A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
[wolf growling]
-[wolf snarling] -[grunts]
[yelling]
[all whispering] Woden, bear witness to our pact of allegiance.
We are one and one are we.
Your enemy is my enemy.
And my enemy is your enemy.
[horses neighing]
You. Your name.
Are you Ari?
[soldier in Latin] We need him alive!
[in English] Father! Father!
The Romans are in the forest! You have to hide...
[woman screams]
-[sobbing and screaming] No! -[child crying]
[child crying]
The Romans will be good to our sons.
[sobbing] No. Please.
Forgive me.
Give him to me.
[woman sobbing]
[dramatic music playing]
I am giving you as a pledge...
for peace between our peoples.
You're giving me away?
[screaming]
[shouting] What have I done? What did I do wrong?
Father, I'll never do it again!
Father, please! Don't send us away!
No! Father, please! Please!
You look splendid.
Where is Mother?
When?
Six winters ago.
How?
A fever.
She was praying for you and your brother until the end.
-How is your brother? -Good.
Romans measure time with this.
Rome has wonders you can't even imagine.
I know you have the eagle.
If I take it back, then Varus won't find out it was you.
-Ari. -My name is Gaius Julius Arminius.
Prefect of the Roman Cavalry.
And when I return, Reik Segimer,
I expect the eagle of my legion.
[in Latin] Greetings, Roman Governor.
I can't stand that accent.
Like a toothless whore trying to recite poetry.
[laughing]
[Pelagios in English] Please, speak your own language.
My name is Segestes. I'm a noble Cherusci from an old family.
-[translating in Latin] -Get to the point, barbarian.
[in English] I know where the eagle is.
[whispering]
[Berulf] Segimer!
He's supposed to be hiding here.
What do you want, Berulf?
If this is true...
we demand our right.
[dramatic music playing]
-Ari! -[whip cracks]
No!
Ari!
Hey, come here. Come on.
Come here, Ari.
-You've changed. -Yeah.
Not you.
I'm called Arminius now.
[laughing]
Like those piss-drinkers or something? [chuckles softly]
[clears throat] But you didn't have a choice.
I know who it was.
What do you mean?
You stole the eagle.
That's why you're here?
Is it at all clear to you what has happened?
Yeah. The poor bird was caged up and wanted to stretch its wings.
-You think it's a joke? -Yeah.
And that's just the start.
You've got no business messing around like this.
Do you have any idea of the power of this empire?
Don't you understand the only thing that can save you is peace with Rome?
Peace with Rome?
Yes.
With the Romans who just crippled my brother, Ansgar?
When you pick a fight with Rome, that's how it goes.
[scoffs]
Look what they've made of you, Ari.
Give me the eagle...
and you go live your lives and I'll live mine.
I always believed that one day you'd come back.
But I had no idea you'd grow into such an asshole.
[Varus in Latin] Lead me to Folkwin's village, barbarian.
If you're lying, I'll have you crucified.
The tribes are divided.
But I can influence them
in Rome's best interests.
If I were the reik of my tribe...
I didn't come to Germania to help with your advancement, barbarian.
Forgive me, governor,
but you will need men like me.
[villagers murmuring]
[Berulf in English] Roman!
You murdered a reik, Roman!
Gernot Rotbart.
The Chief of the Bructeri.
You remember?
My uncle!
You're the one who chopped off his head.
I carried out a sentence.
Oh, yeah?
Are you a god?
Only the gods can sentence a man to death.
So can Roman law.
[crowd exclaiming]
-[crowd clamoring] -[both grunting]
[cheering]
[villager] He's wounded!
[both grunting]
-[villager] Get him off you! -[grunting]
[villager] What is he doing?
-[crowd cheering] -[both grunting]
[villager softly] The gods will punish him for that.
Anyone else want to take my friend from me?
[breathing heavily]
[Arminius exclaims]
Leave while you still can.
Berulf will kill you.
[man] Berulf.
[grunts]
-You have to leave. -Now you fear for my life?
You, of all people?
Ari.
You were the pledge for peace.
You gave me away.
I had to think of the village.
The Romans would have burned it to the ground, you know that.
You just wanted to save your own skin!
Many reiks had to do the same.
You're just a coward.
I wasn't given a choice.
I made a new life possible for you.
I made it possible myself.
Now tell me where the damn standard is.
[Berulf] Segimer!
Send him out!
Go!
Not without the eagle!
[grunts]
Segimer!
Berulf! That's enough. [groans]
You can thank the gods you're still among the living.
Segimer!
[Segimer] Give it a rest, Berulf.
Haven't you had enough?
-[laughing] -[Berulf] It's my right.
Where is that Roman swine? Huh?
Do you see any Romans here?
Not one step further, Berulf.
[Vegis] He's got the eagle!
[growling] Stop, you rat!
Stop!
[breathing heavily]
Ari?
Ari!
[sighs]
I save your life and then you swipe my eagle?
[Arminius] So this is yours?
Don't you understand?
If I don't return this soon, you will all be dead.
[Folkwin] You'll be dead if you do return it.
Give it back to me!
Come get it yourself.
[clatters]
You're still lousy with a spear.
Ari!
Ari, you're a coward!
Come back here now!
You Roman rat! Ari!
[Arminius] For once, just think.
[in Latin] I think it's better if no one sees me with the governor.
[Varus] When we ride in...
you'll be at my side, barbarian.
You said yourself that I need men like you.
-[horn blaring] -[Vegis in English] Romans!
Romans!
[dramatic music playing]
[villagers murmuring]
[breathing heavily]
[grunting]
[groaning]
[groaning loudly]
[grunting]
[in Latin] Rome will be your mother now.
And your father.
[in English] Thank you.
[Varus] Gratias.
Thank you.
Gratias.
[chuckles]
[Pelagios] Varus is obliged to you.
You surrendered two wonderful sons to him.
I thank you...
[Pelagios translating in Latin]
...for treating them well.
[Pelagios translating]
[Varus speaking Latin]
[Pelagios] They were clever and obedient.
[speaking Latin]
[in English] Arminius is at my side now as an officer.
[scoffing]
-[Varus speaking Latin] -[Pelagios] Where is our standard?
[Varus speaking Latin]
-[Pelagios] The man who stole it... -[Varus] Folkwin Wolfspeer.
-[speaking Latin] -[Pelagios] Where is he?
[Varus speaking Latin]
[Pelagios] You can't save him.
[Thusnelda] Let me through!
Let me... [grunts]
[in Latin] My daughter.
-[in English] What have you done? -Don't worry.
They don't know you were involved. You're safe.
And Folkwin?
What did you expect?
[scoffs]
A barbarian doesn't betray his own.
[Pelagios translating]
[speaking Latin]
A barbarian with principles, aren't you?
[Varus speaking Latin]
It's a shame you didn't get to see your son grow to be a man.
[in Latin] Show me where he lives.
[in English] You need to run! Go to the woods!
-Where's Vegis? -Go!
[tense music playing]
-[soldiers shouting] -[Thusnelda] You have to leave!
-[Ida] Vegis! -[Vegis screams]
-Run! -Vegis!
-[screams] -[Ida] No!
-[Wiborg] Let my boy go! -[Ida screaming]
-[groans] -[screaming] No!
Let her go! [in Latin] She belongs to me!
-[screaming] -She belongs to me! She belongs to me!
[soldier shouting]
-[in English] No! -Better them than you!
[Thusnelda] No!
[soldier in Latin] Barbarians! Bring us Folkwin Wolfspeer by dawn!
[breathing heavily]
[grunting]
[yelling]
[laughing hysterically]
[wolf growling]
[groans]
[Varus in Latin] Give us the standard!
[Varus speaking Latin]
[Varus continues]
[Pelagios in English] Look closely, Cherusci!
Witness how Rome punishes hubris!
[Varus speaking Latin]
[in English] Bring me our standard...
and the criminal Folkwin Wolfspeer,
and peace shall reign once more.
Until then, they remain hanging.
Anyone who dares to take them down will be crucified themselves.
[mournful music playing]
Segestes, you rat!
-You're a traitor! -[all shouting]
[man] You're a traitor!
-[Segestes] What? -[man] Traitor!
-[Segestes] What did I do? -[man] Traitor!
I'm a traitor, you say?
Who was it who betrayed the decision of all the reiks, me?
Or was it Folkwin?
I've warned you time and again.
Haven't I always said we have to keep the peace?
Folkwin challenged Rome.
Folkwin dared to defy the reik!
He broke the rules of the duel and thereby offended the gods!
And this... is the price he has to pay for that.
Of course you'd say that!
You even ride with the Roman who made your son a cripple, you traitor!
My son...
is my sacrifice to the gods.
For you.
And for our tribe.
For your children.
Shame on you...
-Segestes! -[grunts]
Shame on you all!
You... you're arguing in front of the dead!
Shame on you! All of you!
Go home!
Go!
[breathing heavily]
[whimpering]
Folkwin, don't go any further.
Don't go any further.
Folkwin, don't!
[sniffles]
[Folkwin screams] No!
[Thusnelda] Folkwin.
You have to leave.
[Folkwin sobbing]
Your life's in danger.
You hear me?
Folkwin.
-Folkwin, you have to leave. -[sobbing]
I promise you, I'll bury them.
[voice breaking] They can't just hang here.
-Please. -I won't leave them hanging here.
[crying] Please.
They want your head!
[whimpering]
[Thusnelda sobbing]
[Folkwin sobbing]
We will follow you.
We'll all follow you.
[Folkwin] I have to take them down.
He must leave.
[Folkwin shakily] I have to take them down.
[crying] I have to take them down.
-Help him, please. -I have to take them down. I have to...
[Thusnelda sniffling]
[dramatic music playing]
[soldiers shouting]
[Berulf] Keep going.
Give him here.
Go on, go on.
[Varus in Latin] Rome is proud of you, my son, and so am I.
I request redeployment, Father.
Send me back to Rome.
Or to another province...
Syria or Spain.
Somewhere where Rome needs me.
I have already sent a messenger...
and put your name forward to the emperor...
for a knighthood.
[chuckles softly]
But you have one final task.
We need to reclaim our legion's honor.
Anyone who steals our eagle must be punished.
You know this land and its people, my son.
You are sure to find him.
Bring me the head...
of Folkwin Wolfspeer.
[dramatic music playing]