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[Uhtred] I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred.
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My daughter, Stiorra, and her husband,
Sigtryggr, have an unwelcome guest,
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Sigtryggr's treacherous brother,
Rognvaldr...
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Why do you agree
when he seeks to come between us?
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...who secretly plots against them.
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[speaks Icelandic]
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[Uhtred] My beloved Aethelflaed
has visited us in Rumcofa.
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Some say I came to see you.
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I wish that were true,
but I think it is not.
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[Uhtred] And my liegeman Cynlaef has found
favor with her daughter, Aelfwynn.
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Go and help the Lady Aelfwynn
off her horse.
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[Uhtred] Aethelflaed brought a holy man,
Father Benedict.
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[Uhtred] Rumcofa does not need a priest.
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- He's an exceptionally gifted scholar.
- He's a gambler.
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Make sure he gives that back.
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[Uhtred] Brida has returned
with her daughter, Vibeke,
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believed to be a seer.
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[Brida] The seer has chosen.
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[Uhtred] Her hatred of me and my family
still burns like a poison.
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- [Aldhelm] Who did this to you?
- Brida! [gasps in pain]
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[Uhtred] And now she has invaded Eoferwic,
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spreading pain and terror
through the city.
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Find Stiorra!
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[Uhtred] Destiny is all!
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[townspeople screaming]
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Find Stiorra! Find Uhtred's daughter!
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[man grunts]
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[creaking]
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- [gasps]
- [man growls softly]
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[choking]
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[man groans]
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[Stiorra] Leave him, it is done.
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[shouting from outside]
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- [men grunting and groaning]
- [swords clanging]
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[man shouts]
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[tense music with dramatic vocalizing]
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[grunting continues]
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Go and play.
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[grunting continues]
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She is nothing to fear!
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She's here to rescue you,
turn you back to the gods.
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[grunting continues]
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[Rognvaldr] Do not fight them, brother.
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She has the power. Yield!
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[roars loudly]
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[gasping]
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Oh!
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[Sigtryggr grunts]
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[shouts]
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[groans]
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[whimpering]
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[growls]
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[groans]
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Jesus, save us.
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[groans]
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Yield!
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- She will do it again.
- [Sigtryggr groans]
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[panting]
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Sigtryggr,
for the sake of your people, yield.
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[grunts]
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[chuckles]
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[Sigtryggr panting]
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King Sigtryggr. How you have thrived.
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What is this madness?
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It is not madness to honor the gods.
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You do not speak for the gods.
Our gods do not need a priestess!
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You follow her like Christian sheep?!
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[groans in pain]
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[tuts]
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Where is his wife?
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Let me find her.
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Rognvaldr, no.
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Rognvaldr, no!
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Leave her be!
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[Brida tutting]
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[giggles]
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[Brida] You little dog, huh?
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[Sigtryggr grunts]
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No longer the man he was.
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Christians have a story for it.
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[Sigtryggr groans]
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Stiorra...!
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[yelling] We're coming for you!
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Stiorra!
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[Rognvaldr] Stiorra? Stiorra, come out!
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[Rognvaldr] Show Brida you're sorry
for letting your people stray.
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[Rognvaldr] She will forgive you.
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[tense music playing]
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- You!
- [gasps]
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Where is your mistress?
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[gasping fearfully] I have not seen her,
Lord. She has left.
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[whimpers]
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- [Stiorra, quietly] This way.
- [suspenseful music playing]
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[panting]
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[Sigtryggr grunts]
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- Harder.
- Please, I cannot.
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- [soldier grunts]
- [Brida laughs gleefully]
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[Brida] Where is she?
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[Rognvaldr sighs] She says she has fled
with her women.
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- [Brida] Is this true?
- [woman crying]
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[Brida] Come on, you can trust me.
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It would be foolish to lie, girl.
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[gasps]
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[gasps]
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[gasps]
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[panting]
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[dramatic theme music
with intense vocalizing]
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[Brida] Search every home,
bring me hostages.
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I want anyone who could be Stiorra
lined up in the square! Bring the water.
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[Rognvaldr] Brida!
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Allow him to live
and he will come to you as I did. Please.
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Let me teach him
how we worship the gods with purity.
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All this to prove yourself
to your brother?
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- To get the chance to lead him?
- I will not follow this perversion.
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I lead these people
and I will die their king.
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As you wish. Kill him.
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[Brida] No!
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You kill him.
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He's my kin.
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[Brida] He has betrayed our gods.
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He allowed the Christians
to take root here and poison our brothers.
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Kill him, hm?
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[tense, menacing music playing]
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[muffled groaning]
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[Rognvaldr panting]
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[shouts]
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[shouts]
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[Sigtryggr gasping]
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[sputters]
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You have shown me you're loyal. Good.
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Now I've shown you all I act with justice,
you will come and welcome me in time.
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I set you free, Danes of Jorvik.
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Open the gates. Open them!
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[groans]
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Find Uhtred.
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I will not leave my people to your mercy.
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We will find your wife, you know we will.
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So I offer you this bargain.
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I will spare her life,
only if you bring me Uhtred.
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[tense music with dramatic singing]
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[grunts]
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[yelling] Sigtryggr!
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[gasping]
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- [woman] There you go.
- [men] Thank you.
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[breathes deeply]
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[sighing]
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Do not give up hope.
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- Sit with him, your voice might wake him.
- And say what?
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What words are there for this?
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How can I tell him he is no longer a man?
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Tell him he is still your son.
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[door opens, then closes]
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Uh, the scouts are returning
from the hillside.
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I will send for you should he wake.
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[Osferth] Nothing to the east,
nothing upriver, nothing downriver.
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I don't think she's here, Lord.
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[tense music playing]
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[breathes deeply]
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[tense music continues]
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I have no wish to harm you, huh?
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Only make you see
how you have fallen from the path.
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[Brida sighs]
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On your knees.
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[gasps]
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On your knees.
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On your knees, all of you!
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You will stay like that until your Stiorra
saves you from your agony.
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Stiorra, show yourself!
Do not let these women suffer!
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[Stiorra panting]
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You must stay here.
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- [trickling]
- [Finan] Hey! Don't leave your guard!
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You piss and shit where you stand.
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I should return to my post.
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I'm needed on the bankside.
If Brida attacks, she will torture us all.
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I am a woman of royal blood.
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It's my duty to be tortured.
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[Finan] Lord, stand down.
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- Let me take over the watch.
- No. We must keep all the men ready.
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Lord, rest.
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We have men everywhere.
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- We'll not be taken by surprise.
- I am already outplayed, Finan.
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- You couldn't have known.
- I did.
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I always knew she would return.
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I just thought she would attack me,
not you.
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Nor my son.
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It is a grievous wound,
but your son can survive it.
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Survive perhaps, but live?
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Have no child, no legacy.
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[Aldhelm] Uhtred!
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I have grave news from across the country.
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Stiorra? She has attacked Eoferwic?
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- How did you know?
- She's coming for my bloodline.
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Stand down the men. We will be leaving.
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- How long has it been like this?
- Less than a year.
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A year?
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- [Eadith] Does this hurt...
- Yes.
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- Yes, it does.
- Have you shown this to anyone else?
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[scoffs]
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The healers in Mercia
are not to be trusted.
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Any sign the queen sickens
and the ealdormen plot civil war.
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I do wish, Lady,
that you had shown someone.
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To excise this now might be... May I?
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Well, I... I thought
perhaps it might heal itself.
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I have had others that have done so.
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I fear this will not heal itself.
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[gentle, emotive vocalizing]
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I know that taking a knife to it
might be dangerous, but I am prepared.
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- I am not sure we can remove it.
- Curtail it then, perhaps?
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It seems to grow rather rapidly now.
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It grows as the flesh falls from my belly.
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May I just...?
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Is this beyond your skill?
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Have I misjudged your reputation?
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Lady, I fear it is too late
to save you from this canker.
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You have seen this before.
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Only on...
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Were you going to say "only on the dead"?
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Yes, Lady, I was.
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My heart breaks, I have no words.
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Well, then,
I must attend to urgent matters.
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The Mercian succession,
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how we maintain peace. [sighs]
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No, I would urge you instead to spend
your time with those that you love.
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You are clearly unfamiliar
with the demands of ruling a kingdom.
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[Eadith cries]
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Do not cry.
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There is much to do. I am still myself.
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[footsteps approaching]
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Lady Aethelflaed is sleeping
and should not be disturbed.
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She will want to hear this.
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No. As Father Benedict says,
she should not be disturbed.
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Aldhelm, my daughter is in danger.
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She is attending to matters for Mercians
and Mercians alone.
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She asks you prepare her mother for mass.
The lady invites you in.
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What is the news that cannot wait?
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Eoferwic has fallen
and my daughter is in danger.
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Then I share your pain, Lord Uhtred.
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So we ride out with the men of Rumcofa,
retake the town for Sigtryggr.
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- I cannot.
- Why?
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- Mercia cannot be distracted.
- Distracted?
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The men of Rumcofa will be needed here.
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- We cannot take them to Eoferwic.
- Why?
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We need to turn our efforts inward,
look to securing Mercia.
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But this is madness!
Brida's on your border!
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- And if she crosses into our lands...
- Then we will be too late!
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- Please do not question me.
- Then do not behave with such foolishness.
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I have spoken!
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We shall return to Aegelesburg. You may
take a dozen of the men of Rumcofa.
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But what of Stiorra?
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[Uhtred] Aethelflaed...
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what of my daughter?
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Trust that I have good reason to refuse.
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00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:24,760
You're like the worst of your father.
255
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:26,840
- Uhtred...
- [Uhtred] And you a coward!
256
00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,480
I will do this alone,
even if you give me nothing!
257
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,000
How you've changed.
258
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,200
[pensive acoustic music playing]
259
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:38,360
How you have not.
260
00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:44,520
[sighs]
261
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,680
I'm assuming Lady Eadith
did not have welcome news.
262
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:07,680
Should I have told him?
263
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:08,760
No.
264
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,320
He would have been fighting Brida
with a broken heart.
265
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,840
As all our hearts are broken, Lady.
266
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,360
This news is... unbearable.
267
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,320
And yet we shall bear it.
268
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:30,640
Both of us.
269
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,080
My father faced death
with a soul that was prepared.
270
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,640
He knew his dream would outlive him
and he did not grieve his loss.
271
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:43,840
And nor shall I.
272
00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:52,720
[door creaks]
273
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:02,760
Raise a dozen men loyal to us.
274
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,680
We will go to the Saxon boroughs
bordering Eoferwic, get their assistance.
275
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:08,680
She's only given you a dozen?
276
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,800
- To retake a town?
- You did mention Brida, didn't you, Lord?
277
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,960
The boroughs along the border
have fought with us.
278
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,160
They have an interest
in seeing Brida dead.
279
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:25,840
[Uhtred] Are you sure you're ready?
280
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:28,920
[exhales]
281
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:30,800
I'm certain.
282
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,400
Stiorra saved my life as a child,
I owe her this.
283
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,160
- Find him a faster horse.
- Lord.
284
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,720
If there is mortal danger,
I ask that you ride away from it.
285
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,080
Do not think of us, just run.
286
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:48,640
Can you do that?
287
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,440
[sighs] I'm just as good a fighter
as any of your men.
288
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,400
[Uhtred] You're also a greater prize.
289
00:23:55,440 --> 00:24:00,040
- Aethelstan, if you're captured...
- Then I'll say the truth, that I'm no one.
290
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:03,720
Not yet, no.
291
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,920
How would you like us to respond?
292
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,920
We should signal support.
Sigtryggr has been a strong ally.
293
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,800
That said,
Eoferwic is on my sister's border.
294
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:26,240
[Pyrlig] Indeed. She may wish to lead
a counterattack without our interference.
295
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,880
Send 300 north to support her army.
296
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,320
- Make it clear they're under her command.
- Lord.
297
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,880
I have news from Eoferwic, Lord.
298
00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:47,120
Your spies are too slow, Lord Aethelhelm.
I already know and have acted.
299
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,440
Then you are readying your troops
to make haste there?
300
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,000
[Edward] No, I will not.
301
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,800
They will not reach Eoferwic
before Aethelflaed's men of Rumcofa,
302
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,440
it is wiser we follow her lead.
303
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:57,960
Is it?
304
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,920
Whilst I am loathe
to spill the blood of Wessex,
305
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,240
does this not offer an opportunity?
306
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,280
[Edward sighs] How so?
307
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,480
Eoferwic is the gateway to Northumbria.
308
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:15,840
Take it and three quarters of England
will be under your control.
309
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,800
There are other ways to regain Eoferwic
from the heathens.
310
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,080
With respect,
your missionaries, by now, are dead.
311
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,320
Still, I am a young enough man
to think in years, not months.
312
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,120
If you think I've forsaken Alfred's dream,
you are mistaken.
313
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,200
You are wasting a chance!
314
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:40,640
Use this moment,
kill Brida and kill Sigtryggr.
315
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,880
I will not kill Sigtryggr,
he has behaved peacefully towards us.
316
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:45,240
Or appears to.
317
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,920
Are we really to believe
that this is Dane infighting?
318
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:55,040
Is it not more likely
that he invited Brida to form an alliance?
319
00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:58,960
Our information says different
and I am confident in it.
320
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,400
Not everyone intrigues as you do,
my Lord Aethelhelm.
321
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,200
Very well.
322
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,840
I have done my duty,
I have offered my advice.
323
00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:15,040
The ealdormen will be disappointed.
324
00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:18,080
I'm not certain
you speak for the ealdormen.
325
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,400
He is unwise to keep questioning me.
326
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,120
He feels time slipping
and his standing diminish.
327
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,640
- A war could bring him influence.
- Mm.
328
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,480
Still, go north.
Assess the situation for yourself.
329
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,480
But what of the matters of state?
330
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,200
You may delegate them to the king.
331
00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:48,800
There was nothing in what Aethelhelm said,
that Sigtryggr planned this?
332
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:49,880
No.
333
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,440
Lord Aethelhelm is simply looking to start
a battle so you come begging him for coin.
334
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,600
He wishes you beholden to him
because you're not.
335
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:12,840
You are to inform the Saxon boroughs
on Sigtryggr's border
336
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,040
not to give troops to assist him.
337
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:20,360
He is to be offered no safe harbor,
no support.
338
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,720
That is the word of the king, is it?
339
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,160
If asked, he would deny it.
340
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,920
Thought I was going after
the young bastard.
341
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:34,200
Yes.
342
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:40,480
After you have finished playing messenger,
you may return to Rumcofa.
343
00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,760
Say what you want, we're leaving.
344
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:01,800
I thought I should say my farewells.
345
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,280
Why? Because you have sent me to my death?
346
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,960
You risk me. You risk Aethelstan.
347
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,080
You have men
and you have fire in your heart.
348
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,320
You will achieve what you set out to do.
349
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,320
- But if I do not see you again...
- You will see me again.
350
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,360
If I die, I will haunt you
to the end of your days.
351
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:27,680
[sighs]
352
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,280
- No, no, no. Make your peace.
- [Finan] Oh, they'll find peace.
353
00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:38,560
[Finan] They've loved each other
a long time.
354
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,160
No, as soon as this is done,
make him return to find her.
355
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,920
[Finan laughs] He'll probably sulk
until the summer.
356
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:48,640
Finan, wait!
357
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:51,600
[Eadith sighs]
358
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,200
I am forbidden from speaking
what I will say next.
359
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,640
Swear you will keep it
until he has rescued his daughter?
360
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:02,800
Alright.
361
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:05,600
[sighs]
362
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,600
The lady will not be here next summer.
363
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:09,640
She is dying.
364
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:13,600
What?
365
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,360
That is why she could not offer help.
There will be trouble in Mercia.
366
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,560
- But she seemed herself.
- That is taking all her strength.
367
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:29,840
No, no, no. You cannot tell him.
He must not be distracted from this fight.
368
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:32,920
I have never lied to him.
369
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,000
I know.
370
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,000
But sadly, it is not a burden
you will have to bear for long.
371
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,160
[gentle music with emotive vocalizing]
372
00:29:58,120 --> 00:29:59,120
[sniffs]
373
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,240
- Are you ready for this?
- Uh... Uh, yes.
374
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,760
It has been a while
since we went to fight.
375
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,560
[Finan] Can't wait.
I'm desperate to wield a sword again.
376
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,520
Go, you're getting in my way.
377
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:29,760
I love you.
378
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:35,480
And I know it is hard.
But we will return to them.
379
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:40,160
I swear.
380
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,800
[emotive vocalizing continues]
381
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:05,920
[sniffs]
382
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,200
To Eoferwic!
383
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:28,680
Who is next?
384
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,760
[indistinct chatter]
385
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,320
[Edward sighs] No. No.
386
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,920
I... I cannot hear
another quarrel between you.
387
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,896
Leave Winchester
until you have resolved your dispute.
388
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,120
[petitioner] My King.
389
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:41,200
[exhales]
390
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,560
- [Edward] Yes, what is your case?
- I am here to avenge my father's death.
391
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,280
That at least sounds interesting.
392
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,600
A man named Goda killed him
and claimed the lands he gave to me.
393
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,520
- I want them back.
- Yes, I have read this one.
394
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,040
- [clears throat] Lady Eadgifu?
- Yes, Lord King, of Cent.
395
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:02,800
I have a great fondness for Cent.
396
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:07,360
I spent many happy times there
as a younger man.
397
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,280
Yes.
398
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,800
Yes, as a boy, I recall,
you were brought to Cantwaraburg.
399
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,280
My father, the ealdorman,
held a feast for yours, the great king.
400
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,960
Yes. Yes, now I think you are familiar.
401
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,040
If I am correct, I was given your horse
to ride and you were not happy.
402
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:27,120
[laughs]
403
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:29,480
Indeed.
404
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,360
Yes, as a girl, I cared far more
for horses than for boys.
405
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,960
Well, may I be forgiven for
not remembering, it was a long time ago.
406
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:45,280
We are all much changed. You have grown
into the true heir of a great kingdom...
407
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,640
Perhaps we could hear
the other side of this dispute.
408
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,240
Where is this Goda?
409
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,560
With respect, it is not in dispute.
410
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,440
The man has stolen property
that is rightfully mine.
411
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,680
It is not in contention,
he is in the wrong.
412
00:32:58,400 --> 00:32:59,400
[Edward] Yes.
413
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:03,920
Yes.
414
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,440
Look, having read the details
415
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,040
from Father Pyrlig, I concur
that you have been done an injustice.
416
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:15,280
Have this Goda brought
before the Ealdorman of Cent.
417
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:20,040
And this decrees your stolen land
as folkland which I may now return to you.
418
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,400
Thank you. [chuckles happily]
419
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,800
I am most grateful, my King.
420
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:26,840
I shall trouble you no longer.
421
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:30,040
[indistinct chatter]
422
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:32,320
No.
423
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,680
The business is done for this evening.
424
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:37,800
Lady Eadgifu?
425
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:43,840
Eat with us.
426
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,400
I... wish to hear news from Cent.
427
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,000
Lord King, I would be honored.
428
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:03,080
I simply do not understand
what you are trying to tell me.
429
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,200
The delay has not favored me.
430
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,440
- So Eadith's cure is to be harsher?
- [Aethelflaed] No.
431
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,480
It is too late to enact a cure.
432
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:19,440
Well, that I do not understand.
433
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:31,199
Explain to me, yourself,
why your cure will fail.
434
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:32,280
[Aethelflaed sighs]
435
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:36,480
It is simple.
436
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:39,440
I am dying.
437
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,000
- No, you are not.
- Tell her.
438
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,679
[Aelswith] No, do not. I will not listen.
439
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,760
I am not going to take the words
of a prattler who has deceived us!
440
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,400
Mother, that is unfair.
441
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:55,280
No.
442
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,080
What is unfair
443
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,239
is telling us it could be cured
and then failing to cure it!
444
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,040
- Lady, I never told you that...
- Do not speak to me!
445
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:06,280
Do not!
446
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,240
[door opens, then closes]
447
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,800
Will you console her?
I do not have the strength.
448
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:23,960
Of course, Lady.
449
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,560
May I ask how long you think?
450
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,960
I believe you will not see the spring.
451
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:41,840
And I shall endeavor to relieve any pain.
452
00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:50,600
I do not want to be here.
453
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,640
I want to return to Aegelesburg.
454
00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,080
Then we must travel
before you grow too weak.
455
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,920
I know not why the Lord wills this.
456
00:36:03,720 --> 00:36:05,400
Yet, speak of it to no one.
457
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,920
[sighs] I must tell my daughter. Aldhelm.
458
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,280
[kissing]
459
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,040
Mother!
460
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,280
- What is your name?
- Cynlaef, Lady.
461
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,640
- And you are training as a warrior?
- Uh...
462
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:03,360
Yes, Lady.
463
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:09,840
Lord Aldhelm, ensure Cynlaef here
is sent upriver to fight the raiders.
464
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,640
And accompany Lady Aelfwynn
in an advance party home.
465
00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:15,840
- No, please, that is not fair!
- Lady, I mean no harm to anyone.
466
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,280
Then I would find some fire
as the raiders can be merciless.
467
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:26,760
Why would you be so cruel to me?
468
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,240
Why? I try only to live as other girls do.
469
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:32,960
You are not any other girl.
470
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,720
You are heir to Mercia
and as such must be chaste.
471
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,040
- Why?
- Because that is the way things are!
472
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,200
[scoffs]
473
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:44,960
I have sacrificed everything,
everything to secure our kingdom.
474
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,280
You cannot throw it away
like a cheap ale yard whore!
475
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:52,000
- Better a whore than a frustrated witch.
- Do not speak to your queen in that way.
476
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:56,760
Or you will come to regret it.
477
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,600
Now you will return to Aegelesburg
478
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,640
and think about what it means
to rule there.
479
00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:06,240
I have thought about it.
It is a punishment.
480
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,920
Nonetheless,
it is what is planned for you.
481
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,360
[Aethelflaed sighs] I know you are young,
but look beyond yourself.
482
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,560
To be a queen is an honor.
483
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,360
There is no greater destiny.
484
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,160
Destiny is for arselings.
485
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,840
I do not want it!
486
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:29,320
[door slams]
487
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:30,400
[sighs]
488
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,160
[arrow clatters]
489
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:45,000
And that's what happens when a boy
spends too long with his mother.
490
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:53,000
Do not turn immediately,
but he has arrived with another woman.
491
00:38:57,720 --> 00:38:58,800
She is still here.
492
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,680
Normally they do not last the night.
493
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,400
The women of Cent
are a law unto themselves.
494
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,080
But they tend to be sensible.
495
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:13,360
I'll deal with it.
496
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:27,640
[gasps]
497
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,000
How much?
498
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,040
- My Lord?
- Coin.
499
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,440
How much coin do you want?
500
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,320
- Coin, Lord? For what?
- To return to your estate.
501
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,120
Well, I have only just arrived
and the road is long.
502
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,080
Then we will find you
the strongest horses.
503
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:48,560
What is it that women like you appreciate?
Gold? Silks?
504
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,520
Some spices, remedies?
505
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,040
Name your price.
506
00:39:55,440 --> 00:40:00,120
Thirty pieces of silver.
That is the cost of betrayal, I believe.
507
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:04,160
- A woman who knows the scripture.
- Mm. Alfred's learning is strong in Cent.
508
00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:07,520
Then you will do the clever thing
and accept my offer.
509
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:09,720
And if I do not?
510
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,520
[laughs] I don't know.
511
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,360
They always tend to comply.
512
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,720
[loud cheering]
513
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:30,960
You may sit.
514
00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:42,360
[Brida] Two days. [sniffs] Two days
and still Stiorra makes you suffer.
515
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:49,240
I am here as a mother,
to see a better future for our children.
516
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:54,560
Daneland restored for Danes
and Danes alone.
517
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:03,280
Now, the gods gave us fair winds
and calm seas to carry us here.
518
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,120
For this, they deserve a sacrifice.
519
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:08,720
Bring her forth.
520
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,080
[suspenseful music with gentle singing]
521
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,240
Vibeke, we're ready.
522
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,000
Show us who is honored.
523
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,920
[women whimpering]
524
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,040
[choking]
525
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:25,760
[body thuds]
526
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,480
[whimpering]
527
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:31,440
[groans]
528
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,120
[groans]
529
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:07,080
[scoffs]
530
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:08,880
This cannot be.
531
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,320
I am needed alive to serve the gods!
532
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:18,920
This cannot be!
533
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:21,720
Brida?
534
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,600
The gods speak through the seer!
535
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,560
- [grunts]
- But five is enough.
536
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,280
- They will be satisfied with this.
- [Rognvaldr groans in pain]
537
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,120
[strained gasping]
538
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,240
[panting]
539
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,160
Let me go. She will show no mercy.
540
00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:50,680
Your husband will come.
541
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,080
Wait for his command.
542
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:56,960
[tense music playing]
543
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,560
Come out! I can feel your eyes on me!
544
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:39,640
Come out and face me!
545
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:48,800
[Pyrlig] We have no fight.
546
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,000
Are you a Dane of Eoferwic?
547
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,480
No. I'm Sigtryggr of Jorvik
and I am king there.
548
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,480
Forgive me. I mean no disrespect.
549
00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,240
- I am...
- Father Pyrlig.
550
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,160
Advisor to King Edward.
551
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:07,000
- Where is Uhtred?
- We expect him with the men from Rumcofa.
552
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,280
I am the vanguard, but the king
is sending his sister reinforcements.
553
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,280
And yet I have heard nothing
and seen less.
554
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,760
The Saxons will fight for you,
you're no longer alone.
555
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:18,840
Good.
556
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,720
We meet these armies,
take my homestead, kill the bitch.
557
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:27,760
[intense music plays]
558
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:35,560
[whispering]
559
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:38,880
[Edward muttering]
560
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:39,960
Right away, sir.
561
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:44,760
I do not want this.
562
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:46,840
W... What is it?
563
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,560
Lord Aethelhelm offered me money to leave.
564
00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:53,280
- I did not ask him to do that.
- Then why would he do it?
565
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,120
Lord King, I am not foolish.
566
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,080
I know your favor to me
was merely a passing desire. But I...
567
00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:04,560
[sighs] I did not expect to be treated
as a common whore.
568
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:09,320
That decision was Lord Aethelhelm's alone.
He seeks to thwart me on many things.
569
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:11,680
Then do not suffer him.
570
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,400
He has friends and he is kin.
571
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,040
I am sorry for this offense.
572
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:28,040
Well, I am sorry for your troubles
as they seem to make you heartsore.
573
00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:33,120
That is the first kindness
I have been shown in quite a while.
574
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:41,000
Well, my father was an ealdorman
and I knew the care of it was troublesome.
575
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,560
I can only imagine
how much worse it is for you.
576
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,040
Perhaps you need not imagine it.
577
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,440
Perhaps you could stay
and see it for a while.
578
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,640
For yourself, with me.
579
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,200
[both chuckle lightly]
580
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:08,080
Yes, I should like that.
581
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:14,520
For all its strangeness,
I did find our time together enjoyable.
582
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:18,760
[trickling]
583
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:20,880
Faster. You piss like an old man.
584
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:24,800
[man] Die, priest.
585
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:32,800
[Finan laughs] Oh, you dribbled
on yourself there, Father?
586
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:34,600
No, it's holy water.
587
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:36,960
[laughs heartily]
588
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:41,800
- Where are the men of Rumcofa?
- Uh, yes, not good news on that.
589
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:44,960
[Uhtred] Sigtryggr!
590
00:47:58,760 --> 00:47:59,840
What news of Stiorra?
591
00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:03,440
[Sigtryggr] She was alive when I left,
but Brida hunts her. There's no time.
592
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:04,440
We will reach her.
593
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:05,640
We will save her.
594
00:48:05,720 --> 00:48:07,240
She claims to act for Danes.
595
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,880
- It is you she wants, it is you.
- You have found me.
596
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:12,560
You have done all you can.
597
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:17,360
- Where is the army of Rumcofa?
- The lady would not offer them.
598
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,240
- [Sigtryggr] I thought the king sent men.
- He has.
599
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:25,736
- I do not understand...
- No matter.
600
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,160
I have sent word
to the Saxon boroughs on your border.
601
00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:30,960
Why would the lady refuse?
We have an alliance!
602
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:34,080
- For years we have had peace!
- [Uhtred] I know! It is a betrayal.
603
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,720
- Is this Edward's decision?
- No, it is not.
604
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:41,160
- What news of the borough men?
- The boroughs say they can offer nothing.
605
00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:43,480
They claim they have no men
stationed there.
606
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:47,080
Then they lie.
There are more than a hundred there.
607
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:49,800
I know the Saxon defenses around my lands.
608
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,360
They also say King Edward
has sent an order, Lord.
609
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,960
- No one's to come to King Sigtryggr's aid.
- I know nothing of this.
610
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:56,960
It is a mistake!
611
00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:00,240
- Then if I have to do this alone, I shall.
- You will not be doing this alone.
612
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:03,120
Lords, we cannot take Eoferwic
with this number.
613
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:07,240
- But if we can get in and I kill Brida...
- She'll have men within protecting her.
614
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,600
I have men within
and they will be loyal to me.
615
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,960
You take this band outside the gates,
we can bring townspeople out to you.
616
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,120
We still need to get into Eoferwic, Lord.
617
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:21,680
[yelling] My wife will not die
trapped like a rat!
618
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:25,280
I did not conquer all I have conquered
to let her suffer this!
619
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:35,560
What are you thinking?
620
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,960
I have a way in. Follow me.
621
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:41,760
[Uhtred] Move.
622
00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:54,240
[Benedict] Welcome.
623
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,280
Take some time to pray.
624
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,880
[Benedict] It is simple,
but in time it will be home.
625
00:50:03,240 --> 00:50:06,720
I like it. It's like we're in the manger.
626
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:09,760
Why have you come north so soon?
627
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,440
Running a quiet errand for himself.
628
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:15,920
I have 100...
629
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:19,880
and this.
630
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,840
I believe you owe him 300.
631
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,800
Yes. The rest will come.
632
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:31,400
The man has his own debts to pay.
633
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:38,040
I know this, I will find the money.
Lord Aethelhelm is a good friend of mine
634
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,800
and I am sure he will look on me
with compassion.
635
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:45,160
[laughs softly]
Do we speak of the same man?
636
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:51,400
I can't go back empty-handed,
give me something.
637
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:54,040
I have nothing to give.
638
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:05,080
Other than things I have seen,
words I have heard.
639
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:07,120
And what have you heard?
640
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:09,680
[sighs]
641
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,560
Lady Aethelflaed is dying
and will not see the spring.
642
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:20,120
[thunder rumbles]
643
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:24,800
Thor strikes his hammer
when he's displeased.
644
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:30,400
But he will be appeased
if we make another offering.
645
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:37,800
[screams] No, please! Please, no!
646
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:39,360
- No!
- [thud]
647
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,840
- [woman yelps]
- [Stiorra gasps]
648
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:44,920
[suspenseful music
with dramatic vocalizing]
649
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,480
[Stiorra] I cannot hide any longer,
I'm sorry.
650
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:55,840
We cannot sit and wait to be saved.
651
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,160
[Sigtryggr panting]
652
00:52:01,240 --> 00:52:04,560
[suspenseful music continues]
653
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:06,200
[Finan] Lord, what is he doing?
654
00:52:06,720 --> 00:52:09,960
This is madness,
we should wait until we find more men.
655
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:11,360
Raise a fyrd at least.
656
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,360
He says there is a Roman way.
657
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,040
- [Finan] The Romans?
- [splashing]
658
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,280
[groans in frustration] That's our plan?
659
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,640
Have the Romans get us out of this?
660
00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:23,920
Because the last time I checked,
they all died, 600 years ago.
661
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:27,960
- Osferth, the flint!
- [grunts]
662
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:36,080
[Sigtryggr] It was built to carry turds
from Eoferwic.
663
00:52:36,720 --> 00:52:37,880
Will it take us there?
664
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:39,480
Perhaps.
665
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:40,760
Perhaps is enough.
666
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:50,000
We follow the way of turds.
667
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:52,880
[Uhtred] Wait!
668
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,080
You die before I do
and my daughter will not forgive it.
669
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:03,080
Uh, Lord, this is a bad idea.
670
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:06,120
The Romans protected their buildings
with ghosts.
671
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:16,880
[suspenseful music continues]
672
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:36,760
[Stiorra] Follow the water and escape.
673
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:47,080
[suspenseful music
with dramatic vocalizing]
674
00:53:58,560 --> 00:53:59,960
[Stiorra, yelling] Brida!
675
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:05,200
[Stiorra] I'm coming for you!
676
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:07,760
You will pay for this!
677
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:09,840
Brida!
678
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:11,640
Then show yourself!
679
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:22,280
[dramatic theme music
with intense vocalizing]