Vikings

Previously on Vikings.

You're a free woman.

These lands I grant you in perpetuity,

to settle and to farm as you see fit.

Look, Bjorn. Look at this treasure!

I don't belong here.

I want to take Kattegat back from Ivar.

- You have no army. - But King Harald has.

Bjorn Ironside, how happy I am to see you.

You know, I've often wondered

whether you weren't a little crazy.

- I'm crazy? - Just like Margrethe.

You know what happened to her.

I beg you.

Save my family.

They killed your son and they killed your daughter.

I'm going to leave the decision to you, Ketill.

I don't believe

that you have ever accepted your brother as King.

You would always be a danger to him.

You've poisoned me?

What kind of mother are you?

- (GASPS) - (CRIES)

Synced and corrected by -zzripman-

...quem hodierna die rebus humanis eximi,

et ad Te accersire iussisti,

blande et misericorditer suscipias,

non ei dominentur umbrae mortis,

nec tegat eum chaos et caligo

tenebrarum sed exutus omnium criminum labe,

in sinu abrahae patriarchae collocatus,

locum lucis et refrigerii...

- Look! - (GASPS)

- He's come back to us! - (CHUCKLES)

Go. Go.

Who are you burying in such fine style?

Your brother.

How did he die?

No one knows.

It was so sudden, Alfred.

He...

One moment, he was well and then he collapsed and...

It was terrible.

I can't believe this.

Thank God you've recovered.

We were so scared to lose the both of you.

Hail and farewell, my brother.

Hail and farewell.

- (THUNDER RUMBLING) Father!

Father! Father!

My son!

My son! Oh, my son!

Father.

My son! My boy!

Oh!

- (BREATHING HEAVILY) Helgi!

Ketill, my friend.

Come. Come!

You see how I am! Come! Let me thank you.

Oh, thank the gods!

You have saved us.

You had no cause to do it, but you have done it.

Floki was right.

We have all changed!

My friend.

My people, you are all welcome to the table.

It is important to us

that everyone here feels involved in the life of our great town.

Kattegat has grown.

It is now a huge trading station,

the greatest trading station in Scandinavia.

Kattegat has changed since my father's time.

In those days, he knew everyone

and he was happy to share his power

with those he knew and trusted, of course.

My father gave me this responsibility.

And our father, Odin,

gave me this responsibility.

I have accepted it, and I ask you to trust me.

We cannot allow everyone to vote on everything which affects our kingdom.

We have a duty to protect it!

I have a duty to protect it!

So...

We have to change the rules.

What are you doing?

Packing your things, my dear.

Your husband is dead.

You've no reason to remain here, unless, of course,

you are with child?

Otherwise, you must return home to your mother. I really am very sorry.

I don't think you are sorry at all.

I think that you control everything that happens here.

If only that were true.

You don't seem very sorry that my husband, and your son,

died so suddenly, and I don't know what to make of that.

You don't need to make anything of that,

my dear child.

Life is complicated enough.

And you are young enough to find another husband.

Well, then, I hope his mother is nothing like you!

My dear, he should be so lucky.

People I trust

will vote on land issues, matrimonial matters,

murder inquiries, things that you do not need to worry about.

Because I will take care of you.

I will lead you!

No, what is truly important is to know who we are!

And who is with us, and who is against us.

And we know who we are, don't we?

Yes!

Yes, we do!

So now it is time to find out those who threaten us,

who is against us.

Maybe it is your neighbor.

Perhaps it is someone you know.

A family member.

A brother.

A son.

They talk about me.

They whisper that I am the enemy.

But, of course, they are the enemy.

They want to destroy our kingdom.

They want to encourage our enemies to attack us

and invade us!

Is that what you want?

No!

- Do you want me to protect you? Yes!

Do you want me to destroy them?

Yes!

Yes! - (CROWD SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

Yes!

Yes!

(CHANTING) Odin! Ivar! Odin! Ivar! Odin! Ivar!

I thought we should talk.

You and I.

It's not been easy since you fell sick.

I had to deal with the traitors.

They were still plotting against you.

Perhaps they still are.

And...

I had to deal with your brother.

My brother?

What exactly does that mean?

It means...

His death wasn't natural.

You had better explain.

And quickly!

He had plotted against you before, Alfred.

He told me. He confessed.

And then he said he would never plot against you again,

but I satisfied myself he was lying.

I knew, as long as he was alive,

he would do anything,

join any plot, any conspiracy

that promised to make him King.

He thought you had usurped him.

And he could never, ever forgive you.

So?

I poisoned him.

I killed one of my sons...

To save the other.

May God forgive me.

Can we talk now?

You have woken from a long sleep

and seem to have forgotten that you're a king.

You are behaving as if you were an ordinary person.

You grieve as if you were an ordinary person!

You show your feelings

as if you were an ordinary person!

But all of that must stop!

A king

cannot be like an ordinary person.

Must not behave or have feelings like an ordinary person.

A king must be prepared to do the most terrible things.

Things against all conscience...

If he wants to survive.

- (METAL CLANKING) - (SHEEP BLEATING)