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Feb 25, 2022 · The eight-part series Vikings: Valhalla is released on Netflix on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. A second season of Vikings: Valhalla has already been filmed, with a third also in the works, so this Norse saga is just getting started!
- The St Brice’s Day Massacre Was A Real Event
- Harald Sigurdsson Wasn’T Even Born
- Leif Erikson Was Already in Vinland
- We Don’T Know Much at All About Freydís Eiríksdóttir
- There Were Real Religious Rifts Between Christian Vikings and Pagan Vikings
- Cnut Was Not The First Viking King of England
- Sweyn Forkbeard Should Already Be Dead
- The Real Edmund Gave Cnut Fierce Resistance
- Valhalla Was A Place of Aspiration to The Vikings
Kicking off the plot is the St Brice’s Day Massacreof 1002. In the show, we see Æthelred II summon his Viking bodyguards only to promptly have them killed, while the Danes in the settlement these warriors travelled from are slaughtered. In one particularly gruesome moment, we see some Danes who sought sanctuary in a church barricaded inside and the...
The future king of Norway is an anachronism in Vikings: Valhalla, impossibly depicted as raiding England one year after the 1002 St Brice’s Day Massacre. It’s impossible because Sigurdsson – who would become better known as Harald Hardrada– wasn’t actually born until 13 years later, in 1015. In real history, it would be another 15 years before Hara...
We know of Leif Erikson through two sagas: the Saga of the Greenlanders and theSaga of Erik the Red, both of which recount Viking explorations west to Vinland, a land we believe to be North America – making them the first Europeans to set foot on what is now American soil, 500 years before Christopher Columbus. The trouble, in terms of Viking: Valh...
Along with her brother Leif, Freydís Eiríksdóttir finds herself in Norway in the aftermath of the St Brice’s Day Massacre in Vikings Valhalla. But while the plot contrives to take Leif to England, Freydís remains in Scandinavia, where she becomes embroiled in the violent religious struggles between pagan Vikings and those who have converted to Chri...
Religious tension is a major driver of Vikings: Valhalla, both within the army seeking vengeance on England and within Scandinavia itself – and this is inspired by very real conflicts between Vikings of different faiths. In the show this is predominantly represented through two characters: Olaf Sigurdsson (Harald’s real half-brother) and the entire...
In Vikings: Valhalla, Cnut’s army arrives in England to avenge the St Brice’s Day Massacre only to find Æthelred II dead and the young king Edmund on the throne. Cnut quickly bests Edmund and in doing so – so the show tells us – becomes the first Viking king of England, co-ruling with Edmund as puppet-king. There’s a lot to unpack here, not least b...
When Cnut’s father, King Sweyn Forkbeard, turns up to rule England in Cnut’s stead midway through the season, it’s a surprise two times over. In the show canon, it’s because Sweyn seemingly appears from nowhere and is a more vicious character than his son. For fans of real history, it is because by this point Sweyn shouldn’t be alive. He dies in 10...
In Vikings: Valhalla, the freshly crowned Edmund is portrayed as almost incapable of ruling, a petulant and arrogant young man who quickly loses his kingdom to Cnut and then, once installed as a puppet co-ruler, is quietly murdered by his erstwhile advisor Earl Godwin. But the real Edmund posed a much fiercer resistance – even earning the same ‘Iro...
According to Viking legend, Valhallawas not a place of eternal rest, but training for the end of the world. Valhalla was Odin’s hall, where slain warriors – if they were lucky enough to reach it – would spend what remained of eternity honing their skills (and drinking incalculable horns of mead) until the final battle, Ragnarök. “We have references...
Feb 7, 2022 · The eight-part series is set to premiere on Friday, February 25 on Netflix worldwide. All eight episodes will drop on the streaming platform so fans can binge the entire series in one go at...
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Vikings: Valhalla: Created by Jeb Stuart. With Sam Corlett, Leo Suter, Frida Gustavsson, Laura Berlin. Follow-up series to 'Vikings' set 100 years later and focusing on the adventures of Leif Erikson, Freydis, Harald Hardrada, and the Norman King William the Conqueror.
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Dec 5, 2022 · Vikings: Valhalla Season 2: Plot, Cast, Release Date, and Everything Else We Know
Vikings: Valhalla is set to land on Netflix on 25th February 2022, with all episodes dropping on the streaming giant at the same time.
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Vikings: Valhalla (2022) TV-MA | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War. Watch options. Official Teaser Trailer. In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny - and make history.
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