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Bjorn.
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Bjorn. Wake up!
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- Hold your line!
- More tight.
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The Pillars of Hercules!
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There to starboard.
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What?
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Those mountains.
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Known to the Ancients
as the Pillars of Hercules.
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But, to our purpose,
more importantly,
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they mark the entrance
to the Mediterranean Sea.
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How fortunate I was
to run into you, Sinric.
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What are you thinking?
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How lucky we are the gods
gave us this opportunity.
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For what lies ahead are new cities,
worlds, people, and places.
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Ah, my father would have
relished this opportunity.
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I would still urge caution
about these lands and peoples.
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They will not know
who you are,
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and you in turn don't know how
strong anyone is in this new world.
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I want to go to Rome.
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Rome is at the center
of the map.
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Rome is the center
of the new world.
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Not anymore, Bjorn Ironside.
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Since this map was drawn,
the whole world has changed.
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The Roman Empire is no more.
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Its power is mostly gone.
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What's left is just a sad
shadow of its former glory.
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Then if not Rome, then where?
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There is an island,
not so far away.
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It's an interesting place.
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And what do they call
this interesting island?
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Sicily.
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Even though we saw
some of their armies leave,
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we cannot be sure
that they are much weakened.
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And after all, Alfred,
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it is our armies which suffered
terrible defeat and loss.
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So, in truth,
we cannot think of attacking
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and trying to reclaim
the town.
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I agree.
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That is why I wonder
if it was wise of you
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to dismiss their peacekeepers.
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They didn't come here
to make peace.
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They came here
to make trouble.
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You cannot trust them.
They are heathens.
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Well, then, we must retreat.
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Return to Wessex.
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Raise another army and leave them,
for now, in possession of York.
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I disagree.
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We have no choice.
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On the contrary.
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I don't understand.
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I had a vision.
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I saw the two witnesses
who are the prophets
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standing before
the god of the earth.
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And if any man
should harm them,
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fire would proceed from their
mouths and devour their enemies,
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and if any man should harm them,
he must be killed.
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You speak in riddles,
Bishop Heahmund.
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What I saw was real.
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I saw all the dead bodies of the wicked
lying in the street of the great city,
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for there was no one left
to bury them.
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And I saw
that this great city
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was York, and all those dead
bodies were of pagan Northmen.
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They died
because they starved.
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They died because
they had nothing to eat
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and nothing to drink
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and were walled up
in a great city.
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Is that what we should do?
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Yes.
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Close all roads to York.
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Blockade all rivers.
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Prevent the Northmen
from coming and going.
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And, in that way,
trap them,
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starve them,
force them to surrender.
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And when
they realize our plan,
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they might emerge
and attack us,
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while our forces
are much depleted.
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What do you say, Father?
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I say, you go and order our
commanders to close the roads,
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the rivers,
passageways that lead to York.
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We will starve them out.
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With God's help.
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Oh, He will help us,
King Aethelwulf.
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Be assured of it.
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Ubbe!
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Ubbe!
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Ubbe!
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You're more than ever welcome
back to our hearth, Ubbe.
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We have all heard of the
successes of our Great Army,
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how you revenged
Ragnar's death,
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overcame both
Aelle and Ecbert.
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I thank my own son,
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but also you
and all the sons of Ragnar
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for these immortal events.
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Then you must have heard of Sigurd's
death at the hands of Ivar.
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And his challenge to Bjorn that he
was the leader of the Great Army.
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I want to tell you both,
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Bjorn Ironside behaved himself
throughout with
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great honor and courage.
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I love and admire him
as a brother.
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Thank you
for your words about Bjorn.
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He is a good man.
I know that.
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But Ivar is a different story.
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He tore us apart.
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As far as I am concerned,
I am now at war with Ivar.
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My brother Hvitserk,
he has decided with Ivar.
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So he is now my enemy.
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Let us make a pact.
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I will support you against
Ivar and Hvitserk
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if you agree to support me
against King Harald.
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You see, that would make me
an ally of my mother's killer.
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Mmm. I know.
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Your choices
are all difficult, Ubbe.
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But, for the sake
of the good folk of Kattegat,
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can we not be allies?
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Skol.
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Skol.
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I had hoped
that Bjorn would return.
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Mmm.
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He will come back.
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I know he will.
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But, until then,
don't put all your trust in Ubbe.
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Why do you say that?
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It's just that, after you,
Bjorn should rule Kattegat.
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Who knows what the gods
have in store for us?
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You understand I won't be sharing
you with Hvitserk anymore.
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I'm glad.
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You're the man I married.
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You are my husband.
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- Hvitserk is a traitor.
- Mmm.
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I think Lagertha
is losing her power.
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I think the gods
have deserted her.
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I have seen it.
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I have
watched it happening.
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Her weakness when she dealt with King Harald,
her uncertainty.
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He tricked her
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and made a fool of her.
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Truth is,
there is only one man
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who can replace Ragnar
as the ruler of Kattegat,
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and that man is not Bjorn,
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since Bjorn clearly
has no interest in Kattegat.
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It's you, Ubbe.
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And you know it.
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Sicily.
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Tell me about it.
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The ruler is a Byzantine
commander called Euphemius.
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He is already legendary.
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His ambitions are so limitless
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that he attempted to overthrow
the Holy Roman Emperor.
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He failed
and came here to Sicily
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with his ambitions undimmed,
so far as I know.
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What is Byzantine?
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Who is the Holy Roman Emperor?
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Michael II.
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But don't worry about it.
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In a few months' time,
he may not be.
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All things change.
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This world is impermanent
and deceiving.
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Many things are not
what they seem.
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When we go ashore in the morning,
remember we are traders.
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We will have
many adventures here
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and, if we live,
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many stories to tell
at the Great Hall.
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If we live.
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Shh.
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Gather
all their weapons.
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Well done.
That all of them?
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Looks like
they will go hungry again.
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Yes, my Lord.
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So, the hunting party
did not return today.
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I said, the hunting...
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I heard what you said.
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We are almost out of food.
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And there is sickness
in the town.
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What are we going to do?
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We have to do something.
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The Saxons
are in their own country.
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They can be reinforced
and grow stronger
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while every day
we just grow weaker...
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What are you really saying,
huh, brother?
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That I was wrong not to
negotiate with the Saxons
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and that Ubbe was right?
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No.
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No? Are you sure?
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Ubbe was wrong.
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That's why
I didn't sail with him.
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But now you regret it?
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I just told you, no.
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Ubbe treated me
like his little faithful dog.
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I am no one's dog, Ivar.
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Woof, woof.
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Astrid was
spirited away from here.
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There was nothing
Lagertha could do.
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She was powerless.
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- Isn't that more proof?
- Proof?
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That the gods
have turned against her.
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How can you say that?
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You're talking about Lagertha.
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And you were just a slave.
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I am not a slave now,
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and, in my head, I never was.
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We are equal to Lagertha, Torvi, you and me.
We are all equal.
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You are right,
Margrethe.
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We are all equal.
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I didn't know
you were listening.
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What does it matter?
If I wasn't listening,
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then the gods were listening.
It's all the same.
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I have no feelings
for you either way.
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I could kill you
for your talk of betrayal,
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but I am sick of betrayal.
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I have known betrayal
all my life.
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Every man I've ever known
has betrayed me.
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Now most women betray me.
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What am I supposed to think?
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Not every woman
wants to betray you.
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Of course not, Torvi,
but given the chance...
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Margrethe, conspire against me
if you want to.
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But, if you can find
the courage to be loyal,
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then I will respect you
like no other.
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You were a slave
who had no choice,
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but, now, now as a free woman,
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you choose to love me.
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Approaching!
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Look, riders.
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Who are they?
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Northumbrians.
My mother's people.
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- Mannel.
- Queen Judith!
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This is my cousin, Mannel.
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This is my husband,
King Aethelwulf.
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Sire, as Bretwalda,
King of Kings,
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I offer you my allegiance
and my absolute loyalty.
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You are more welcome
than I can say.
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There is much business
to be done here.
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This is my eldest son,
Aethelred.
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And Heahmund,
the Bishop of Sherborne.
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Bishop Heahmund,
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your reputation
as a religious scholar,
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and as a warrior,
goes before you.
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And since
I came here to fight,
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I can think of no two men I'd rather
stand beside in the shield-wall
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than King Aethelwulf
of Wessex and Heahmund,
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the warrior bishop
of Sherborne.
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Don't flatter them too much.
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You'll make them vain.
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It's true. The Bible tells us
that all is vanity.
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And yet here we are
about God's work.
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The Bible also tells us to
show no mercy to unbelievers.
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Against these devils
and pagans,
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we are the wrath of God.
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Please, come.
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What is he asking?
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If we are traders.
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Of course
we are traders.
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Look at how few boats
we brought.
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He says, "Welcome."
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Commander Euphemius wants you to
understand that you are not the only
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Northmen who have appeared
in the Mediterranean.
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The Emperor Michael himself has a
personal bodyguard of Rus Vikings
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from the Kievan Empire.
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Commander Euphemius wants
you to be his bodyguards.
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He will pay you and your men
very well.
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It would be better
if you agreed.
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Tell him we agree.
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Who is she?
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Kassia.
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Her name is Kassia.
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Apparently,
she is a Christian. A nun.
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She was in charge of a monastery
and writes holy songs.
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A nun? A woman of God?
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The Commander says that he stole her
from the holy city of Byzantium.
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And that she is so famous,
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the Emperor sentenced him
to death for abducting her.
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Will I ever see
my son again?
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Yes. You will see him again.
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But in terrible circumstances.
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What do you mean?
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The consequences of Ragnar's
death are not yet played out.
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You have only seen
the beginning of the end.
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So now prepare yourself
for what is to come.
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What is to come?
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Tell me!
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Why?
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Do you suppose that you could
change your fate if you knew it?
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So now, after all,
you want to fetter yourself
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and bind yourself
in delusions?
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No! I was thinking of my son.
Only my son.
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It's a mother's weakness.
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I have told you
that you will see him again.
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Is that not enough?
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Too much knowledge
is an agony.
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Prepare yourself.
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Lord Odin,
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did I make the right choice?
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Give me a sign. Help me.
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What is my fate?
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Kassia.
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What about her?
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She's up there. Look.
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It's Sinric.
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We saw you.
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What was all that about,
my friend?
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I told you.
Nothing is as it seems.
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Meaning?
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Commander Euphemius isn't really
the commander here after all.
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I don't understand.
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An Arab leader
called Ziyadat Allah,
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the Emir of Ifriglya,
in Kairouan,
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agreed to invade the island
on Euphemius's behalf,
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in return
for a yearly tribute.
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Where is Kairouan?
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In Africa.
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And where is Africa?
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Another world.
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So this
Commander Euphemius,
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he is a,
uh, client ruler.
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He has no real power.
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So it appears.
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And Ziyadat Allah?
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At the moment,
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he is probably the most important
ruler in the Mediterranean.
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Many, many stories
are told of him.
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Both Arabs and Christians
go to him to ask for favors,
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which he often grants.
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For it increases
his influence and his power.
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Have you met him?
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No.
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That was Kassia.
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Yes.
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So who was the man?
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I don't know.
But almost certainly a spy.
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They looked like lovers.
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It's possible.
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A spy for who?
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For the Emperor, perhaps,
or perhaps for Ziyadat Allah.
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Who can tell in this place?
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You wouldn't happen
to be conspiring
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against us,
now would you, Sinric?
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I was only trying to find out
what was going on here.
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Some wanderers
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are really gods in disguise.
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Are you?
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Do I look like a god?
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I want to meet
this Ziyadat Allah.
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00:28:05,475 --> 00:28:06,465
Why?
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'Cause it seems like
he is the true leader.
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In my vision,
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I saw the bodies of the pagans
heaped in the streets,
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dead of disease
and starvation.
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And so it has come to pass.
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Now surely
they are burning their dead.
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Mmm.
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So, indeed, it seems.
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Let us fall upon them now.
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No.
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If you take my advice,
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let their condition worsen
further still.
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Let them suffer more dismay,
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until only creatures
of rags and bones
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wander the streets of York.
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Then we attack.
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Oh, we can't always
be guided by your "visions,"
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Bishop Heahmund, hmm?
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But surely you see
the signs for yourself.
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00:29:20,550 --> 00:29:22,132
Now, I also see other signs,
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how you put yourself forward,
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above me, to take command.
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Even though
I am your king!
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Under God!
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Forgive me, Sire,
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King of Kings.
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I am your humble servant.
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Do with me as you will.
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I think you're not humble,
Bishop Heahmund.
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But, still,
you are my servant,
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as well as the Lord's.
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And we shall proceed together,
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for the sake of our country,
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for the sake of England.
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My King.
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I don't understand.
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What is it that you
do not understand, Hvitserk?
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I don't understand why you pretend
to burn the bodies of our dead.
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- It's part of my plan.
- Ah.
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What plan?
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Did you really think
that I didn't have a plan?
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00:31:06,448 --> 00:31:07,939
Of course I have a plan.
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I'm a cripple, not an idiot.
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I have found
something out, Hvitserk.
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The Romans were very clever.
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00:31:22,798 --> 00:31:26,508
My plan is based upon
what I have found out.
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What is it?
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I need to know.
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And you will know, my brother.
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In good time.
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Astrid.
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I haven't seen you
for many days.
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You were avoiding me.
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00:34:18,807 --> 00:34:20,048
Mmm. Naturally.
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00:34:22,269 --> 00:34:23,555
Then why are you here now?
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00:34:25,522 --> 00:34:26,979
I have made up my mind.
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To do what?
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00:34:30,527 --> 00:34:32,063
I asked the gods for advice.
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00:34:33,029 --> 00:34:34,861
I thought about my own life,
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00:34:35,407 --> 00:34:37,069
my own ambitions and hopes.
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00:34:38,660 --> 00:34:42,279
But there is only so much that humans
can do to deny the force of fate.
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00:34:45,875 --> 00:34:47,161
What is your decision?
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00:34:49,546 --> 00:34:50,912
What kind of whale is that?
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A minke.
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00:34:56,636 --> 00:34:58,093
And why do we hunt whales?
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00:34:58,805 --> 00:35:02,139
Because every part
of the whale is useful.
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00:35:03,018 --> 00:35:04,975
Down to the smallest drop
of its oil,
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which keeps our world alight.
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00:35:08,481 --> 00:35:10,097
I think the whale is a god.
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And each killing a sacrifice.
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00:35:14,738 --> 00:35:15,728
Don't you?
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00:35:16,364 --> 00:35:17,730
What is your decision?
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00:35:23,163 --> 00:35:24,244
I agree to marry you.
417
00:35:31,921 --> 00:35:33,002
Good.
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00:35:34,633 --> 00:35:36,215
I couldn't have waited
any longer.
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00:36:24,516 --> 00:36:25,973
So you come
to be married.
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00:36:27,018 --> 00:36:28,680
You want to be man and wife.
421
00:36:28,937 --> 00:36:29,927
Yes.
422
00:36:30,355 --> 00:36:31,596
In the sight of the gods?
423
00:36:32,315 --> 00:36:34,477
In the sight
of Freyr and Freya?
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00:36:35,568 --> 00:36:36,558
Yes.
425
00:36:37,278 --> 00:36:38,519
And are you agreeable?
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00:36:40,657 --> 00:36:42,319
Is this what you want to do?
427
00:36:43,576 --> 00:36:44,692
Think carefully.
428
00:36:46,204 --> 00:36:49,413
For although the fetters
of marriage will be invisible,
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like the cords
that bind Fenrir,
430
00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:54,413
they will still bind you.
431
00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:03,423
Yes, it is what I want to do.
432
00:37:04,264 --> 00:37:05,254
Very well.
433
00:37:06,307 --> 00:37:10,301
Then we call upon the gods,
who are gathered invisibly here round us,
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to bless and make fecund
this marriage.
435
00:37:15,066 --> 00:37:16,056
The ring.
436
00:37:41,468 --> 00:37:44,427
Perhaps my luck
has finally changed.
437
00:38:50,870 --> 00:38:52,611
Thank you, Allfather.
438
00:38:54,916 --> 00:38:56,282
Thank you.
439
00:39:39,252 --> 00:39:40,242
What does he say?
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00:39:40,336 --> 00:39:41,326
That he won't go.
441
00:40:15,997 --> 00:40:18,660
He has changed his mind.
He will come.
442
00:40:19,751 --> 00:40:21,242
It was something she said.
443
00:40:22,462 --> 00:40:26,502
Yes.
It was something she said.
444
00:40:31,888 --> 00:40:33,299
Who is that woman?
445
00:40:36,893 --> 00:40:38,555
Perhaps she is the all-woman.
446
00:40:39,479 --> 00:40:41,516
Or perhaps just a pain
in the neck.
447
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:00,030
Sire!
448
00:41:04,212 --> 00:41:05,202
Your Highness!
449
00:41:06,923 --> 00:41:07,913
What is it?
450
00:41:08,257 --> 00:41:10,840
They are gone.
The Northmen. The ships.
451
00:41:10,927 --> 00:41:12,008
They are all gone!
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00:42:47,356 --> 00:42:49,063
Why are the rats above ground?