Joined in vengeance, they separate into ambition.
Bjorn seeks glory in the Mediterranean, taking Harald’s brother Halfdan with him.
But Ragnar is dead.
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“Do not be afraid,” the bishop tells his followers.
“Christ is here.
You are safe.”
Ubbe seems to have inherited his father’s curious, rueful side.
Not so Ivar, who boils a cross into molten gold and feeds it to the local bishop.
Back in Kattegat, Lagertha welcomes the returning King Harald with news of his own failed coup.
Imprisoned, Harald offers Lagertha a peculiar truce.
They should marry, he says, merge powers, rule all the land.
“The most powerful woman in the country.”
Is Lagertha losing her touch?
Heahmund and Aethelwulf array outside his captured York, biding their time.
The waterfalls ascend upwards.
A god appears in the mist.
“I am in Asgard,” says Floki.
“I am in the land of the gods.”
