1 00:00:02,569 --> 00:00:05,539 My name is Uhtred, son of Uhtred. 2 00:00:05,572 --> 00:00:08,974 Born a Saxon, but raised as a Dane. 3 00:00:09,009 --> 00:00:11,376 I now serve King Alfred of Wessex. 4 00:00:13,046 --> 00:00:16,073 I have married a pious wife for Alfred. 5 00:00:16,116 --> 00:00:17,709 I have taken on land, 6 00:00:17,751 --> 00:00:20,721 burdened with debt and cheating workers. 7 00:00:22,222 --> 00:00:25,215 And I killed the mighty Sword Dane, Ubba. 8 00:00:29,396 --> 00:00:32,525 But with Odda the Elder wounded in battle, 9 00:00:32,566 --> 00:00:36,731 his son took the credit for my kill. The truth was ignored. 10 00:00:36,770 --> 00:00:40,434 I fought Ubba man on man, and I killed him! 11 00:00:40,474 --> 00:00:44,104 And I was forced to my knees before Alfred's God. 12 00:00:44,144 --> 00:00:47,239 I will lead, but you owe me. 13 00:00:47,281 --> 00:00:50,251 You must lay flat and kiss the cross. 14 00:00:50,284 --> 00:00:51,877 Kiss my arse. 15 00:00:51,919 --> 00:00:55,412 Fate is testing me, but I will survive. 16 00:00:57,391 --> 00:00:59,087 Uhtred! 17 00:01:00,427 --> 00:01:01,986 Destiny is all. 18 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:09,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 19 00:01:44,438 --> 00:01:46,907 You certain you want to do this, Arseling? 20 00:01:46,940 --> 00:01:49,774 Is there a law against it? 21 00:01:49,810 --> 00:01:54,874 Dressing up as Danes, no. Plundering Cornwalum, yes. 22 00:01:54,915 --> 00:01:56,907 We're supposed to be at peace. 23 00:01:56,950 --> 00:02:00,114 If I'm to reclaim Bebbanburg, I'll need an army. 24 00:02:00,153 --> 00:02:03,851 If I am ever to raise an army, I'll need silver. We go. 25 00:02:03,890 --> 00:02:04,983 I have no quarrel. 26 00:02:05,859 --> 00:02:07,452 Will Odda not miss you? 27 00:02:07,494 --> 00:02:09,690 I'm doing as he asks. I'm watching you. 28 00:02:11,331 --> 00:02:13,891 He's building Alfred a church at Cynuit. Have you heard? 29 00:02:15,936 --> 00:02:18,167 With an altar of gold, they say. 30 00:02:20,340 --> 00:02:22,536 - Who are they? - They belong to Oswald. 31 00:02:23,744 --> 00:02:25,254 Their mother sends them, hoping to shame me 32 00:02:25,278 --> 00:02:27,577 for killing their lying, thieving father. 33 00:02:30,784 --> 00:02:33,185 Hmm, I see her plan is working. 34 00:02:34,955 --> 00:02:38,983 They're not the first to lose a parent. They'll live. 35 00:03:01,314 --> 00:03:04,614 Food is good, Mildrith. Thank you. 36 00:03:06,820 --> 00:03:08,118 I'm pleased you like it. 37 00:03:11,258 --> 00:03:13,539 I was beginning to believe you had lost your tongue, wife. 38 00:03:14,895 --> 00:03:17,524 - I was worried. - I doubt it. 39 00:03:17,564 --> 00:03:19,192 She grieves for the thief. 40 00:03:20,033 --> 00:03:21,001 Not my business. 41 00:03:21,034 --> 00:03:24,061 He kills a man I have known all my life, 42 00:03:24,104 --> 00:03:27,472 he refuses to pay wergild to a family I have known all my life, 43 00:03:27,507 --> 00:03:29,442 and the village my father helped build 44 00:03:29,476 --> 00:03:31,968 now call him Uhtred the Godless. 45 00:03:32,012 --> 00:03:35,642 Not forgetting I refuse to have my son baptised a Christian. 46 00:03:35,682 --> 00:03:37,708 - I will excuse myself. - Leofric, sit, please. 47 00:03:37,751 --> 00:03:39,549 - None of this is my business. - I'll stop. 48 00:03:50,430 --> 00:03:53,423 Tomorrow, I'll be gone. - Gone? 49 00:03:53,467 --> 00:03:54,594 Should anyone ask, 50 00:03:54,634 --> 00:03:57,604 we're keeping Alfred's kingdom safe, again. 51 00:03:57,637 --> 00:04:00,266 For how long will you be gone, and gone where? 52 00:04:00,307 --> 00:04:02,367 No idea how long. Weeks? 53 00:04:02,409 --> 00:04:03,638 Your place is here. 54 00:04:03,677 --> 00:04:06,511 Oswald's wife has gone to Bishop Alewold. 55 00:04:06,546 --> 00:04:08,458 The Bishop will go to Alfred, and Alfred will send 56 00:04:08,482 --> 00:04:09,959 - men to our door... - I won't pay a penny, 57 00:04:09,983 --> 00:04:12,282 and if men do come calling, that's what you'll tell them. 58 00:04:13,587 --> 00:04:15,522 He was killed because he was a thief. 59 00:04:15,555 --> 00:04:16,750 That's my law. 60 00:04:18,492 --> 00:04:20,256 Leave me and I'll go directly to the church 61 00:04:20,293 --> 00:04:22,228 and have our son blessed. 62 00:04:22,262 --> 00:04:24,458 Then he won't be my son. 63 00:04:24,498 --> 00:04:27,058 May God forgive you for saying such a thing! 64 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:27,965 Which God? 65 00:04:28,001 --> 00:04:29,526 What has happened to you? 66 00:04:29,569 --> 00:04:32,038 What has happened to the kindness, and perhaps 67 00:04:32,072 --> 00:04:34,632 - even the love you have once shown me? - I was made to crawl! 68 00:04:34,674 --> 00:04:38,304 Yes, before God! We all fall to our knees before God! 69 00:04:38,345 --> 00:04:41,076 I won't forget what Alfred did to me in the name of his God. 70 00:04:41,114 --> 00:04:42,878 I reject that God. 71 00:04:42,916 --> 00:04:44,544 I will excuse myself. 72 00:04:49,589 --> 00:04:54,425 Are you there still, the man I cared for? 73 00:04:54,461 --> 00:04:58,421 Are you there still, the woman I ached to plough? 74 00:05:06,339 --> 00:05:09,309 Progress is being made daily, Lord. 75 00:05:09,342 --> 00:05:12,506 You must come to Cynuit and inspect the building work. 76 00:05:12,546 --> 00:05:15,710 Oh, I will, I will. I would like that. 77 00:05:16,983 --> 00:05:18,975 It's impressive enough, even now. 78 00:05:20,220 --> 00:05:24,783 - Yes, we have the nave here. - Mmm-hmm. 79 00:05:24,825 --> 00:05:27,818 The transepts thus, and then into the chancel. 80 00:05:27,861 --> 00:05:31,855 With its already famous altar of solid gold? 81 00:05:31,898 --> 00:05:34,026 It will be gilding, no more, Lord, 82 00:05:34,067 --> 00:05:36,161 but you know how tongues wag. 83 00:05:36,203 --> 00:05:37,466 - Hmm. - With your permission, 84 00:05:37,504 --> 00:05:39,700 I would like to place the altar just here. 85 00:05:39,739 --> 00:05:40,570 Why would you need my permission? 86 00:05:40,607 --> 00:05:43,907 It's on the exact spot where Ubba Lothbrokson is now buried. 87 00:05:43,944 --> 00:05:47,972 You wish God's altar to be built over the buried remains of a pagan? 88 00:05:48,014 --> 00:05:48,879 Oh, no! No, Lord. 89 00:05:48,915 --> 00:05:51,544 With your permission, we will exhume the remains and... 90 00:05:51,585 --> 00:05:53,385 I don't know. Have them thrown into the river. 91 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:55,115 You will exhume the remains 92 00:05:55,155 --> 00:05:58,922 and have them buried elsewhere unmarked, but with respect. 93 00:05:58,959 --> 00:06:00,203 It was a joke, Lord, a poor joke. 94 00:06:00,227 --> 00:06:03,288 We must do nothing to endanger the peace. 95 00:06:03,330 --> 00:06:04,161 With respect, Lord, 96 00:06:04,197 --> 00:06:06,275 I am not the fool my father, at times, made me out... 97 00:06:06,299 --> 00:06:08,097 to be. 98 00:06:08,134 --> 00:06:09,659 Father Beocca, you wish to see me? 99 00:06:09,703 --> 00:06:12,696 Ah, a letter, Lord, from the Bishop Alewold. 100 00:06:12,739 --> 00:06:15,675 - Private or business? - A matter of law, I was told. 101 00:06:15,709 --> 00:06:20,340 Then read it. Let Odda's active mind rest. 102 00:06:25,485 --> 00:06:27,852 Well, can you not read the writing, Beocca? 103 00:06:27,888 --> 00:06:30,357 It concerns the Aelderman Uhtred. 104 00:06:30,390 --> 00:06:32,052 He has slain a farmworker 105 00:06:32,092 --> 00:06:35,324 and is refusing to pay the monies owed to the family. 106 00:06:35,362 --> 00:06:36,591 The wergild. 107 00:06:37,430 --> 00:06:40,457 Would you like me to investigate further, Lord? 108 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:41,627 No. 109 00:06:42,335 --> 00:06:45,032 No, it is not your place. Odda, you shall investigate 110 00:06:45,071 --> 00:06:47,563 the rights and wrongs of the matter on my behalf. 111 00:06:47,607 --> 00:06:51,203 I only hope for the sake of Uhtred's wife, the killing was justified. 112 00:06:51,244 --> 00:06:55,147 Uhtred has always been fair-minded. I'm sure there are mitigations. 113 00:06:56,349 --> 00:06:58,875 Hmm, we shall see. 114 00:06:58,919 --> 00:07:02,583 In the meantime, Odda, do your best. Keep the peace. 115 00:07:02,622 --> 00:07:04,921 Yes, Lord. 116 00:07:04,958 --> 00:07:08,554 Father Beocca, the letter. 117 00:07:12,065 --> 00:07:15,297 You might do well to examine your loyalties, Father. 118 00:07:15,335 --> 00:07:18,931 My loyalties are to God and to the King, in that order. 119 00:07:19,973 --> 00:07:21,965 Lord, are you suggesting I am wrong? 120 00:07:22,008 --> 00:07:25,467 I am suggesting nothing of the sort, but I am watching you. 121 00:07:27,347 --> 00:07:29,441 And God is watching all of us. 122 00:07:36,323 --> 00:07:37,323 Uhtred! 123 00:07:38,725 --> 00:07:39,725 Uhtred! 124 00:07:41,394 --> 00:07:43,863 I'll find the wealth to pay off the debt. 125 00:07:43,897 --> 00:07:45,957 We want the same thing, the land of our birth. 126 00:07:45,999 --> 00:07:48,230 Yours won't be taken from you. 127 00:07:49,235 --> 00:07:50,328 Mine? 128 00:07:52,272 --> 00:07:54,036 Are you no longer the Aelderman? 129 00:07:54,074 --> 00:07:58,136 I'll never be accepted as an Aelderman, not here. 130 00:07:58,178 --> 00:08:03,014 Then I beg you for one last time, change your ways, Uhtred! 131 00:08:03,049 --> 00:08:07,248 If you allow God into your heart, he will guide you! 132 00:08:07,287 --> 00:08:10,086 I can never become the man you want me to be. 133 00:08:10,123 --> 00:08:13,355 - You could try. - I would despise that man. 134 00:08:13,393 --> 00:08:14,588 Arseling! 135 00:08:26,806 --> 00:08:27,933 I have loved you. 136 00:08:31,244 --> 00:08:32,303 Don't pray for me. 137 00:08:40,086 --> 00:08:41,577 Did you hump her goodbye, Arseling? 138 00:08:42,722 --> 00:08:44,691 I want to have left Wessex by tonight. 139 00:08:47,527 --> 00:08:49,996 You're gonna have to ride faster than that, Arseling. 140 00:08:50,030 --> 00:08:51,191 Come on, yah! 141 00:09:36,543 --> 00:09:39,672 No one is to wear these till we have crossed into Cornwalum. 142 00:09:41,181 --> 00:09:43,207 What you can do is polish them, 143 00:09:43,249 --> 00:09:45,878 so that when you do wear them, they will be seen clearly 144 00:09:47,587 --> 00:09:49,954 and you'll be feared. 145 00:09:49,989 --> 00:09:52,151 You're going to find out what it's like to be a Dane. 146 00:09:53,259 --> 00:09:55,387 Every man stand where he is! No one move! 147 00:09:55,428 --> 00:09:58,557 You! Stay where you are. 148 00:09:59,332 --> 00:10:00,698 Do I know you? 149 00:10:02,869 --> 00:10:04,303 Lower your hood. 150 00:10:05,338 --> 00:10:06,806 I said lower your hood! 151 00:10:22,589 --> 00:10:24,319 Aethelwold! 152 00:10:24,357 --> 00:10:26,690 Look I... I merely want to come with you, 153 00:10:26,726 --> 00:10:29,093 to be part of your adventure. 154 00:10:30,463 --> 00:10:32,728 I wanted it to be a surprise. 155 00:10:32,765 --> 00:10:35,633 He cannot be here. He cannot hold his tongue. 156 00:10:35,668 --> 00:10:37,364 I say we kill him. 157 00:10:37,403 --> 00:10:39,668 Kill me? 158 00:10:39,706 --> 00:10:42,437 You can't kill me. I'm the rightful King, you fool. 159 00:10:42,475 --> 00:10:44,501 Not here, Leofric! Not in Wessex! 160 00:10:44,544 --> 00:10:46,877 Then I will drag him into Cornwalum! - Not now! 161 00:10:46,913 --> 00:10:50,111 You can't! Uhtred, you owe me a favour. I call it in now! 162 00:10:50,150 --> 00:10:53,450 If Alfred hears of Christians raiding Cornwalum, we will all be killed! 163 00:10:53,486 --> 00:10:55,284 He guarantees that outcome. 164 00:10:55,321 --> 00:10:58,018 Leofric, I am a changed man, I swear. 165 00:10:58,057 --> 00:10:59,855 We kill him. He will not be missed. 166 00:11:01,528 --> 00:11:02,723 We take him with us. 167 00:11:04,197 --> 00:11:06,962 I owe him. He's my responsibility. 168 00:11:11,738 --> 00:11:13,536 He has my protection. 169 00:11:13,573 --> 00:11:15,132 And who will protect the rest of us? 170 00:11:19,412 --> 00:11:20,812 I've never seen him so angry. 171 00:11:20,847 --> 00:11:23,476 You will clean our mail and tend to the horses. 172 00:11:23,516 --> 00:11:24,643 Anything. 173 00:11:24,684 --> 00:11:26,585 You will wipe our arses if I say so. 174 00:11:26,619 --> 00:11:28,645 Of course. 175 00:11:28,688 --> 00:11:31,021 I am gathering the moss and dock leaves as you speak, Lord. 176 00:11:50,910 --> 00:11:52,606 What do you know of Cornwalum? 177 00:11:53,947 --> 00:11:55,279 That it's not Wessex. 178 00:11:57,784 --> 00:11:59,753 The Wessex-Cornwalum border 179 00:11:59,786 --> 00:12:02,620 is this river, the Tamar river. 180 00:12:02,655 --> 00:12:04,123 Which is why we are camped here. 181 00:12:05,325 --> 00:12:07,521 It flows North to South. 182 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:11,292 And Cornwalum itself has a coastline shaped like a leg. 183 00:12:11,998 --> 00:12:13,830 - So they are traders? - Yes. 184 00:12:13,866 --> 00:12:16,665 On the North coast to the Welsh kingdoms and Ireland, 185 00:12:17,770 --> 00:12:20,296 and on the South to the Franks. 186 00:12:20,340 --> 00:12:21,899 How do you know this? 187 00:12:21,941 --> 00:12:26,879 I'm an educated man, Leofric. I simply enjoy hiding the fact. 188 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:29,080 You do it well. 189 00:12:32,352 --> 00:12:34,378 - Do they have a King? - More than one. 190 00:12:34,420 --> 00:12:36,048 Fierce fighters? 191 00:12:36,089 --> 00:12:39,548 Have no fear, Leofric. We are Danes. 192 00:12:43,963 --> 00:12:46,592 I want to be blooded in battle. 193 00:12:48,067 --> 00:12:51,299 Don't worry, boy. You'll be first in line. 194 00:12:52,538 --> 00:12:53,699 I look forward to it. 195 00:13:11,057 --> 00:13:12,057 Good day, Lord. 196 00:13:13,993 --> 00:13:16,053 Tell your master Aelderman Odda is here. 197 00:13:16,095 --> 00:13:18,963 - With God's Bishop Alewold. - Yes, Lord. 198 00:13:20,233 --> 00:13:21,565 Quickly! 199 00:13:25,872 --> 00:13:28,501 It is not the most desirable farmstead I've seen. 200 00:13:33,413 --> 00:13:38,681 Aelderman Odda, Bishop Alewold, a pleasant surprise. 201 00:13:38,718 --> 00:13:40,914 May I offer a refreshment? 202 00:13:40,953 --> 00:13:44,219 We are here in the King's business. 'Tis with your husband. 203 00:13:45,892 --> 00:13:46,892 Is he here? 204 00:13:47,894 --> 00:13:49,522 He is not. 205 00:13:49,562 --> 00:13:51,053 Can he be fetched, my dear? 206 00:13:57,970 --> 00:14:00,064 All crucifixes and crosses! 207 00:14:01,741 --> 00:14:04,836 You are God-fearing Christians no more. 208 00:14:09,649 --> 00:14:13,211 You are Danes now. Pagans! 209 00:14:13,252 --> 00:14:15,619 You don't cross yourself, nor look to the heavens. 210 00:14:19,492 --> 00:14:21,461 Let's make ourselves rich! 211 00:14:42,081 --> 00:14:44,346 My husband is protecting our kingdom. 212 00:14:44,384 --> 00:14:46,876 From whom? We're at peace. 213 00:14:46,919 --> 00:14:48,888 He only said he was doing Alfred's work. 214 00:14:48,921 --> 00:14:51,015 He doesn't trust the Danes. 215 00:14:51,057 --> 00:14:52,568 He thinks he knows better than the King? 216 00:14:52,592 --> 00:14:55,187 Your own man, Leofric, will give you detail, I'm sure. 217 00:14:56,028 --> 00:14:58,020 - Yes. - Odda, 218 00:14:58,064 --> 00:14:59,259 it's not the child's fault 219 00:14:59,298 --> 00:15:04,202 that she was married off to a tyrant and a fool. 220 00:15:04,237 --> 00:15:07,298 No, of course not. 221 00:15:09,475 --> 00:15:13,708 Mildrith, it is with great reluctance 222 00:15:13,746 --> 00:15:16,841 that I must serve you with this letter. 223 00:15:16,883 --> 00:15:20,047 For your husband, upon his return. 224 00:15:20,086 --> 00:15:21,797 He must settle the wergild for Oswald's death 225 00:15:21,821 --> 00:15:24,120 or face confiscation of his property. 226 00:15:26,259 --> 00:15:29,320 Which is also my property. 227 00:15:31,264 --> 00:15:31,856 If you're ever in need, 228 00:15:31,898 --> 00:15:35,062 my father's house will always be your house. 229 00:15:35,101 --> 00:15:38,799 How is Lord Odda faring? Well, I hope. 230 00:15:38,838 --> 00:15:41,774 Frail. He's still very frail. 231 00:15:41,808 --> 00:15:43,777 The blow would have killed many a man. 232 00:15:46,746 --> 00:15:50,080 Take consolation, lady, 233 00:15:50,116 --> 00:15:53,177 that should your land be confiscated, 234 00:15:53,219 --> 00:15:55,814 it is the church that will benefit. 235 00:16:04,897 --> 00:16:05,956 Ahhh! 236 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,802 Ugh! 237 00:16:13,573 --> 00:16:16,042 Where's it buried? Where's the silver? 238 00:16:18,478 --> 00:16:20,470 Where is it? 239 00:16:20,513 --> 00:16:22,505 These people have nothing. 240 00:16:22,548 --> 00:16:24,881 Please! Ahhh! 241 00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:30,289 Five days and nothing. 242 00:16:30,323 --> 00:16:32,554 There is time yet. 243 00:16:32,592 --> 00:16:34,192 We are not the first Danes they've seen. 244 00:16:35,428 --> 00:16:37,954 - I need silver. - So we keep looking. 245 00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:40,175 And what if the whole of Cornwalum has been sacked already? 246 00:16:40,199 --> 00:16:43,363 We keep looking. We keep heading West. 247 00:17:16,068 --> 00:17:17,832 Do they want to speak? 248 00:17:22,174 --> 00:17:23,938 Five men to match theirs. 249 00:17:26,178 --> 00:17:30,309 And only I speak. Aethelwold? 250 00:17:30,349 --> 00:17:33,649 I heard. Only the Great Uhtred speaks. 251 00:17:52,371 --> 00:17:57,708 I am Brother Asser. I bring you a gift from my king. 252 00:18:00,246 --> 00:18:01,646 From King Peredur. 253 00:18:03,716 --> 00:18:05,082 King who? 254 00:18:05,117 --> 00:18:08,315 King Peredur of the Britons. 255 00:18:09,989 --> 00:18:11,287 Never heard of him. 256 00:18:11,324 --> 00:18:14,488 I assure you my King has heard of you. 257 00:18:14,527 --> 00:18:17,258 A troop of Danes raiding villages in Cornwalum 258 00:18:17,296 --> 00:18:19,663 does not go unnoticed. 259 00:18:19,699 --> 00:18:22,191 Why does your Peredur send me these miserable offerings? 260 00:18:22,234 --> 00:18:26,467 A gesture of peace, a token. 261 00:18:26,505 --> 00:18:31,034 Our King has been attacked by a fellow Briton and neighbour, Callyn, 262 00:18:31,077 --> 00:18:34,343 whose forces have seized the fort guarding our land. 263 00:18:34,380 --> 00:18:36,713 I am sent to tell you Peredur will pay you well 264 00:18:36,749 --> 00:18:38,877 to help him recapture this fort. 265 00:18:39,885 --> 00:18:42,548 "Pay us well"? How much? 266 00:18:42,588 --> 00:18:45,683 I do not know the sum, but I am sure he will be generous. 267 00:18:46,659 --> 00:18:47,659 He has silver? 268 00:18:48,394 --> 00:18:49,794 He is a king. 269 00:19:29,301 --> 00:19:30,963 Up, up, up! 270 00:19:37,476 --> 00:19:38,944 Winchester, it is not. 271 00:19:40,913 --> 00:19:42,472 Alfred, he is not. 272 00:19:44,550 --> 00:19:46,678 The King greets you. 273 00:19:46,719 --> 00:19:49,154 He does? I hear nothing. 274 00:19:49,188 --> 00:19:52,022 You are pagans. The King is Christian, 275 00:19:52,058 --> 00:19:53,822 and will only speak with you through me. 276 00:19:53,859 --> 00:19:56,021 If you would come forward and pay your respects. 277 00:20:02,234 --> 00:20:05,170 Please inform the King Danes don't bow to Christians. 278 00:20:06,772 --> 00:20:10,038 This fort you want us to recapture, it's defended by how many Britons? 279 00:20:11,077 --> 00:20:12,545 And what price will you pay? 280 00:20:16,415 --> 00:20:19,146 It would be much simpler if the King addressed me directly. 281 00:20:19,785 --> 00:20:20,785 Easy. 282 00:20:26,358 --> 00:20:30,318 They have between 40 and 50 men. 283 00:20:30,362 --> 00:20:32,194 No more than 50. 284 00:20:33,699 --> 00:20:36,259 We are 30, fighting men. 285 00:20:37,369 --> 00:20:38,530 And we are 20. 286 00:20:39,905 --> 00:20:41,601 How much in silver? 287 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,235 One hundred pieces of silver. 288 00:20:44,276 --> 00:20:47,371 I won't bargain. I'll tell you the price. 289 00:20:47,413 --> 00:20:48,613 Four hundred pieces of silver. 290 00:20:48,647 --> 00:20:50,513 That is an absurd sum. 291 00:20:50,549 --> 00:20:51,949 Is Peredur a king, or not? 292 00:20:55,588 --> 00:20:57,750 I will call for Queen Iseult. 293 00:20:57,790 --> 00:21:00,225 My Lord, perhaps instead, you should take a moment 294 00:21:00,259 --> 00:21:06,290 - and pray for guidance... - Iseult! You are needed! 295 00:21:26,118 --> 00:21:30,180 I am blessed with two wives, two queens. 296 00:21:31,423 --> 00:21:33,517 Iseult is a Shadow Queen. 297 00:21:35,961 --> 00:21:38,692 You know what I require of you? Of course, you do. 298 00:22:07,893 --> 00:22:09,293 Who are you, 299 00:22:10,996 --> 00:22:13,192 and what will you do for the King? 300 00:22:17,403 --> 00:22:19,167 I am Uhtred Ragnarson. 301 00:22:20,739 --> 00:22:22,674 I am here to fight for your king. 302 00:22:23,576 --> 00:22:24,874 If he pays me what I'm worth. 303 00:23:17,029 --> 00:23:18,292 He is the one. 304 00:23:35,381 --> 00:23:38,078 You are a fortunate to have such a wife. 305 00:23:38,117 --> 00:23:40,018 She is not to hump. 306 00:23:41,253 --> 00:23:42,881 She is too valuable. 307 00:23:47,192 --> 00:23:52,529 Four hundred pieces of silver. 308 00:23:55,901 --> 00:23:57,267 Agreed. 309 00:23:57,303 --> 00:23:58,669 I'll see it. 310 00:23:58,704 --> 00:24:01,435 - You'll see it once the fort is taken. - No, I'll see it now. 311 00:24:01,473 --> 00:24:05,205 All of my wealth is hidden, within the fort. 312 00:24:05,244 --> 00:24:06,712 Then your enemy has it. 313 00:24:06,745 --> 00:24:09,442 Well hidden. 314 00:24:09,481 --> 00:24:12,246 You have your price. You have my terms. 315 00:24:12,284 --> 00:24:13,843 I know you'll accept. 316 00:24:15,087 --> 00:24:18,285 I know you can smell the silver 317 00:24:20,159 --> 00:24:26,360 Danes, hmm? You have a nose for blood and silver 318 00:24:26,398 --> 00:24:31,166 and women, and so I will add to the price, 319 00:24:32,071 --> 00:24:33,071 my Queen. 320 00:24:35,274 --> 00:24:38,972 This Queen. 321 00:24:42,614 --> 00:24:44,559 If we win back the fort and you're lying about the silver, 322 00:24:44,583 --> 00:24:45,676 I'll kill you. 323 00:24:45,718 --> 00:24:47,983 Which is why I do not lie! 324 00:24:52,257 --> 00:24:54,385 Call the men up. We stay here. 325 00:24:58,864 --> 00:25:00,992 I'll dream about that Shadow Queen. 326 00:25:02,201 --> 00:25:05,763 You told her your name, and word travels. 327 00:25:05,804 --> 00:25:07,295 Uhtred Ragnarson! 328 00:25:10,976 --> 00:25:14,140 I noticed that you have some Saxons amongst your ranks. 329 00:25:14,179 --> 00:25:15,704 Some from Mercia. 330 00:25:15,748 --> 00:25:17,392 They'd rather fight than work in the fields. 331 00:25:17,416 --> 00:25:18,145 The pay is better. 332 00:25:18,183 --> 00:25:20,846 He would like to attack at the earliest opportunity. 333 00:25:20,886 --> 00:25:23,185 He does not wish to feed you for more than one night. 334 00:25:23,222 --> 00:25:25,214 How Christian of them. 335 00:25:25,257 --> 00:25:28,352 He would like to be a man of God, 336 00:25:28,394 --> 00:25:32,161 but as you have witnessed, he cannot let go of his pagan ways. 337 00:25:33,165 --> 00:25:34,827 The Queen Iseult. 338 00:25:34,867 --> 00:25:38,963 She is a gwrach, a sorceress. 339 00:25:40,039 --> 00:25:41,405 What are her powers? 340 00:25:42,508 --> 00:25:45,376 Peredur believes she can see into the future, 341 00:25:46,945 --> 00:25:49,380 for as long as she remains a virgin. 342 00:25:50,416 --> 00:25:51,975 And what do you believe? 343 00:25:52,017 --> 00:25:55,044 I know the devil exists. 344 00:25:55,087 --> 00:25:59,024 Hiding within beauty is a trick he will use often, I'm sure. 345 00:26:00,959 --> 00:26:02,621 Tell the King to have his men ready. 346 00:26:09,835 --> 00:26:14,864 Peredur, any in the fort who try to escape are yours, yes? 347 00:26:14,907 --> 00:26:17,604 You will do your part, Dane. I will do mine! 348 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,171 Walk on! Advance! 349 00:26:25,684 --> 00:26:28,004 Let's scare the shit out of these bastard Britons. 350 00:26:29,254 --> 00:26:32,691 See if they have the stomach for this. 351 00:26:39,098 --> 00:26:40,122 Hold! 352 00:26:42,401 --> 00:26:43,528 We hold here! 353 00:26:51,176 --> 00:26:53,202 Why would they leave a fortress to face us? 354 00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:56,972 Aethelwold, advance. 355 00:26:59,084 --> 00:27:02,782 Go on the ridge and see why they are prepared to leave the fortress. 356 00:27:02,821 --> 00:27:06,451 - On my own? - You wanted to be first in line. 357 00:27:12,965 --> 00:27:14,194 Ooh! Ahhh! 358 00:27:32,484 --> 00:27:34,146 Yah! 359 00:27:45,597 --> 00:27:47,361 What do you see? 360 00:27:47,399 --> 00:27:51,359 They are Danes! Real Danes. 361 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,365 Stand still! Hold! 362 00:27:59,378 --> 00:28:00,822 What are you waiting for? 363 00:28:00,846 --> 00:28:03,406 - They're Danes! - What do you care? 364 00:28:03,448 --> 00:28:06,350 You people will fight anyone for money, even yourselves! 365 00:28:06,385 --> 00:28:07,853 You lied to me! 366 00:28:07,886 --> 00:28:09,946 Think of the silver! 367 00:28:09,988 --> 00:28:11,422 The Queen has seen your victory, 368 00:28:11,456 --> 00:28:13,755 - so fight! - Uhtred. 369 00:28:18,363 --> 00:28:22,698 He's a Sword Dane, a Lord of War. 370 00:28:22,734 --> 00:28:26,865 If the Lord of War wants to talk, may I suggest we listen. 371 00:29:03,375 --> 00:29:04,775 Name yourself. 372 00:29:06,044 --> 00:29:09,606 I am Uhtred Ragnarson. Who are you? 373 00:29:10,782 --> 00:29:14,184 Skorpa, of the White Horse. 374 00:29:16,021 --> 00:29:18,991 You are the Uhtred Ragnarson who was at Cynuit? 375 00:29:21,026 --> 00:29:22,517 I am. 376 00:29:22,561 --> 00:29:24,962 The Saxon son of Earl Ragnar? 377 00:29:26,198 --> 00:29:27,198 Yes. 378 00:29:28,533 --> 00:29:33,028 You will not defeat me. You know this. 379 00:29:33,071 --> 00:29:35,973 Perhaps not, but I could kill half your men trying. 380 00:29:36,008 --> 00:29:37,032 Oh... 381 00:29:39,011 --> 00:29:42,448 Yes, yes you could. 382 00:29:44,349 --> 00:29:50,289 Then it would be best for us both if you did not try. 383 00:29:50,322 --> 00:29:54,885 Lord, Lord, I fear what will happen if they're allowed to speak. 384 00:29:54,926 --> 00:29:58,488 Then go to them. Listen to what they're saying. 385 00:29:58,530 --> 00:30:01,227 My presence, Lord, will serve only to antagonise the Dane. 386 00:30:01,266 --> 00:30:03,929 Uhtred Ragnarson! 387 00:30:03,969 --> 00:30:06,200 What is happening here? 388 00:30:06,238 --> 00:30:08,537 They must leave my kingdom or die! 389 00:30:09,107 --> 00:30:10,473 Bastard Danes. 390 00:30:12,110 --> 00:30:13,373 The Queen saw victory. 391 00:30:14,112 --> 00:30:16,547 I pray, Lord. 392 00:30:16,581 --> 00:30:17,913 What is your battle price? 393 00:30:18,383 --> 00:30:20,011 Silver. 394 00:30:20,052 --> 00:30:22,078 And he says it's hidden in the fortress. 395 00:30:26,758 --> 00:30:27,758 No. 396 00:30:29,294 --> 00:30:31,661 No, we have ripped the fortress apart. 397 00:30:32,597 --> 00:30:33,656 We found nothing. 398 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,235 He must have something. 399 00:30:37,269 --> 00:30:37,759 Somewhere. 400 00:30:37,803 --> 00:30:39,567 Uhtred Ragnarson! 401 00:30:39,604 --> 00:30:44,406 Whatever he has, I say we split. 402 00:30:45,477 --> 00:30:47,378 Half and half. 403 00:30:48,413 --> 00:30:49,413 We kill his men. 404 00:30:50,415 --> 00:30:52,179 We spare the King. 405 00:30:52,217 --> 00:30:54,777 He takes us to his wealth. 406 00:30:58,090 --> 00:30:59,090 Half and half. 407 00:31:04,062 --> 00:31:05,062 I will advance, 408 00:31:06,331 --> 00:31:07,331 you will turn, 409 00:31:09,368 --> 00:31:11,837 and we will attack together. 410 00:31:14,606 --> 00:31:17,201 Now, this is for the benefit of the King. 411 00:31:19,277 --> 00:31:21,906 You bastard piece of rassragr! 412 00:31:21,947 --> 00:31:23,245 I will destroy you! 413 00:31:25,751 --> 00:31:28,152 Be ready! We kill them all! 414 00:31:28,186 --> 00:31:29,984 Every last one of them dies! 415 00:31:31,056 --> 00:31:32,684 Tell the men we are with the Danes. 416 00:31:44,870 --> 00:31:45,929 At the ready! 417 00:31:47,372 --> 00:31:49,238 You trust this Skorpa? 418 00:31:49,274 --> 00:31:50,936 We have no choice but to trust him. 419 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:03,548 Now, turn! 420 00:32:30,849 --> 00:32:33,216 To the death! 421 00:32:33,251 --> 00:32:34,879 You bastard Danes! 422 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:39,290 You'll cry for your stinking whore mothers! 423 00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:24,791 You lying, thieving, bastard Danes! 424 00:34:24,829 --> 00:34:26,855 I could kill at least one more of you. 425 00:34:32,671 --> 00:34:33,730 It is over. 426 00:34:36,341 --> 00:34:37,969 Your wealth. 427 00:34:38,009 --> 00:34:39,910 My wealth for my life is it? 428 00:34:39,945 --> 00:34:41,914 Your wealth and your Shadow Queen. 429 00:34:41,947 --> 00:34:43,643 Useless bitch. 430 00:34:44,215 --> 00:34:45,843 She saw victory. 431 00:34:45,884 --> 00:34:47,716 Where is the silver? 432 00:34:47,752 --> 00:34:49,243 If I tell you, you'll kill me, 433 00:34:49,287 --> 00:34:51,552 and I would rather you remained poor. 434 00:34:51,590 --> 00:34:56,722 You have my word, as a warlord. You will be spared. 435 00:34:58,063 --> 00:35:00,089 Where is the silver? 436 00:35:02,667 --> 00:35:06,001 Speak or you will die. 437 00:35:07,339 --> 00:35:08,432 It's buried. 438 00:35:09,574 --> 00:35:13,102 In the hall, beneath my throne. 439 00:35:13,144 --> 00:35:16,546 I'll need a small amount myself... 440 00:35:33,898 --> 00:35:36,333 Do we split her too? 441 00:35:36,368 --> 00:35:38,803 - You have the tits. I'll have the arse. - She's mine. 442 00:35:38,837 --> 00:35:40,567 You are here for the silver? 443 00:35:42,507 --> 00:35:43,839 It is beneath this seat. 444 00:36:01,559 --> 00:36:02,559 I have a question. 445 00:36:05,797 --> 00:36:07,095 Have you been waiting for us? 446 00:36:10,235 --> 00:36:11,235 For you. 447 00:36:12,804 --> 00:36:15,000 Then you saw what would happen? 448 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,702 I knew that you would come. 449 00:36:18,710 --> 00:36:19,803 That is all. 450 00:36:21,713 --> 00:36:25,150 Uhtred, what do you know of a church with a golden altar? 451 00:36:26,885 --> 00:36:27,944 At Cynuit. 452 00:36:29,421 --> 00:36:31,356 To celebrate the killing of Ubba. 453 00:36:32,824 --> 00:36:34,816 I hear they're building a church. 454 00:36:34,859 --> 00:36:36,657 Who's been telling you this? 455 00:36:36,695 --> 00:36:40,188 Men, begging to live... 456 00:36:40,999 --> 00:36:42,729 Would say anything. 457 00:36:42,767 --> 00:36:44,360 And that's where you'll go? To Cynuit? 458 00:36:46,104 --> 00:36:48,471 Well, I have ships to repair. 459 00:36:48,506 --> 00:36:50,907 The coastline here has been murderous. 460 00:37:04,622 --> 00:37:07,751 How do we do this? How do we share? 461 00:37:09,461 --> 00:37:10,952 We don't... 462 00:37:11,629 --> 00:37:12,629 share. 463 00:37:15,166 --> 00:37:16,657 Oh, we can fight, 464 00:37:17,836 --> 00:37:19,998 and some of us will die, 465 00:37:20,038 --> 00:37:22,337 including your Queen. 466 00:37:42,894 --> 00:37:46,490 Uhtred Ragnarson, keep your sword in its scabbard. 467 00:37:47,398 --> 00:37:48,889 Wise Queen. 468 00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:50,231 She stays with me. 469 00:37:56,841 --> 00:37:58,503 - She stays with me! - Do nothing! 470 00:38:15,293 --> 00:38:16,921 Uhtred, no! Uhtred! 471 00:38:16,961 --> 00:38:18,520 - They have our treasure! - No! 472 00:38:18,563 --> 00:38:22,694 I will not fight these Danes for silver. For king, yes, but not for silver! 473 00:38:22,734 --> 00:38:24,512 I am tethered by debts. I need to raise an army, 474 00:38:24,536 --> 00:38:26,046 and they get away further with every second! 475 00:38:26,070 --> 00:38:28,437 I will not allow half these men or more to die! 476 00:38:28,473 --> 00:38:29,913 I can give you what you need. 477 00:38:31,709 --> 00:38:32,709 There's more. 478 00:38:33,978 --> 00:38:34,978 Silver. 479 00:38:52,330 --> 00:38:54,856 What did he whisper, Skorpa, when he was leaving? 480 00:38:59,003 --> 00:39:00,883 I will tell you when I believe you need to know. 481 00:39:08,947 --> 00:39:11,917 How was I, as a warrior? 482 00:39:14,385 --> 00:39:19,085 Aethelwold, you are as much a warrior as you are a king. 483 00:39:39,177 --> 00:39:40,736 This isn't part of the plunder. 484 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:43,409 It's a holy cross. 485 00:39:43,448 --> 00:39:45,883 It goes back to the church. There'll be blessings. 486 00:39:47,752 --> 00:39:51,712 But the rest, it's all ours. 487 00:39:58,229 --> 00:40:00,892 - Home? - Wessex. 488 00:40:00,932 --> 00:40:02,195 And our separate ways. 489 00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:03,462 There's a bishop I must see. 490 00:40:49,314 --> 00:40:51,010 I've never seen a village like this before. 491 00:40:52,984 --> 00:40:54,304 We will be here for just the day. 492 00:41:01,025 --> 00:41:04,154 - Who are you? - I'll speak with the Bishop Alewold. 493 00:41:04,195 --> 00:41:06,061 Bishop Alewold is at prayer. 494 00:41:06,097 --> 00:41:07,565 - He'll see me. - He is at prayer 495 00:41:07,598 --> 00:41:09,362 - and can't be disturbed! - Alewold! 496 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:10,400 Bishop Alewold! 497 00:41:11,402 --> 00:41:12,734 What is this? 498 00:41:13,271 --> 00:41:14,671 Get out. 499 00:41:14,706 --> 00:41:15,503 Out! 500 00:41:15,540 --> 00:41:18,066 We're busy with our work. 501 00:41:18,109 --> 00:41:19,475 So I see. 502 00:41:19,510 --> 00:41:21,069 I said get out! 503 00:41:24,382 --> 00:41:25,382 I know you. 504 00:41:27,218 --> 00:41:28,218 Uhtred. 505 00:41:29,420 --> 00:41:31,582 The Godless, yes. 506 00:41:31,622 --> 00:41:32,622 And my wife, 507 00:41:32,657 --> 00:41:35,718 through her father, has inherited a debt to the church. 508 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,754 Oh, yes. A substantial debt, I recall. 509 00:41:39,797 --> 00:41:42,232 - Which I would now discharge. - You would? 510 00:41:42,266 --> 00:41:44,235 Very well, as you see, we're busy with... 511 00:41:51,209 --> 00:41:53,371 That's Irish work. 512 00:41:54,479 --> 00:41:57,108 It looks Irish. 513 00:41:57,148 --> 00:41:58,878 And its weight... 514 00:42:00,151 --> 00:42:03,121 A thing of beauty and of great value. 515 00:42:03,154 --> 00:42:05,885 It seemed a fitting way of settling the debt, 516 00:42:05,923 --> 00:42:09,382 if you'll accept, of course. If not, I'll put it in the smith's fire. 517 00:42:09,427 --> 00:42:13,523 I accept. On behalf of the church, I accept. 518 00:42:16,567 --> 00:42:20,004 I trust I can rely upon your good judgement 519 00:42:20,038 --> 00:42:23,167 in dismissing the matter of my servant Oswald's wergild. 520 00:42:25,376 --> 00:42:26,376 He was a thief. 521 00:42:27,378 --> 00:42:28,869 His family will swear otherwise. 522 00:42:28,913 --> 00:42:30,575 My people will swear he was. 523 00:42:32,250 --> 00:42:35,243 And time will be wasted with no end. 524 00:42:38,056 --> 00:42:41,322 In that case, consider all matters resolved. 525 00:42:42,527 --> 00:42:43,551 Bless you. 526 00:43:25,670 --> 00:43:27,571 I've been praying daily for your safe return. 527 00:43:37,682 --> 00:43:38,682 Who's this? 528 00:43:40,852 --> 00:43:41,911 She's a queen. 529 00:43:43,254 --> 00:43:44,916 Queen of where? Of whom? 530 00:43:46,190 --> 00:43:47,190 Britons. 531 00:43:58,236 --> 00:44:00,501 Uhtred, you walked by your son without a look. 532 00:44:03,741 --> 00:44:04,834 Is he baptised now? 533 00:44:05,343 --> 00:44:06,343 Yes. 534 00:44:07,578 --> 00:44:09,012 Against my wishes. 535 00:44:09,046 --> 00:44:11,447 I have done nothing that requires forgiveness. 536 00:44:14,218 --> 00:44:15,345 What's her name? 537 00:44:15,386 --> 00:44:16,445 I am called Iseult. 538 00:44:16,487 --> 00:44:20,390 I'm speaking with my husband. You can kindly remain silent. 539 00:44:20,424 --> 00:44:23,292 Mildrith, we are hungry, thirsty, and in need of rest. 540 00:44:24,395 --> 00:44:26,660 I am not your servant. 541 00:44:26,697 --> 00:44:30,031 Do not speak to me as if I were. I am your wife! 542 00:44:30,067 --> 00:44:32,195 You are no longer a part of Uhtred's path. 543 00:44:34,405 --> 00:44:35,405 It is true. 544 00:44:38,509 --> 00:44:40,205 Out. 545 00:44:40,244 --> 00:44:43,544 Out! This Queen can sleep with the animals. 546 00:44:49,086 --> 00:44:51,681 You should know that your land is safe. 547 00:44:51,722 --> 00:44:54,123 I have seen Bishop Alewold. The debt's settled, all of it. 548 00:44:55,226 --> 00:44:57,752 That's what I've come to tell you, nothing more. 549 00:44:59,730 --> 00:45:00,891 And what of Oswald's wergild? 550 00:45:01,566 --> 00:45:03,296 That too is settled. 551 00:45:03,334 --> 00:45:05,963 His family won't receive a penny. 552 00:45:06,003 --> 00:45:08,871 Then you can explain that to the King's Council. 553 00:45:08,906 --> 00:45:10,306 Alfred has called you to the Witan. 554 00:45:15,079 --> 00:45:16,079 It's finished. 555 00:45:17,381 --> 00:45:18,381 Everything. 556 00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:24,121 Before I left, I said that I've loved you. 557 00:45:25,756 --> 00:45:27,452 And it's true. 558 00:45:27,491 --> 00:45:30,620 You will not speak of us in this way, 559 00:45:30,661 --> 00:45:33,187 and in the presence of a pagan whore! 560 00:45:34,599 --> 00:45:35,692 She's with me. 561 00:45:39,537 --> 00:45:42,974 Will you be resting with your family or with the animals? 562 00:45:49,947 --> 00:45:51,575 You chose the company of pigs and a goat 563 00:45:51,616 --> 00:45:53,050 over your wife and son? 564 00:45:59,757 --> 00:46:01,089 My wife's a good woman. 565 00:46:03,461 --> 00:46:04,292 She loves her God, 566 00:46:04,328 --> 00:46:07,662 and it's hard for her to be with the like of me. 567 00:46:10,901 --> 00:46:12,301 And if the marriage is to be ended, 568 00:46:12,336 --> 00:46:14,896 I must become used to life without my son. 569 00:46:28,352 --> 00:46:29,820 I'm here because I choose you. 570 00:46:34,392 --> 00:46:36,032 Though I won't keep you against your will. 571 00:46:44,602 --> 00:46:45,602 What? 572 00:46:52,376 --> 00:46:54,038 I will be with you, Uhtred, 573 00:46:55,746 --> 00:46:57,510 from now until the very end. 574 00:47:00,885 --> 00:47:02,217 That is what I see. 575 00:47:10,294 --> 00:47:12,263 I want you to see my home, 576 00:47:12,296 --> 00:47:13,491 my land in the North. 577 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,529 It is this Alfred who directs you for now. 578 00:47:21,038 --> 00:47:22,506 You must give in to fate. 579 00:47:24,475 --> 00:47:25,738 Attend his Witan. 580 00:47:30,681 --> 00:47:33,048 Will you sleep alongside me tonight, under the furs? 581 00:47:35,753 --> 00:47:36,753 Sleep? 582 00:47:37,555 --> 00:47:38,921 Nothing more. 583 00:47:41,359 --> 00:47:42,520 I would like that. 584 00:47:46,831 --> 00:47:49,130 As the only other source of warmth would be a goat. 585 00:48:04,115 --> 00:48:05,174 Edwina? 586 00:48:09,820 --> 00:48:11,618 Lady? 587 00:48:11,655 --> 00:48:13,749 Please inform your family that I'll be travelling, 588 00:48:15,192 --> 00:48:16,192 with the child. 589 00:48:19,130 --> 00:48:20,689 We will leave for Lord Odda's estate. 590 00:48:24,168 --> 00:48:28,162 I would like you with me, but it is your decision. 591 00:48:28,205 --> 00:48:29,366 I know how important it is 592 00:48:29,407 --> 00:48:31,205 to be amongst the people who care for you. 593 00:48:35,479 --> 00:48:36,947 I would not wish to leave you. 594 00:48:52,263 --> 00:48:54,494 The very day I'm told that my home is my own 595 00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:57,798 is the day I decide I must leave. 596 00:49:38,676 --> 00:49:44,138 O Lord, grant wisdom to your servants gathered here. 597 00:49:44,181 --> 00:49:46,343 Help them to decide what is right, 598 00:49:46,383 --> 00:49:49,046 what is just and what is fair. 599 00:49:50,020 --> 00:49:52,546 Grant us this, O Lord. 600 00:49:52,590 --> 00:49:54,525 Grant us this, O Lord. 601 00:50:04,401 --> 00:50:06,165 Leave your sword. 602 00:50:07,404 --> 00:50:08,404 Uhtred! 603 00:50:10,207 --> 00:50:12,005 - Uhtred! - Beocca. 604 00:50:12,042 --> 00:50:14,568 Quickly! You're late. 605 00:50:14,612 --> 00:50:16,581 You were sent for days ago. 606 00:50:16,614 --> 00:50:18,310 You should have been here on time! 607 00:50:18,349 --> 00:50:20,716 Since when has my presence been so important? 608 00:50:20,751 --> 00:50:21,844 Who's she? 609 00:50:21,886 --> 00:50:23,013 She's with me. 610 00:50:23,053 --> 00:50:24,544 Was she part of your plunder? 611 00:50:25,856 --> 00:50:27,757 What's been said? 612 00:50:27,791 --> 00:50:29,919 You will hear it all soon enough. 613 00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:33,055 Now we must go, and you must be respectful. 614 00:50:33,097 --> 00:50:34,097 Now more than ever. 615 00:50:39,270 --> 00:50:44,106 And as local thegns skimp in their duty to repair the bridges... 616 00:50:44,141 --> 00:50:46,406 I wish to ask of the King 617 00:50:46,443 --> 00:50:48,742 to appoint an official... 618 00:50:48,779 --> 00:50:51,578 to survey the kingdom's roads. 619 00:50:51,615 --> 00:50:55,108 The bridge on the road out of Avingdon, for example, 620 00:50:55,152 --> 00:50:58,350 is in such a state of disrepair... 621 00:50:58,389 --> 00:50:59,254 Now's the time, my Lord. 622 00:50:59,290 --> 00:51:01,725 It is now dangerous for man or... 623 00:51:01,759 --> 00:51:03,570 What reason do I have to beg for mercy? 624 00:51:03,594 --> 00:51:04,459 What's been said? 625 00:51:04,495 --> 00:51:05,872 - Quiet now. - Is it Cornwalum? 626 00:51:05,896 --> 00:51:07,228 Respect! 627 00:51:07,264 --> 00:51:09,028 Remains disinterested... 628 00:51:09,066 --> 00:51:10,306 We shall talk of bridges later. 629 00:51:12,436 --> 00:51:13,529 Beocca, what is this? 630 00:51:13,571 --> 00:51:14,971 You will be quiet there! 631 00:51:15,940 --> 00:51:17,067 Face your King! 632 00:51:18,242 --> 00:51:19,403 Come. 633 00:51:19,443 --> 00:51:22,174 There is a, um... An urgent matter, 634 00:51:22,212 --> 00:51:23,805 which, with the Witan's permission, 635 00:51:24,715 --> 00:51:25,808 we shall deal with now. 636 00:51:39,196 --> 00:51:41,859 Aelderman Uhtred, 637 00:51:41,899 --> 00:51:44,767 also known in your parish as Uhtred the Godless, 638 00:51:46,537 --> 00:51:47,937 you are on this day charged 639 00:51:47,972 --> 00:51:52,068 with taking a troop of the King's men into Cornwalum, 640 00:51:52,109 --> 00:51:56,877 and there making war against the Britons without your king's consent. 641 00:51:56,914 --> 00:52:01,284 You are also charged with joining forces with the Dane called Skorpa... 642 00:52:02,519 --> 00:52:06,286 to murder Christian folk in Cornwalum, 643 00:52:06,323 --> 00:52:11,523 despite these folk all living in peace with Alfred and with Wessex. 644 00:52:12,863 --> 00:52:15,355 All this is proven with oaths. 645 00:52:15,399 --> 00:52:17,959 And the punishment for these crimes is death. 646 00:52:20,537 --> 00:52:21,903 Who swears these oaths? 647 00:52:21,939 --> 00:52:23,066 We shall get to that. 648 00:52:23,107 --> 00:52:24,735 Show me. Who swears? 649 00:52:24,775 --> 00:52:29,645 I, Brother Asser, swear these oaths. 650 00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,411 - Uhtred, to your knees. - Never. 651 00:52:32,449 --> 00:52:33,493 Lord, we were patrolling your borders 652 00:52:33,517 --> 00:52:35,645 and protecting your kingdom, nothing more. 653 00:52:35,686 --> 00:52:38,349 There is more to my story, Lord, if I may. 654 00:52:38,389 --> 00:52:39,755 - Now is the time to beg. - Yes, 655 00:52:39,790 --> 00:52:41,418 let him speak. Let's hear his story! 656 00:52:42,092 --> 00:52:46,655 On my way to make this complaint to King Alfred, 657 00:52:46,697 --> 00:52:49,360 I came via Cynuit. 658 00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:53,895 And such a sight I hope never to see again. 659 00:52:53,937 --> 00:52:55,599 For where the church to commemorate 660 00:52:55,639 --> 00:52:58,632 Lord Odda's victory over Ubba was to be built, 661 00:52:58,676 --> 00:53:02,875 I saw devastation, destruction, 662 00:53:02,913 --> 00:53:06,372 and the charred remains of 15 monks or more. 663 00:53:07,051 --> 00:53:10,613 Men have told me that this evil was the work 664 00:53:10,654 --> 00:53:14,591 of the very same Skorpa who was in Cornwalum, 665 00:53:14,625 --> 00:53:18,460 and that with him, once more, was the Aelderman Uhtred. 666 00:53:18,495 --> 00:53:19,724 - No! - This man! 667 00:53:19,763 --> 00:53:22,790 No, these are lies, Lord! Lord, he lies with every breath! 668 00:53:22,833 --> 00:53:24,377 Lord, hear me. Let me speak and hear the truth! 669 00:53:24,401 --> 00:53:29,704 We are the Witan, and we shall behave in the way of a Witan. 670 00:53:33,210 --> 00:53:35,975 The Aelderman is entitled to respond. 671 00:53:36,013 --> 00:53:37,982 Yes, I was at Cynuit. 672 00:53:38,015 --> 00:53:40,678 I was at Cynuit once and once only. 673 00:53:41,752 --> 00:53:46,247 I was at Cynuit on the day that I, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, killed Ubba. 674 00:53:49,026 --> 00:53:51,427 I look around this hall 675 00:53:51,462 --> 00:53:54,694 and into the eyes of the warriors who know this to be true, 676 00:53:56,734 --> 00:53:59,533 and that is the only occasion I was at Cynuit. 677 00:53:59,570 --> 00:54:00,936 We are here... 678 00:54:02,573 --> 00:54:05,907 We are here to deliver judgement on the murder of King Peredur 679 00:54:05,943 --> 00:54:08,037 and the Christian Britons of Cornwalum. 680 00:54:08,078 --> 00:54:09,671 Then if I can speak of Cornwalum, Lord? 681 00:54:09,713 --> 00:54:11,157 There is a further witness, I believe. 682 00:54:11,181 --> 00:54:13,226 What if Peredur's Queen was to stand in front of this Witan 683 00:54:13,250 --> 00:54:16,152 and tell you that Peredur lied and cheated us? 684 00:54:16,186 --> 00:54:17,848 She is a Shadow Queen and a pagan Lord. 685 00:54:17,888 --> 00:54:19,447 Her words would be meaningless. 686 00:54:19,490 --> 00:54:20,700 Is the truth not important, Lord? 687 00:54:20,724 --> 00:54:22,317 - Lord! - Odda, we shall move on. 688 00:54:22,359 --> 00:54:23,486 There is a further witness. 689 00:54:23,527 --> 00:54:25,519 Yes, Lord. Bring the prisoner. 690 00:54:33,504 --> 00:54:33,971 What is this? 691 00:54:34,004 --> 00:54:36,883 - Odda means for you to die as a traitor... - You will stand separate. 692 00:54:36,907 --> 00:54:38,205 - and you will die. 693 00:54:39,376 --> 00:54:41,038 If it is Valhalla you want, 694 00:54:41,078 --> 00:54:43,638 - I will do my best to give it. - I said you will stand separate! 695 00:54:48,418 --> 00:54:51,855 Leofric, you have sworn your oath, 696 00:54:52,790 --> 00:54:53,910 and you will tell the truth? 697 00:54:54,458 --> 00:54:55,482 I will, Lord. 698 00:54:56,260 --> 00:54:57,387 God is merciful. 699 00:54:58,896 --> 00:55:02,355 You are a man of Wessex and have been loyal to the King? 700 00:55:02,399 --> 00:55:06,029 I am loyal to the King, Lord. Always. 701 00:55:06,069 --> 00:55:08,629 Were you in Cornwalum with the Aelderman Uhtred? 702 00:55:11,308 --> 00:55:12,308 I was. 703 00:55:14,077 --> 00:55:17,775 Did you kill and plunder Peredur and his Britons? 704 00:55:18,248 --> 00:55:19,307 I did. 705 00:55:19,483 --> 00:55:24,512 Leofric, have you now donated your share of the plunder to the church? 706 00:55:25,556 --> 00:55:27,354 I have, Lord. 707 00:55:27,391 --> 00:55:28,511 And have begged forgiveness. 708 00:55:31,161 --> 00:55:32,459 The Witan hears you, Leofric. 709 00:55:36,433 --> 00:55:37,867 Whom did you follow into battle? 710 00:55:41,438 --> 00:55:43,134 I went willingly, Lord. 711 00:55:43,173 --> 00:55:46,666 No, Uhtred led. You followed. 712 00:55:46,710 --> 00:55:48,975 He is the Aelderman, and he is to blame. 713 00:55:49,012 --> 00:55:50,139 I share the blame, Lord. 714 00:55:50,180 --> 00:55:52,411 - No, he is responsible. - Irresponsible. 715 00:55:52,449 --> 00:55:53,827 And he will pay for it with his life! 716 00:55:53,851 --> 00:55:55,319 For the last time, beg. 717 00:55:55,352 --> 00:55:57,150 No, I will not beg. 718 00:55:57,187 --> 00:56:00,885 I will fall to my knees for no man, no king, and no Christian God. 719 00:56:11,068 --> 00:56:14,197 He must pay with his life. 720 00:56:14,238 --> 00:56:16,969 Lord, if I may make a plea to the King and the Witan. 721 00:56:17,007 --> 00:56:17,940 I have not yet finished. 722 00:56:17,975 --> 00:56:19,455 I beg your pardon, Lord, but if I may? 723 00:56:22,145 --> 00:56:25,707 It is clear that, like me, the Arseling here is guilty. 724 00:56:25,749 --> 00:56:28,378 Thank you, my friend. 725 00:56:28,418 --> 00:56:33,652 It is also clear that he is too proud and too stupid to repent 726 00:56:33,690 --> 00:56:35,158 and as a consequence, will die. 727 00:56:35,192 --> 00:56:38,162 He will die for leading men to treachery. 728 00:56:38,195 --> 00:56:40,824 Because of my own guilt 729 00:56:40,864 --> 00:56:44,392 and because of my respect for Uhtred as a warrior, 730 00:56:44,434 --> 00:56:46,062 I request that he dies at my sword. 731 00:56:51,775 --> 00:56:55,473 You wish to become executioner, Leofric? 732 00:56:55,512 --> 00:56:57,310 My plea is for a fight to the death, Lord. 733 00:56:58,282 --> 00:56:59,375 Me against the Arseling. 734 00:57:00,684 --> 00:57:03,415 If God is with me, I will be the victor, 735 00:57:03,453 --> 00:57:06,855 and the Aelderman is allowed to die as a warrior should. 736 00:57:06,890 --> 00:57:09,291 And if he should win this fight to the death, what then? 737 00:57:09,326 --> 00:57:11,352 He will not. 738 00:57:11,395 --> 00:57:13,489 It would take God's intervention for him to beat me. 739 00:57:14,531 --> 00:57:15,794 Let them fight, Lord. 740 00:57:17,167 --> 00:57:19,500 Let God decide. 741 00:57:21,505 --> 00:57:24,202 Lord. Lord, it is clear the guilt lies with Uhtred. 742 00:57:33,984 --> 00:57:37,148 Leofric, you have spoken well, 743 00:57:39,723 --> 00:57:41,521 and your request is granted. 744 00:57:46,563 --> 00:57:48,225 You will fight tomorrow. 745 00:57:48,999 --> 00:57:49,999 To the death. 746 00:57:51,068 --> 00:57:52,969 Swords and shields. 747 00:57:54,438 --> 00:57:57,135 God shall determine the victor. 747 00:57:58,305 --> 00:58:58,522 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today