me.
Was aud there?
Was someone else there?
Who was it?
Who was waiting for you at the waterfall?
Asbjorn.
Helgi's brother? Yes.
He told me I was evil.
That I had bewitched his brother.
And that my child was an evil spirit
that could not be allowed onto the earth.
And what did you say?
I told him he was wrong.
That I loved helgi.
That we loved one another.
And that our child was innocent.
And then what did he do?
He picked up a sharp stone that was ready beside him.
And he struck my head with the stone.
So hard that it split my head and I fell.
And I knew that I was dead.
He had already prepared a place for me.
And had made a shallow trench.
He laid me in the shallow trench and covered my body with stones.
Would you tell me where this trench is?
(Thunder rumbling)
(Breath es heavily)
Harald: What else have you heard of wessex?
Some interesting rumors.
Such as?
Well, I was told out of the blue,
the shield maiden lagertha, and two sons of ragnar,
bjorn Ironside and ubbe,
appeared and sought refuge at the king's villa.
I don't know whether or not to believe it.
(Chuckles)
Oh, I can believe it.
We were hunting them.
They escaped.
They had every reason to come here, ancient reasons.
But it's good. So good.
Why good?
I have some unfinished business with lagertha.
She killed my wife.
Do you really know,
jar! Olavsonn, how it is to love a woman?
I think so.
Harald: Then you don't know.
It's nothing to do with thinking and it's nothing to do with the heart.
It's in the gut, it's in the entrails.
Now, the trouble is
the gods seem to have decided that I should never be happily married.
One day you will be, king Harald.
And how would you know?
I feel it in my gut and my entrails.
I have some news.
A large viking army is sailing into wessex.
From reports, I've heard that the leader of the army
is king Harald finehair, who, as you well know,
has visited us before.
I agreed to give you refuge here
so long as in return you agree to fight against your countrymen.
Now the time has come.
You will work with my brother, prince aethelred and bishop heahmund
to devise a strategy to defeat finehair's army.
If you refuse, you will be killed.
There'll be no future here,
no Grant of land, nothing.
You must understand.
And I think you do understand
that I've taken a huge personal risk to protect you.
So, I pray that none of you will betray me now.
No one will betray you,
and I'll fight with you against king Harald.
What?
You cut your hair.
(Staff thuds)
Ubbe.
I wanted to thank you,
and to ask you a favor.
Ubbe: First lesson
is not to be afraid.
So, go and stand by the tree.
Why? What are you going to do?
You asked me to teach you how to fight.
And I can teach you the ways in which to fight with a sword and axe or a shield
to stay alive.
But ifyou're afraid,
then you're already dead.
So, go and stand by the tree.
(Ubbe inhales and exhales deeply)
(Horse neighs)
Ubbe.
Do not be afraid.
(Sighs)
Hmm.
(Wind whistling)
The ground here has been disturbed.
(Sobbing)
Aud: Thorunn.
How did you know?
Floki, how did you know she was here?
She told me.
Did she also tell you who killed her?
You must admit your guilt.
I don't admit anything.
There's no proof.
I know who killed her. (Yells)
Stop it!
How can you quarrel and fight
when she is not properly prepared for the gods?
(Sobbing)
Oh, you're natural parents.
You're natural brothers and sisters.
How can you behave this way?
We can't go on.
We have to make a decision.
Bjorn: How did you survive?
Magnus: My anger kept me alive.
After aethelwulf expelled me from the villa,
I had nothing left but anger.
I said to myself, if there was any way
that I could gain my revenge on them in the future,
then my life will after all have been worth living.
And for a viking revenge is everything.
Isn't it true?
Well, I'm viking. Just like you.
My father was ragnar lothbrok,
the most famous of all vikings.
That's all I care about.
What do you think about king Alfred?
I hate him.
We're going to fight on his behalf.
You don't have to.
Ihear Harald finehair is on his way here with a great army.
(Clicks tongue)
(Knock on door)
What?
Oh, it's you.
I do not want to disturb you, husband.
No, no. Of course, I was just preoccupied.
I'm sorry.
Perhaps not such a good husband.
I've nothing to complain about.
Forgive me, ethelfled. I've some business to attend to.
When I return,
I shall perform the duties of a husband.
Cyneheard: Prince.
My lord cyneheard.
A viking army approaches.
We feel the time to act has come.
Are you sure?
Never more so.
Your brother should never have been made king.
The decision has placed our whole realm in jeopardy.
He's a weak and feeble leader.
In a time of war,
he entrusts a group of pagans with our defense.
He places his faith in bishop heahmund,
a faithless man.
Prince, we must seize the time.
If we are too afraid to act, then shall wessex perish
like every other English kingdom led by
feeble-minded rulers.
But you, the son and true heir ofaethelwulf,
we believe we can place all our trust
and all our faith in you.
And what is your plan, my lord?
We will call a meeting of the war council.
The king must attend, but so too must bishop heahmund
and his pagan friends. That is the time to strike.
We have enough warriors committed to our cause
to shut the doors and kill them all.
And then, as it always should've been,
you will be anointed and crowned
king of wessex,
king of kings.
What do you say?
I agree.
Call the council.
I should call him balder,
after Odin's beautiful son,
the fairest and wisest of all the gods.
The shining one.
I believe he's so strong he's already moving.
Perhaps one night he will just crawl out from between my legs,
fully formed. (Chuckles)
Inthatcase,
I'd like for him to be walking out, not crawling.
(Chuckles) Mmm.
Man: My lord ivar.
(Footsteps approaching)
My lord ivar. What?
We caught them. They've been trying for a while
to raise a rebellion in the town
against your rule.
Uh-huh.
You...
(Whistles) You.
Is it true you want to rebel against me?
I'm no ordinary man. I'm no ordinary ruler.
I expect you to rejoice.
For you are especially privileged.
For you are ruled by a god.
Help him to his feet.
I'll tell you what. I'm a merciful god.
I love my people.
So, if you go into the market place
and cover yourself with ashes,
admitting you're false and your false beliefs,
then beg my forgiveness,
then I will let you live.
What do you say? Hmm?
(Laughs)
Hang them.
And let their bodies be shown to the people as a warning.
(Grunting)
Hatred must never take the place of love.
Son of ragnar,
why have you sought me out?
Hvitserk: I need you to help me.
You've seen the past, the present and the future.
What do you want to know that you do not know already?
I have rarely come to see you. I've tried all my life
not to live by prophecy but through experience.
Poor you. (Coughs)
It seems to me that we learn so little from experience.
Still you are wise.
No, I'm an old man.
And old men are not wise.
They still wish that they were young.
And they rage against their frailties
and their fading memories.
What am I here for?
You'll accomplish what others before you have failed to accomplish.
But the cost will be too high.
If I sailed away now, would it be different?
You can try.
What will I accomplish?
If you chose to sail away, perhaps nothing.
You're not helping me.
What did you expect?
Everything is becoming darker.
We're all going into the dark.
I'm afraid.
I know that what I do not know
is the only thing that I really know.
And I'm afraid.
I'm afraid of going into the dark.
(Gasping)
Are you here?
My love.
So, we're going to fight king Harald?
And your own kind?
How do you feel?
King Harald has always been my enemy.
I thank the lord god
that you're here beside me.
That we may live
or die together.
Miserable sinner that I am.
Are you sure?
Are you not afraid that for this love,
your god will forsake you?
Yes.
I fear the lord.
But now, in this moment,
I desire you more.
You are so beautiful, so alive,
I would go to hell for you, lagertha.
Olavsonn: What could we expect?
They will already know we're here
and they will possibly try to block the river.
What is our greatest danger?
When our warriors see that they're going to fight against lagertha,
bjorn Ironside and ubbe, sons of ragnar,
ask yourself how'd you feel if you saw them rage against you.
These are legendary heroes. They're not human.
They're almost gods.
And whatever they say,
our warriors will be intimidated to face them, and why not?
Why not?
They are, after all, only human.
The axe would kill them too.
Do you think fate has brought us together?
You and I.
I couldn't say.
On the contrary, that is exactly what you did say.
I don't want to make a decision.
I don't want to betray anyone.
I just want to find out what the fates have in store for me.
Somehow it feels right to be here.
Feels inevitable.
I know my life is about to change.
(Man shouts indistinctly)
(Indistinct talking)
I've decided to lead the army myself.
I hope you agree.
It means I will require your support more than ever.
Of course.
I believe in you.
And I hope you believe in me.
I love you, brother.
Aethelred: And I you.
(People murmuring)
Alfred: My lords,
we're only days away from the greatest challenge our kingdom has faced.
We must all act together.
We need one another.
It is no weakness to say so.
I've decided to lead you into battle.
But I know that I have the support of my beloved brother, aethelred.
And of ubbe, the Christian son of ragnar,
and of lagertha, and of bjorn.
We must not be afraid ofourdeahngs with these foreigners,
these vikings.
The signal. Give that signal...
They are our allies and our future.
I can't.
(Breath es heavily)
Then we are lost.
(Door opens)
Bjorn: I want you all to meet someone special.
This is Magnus.
Ubbe: I recognize that name.
We were told that ragnar had fathered a son in wessex.
And here he is, our half-brother.
The son of ragnar and queen kwenthrith.
Hello, Magnus.
You must be lagertha.
What a great privilege it is to meet you at last.
And you must be ubbe.
In all the years I've had to hide my identity,
I've heard stories of bjorn Ironside
and queen lagertha and ubbe.
At last, I have my family.
And at last I belong somewhere.
Magnus believes that Alfred and his family have betrayed him.
And have betrayed us.
That they had no intention of granting us the lands in eastanglia.
And they have no intention now.
Did you ever meet ragnar? Yes.
When he was imprisoned here, I met him.
We embraced and wept.
And he told me
that he loved me as much as all of his other sons.
He told my mother that he never had sex with queen kwenthrith.
(Scoffs)
He would. Wouldn't he?
What is it that you want from us, Magnus?
Hmm.
Harald finehair is coming here with a great army.
You should join him and destroy the kingdom of wessex.
Ubbe: Destroying kingdoms, huh?
Suddenly you're so important.
I've waited a lifetime.
This is the meaning of my life.
Lagertha: Ragnar also told me
that he never had sex with queen kwenthrith.
That he was wounded
and she pissed on his wound.
And that was all.
Magnus: Of course he told you that.
He was lying.
Bjorn: I don't understand why you're all behaving like this.
I think we should take Magnus's story seriously.
Ibeheve he's telling the truth. I think he's lying.
Ubbe.
No, I do not believe that he's my father's son.
I do not believe that we should betray Alfred on his word.
Bjorn: That's because Alfred has corrupted you.
Now you call yourself a Christian.
So, you are even less of a brother to me than Magnus is.
You know, we should stop arguing.
Lagertha: I don't want to argue.
You don't believe me.
I can see it.
I'm sorry.
I just don't believe your story.
I don't believe him. But I do.
We have choices to make.
I have made a decision.
Eyvind: Your decisions are worthless, floki.
You're not king of this island.
And I am lawgiver.
I said I would make you lawgiver, yes.
If you didn't avenge your son.
But you did.
And now, with the deaths of thorunn and her unborn child,
you've avenged him three times over.
You like the sound of your own words. Don't you, floki?
But they always sound hollow to me.
Ingvild: We always believed in floki.
It's why we came.
Rafarta, you and your family
have undermined and destroyed all of our hopes.
You've destroyed my life, father.
Asbjorn: Shut up, helgi!
We hear too much from you.
And you're always weeping like a woman.
I have reason to weep.
And if you come any closer to me,
your mother and father will have reason to weep also.
Fioki is right.
He has come to a decision.
We must all respect it.
There is no other way.
(Grunts)
Eyvind and his entire family,
including you, helgi,
are expelled from this settlement.
You must leave.
And find another place.
Far away from here.
Eyvind: You can't expel us, floki.
Winter is here.
Food is scarce, we won't survive.
That lies in your hands.
We could fight.
You could.
But you would lose.
So, is this the result, floki?
Is this the result of your great dreams, your precious idealism?
This?
I just want you to leave.
You can't kill me, eyvind.
No matter how hard you try.
(Indistinct shouting)
(Thunder rumbling)
(Seer gasping)
These are days for rejoicing, ancient one. You know that.
Wonderful things have come to pass.
I know what I know.
Ivar: You cannot deny my divinity.
You've known about it all along.
The allfather's blood runs in my veins.
The aesir have welcomed me into their halls.
(Speaking old norse)
You will tell all who ask of this good news.
I tell only what I see.
That's all I ask, wise one.
Tell them the truth.
You're ivar, the boneless, son of ragnar.
I'm the god ivar.
(Seer breathes heavily)
All things are dark.
We shall all, all of us go into the dark.
Your chariot lies as broken as your legs.
A snake has settled in your skull.
And your eyes betray you.
Your path is strewn with garbage and filth.
Oh, the horror.
The horror...
(Music playing)