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The starting point in Ragnar’s rise to power was when earl Haraldsen burnt down his farm in season 1. I wonder what the Saxon’s burning down the Viking settlement in this season will bring.

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Battle scars. 

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It seems the Norse gods are horny buggers that keep visiting human women and have sex with them, just like the Greek ones were known to do. And just like the Greek ones, these visits most of the time result in a child. 

No matter how incognito the Norse gods are during these visits, someone always knows their “right” identity. Lagertha knew the young Rig was in fact Heimdal, just as Loki knows that Harbard is actually Odin. I wonder if Aslaug sleeping with Harbard will result in a child like Rig’s visit did? Both Ragnar and the husband in season 1 are told they should rejoice that the gods visited them and had sex with their wives, but neither seem especially happy. 

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Kalf might be a backstabbing liar, but he’s also easy on the eyes :D

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I wonder if Michael Hirst is using the game of ‘playing dead’ as some of the legendary Vikings and Normans used, including Björn Ironside. 

In 860, Björn sailed to the Mediterranean with a large raiding group. He wanted to go to Rome to plunder it, and when he reached an Italian town called Luna, he thought it was Rome. But Björn couldn’t get over the town walls so instead he came up with a cunning plan. A letter was sent to the bishop, stating that Björn was dead, but that he wanted to be buried in sacred ground as he had become a Christian before dying. The bishop allowed Björn’s body to be brought into church by a small honor guard. Inside the church, Björn amazed the dismayed Italian clerics by leaping from his coffin and with his honor guard, he hacked his way to the town gates, opened them and let his army in. The vikings then ransacked the town and left.

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