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Vikings: Valhalla, or simply Valhalla, is a historical drama television series created by Jeb Stuart for Netflix that acts as a sequel to Vikings. The eight-episode first season premiered on February 25, 2022.
Feb 24, 2022 · “ Valhalla ” is a spin-off of the History Channel series “ Vikings,” whose six seasons took viewers from the first Viking raid of England, when the Scandinavian seafarers attacked a monastery...
Jul 19, 2024 · Set more than 100 years later, Vikings: Valhalla depicts the beginning of the end of the Viking age – a world in which the Norse Gods are falling into obsolescence, replaced by creeping Christian fervour, and Danish settlers are a fact of life in a unified England.
- 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...
The action-paced series "Vikings: Valhalla," created by Jeb Stuart is based on real history. Who was Freydis? Did Harald really travel to Constantinople? Did Leif ever travel to North America? Find out the true stories behind the series.
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Sep 25, 2021 · Although Vikings is now over, their history will continue to be explored in the spin-off series Vikings: Valhalla – but how does it fit the main series’ timeline and what are its links to the story of Ragnar and sons?
Sep 28, 2021 · Vikings: Valhalla will jump forward nearly 100 years in time to the 11th century and follow the adventures of legendary Vikings like Erik the Red, Leif Erikson, Freydis Eriksdotter, and Harald...
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