”Īnd who is that thieving Harald’s crown as he lies bleeding on the ground? That’ll be Erik the Red (Eric Johnson). But what happens after that is saved for. A lot of Vikings are killed, and Harald and Bjorn are certainly extremely seriously, seriously wounded and likely to die. It’s not a surprise that the Vikings can’t hold them. I mean, those extraordinary scenes in episode nine, when we see the Rus army marching out and we realised just how formidable and huge that army is. “I think perhaps one of the unexpected things about that episode,” Michael Hirst recently told TV Guide, “the last episode of 6A, was how definitive it seemed to be that this is a wipeout for the Vikings that we’ve never really seen. That said, the hour-long, mid-season finale ended with another dead-or-alive cliffhanger, with Harald lying prostrate on the battlefield, having seemingly been run through with a sword during his and Bjorn’s battle with Ivar, Prince Oleg (Danila Kozlovsky) and the marauding Rus Vikings. Dude is the king of all Norway – a status you’d imagine would entice a decent amount of interest if included on one’s Tinder profile – and yet he’s spent year upon year consistently pursuing women who are already romantically attached to other men (normally Bjorn Ironside). Weird guy is King Harald (Peter Frenzén). Credit: History Channel Will King Harald ever find true love? According to, track 26 of Vikings‘ season 6 soundtrack album is entitled… ‘Floki Tells of Why He Left Iceland’. Incidentally, we’d bet a big jug of mead on Floki’s story continuing off the extremely chilly, volcanic island. What gives? If Othere is Athelstan, on past form, it’s a good job that Floki isn’t around… He claims to be Athelstan reborn! He’s also got Floki’s wedding ring. Instead, they met Othere (Ray Stevenson), an adventuring monk, introduced to us by WWE’s Edge (Adam Copeland as Ketill Flatnose). Soon after, Ubbe (Jordan Patrick Smith) and Torvi (Georgia Hirst) arrive in Iceland, hoping to find him and bring him home. In fact, some fans feel that Floki’s character might have been axed, but a dip in ratings after Ragnar’s death meant showrunner Michael Hirst didn’t want to discard another longstanding character.īut what has happened to Floki? The last batch of episodes saw Norway’s worst mascara-applier drop off the face of the uncharted world. Let’s be honest, the slapheaded, overbearingly spiritual boatmaker and his resettlement in Iceland made for a rubbish 6A story arc. But that’s what happened to legendary warrior Lagertha. Credit: History Channel Is Lagertha really dead? Don’t rule out a comebackĪs death’s go, it’s hard to think of many worse than being stabbed to death in the pissing rain by your PTSD-addled ex-husband’s son Hvitserk (Marco Ilsø). A greyer beard too.Īlexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside in ‘Vikings’. In it, he has longer hair than we saw him sporting in 6A. Vikings showrunner Michael Hirst and actor Alexander Ludwig have already confirmed that Bjorn will return “in some way”, but a now deleted Instagram picture on the latter’s account provides the strongest clue as to the King of Kattegat’s alive-or-dead status. After all, the show has been getting increasingly confident segueing between reality and the imaginary in recent seasons. Unquestionably, the biggest plot twist from part one that needs resolving is whether Bjorn Ironside survived being skewered by half-brother and full time-bastard Ivar The Boneless. Read more: Vikings‘ creator on why the show is endingĪnd yet so many questions remain! Who will live and who will die? Will King Harald ever get a girlfriend who actually likes him? And what future atrocities will we see masquerading as Bjorn’s latest hairdo? With the Jorvik Viking Centre on indefinite lockdown thanks to the plague of COVID-19, we thought we’d ask The Seer what we should expect from Vikings season 6 part 2….Yes, the end of the year will see the climax of this great show. And yet at some point, as the show has undoubtedly taught us, all great things must join Odin in The Great Hall of Valhalla. And we’ve had an introduction to a particularly gruesome practice called ‘The Blood Eagle’ that will never, ever leave our brains, even if we were to loosen the tops of our skulls and bleach them. We’ve had sex – there has been an awful lot of animal rug-based rutting (sorry Ivar). We’ve had blood – so much blood you could launch a longboat on all that gooey plasma. Give or take a few ropey episodes in the post-Ragnar years, six season long historical opus Vikings has been an absolute blast.
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