- Heahmund!
In all of this world there can be no justification
for murdering a servant of God.
I killed Cuthred because he and the other bishops,
clergy, and several of your leading aldermen
formed a conspiracy to overthrow you
and then to assassinate you.
If Cuthred was once their leader,
who is their leader now?
I don't know.
But I'm almost certain he intended to replace
Alfred with Aethelred.
But whether Aethelred is part of the conspiracy or not,
I've yet to discover.
Heahmund shall be punished for his heinous crime.
That is not your decision, brother.
Alfred is doing what he thinks is best for Wessex.
And we must support him, must we not?
He's my brother.
Of course I support him.
Good.
Ah, Prince Aethelred.
King Harald!
I will think of you in York.
I left some good men in charge there.
King Harald Finehair.
Welcome to York.
I am Jarl Olavsonn.
I still consider it part of my new kingdom.
York will only be a staging post for us.
I'm here to attack Wessex.
After we plunder Wessex, we'll return to Kattegat.
We overthrow its king.
Bjorn Ironside.
My name is Magnus.
I'm Ragnar's son by Queen Kwenthrith.
I heard you were here.
My half-brothers, and I had to see you.
We had heard Ragnar fathered a son in Wessex.
Alfred's family threw me to the wolves.
And they say that you're here to support King Alfred.
But how can you do that?
We are at Alfred's mercy.
He should be at yours.
Alfred is just as guilty as his father and his grandfather
for the death of our father.
My lords, I've decided to restore
his grace Bishop Heahmund to the bishopric of Sherborne.
We cannot and I will not do without the greatest warrior
for Christ in this kingdom.
[crowd shouting]
I wish also to announce my marriage to Princess
Elsewith of Northumbria.
You will be queen to a kingdom at war.
You'll be married to a king who is in present danger of being
overthrown and assassinated.
If I were your wife, I would gladly share
your dangers and tribulations.
I shouldn't be here.
God will punish me.
And help you carry the terrible burden
that fate has placed upon you.
My gods won't punish you.
I had not expected this conversation
to proceed in this manner.
I would hate you ever to think me predictable.
I'm a virgin.
I now pronounce you man and wife.
The king has asked us to be baptized
in the Christian faith.
That way you will no longer be supporting and harboring
pagans, but we would be fellow Christians.
And did you tell him that there was no way that you
will renounce our gods?
I renounce my belief in Odin and all other pagan gods.
We have suffered the loss of two of our children, Bul
and Thorgrim.
So now I beg of you all one last time to please bury your axes.
Our real hope lies with the child
that Kjetill's daughter Thorunn carries in her belly.
Let us drink to the new child.
To the birth of a new child. ALL: Skol.
She's gone!
What do you mean gone?
Thorunn, she's disappeared!
I don't understand.
She can't have disappeared.
Mother told me she'd gone to pray at the waterfall.
She felt her time was near.
She wanted to pray to Freya for a safe delivery.
She wasn't there.
I shouted, I looked for her.
She disappeared.
You and me are descended from Odin.
The fact is, Hvitserk, I am not just descended from the gods.
Ivar the Boneless is a god.
You're crazy, Ivar.
I am not crazy.
I am not.
That is your mistake.
I did the impossible.
I am going to be a father.
I am divine.
And to celebrate, we will make a sacrifice
dedicated to my fellow gods welcoming me
into the family of the Aesir.
But it must be an important sacrifice
and must be someone that the gods will have heard,
of someone that all the people will have heard of.
Someone-- hmm.
You don't know what you're saying, brother.
[chuckling]
Bring on the sacrifice!
[crowd cheering]