1 00:00:02,302 --> 00:00:05,033 I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred. 2 00:00:05,072 --> 00:00:08,372 I was born a Saxon Lord, but raised as a Dane, 3 00:00:08,408 --> 00:00:12,345 until the eve of my sister's wedding, when my family were murdered. 4 00:00:12,379 --> 00:00:13,210 Fire. 5 00:00:13,247 --> 00:00:14,476 I am a warrior. 6 00:00:14,515 --> 00:00:18,418 But when the Danes attacked Alfred's stronghold of Winchester, 7 00:00:18,452 --> 00:00:20,512 all a man could do was run. 8 00:00:20,554 --> 00:00:22,318 Some faster than others, 9 00:00:22,356 --> 00:00:25,087 including my enemy, Young Odda. 10 00:00:25,125 --> 00:00:28,118 And so, Guthrum took Winchester. 11 00:00:28,161 --> 00:00:30,790 Aethelwold pledged his allegiance to the Danes, 12 00:00:30,831 --> 00:00:33,995 though Guthrum still feared Alfred's God, 13 00:00:34,034 --> 00:00:39,371 I could only hope my now distant wife and child would be safe. 14 00:00:39,406 --> 00:00:41,432 We had no choice but to hide. 15 00:00:41,475 --> 00:00:43,740 And pray for a miracle. 16 00:00:44,044 --> 00:00:47,572 Iseult, my virgin queen saved the King's son, 17 00:00:47,614 --> 00:00:50,379 but at a cost only she could see. 18 00:00:51,151 --> 00:00:53,643 She gave Alfred strength. 19 00:00:53,687 --> 00:00:58,284 With the king alive and well, there is hope for Wessex. 20 00:00:58,325 --> 00:01:00,123 Destiny is all. 21 00:01:01,728 --> 00:01:05,256 (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) 22 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:13,074 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 23 00:01:42,035 --> 00:01:44,197 Agreed we have fired a good number of ships. 24 00:01:44,237 --> 00:01:44,829 Fleet. 25 00:01:44,871 --> 00:01:46,066 A fleet. 26 00:01:46,106 --> 00:01:47,165 But in the meantime, 27 00:01:47,207 --> 00:01:50,302 we have left hundreds of Danes stranded in Wessex 28 00:01:50,344 --> 00:01:51,344 with no means of leaving. 29 00:01:51,378 --> 00:01:54,371 Wulfhere, I do not believe their intention was to ever leave. 30 00:01:54,414 --> 00:01:57,942 And in a few months they'll be more ships, more men. 31 00:01:57,985 --> 00:01:59,419 Now is the time to fight. 32 00:01:59,453 --> 00:02:00,648 To fight with what? 33 00:02:00,687 --> 00:02:02,966 We're without an army and the Danes will number thousands. 34 00:02:02,990 --> 00:02:05,459 Men are out there Wulfhere, and they're waiting, 35 00:02:05,492 --> 00:02:08,223 - what they need is the call. - Indeed, but... 36 00:02:10,230 --> 00:02:16,227 Lord, what if I suggest we escort you to Frankia... 37 00:02:16,269 --> 00:02:18,738 That will not happen. I will not hide. 38 00:02:18,772 --> 00:02:21,241 Not here, nor in Frankia. 39 00:02:21,274 --> 00:02:22,708 - But my... - I have prayed. 40 00:02:22,743 --> 00:02:25,338 Daily, for guidance. 41 00:02:25,379 --> 00:02:27,109 The only way I see to save Wessex, 42 00:02:27,147 --> 00:02:29,378 is with what we have begun. 43 00:02:29,416 --> 00:02:32,284 One defining battle. 44 00:02:33,186 --> 00:02:34,848 We shall be leaving the marshes. 45 00:02:38,091 --> 00:02:41,653 Courage and faith. 46 00:02:41,695 --> 00:02:44,028 - Amen. - Amen. 47 00:02:44,064 --> 00:02:45,293 Amen. 48 00:02:46,366 --> 00:02:48,767 (BABY CRYING) 49 00:02:50,771 --> 00:02:56,005 It will not be recorded that King Alfred was a weak, frail man, 50 00:02:56,043 --> 00:02:58,569 in mind body and soul. 51 00:02:58,612 --> 00:03:00,945 Unfit to be called King. 52 00:03:00,981 --> 00:03:03,246 Nothing of what you say is true. 53 00:03:03,283 --> 00:03:05,946 But it would become true. 54 00:03:05,986 --> 00:03:07,284 Never. 55 00:03:09,122 --> 00:03:12,320 And you, my love, will remain here. 56 00:03:13,627 --> 00:03:16,756 If I fail, you must go to Frankia. 57 00:03:16,797 --> 00:03:18,322 Not without you. 58 00:03:18,365 --> 00:03:21,233 You must save and protect our children. 59 00:03:25,005 --> 00:03:27,406 For me, 60 00:03:27,441 --> 00:03:31,503 there can be no other country but England. 61 00:03:31,545 --> 00:03:34,208 No other wife but Aelswith. 62 00:03:38,418 --> 00:03:39,681 Father Beocca? 63 00:03:41,154 --> 00:03:44,090 Father, 64 00:03:44,124 --> 00:03:46,855 I'm not saying I know everything, 65 00:03:46,893 --> 00:03:49,328 but the king must continue to trust me. 66 00:03:50,597 --> 00:03:52,566 The arrival of Asser may change him. 67 00:03:52,599 --> 00:03:55,034 The arrival of Brother Asser has given him strength. 68 00:03:55,068 --> 00:03:56,661 Brother is not a warrior. 69 00:03:56,703 --> 00:03:59,172 Now's the time for warriors. 70 00:03:59,206 --> 00:04:01,732 Though I never thought I'd say it, we need Odda the younger. 71 00:04:01,775 --> 00:04:03,641 He commands the largest fyrd. 72 00:04:03,677 --> 00:04:06,806 He's the beginning of our army. 73 00:04:06,847 --> 00:04:08,440 That is where we are headed. 74 00:04:09,816 --> 00:04:13,344 Uhtred, I will do everything I can to help. 75 00:04:13,386 --> 00:04:15,014 I will be at your side. 76 00:04:15,055 --> 00:04:17,490 I'll be a flea in Alfred's ear. 77 00:04:17,524 --> 00:04:19,152 Thank you. 78 00:04:19,192 --> 00:04:22,924 Your father would be a proud man, 79 00:04:22,963 --> 00:04:24,261 as am I. 80 00:04:34,508 --> 00:04:36,789 I shall ready my men, and by tomorrow have horses waiting. 81 00:04:38,145 --> 00:04:39,306 Uhtred. 82 00:04:43,016 --> 00:04:44,656 Do you believe the Danes can be defeated? 83 00:04:48,255 --> 00:04:50,952 Let's see you cross the water Ealdorman Wulfhere. 84 00:04:56,463 --> 00:04:57,795 Well. 85 00:04:59,399 --> 00:05:01,391 (ARGUING) 86 00:05:08,308 --> 00:05:09,537 (CLEARS THROAT) 87 00:05:11,978 --> 00:05:14,880 Aethelcard, Aethelcard my friend. 88 00:05:14,915 --> 00:05:17,851 A man who would be King of Wessex. 89 00:05:17,884 --> 00:05:20,911 Thank you, thank you for coming to see me. 90 00:05:20,954 --> 00:05:21,954 It is Aethelwold. 91 00:05:21,988 --> 00:05:23,752 Yes please sit down, sit down. 92 00:05:25,258 --> 00:05:26,590 So... 93 00:05:26,626 --> 00:05:28,618 I want you 94 00:05:28,662 --> 00:05:32,463 to tell me everything you know about Alfred. 95 00:05:32,499 --> 00:05:34,177 I've told you Lord, he thinks with his dick. 96 00:05:34,201 --> 00:05:35,726 (LAUGHS) 97 00:05:35,769 --> 00:05:37,738 He can barely keep his britches on. 98 00:05:38,538 --> 00:05:40,131 Hear the question boy. 99 00:05:40,173 --> 00:05:42,039 Not everybody enjoys a fool. 100 00:05:45,312 --> 00:05:46,837 Alfred, 101 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:51,682 though he may be afflicted by pain, he's as strong a man as you will find. 102 00:05:51,718 --> 00:05:54,552 He's also as clever a man as you will find. 103 00:05:54,588 --> 00:05:58,491 I was ready to have him as my advisor, but he stole my crown. 104 00:06:00,093 --> 00:06:04,292 His strength, Lord, I believe comes from... his faith. 105 00:06:04,331 --> 00:06:06,266 (SNICKERS) 106 00:06:06,299 --> 00:06:07,824 From God. 107 00:06:07,868 --> 00:06:09,166 (CHUCKLES) 108 00:06:18,311 --> 00:06:21,213 Do you believe 109 00:06:21,248 --> 00:06:23,114 in this God? 110 00:06:25,719 --> 00:06:27,278 I believe in myself. 111 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:28,344 Ah. 112 00:06:28,388 --> 00:06:31,051 Why did Alfred steal the crown? 113 00:06:31,091 --> 00:06:33,959 For silver, or to be a stronger king to the people? 114 00:06:33,994 --> 00:06:36,190 No, um... 115 00:06:36,229 --> 00:06:38,323 Y..Yes, in part. 116 00:06:38,365 --> 00:06:40,300 Which is it? 117 00:06:40,333 --> 00:06:45,237 Unfailing, I was not seen as a man to follow, by some. 118 00:06:47,540 --> 00:06:50,339 I was not a man to fight Danes, it was said, 119 00:06:50,377 --> 00:06:53,006 and which is true, because I know the Danes will win. 120 00:06:53,046 --> 00:06:53,570 Yes. 121 00:06:53,613 --> 00:06:57,983 Whereas Alfred, Alfred believes... that he can win. 122 00:06:58,018 --> 00:07:00,852 - Even now? - Yes. 123 00:07:00,887 --> 00:07:02,321 And he's wrong, of course. 124 00:07:02,355 --> 00:07:04,415 But, but, but, his faith... 125 00:07:04,457 --> 00:07:08,258 You know, that God will not desert him, 126 00:07:08,295 --> 00:07:12,289 will make him believe that he will win. 127 00:07:12,332 --> 00:07:13,630 (CHUCKLES) 128 00:07:28,615 --> 00:07:30,174 Then you have to kill him. 129 00:07:31,518 --> 00:07:33,487 I must kill him? 130 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,819 Who else 131 00:07:35,855 --> 00:07:37,949 then King Aethelcard, 132 00:07:37,991 --> 00:07:41,257 can walk in to Alfred's camp, 133 00:07:41,294 --> 00:07:44,992 and be welcomed as a friend? 134 00:07:58,144 --> 00:08:02,081 ♪ 135 00:08:43,656 --> 00:08:45,284 Wulfhere and his men. 136 00:08:50,897 --> 00:08:53,059 God save us. 137 00:08:53,099 --> 00:08:53,964 Stay away! 138 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,434 I have skills. 139 00:08:55,468 --> 00:08:57,960 Put that piece of tin away, boy. 140 00:08:58,004 --> 00:09:00,030 Oh thank Christ you're English. 141 00:09:00,073 --> 00:09:01,837 I thought you were one of them. 142 00:09:01,875 --> 00:09:03,776 What with the hair... 143 00:09:05,645 --> 00:09:07,443 Where's the Ealdorman Wulfhere? 144 00:09:09,015 --> 00:09:10,608 Gone, Lord. 145 00:09:12,619 --> 00:09:13,882 I am Halig. 146 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,322 - I take care of the horses. - Gone where? 147 00:09:17,357 --> 00:09:19,622 Now I'm thinking on it Lord, he did not say. 148 00:09:19,659 --> 00:09:20,922 I thought you would know. 149 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:22,553 Wulfhere, where is he? 150 00:09:22,595 --> 00:09:23,858 He's gone, Lord. 151 00:09:25,165 --> 00:09:26,463 Lord. 152 00:09:26,499 --> 00:09:27,933 He has gone where? 153 00:09:27,967 --> 00:09:29,128 He didn't say. 154 00:09:31,104 --> 00:09:32,538 He has left you horses, Lord. 155 00:09:32,572 --> 00:09:34,040 We keep moving. 156 00:09:34,074 --> 00:09:35,406 Without Wulfhere? 157 00:09:35,442 --> 00:09:37,308 Our plan doesn't change. 158 00:09:37,343 --> 00:09:39,175 We make our way to Odda's estate. 159 00:09:49,789 --> 00:09:52,987 We cannot use the Roman roads. 160 00:09:53,026 --> 00:09:55,427 We can make our way to my farmstead. 161 00:09:55,462 --> 00:09:57,556 And from there cross covered ground to Odda's. 162 00:09:57,597 --> 00:09:59,463 And that is the safest pass, Leofric? 163 00:09:59,499 --> 00:10:01,263 It is Lord. 164 00:10:01,301 --> 00:10:03,065 Let's return to the others. 165 00:10:17,717 --> 00:10:19,879 There is pain here for you, my love. 166 00:10:44,410 --> 00:10:45,673 Do you know them? 167 00:10:45,712 --> 00:10:47,180 Tenants. 168 00:10:59,459 --> 00:11:01,451 (CHICKENS SQUAWKING) 169 00:11:35,195 --> 00:11:36,219 No. 170 00:11:48,541 --> 00:11:51,010 No, no! 171 00:12:01,321 --> 00:12:02,482 (SOBS) 172 00:12:16,703 --> 00:12:21,937 ♪ 173 00:12:36,689 --> 00:12:38,521 (SOBBING) 174 00:12:38,558 --> 00:12:40,151 No... 175 00:12:45,932 --> 00:12:46,490 (SOBBING) 176 00:12:46,532 --> 00:12:48,160 No! 177 00:12:53,206 --> 00:12:56,142 We shall bury the dead. 178 00:12:56,175 --> 00:12:57,541 Pray for their souls. 179 00:12:57,577 --> 00:12:59,011 When you are ready, 180 00:12:59,045 --> 00:13:00,104 (SOBBING) 181 00:13:00,813 --> 00:13:04,215 I would like to say a prayer for Uhtred, son of Uhtred. 182 00:13:11,224 --> 00:13:15,127 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 183 00:13:17,330 --> 00:13:19,993 I must search for Mildrith. 184 00:13:20,033 --> 00:13:23,060 She may be dead and unburied. 185 00:13:23,102 --> 00:13:26,971 Uhtred, no, no. 186 00:13:27,006 --> 00:13:29,635 She has buried your son with care. 187 00:13:29,676 --> 00:13:31,577 And she has left this place. 188 00:13:34,614 --> 00:13:37,550 It was no longer home for her anymore. 189 00:13:39,018 --> 00:13:40,816 Believe me. 190 00:13:44,023 --> 00:13:44,752 (CRYING) 191 00:13:44,791 --> 00:13:49,991 Your tears on the earth will show him that you loved him. 192 00:13:50,029 --> 00:13:52,191 (SOBBING) 193 00:14:04,243 --> 00:14:07,213 Lord, may I ask for your writing? 194 00:14:07,246 --> 00:14:09,215 The first of many letters. 195 00:14:09,248 --> 00:14:11,479 Each will say the same. 196 00:14:11,517 --> 00:14:14,612 The men of Wessex and beyond shall gather at Egbert's Stone, 197 00:14:14,654 --> 00:14:16,418 and together we will fight. 198 00:14:17,557 --> 00:14:19,924 When you send out your messengers Lord, 199 00:14:19,959 --> 00:14:23,589 might I suggest that you hand them the letters personally, 200 00:14:23,629 --> 00:14:26,189 perhaps place a hand on their shoulder? 201 00:14:26,232 --> 00:14:28,565 It will embolden them for sure. 202 00:14:30,002 --> 00:14:32,267 Thank you, Beocca. 203 00:14:32,305 --> 00:14:33,898 I will do that. 204 00:14:52,358 --> 00:14:54,350 You know I did this to you, 205 00:14:54,394 --> 00:14:56,363 when I saved the King's son? 206 00:14:56,396 --> 00:14:58,024 You did not. 207 00:14:58,064 --> 00:15:00,226 I knew an innocent would die. 208 00:15:02,101 --> 00:15:04,161 I'm tired of being like this. 209 00:15:06,639 --> 00:15:08,972 I've seen too much. 210 00:15:09,008 --> 00:15:10,601 And know too much. 211 00:15:13,980 --> 00:15:16,211 I want to see no more. 212 00:15:44,644 --> 00:15:46,078 Mildrith. 213 00:15:49,749 --> 00:15:51,217 Mildrith! 214 00:15:56,889 --> 00:15:58,221 Mildrith! 215 00:16:02,295 --> 00:16:04,389 Lord, you should be resting. 216 00:16:04,430 --> 00:16:07,161 - We should all be resting. - I'm tired of resting. 217 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,396 I've spent too many days doing nothing. 218 00:16:09,435 --> 00:16:11,180 Then at least sit, before you become unsteady. 219 00:16:11,204 --> 00:16:12,604 Where's my wife? 220 00:16:12,638 --> 00:16:14,038 She's resting Lord. 221 00:16:14,073 --> 00:16:15,439 My son? 222 00:16:15,475 --> 00:16:16,966 He's away Lord. 223 00:16:17,009 --> 00:16:18,136 Still? 224 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,417 Important business demands time. 225 00:16:24,450 --> 00:16:25,782 (SIGHS) 226 00:16:30,089 --> 00:16:32,991 It is not a betrayal? 227 00:16:33,025 --> 00:16:35,358 No, it is not Lord. 228 00:16:44,237 --> 00:16:47,036 Look what I've done to you, child. 229 00:16:47,073 --> 00:16:50,771 - I'm content enough, Lord. - Look what God has done to you. 230 00:16:53,346 --> 00:16:56,475 You deserve so much more than, 231 00:16:56,516 --> 00:16:58,781 than the clothes of a nun. 232 00:17:01,587 --> 00:17:03,681 I have purpose Lord. 233 00:17:04,524 --> 00:17:06,049 My child is with God. 234 00:17:07,260 --> 00:17:08,956 And I am close to God. 235 00:17:09,962 --> 00:17:12,022 There is joy in my days, at times. 236 00:17:16,235 --> 00:17:17,897 Do not fear the Danes. 237 00:17:19,805 --> 00:17:22,240 You will be protected. 238 00:17:22,275 --> 00:17:24,710 My son will ensure that. 239 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,364 You are Earl Skorpa. 240 00:17:51,637 --> 00:17:55,574 You are here to surrender, and not waste my time. 241 00:17:55,608 --> 00:17:57,372 I'm here to negotiate. 242 00:17:57,410 --> 00:18:00,005 Surrender and you will live. 243 00:18:00,046 --> 00:18:02,174 Talk too much and I will kill you. 244 00:18:02,214 --> 00:18:03,944 Of all the Ealdorman of Wessex, 245 00:18:03,983 --> 00:18:07,715 I am the man who can assemble the greatest fyrd. 246 00:18:07,753 --> 00:18:10,086 The greatest army. 247 00:18:10,122 --> 00:18:11,920 I now have to make a choice, 248 00:18:11,958 --> 00:18:16,453 whether to side with Guthrum, or with Skorpa. 249 00:18:16,495 --> 00:18:18,327 One Dane looks much like the other to me. 250 00:18:18,364 --> 00:18:20,595 I am occupying your land. 251 00:18:20,633 --> 00:18:22,932 Why should I not simply crush you? 252 00:18:24,604 --> 00:18:28,166 Accept my invitation. 253 00:18:28,207 --> 00:18:31,200 Eat with myself and with my father. 254 00:18:31,243 --> 00:18:33,405 And I will tell you all about my land. 255 00:18:33,446 --> 00:18:35,745 The range of my influence. 256 00:18:35,781 --> 00:18:39,843 I am sure an agreement can be reached. 257 00:18:39,885 --> 00:18:42,047 Neither of us need lose any men. 258 00:18:42,088 --> 00:18:45,024 Neither of us need be weakened. 259 00:18:45,057 --> 00:18:46,958 Eat and drink. 260 00:18:46,993 --> 00:18:48,689 At my hall. 261 00:18:50,563 --> 00:18:52,498 I assure you this is no trap. 262 00:19:01,941 --> 00:19:04,501 I will arrive at your hall. 263 00:19:04,543 --> 00:19:06,774 After the new moon. 264 00:19:06,812 --> 00:19:08,337 I shall expect you. 265 00:19:10,750 --> 00:19:13,515 Then we have peace, at least for a time? 266 00:19:13,552 --> 00:19:15,418 Oh we do. 267 00:19:21,994 --> 00:19:25,658 You have lost much. 268 00:19:25,698 --> 00:19:28,429 Fathers, mothers, 269 00:19:28,467 --> 00:19:31,198 a son. 270 00:19:31,237 --> 00:19:33,297 Lovers. 271 00:19:41,147 --> 00:19:43,116 I have you. 272 00:19:46,652 --> 00:19:48,416 I have a brother. 273 00:19:49,722 --> 00:19:50,815 Ragnar? 274 00:19:50,856 --> 00:19:52,381 Yes. 275 00:19:58,731 --> 00:20:02,964 And your sister, Thyra. 276 00:20:03,002 --> 00:20:04,834 Yes. 277 00:20:09,108 --> 00:20:10,974 She is alive. 278 00:20:13,713 --> 00:20:15,614 No, she's dead. 279 00:20:16,348 --> 00:20:17,976 In the fire. 280 00:20:19,652 --> 00:20:21,587 Mildrith, she lives, 281 00:20:21,620 --> 00:20:23,953 and is being held in the North. 282 00:20:26,625 --> 00:20:28,093 It is the truth. 283 00:20:30,362 --> 00:20:32,297 Skorpa told me. 284 00:20:33,165 --> 00:20:36,397 I thought at first it could be a lie to torment you. 285 00:20:36,435 --> 00:20:39,064 Hearing it from me would have made it true. 286 00:20:41,140 --> 00:20:43,609 But now I know that it is true. 287 00:20:44,510 --> 00:20:45,944 She lives. 288 00:20:48,047 --> 00:20:50,983 You've seen it? 289 00:20:51,016 --> 00:20:52,575 Yes. 290 00:20:52,618 --> 00:20:54,883 I've seen her. 291 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,084 But I will see her no more, the gift is fading. 292 00:20:59,692 --> 00:21:03,424 When this battle is done, your true path leads North. 293 00:21:05,898 --> 00:21:08,493 It will be time to face your past. 294 00:21:10,770 --> 00:21:13,103 And you'll be with me? 295 00:21:25,017 --> 00:21:26,713 Always. 296 00:21:29,488 --> 00:21:31,514 Lord. 297 00:21:31,557 --> 00:21:33,549 If God's help is required, 298 00:21:33,592 --> 00:21:36,460 how could He look favorably upon Uhtred? 299 00:21:36,495 --> 00:21:37,827 A non-believer. 300 00:21:40,766 --> 00:21:42,530 God is good. 301 00:21:42,568 --> 00:21:46,699 Yes, Lord, but in following the heathen, what does that say about our beliefs? 302 00:21:46,739 --> 00:21:49,368 Death could be waiting over the very next hill. 303 00:21:49,408 --> 00:21:52,071 And it will be Uhtred who stands in its way. 304 00:21:52,111 --> 00:21:52,669 I have no doubt. 305 00:21:52,711 --> 00:21:54,509 The Dane will always protect his plunder. 306 00:21:54,547 --> 00:21:56,448 The King is of value. 307 00:21:56,482 --> 00:21:58,110 He is here to protect the King. 308 00:21:58,150 --> 00:21:59,743 Something neither you or I can do. 309 00:21:59,785 --> 00:22:01,378 He is a man without a soul. 310 00:22:01,420 --> 00:22:03,685 Then I will be his soul, Lord, I will pray for him. 311 00:22:03,722 --> 00:22:07,124 I will ride beside him always, and into battle. 312 00:22:07,159 --> 00:22:10,994 - I will be his conduit to God. - And if you fall, in battle? 313 00:22:11,030 --> 00:22:15,195 With the help of your prayers Brother, I shall become invincible, I'm sure. 314 00:22:21,340 --> 00:22:22,467 Brother Asser, 315 00:22:24,677 --> 00:22:28,944 I should like you to be the first of my messengers. 316 00:22:42,027 --> 00:22:43,996 (HORSES NEIGHING) 317 00:22:44,029 --> 00:22:45,657 Morning. 318 00:22:45,698 --> 00:22:47,758 Sleep well? 319 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,701 He means, did you hump well? 320 00:22:49,735 --> 00:22:51,727 I know what he means. 321 00:22:51,770 --> 00:22:53,329 Sleep well, Lady? 322 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,971 ALFRED: If I may speak to you all? 323 00:23:08,554 --> 00:23:11,854 Though we are yet to complete the first segment of our journey to Odda's estate, 324 00:23:11,891 --> 00:23:14,087 it is important that we begin the second. 325 00:23:14,126 --> 00:23:16,595 Word of our army's gathering point must be dispatched 326 00:23:16,629 --> 00:23:19,098 to the further reaches of our land. 327 00:23:19,131 --> 00:23:21,896 Brother Asser here will be my first messenger. 328 00:23:24,136 --> 00:23:25,866 Halig? 329 00:23:25,905 --> 00:23:28,272 Yes Lord. 330 00:23:28,307 --> 00:23:32,472 You, will also be my voice. 331 00:23:32,511 --> 00:23:33,740 I will Lord. 332 00:23:35,147 --> 00:23:37,275 And me Lord. 333 00:23:37,316 --> 00:23:39,785 Hild? 334 00:23:39,818 --> 00:23:41,150 Lord. 335 00:23:41,186 --> 00:23:42,186 She is a woman. 336 00:23:42,221 --> 00:23:44,816 I'm as good a horseman as anyone here. 337 00:23:44,857 --> 00:23:48,316 If it means more Danes will die, then I'll do it. 338 00:23:49,161 --> 00:23:50,390 Yes Hild. 339 00:23:52,231 --> 00:23:53,460 You will. 340 00:24:05,411 --> 00:24:09,542 ♪ 341 00:24:18,691 --> 00:24:20,319 LEOFRIC: Your horses. 342 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:21,486 Belong to him. 343 00:24:21,527 --> 00:24:22,927 The Lord Odda. 344 00:24:24,563 --> 00:24:25,587 You'll let us pass. 345 00:24:25,631 --> 00:24:26,963 You selling or buying? 346 00:24:26,999 --> 00:24:28,262 Selling. 347 00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:30,064 To the Danes. 348 00:24:30,102 --> 00:24:31,730 There is a peace. 349 00:24:33,339 --> 00:24:34,136 Did you not know? 350 00:24:34,173 --> 00:24:36,972 Odda has made a peace? 351 00:24:37,009 --> 00:24:38,705 No, I did not. 352 00:24:56,929 --> 00:24:58,659 Odda is loyal. 353 00:24:58,697 --> 00:25:01,826 We shall see for ourselves what is true. 354 00:25:01,867 --> 00:25:03,165 Follow. 355 00:25:11,744 --> 00:25:12,871 Lord. 356 00:25:12,911 --> 00:25:16,905 You should remain out of sight until we can be sure of your safety. 357 00:25:16,949 --> 00:25:19,851 Odda is not a danger. 358 00:25:19,885 --> 00:25:22,445 But who sits with Odda? 359 00:25:22,488 --> 00:25:24,013 I will not hide. 360 00:25:24,056 --> 00:25:25,354 Lord, please. 361 00:25:25,391 --> 00:25:27,519 Hear the advice. 362 00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:28,424 You are a symbol of Wessex. 363 00:25:28,460 --> 00:25:31,624 You are the standard around which our army will gather. 364 00:25:31,663 --> 00:25:33,632 You cannot be put at risk. 365 00:25:36,168 --> 00:25:38,262 Very well. 366 00:25:57,823 --> 00:25:59,553 I must see this with my own eyes. 367 00:25:59,591 --> 00:26:02,561 - Lord that is not a good... - I've made up my mind. 368 00:26:02,594 --> 00:26:05,291 If there is treachery, it is something I must witness. 369 00:26:05,330 --> 00:26:07,925 - Then I will go with you. - I do not require a nursemaid. 370 00:26:07,966 --> 00:26:09,696 - I am a priest. - And I, a king! 371 00:26:11,470 --> 00:26:13,098 You will wait here with Iseult. 372 00:26:14,339 --> 00:26:16,638 I am aware of the care I need to take. 373 00:26:26,018 --> 00:26:28,249 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 374 00:26:41,467 --> 00:26:45,268 Nuns should not be so pretty, nor have lips that demand to be kissed. 375 00:26:47,339 --> 00:26:48,967 I see you agree. 376 00:26:49,007 --> 00:26:50,270 Things'll get even. 377 00:26:50,309 --> 00:26:52,608 But I'm rested, Lord. 378 00:26:58,450 --> 00:26:59,611 GUARD: Lord? 379 00:27:03,555 --> 00:27:04,750 ODDA: What is it? 380 00:27:04,790 --> 00:27:06,918 Have the Danes arrived? 381 00:27:08,293 --> 00:27:09,955 Leofric. 382 00:27:09,995 --> 00:27:11,361 He's outside. 383 00:27:11,396 --> 00:27:13,865 Then bring him inside, he's our man. 384 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:16,225 He's with Uhtred. 385 00:27:20,472 --> 00:27:21,940 Bring them both to me. 386 00:27:34,486 --> 00:27:35,784 Leofric... 387 00:27:35,821 --> 00:27:38,723 Uhtred, my prayers have been answered. 388 00:27:38,757 --> 00:27:40,055 God is good. 389 00:27:43,695 --> 00:27:45,254 Lords. 390 00:27:45,297 --> 00:27:48,028 It is good to see you both, safe and well. 391 00:27:48,066 --> 00:27:49,762 Leofric. 392 00:27:49,801 --> 00:27:50,996 You are home. 393 00:27:51,036 --> 00:27:52,732 Where in God's name have you been? 394 00:27:52,771 --> 00:27:54,865 Hiding Lord, and killing Danes. 395 00:27:54,907 --> 00:27:57,035 Hopefully not on my land. 396 00:27:57,075 --> 00:27:58,976 UHTRED: We've been sent by the King. 397 00:27:59,011 --> 00:28:00,445 We bring orders from the King. 398 00:28:00,479 --> 00:28:01,344 What King is that? 399 00:28:01,380 --> 00:28:02,404 King Alfred? 400 00:28:02,447 --> 00:28:03,915 Who else, Lord? 401 00:28:03,949 --> 00:28:06,714 Wessex it seems, is full of kings. 402 00:28:06,752 --> 00:28:09,813 There is Guthrum, who is King of East Anglia, 403 00:28:09,855 --> 00:28:11,721 and now sits in Winchester. 404 00:28:11,757 --> 00:28:13,020 There is Aethelwold here, 405 00:28:13,058 --> 00:28:16,256 who will tell anyone who cares to listen that he is king. 406 00:28:16,295 --> 00:28:17,490 Where will it end? 407 00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:18,997 I have Alfred's written order. 408 00:28:19,031 --> 00:28:19,930 It means nothing. 409 00:28:19,965 --> 00:28:25,962 - You are to raise the fyrd. - It is over for Alfred! 410 00:28:26,004 --> 00:28:28,735 Alfred gave up on Wessex. 411 00:28:28,774 --> 00:28:32,472 He decided to save himself! 412 00:28:32,511 --> 00:28:36,949 No man has been more loyal to Alfred than my father and I! 413 00:28:36,982 --> 00:28:39,679 But he has failed us! 414 00:28:39,718 --> 00:28:43,280 Danes surround us, and he is hiding! 415 00:28:43,322 --> 00:28:48,124 Alfred is king of the eels, slippery and elusive! 416 00:28:48,994 --> 00:28:50,519 You see it's true? 417 00:28:52,931 --> 00:28:55,093 You have sided with the Danes. 418 00:28:57,469 --> 00:28:59,529 What has Skorpa promised you? 419 00:29:00,806 --> 00:29:02,536 Are you to be King, Odda? 420 00:29:04,042 --> 00:29:06,910 - Leofric, are you still my man? - Am I right? 421 00:29:06,945 --> 00:29:09,210 I asked you a question Leofric. 422 00:29:09,248 --> 00:29:11,114 I am still your man, Lord. 423 00:29:14,253 --> 00:29:18,156 Then you will finish the business you have with this Dane, and kill him. 424 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,655 You have my order! Kill him! 425 00:29:24,696 --> 00:29:26,028 Lord, I cannot do that. 426 00:29:26,064 --> 00:29:29,592 - I stand here as Alfred's messenger. - I will not tell you again Leofric. 427 00:29:29,635 --> 00:29:33,094 If any man tried to kill me, then that man is a traitor to the King. 428 00:29:33,138 --> 00:29:34,367 Leofric, you will kill him! 429 00:29:34,406 --> 00:29:37,968 - Alfred is no longer my king! - I will not do it, Lord. 430 00:29:38,010 --> 00:29:40,809 - My son... - Father you will not interfere. 431 00:29:40,846 --> 00:29:42,405 (GRUNTS) 432 00:29:56,728 --> 00:29:59,061 May your mother forgive me. 433 00:29:59,598 --> 00:30:01,726 And may you be forgiven for your treason. 434 00:30:09,741 --> 00:30:12,506 (SURPRISED GASPS/MURMURS) 435 00:30:23,021 --> 00:30:24,216 Lord. 436 00:30:25,190 --> 00:30:26,954 Forgive him. 437 00:30:28,026 --> 00:30:29,995 Let him die noble. 438 00:30:30,896 --> 00:30:33,388 Forgive him. 439 00:30:33,432 --> 00:30:36,061 I ask you this as your servant. 440 00:30:39,037 --> 00:30:42,132 Odda. 441 00:30:42,174 --> 00:30:46,168 You will do as I command. 442 00:30:46,211 --> 00:30:48,908 You will raise the Somerset fyrd. 443 00:30:50,649 --> 00:30:52,447 Lord. 444 00:30:52,484 --> 00:30:54,919 Forgive my son! 445 00:30:54,953 --> 00:30:56,012 Please! 446 00:30:56,054 --> 00:31:00,651 I will not forgive what I have seen. 447 00:31:03,161 --> 00:31:05,494 You will raise the fyrd. 448 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,928 Yes, Lord. 449 00:31:16,508 --> 00:31:19,342 (FIRE CRACKLING) 450 00:31:32,324 --> 00:31:34,589 I will need twenty horsemen. 451 00:31:36,561 --> 00:31:38,462 To take word 452 00:31:38,497 --> 00:31:40,159 to all men 453 00:31:40,198 --> 00:31:42,997 able to carry sword, hook, or spear. 454 00:31:45,470 --> 00:31:49,840 The word is... that Alfred is king. 455 00:31:49,875 --> 00:31:53,312 (MEN CHEERING) 456 00:31:53,345 --> 00:31:58,181 And will fight alongside the swords of Wessex, 457 00:31:58,216 --> 00:32:00,447 to his dying breath. 458 00:32:00,986 --> 00:32:03,080 Come on! 459 00:32:03,121 --> 00:32:03,986 (MEN CHEERING) 460 00:32:04,022 --> 00:32:09,052 Come on! 461 00:32:09,127 --> 00:32:13,861 (CHEERING/CHANTING) 462 00:32:25,210 --> 00:32:26,872 May we speak? 463 00:32:30,282 --> 00:32:31,807 About our son? 464 00:32:34,286 --> 00:32:35,754 You know? 465 00:32:37,222 --> 00:32:39,487 Then there's nothing left to say. 466 00:32:42,594 --> 00:32:46,224 I'm sorry that his death was something that you had to face alone. 467 00:32:46,264 --> 00:32:47,391 (SCOFFS) 468 00:32:47,432 --> 00:32:49,628 I was not alone. 469 00:32:49,668 --> 00:32:53,002 Being without a husband does not mean that I am alone. 470 00:32:54,039 --> 00:32:56,474 Then I'm sorry for the life that I've given you. 471 00:32:56,508 --> 00:32:58,636 I've found peace. 472 00:32:58,677 --> 00:33:00,236 If you can do the same. 473 00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:05,610 Was there sickness? 474 00:33:06,485 --> 00:33:09,319 - I would like to understand. - Children are frail. 475 00:33:10,555 --> 00:33:12,524 You will have other sons. 476 00:33:12,557 --> 00:33:14,651 I'm sure. 477 00:33:14,693 --> 00:33:17,128 With your queen. 478 00:33:17,162 --> 00:33:18,858 Is she here? 479 00:33:21,366 --> 00:33:22,595 Yes. 480 00:33:23,635 --> 00:33:25,695 I would like you to leave me alone. 481 00:33:26,171 --> 00:33:27,730 Never speak to me again. 482 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,000 We have nothing that binds us, nothing. 483 00:33:31,510 --> 00:33:33,103 Avoid me. 484 00:33:33,144 --> 00:33:34,874 Please. 485 00:33:56,301 --> 00:33:58,736 Uhtred Ragnarson. 486 00:33:58,770 --> 00:34:00,705 Should I be pleased to see you? 487 00:34:00,739 --> 00:34:02,571 Skorpa of the white horse. 488 00:34:02,607 --> 00:34:04,940 I am expected, 489 00:34:04,976 --> 00:34:06,171 by the Lord Odda. 490 00:34:06,211 --> 00:34:09,010 The Lord Odda is in the ground, buried as a traitor. 491 00:34:12,317 --> 00:34:13,683 So what now? 492 00:34:15,020 --> 00:34:16,852 Do I speak with you? 493 00:34:17,622 --> 00:34:19,682 Does the truce stand? 494 00:34:19,724 --> 00:34:21,852 For today it stands. 495 00:34:21,893 --> 00:34:23,885 Tomorrow we'll kill you. 496 00:34:23,929 --> 00:34:28,958 You will kill me, with what? 497 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,697 I have almost 1,000 men to call upon. 498 00:34:31,736 --> 00:34:34,467 Your ships have been burned Skorpa. 499 00:34:34,506 --> 00:34:36,668 By Alfred. 500 00:34:36,708 --> 00:34:38,438 He's gathering a great Saxon army. 501 00:34:38,476 --> 00:34:41,674 I am aware my ships are gone. 502 00:34:41,713 --> 00:34:43,545 And I will have my revenge. 503 00:34:43,582 --> 00:34:47,314 You should return to Guthrum, and prepare to die. 504 00:34:48,853 --> 00:34:51,846 Did your queen tell you, 505 00:34:51,890 --> 00:34:56,157 that your sister is being humped in the ass 506 00:34:56,194 --> 00:34:59,323 each and every night by one-eyed Sven? 507 00:34:59,364 --> 00:35:02,664 Did your mother tell you that she should have kept her legs closed? 508 00:35:04,202 --> 00:35:06,694 I will look for you first! 509 00:35:06,738 --> 00:35:08,229 Across the battlefield. 510 00:35:08,273 --> 00:35:09,571 I will be there! 511 00:35:09,608 --> 00:35:12,009 And I will not be difficult to find. 512 00:35:23,321 --> 00:35:25,688 ALFRED: He will go to Guthrum? 513 00:35:25,724 --> 00:35:29,388 I believe he will, Lord. 514 00:35:29,427 --> 00:35:32,124 Then the battle is one step nearer. 515 00:35:33,465 --> 00:35:35,195 Beocca. 516 00:35:35,233 --> 00:35:38,465 You should wash out your mouth. 517 00:35:38,503 --> 00:35:40,904 Yes Lord, I will... 518 00:35:40,939 --> 00:35:42,464 prevail. 519 00:36:06,364 --> 00:36:07,525 How many men? 520 00:36:07,565 --> 00:36:08,863 400. 521 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:10,892 No more. 522 00:36:10,935 --> 00:36:12,995 And this is the great Saxon army? 523 00:36:14,472 --> 00:36:16,168 Their numbers will grow. 524 00:36:17,375 --> 00:36:19,401 We need to march. 525 00:36:20,645 --> 00:36:22,944 There needs to be a story of a slaughter. 526 00:36:22,981 --> 00:36:26,145 Only days ago, Ragnar was asking if the war was over. 527 00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:29,416 Skorpa is right, there must be a slaughter. 528 00:36:29,454 --> 00:36:31,855 We must take the fight to Alfred. 529 00:36:31,890 --> 00:36:33,586 And his God. 530 00:36:33,625 --> 00:36:35,821 And you are ready 531 00:36:35,860 --> 00:36:37,658 to kill your brother? 532 00:36:40,465 --> 00:36:43,025 If it comes to that. 533 00:36:43,068 --> 00:36:44,400 Yes. 534 00:36:50,108 --> 00:36:52,668 Then we shall face one great army with another. 535 00:36:53,778 --> 00:36:56,509 Once the armies are assembled, 536 00:36:56,548 --> 00:36:58,483 I shall speak to them as one. 537 00:37:00,018 --> 00:37:03,079 Each man should know 538 00:37:03,121 --> 00:37:05,283 this war is not only about land. 539 00:37:06,891 --> 00:37:08,826 Should the heathens win, 540 00:37:08,860 --> 00:37:11,193 then Christ is defeated. 541 00:37:13,698 --> 00:37:16,600 When you speak to the men Lord, 542 00:37:16,634 --> 00:37:19,194 you cannot make it a sermon. 543 00:37:19,237 --> 00:37:21,263 Then what do you suggest I say? 544 00:37:22,674 --> 00:37:24,370 Tell them that you'll die for them. 545 00:37:24,409 --> 00:37:26,674 That's good. 546 00:37:26,711 --> 00:37:29,476 Tell them that we'll make the Danes pay in blood. 547 00:37:29,514 --> 00:37:32,450 And that they'll be rewarded in plunder. 548 00:37:32,484 --> 00:37:34,680 I am to talk of revenge and greed? 549 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,915 They're men Lord, not angels. 550 00:37:41,559 --> 00:37:43,755 We shall stop for a moment. 551 00:37:43,795 --> 00:37:45,286 Halt! 552 00:37:45,330 --> 00:37:47,162 We halt! 553 00:37:55,607 --> 00:37:57,041 Lord? 554 00:37:58,009 --> 00:37:59,637 It is Egbert's Stone. 555 00:38:01,312 --> 00:38:03,440 Within these next few yards, 556 00:38:03,481 --> 00:38:06,383 we will know if we have an army, 557 00:38:06,417 --> 00:38:08,511 of angels, or otherwise. 558 00:38:10,555 --> 00:38:12,615 I will go alone. 559 00:38:20,064 --> 00:38:21,828 If no one is there, what then? 560 00:38:26,104 --> 00:38:27,595 I see. 561 00:38:41,619 --> 00:38:43,349 Not a single one. 562 00:38:46,024 --> 00:38:49,961 Not a single man has answered my call. 563 00:38:53,097 --> 00:38:54,622 Then we wait. 564 00:38:56,434 --> 00:38:58,027 We must wait, Lord. 565 00:39:16,454 --> 00:39:18,150 A fine knife. 566 00:39:19,958 --> 00:39:21,392 Dane's knife. 567 00:39:22,527 --> 00:39:24,325 This thing? 568 00:39:24,362 --> 00:39:26,490 Yes, I took it from a Dane. 569 00:39:26,531 --> 00:39:29,729 - A Dane I killed. - Where? 570 00:39:29,767 --> 00:39:30,530 Winchester. 571 00:39:30,568 --> 00:39:33,367 This was before you groveled on your ass to Guthrum? 572 00:39:33,404 --> 00:39:35,839 Before I presented myself to him. 573 00:39:35,874 --> 00:39:37,172 Yes. 574 00:39:37,208 --> 00:39:40,178 I was not, however, treated in a kingly manner, 575 00:39:40,211 --> 00:39:41,839 and decided to escape. 576 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,008 A king under the Danes is no king. 577 00:39:44,048 --> 00:39:48,782 Uhtred, I do like you, but I rather tire of your preaching. 578 00:39:48,820 --> 00:39:51,221 Have you ever thought of becoming a priest? 579 00:39:51,256 --> 00:39:53,691 - Ever since I was a boy. - That's a lie. 580 00:39:53,725 --> 00:39:55,455 I've baptised him twice. 581 00:39:55,493 --> 00:39:57,086 He's still not a Christian. 582 00:39:59,030 --> 00:40:00,396 For luck. 583 00:40:03,701 --> 00:40:05,693 Now I'll need a lock from you. 584 00:40:07,805 --> 00:40:08,932 Where's Alfred? 585 00:40:08,973 --> 00:40:11,533 Watching. 586 00:40:11,576 --> 00:40:13,306 Waiting for his army. 587 00:40:17,081 --> 00:40:19,448 I think I shall go and sit with him a while. 588 00:40:23,254 --> 00:40:25,018 You are fond of him now? 589 00:40:38,836 --> 00:40:40,395 For luck. 590 00:41:23,114 --> 00:41:26,414 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 591 00:41:41,132 --> 00:41:42,600 Lord. 592 00:41:48,906 --> 00:41:50,772 I thought you would like company. 593 00:42:03,354 --> 00:42:04,652 What do you see? 594 00:42:04,689 --> 00:42:06,123 What do you hear? 595 00:42:06,157 --> 00:42:10,424 - I hear nothing Lord. - No. No. 596 00:42:10,461 --> 00:42:13,829 There is a... change in the shadows, 597 00:42:13,865 --> 00:42:15,094 in the air. 598 00:42:15,133 --> 00:42:16,396 They're out there. 599 00:42:16,434 --> 00:42:19,427 I see nothing but grass, Lord. 600 00:42:19,470 --> 00:42:21,962 - Beyond the grass, trees... - There, there. 601 00:42:24,409 --> 00:42:25,809 It's men. 602 00:42:28,613 --> 00:42:30,343 Mo... more men, there. 603 00:42:32,483 --> 00:42:36,272 They have answered the call. 604 00:42:36,354 --> 00:42:39,381 The swords of England, they're coming. 605 00:42:39,424 --> 00:42:41,825 (LAUGHS) 606 00:42:44,595 --> 00:42:46,393 It's the swords of Wessex. 607 00:42:51,969 --> 00:42:53,494 The swords of England. 608 00:42:58,376 --> 00:43:00,277 Today, 609 00:43:00,311 --> 00:43:03,611 is a day for warriors. 610 00:43:03,648 --> 00:43:06,083 A day to kill your enemies. 611 00:43:07,452 --> 00:43:08,351 A day, 612 00:43:08,386 --> 00:43:13,689 we make the pagan's wish they have never heard of Wessex. 613 00:43:13,724 --> 00:43:15,420 Today, 614 00:43:15,460 --> 00:43:17,622 we fight for Wessex! 615 00:43:17,662 --> 00:43:19,893 (CHEERING) 616 00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:27,231 And not only for Wessex. 617 00:43:27,271 --> 00:43:30,639 We have men here from Northumbria, 618 00:43:30,675 --> 00:43:34,077 from Mercia, from East Anglia. 619 00:43:34,112 --> 00:43:36,206 And why are the pagan's here? 620 00:43:38,182 --> 00:43:40,811 They want your wives for their pleasure. 621 00:43:40,852 --> 00:43:43,822 They want your children as their slaves. 622 00:43:43,855 --> 00:43:46,552 They want your homes as their own. 623 00:43:46,591 --> 00:43:49,561 But they do not know us! 624 00:43:49,594 --> 00:43:51,529 (CHEERING) 625 00:43:57,435 --> 00:44:01,031 They do not know our swords. 626 00:44:01,072 --> 00:44:03,166 They do not know our axes. 627 00:44:03,207 --> 00:44:04,800 Our spears. 628 00:44:04,842 --> 00:44:07,710 They do not know our courage! 629 00:44:08,946 --> 00:44:10,608 And today, 630 00:44:10,648 --> 00:44:11,775 we kill them! 631 00:44:11,816 --> 00:44:13,751 (CHEERING) 632 00:44:15,586 --> 00:44:19,284 We shall make the ground red with their blood. 633 00:44:19,323 --> 00:44:22,225 We shall strip them of what they have plundered. 634 00:44:22,260 --> 00:44:25,253 We shall make them cry out for mercy! 635 00:44:25,296 --> 00:44:28,266 And there will be none! 636 00:44:28,299 --> 00:44:29,062 (CHEERING) 637 00:44:29,100 --> 00:44:31,422 No mercy! 638 00:44:31,502 --> 00:44:34,393 No mercy! 639 00:44:34,472 --> 00:44:35,940 No mercy! 640 00:44:35,973 --> 00:44:40,035 (CONTINUE CHANTING) No mercy! 641 00:44:43,481 --> 00:44:44,972 Should I fall, 642 00:44:45,016 --> 00:44:48,145 you and Hild are to take my horse and ride clear of here. 643 00:44:48,186 --> 00:44:49,449 You will not fall. 644 00:44:49,487 --> 00:44:50,182 - I forbid it. - Everything I have 645 00:44:50,221 --> 00:44:52,053 is packed in my bags, it's yours. 646 00:44:54,992 --> 00:44:58,429 You will not fall. 647 00:44:58,462 --> 00:45:00,988 (CHANTING) No mercy! 648 00:45:01,532 --> 00:45:03,262 I fight for you. 649 00:45:10,274 --> 00:45:11,765 Kill them all! 650 00:45:11,809 --> 00:45:16,110 (CONTINUE CHANTING) No Mercy! 651 00:45:23,020 --> 00:45:25,012 Then no mercy it must be. 652 00:45:27,592 --> 00:45:30,221 Should we meet Uhtred in battle, there can be no doubt. 653 00:45:32,496 --> 00:45:33,964 No mercy. 654 00:45:35,199 --> 00:45:36,531 None. 655 00:45:43,574 --> 00:45:46,066 We should not be holding back, Lord. 656 00:45:46,110 --> 00:45:47,669 We should attack with every man. 657 00:45:47,712 --> 00:45:49,738 I will decide how we fight. 658 00:45:49,780 --> 00:45:50,975 You will follow my orders. 659 00:45:51,015 --> 00:45:52,677 Yes Lord. 660 00:46:00,591 --> 00:46:02,457 No mercy. 661 00:46:04,495 --> 00:46:05,861 Form our lines. 662 00:46:06,464 --> 00:46:08,194 Form our lines! 663 00:46:09,033 --> 00:46:11,025 Shields up! 664 00:46:13,971 --> 00:46:15,098 Advance! 665 00:46:15,139 --> 00:46:16,971 LEOFRIC: Come on! 666 00:46:18,042 --> 00:46:19,442 Forward. 667 00:46:27,084 --> 00:46:28,245 Hold the line. 668 00:46:28,286 --> 00:46:29,754 We work as one. 669 00:46:29,787 --> 00:46:32,188 We do not break! 670 00:46:32,223 --> 00:46:33,851 Shield lock. 671 00:46:38,095 --> 00:46:39,893 Hold the line! 672 00:46:50,508 --> 00:46:51,441 Halt. 673 00:46:51,475 --> 00:46:52,807 Halt! 674 00:46:55,613 --> 00:46:56,979 Wulfhere! 675 00:46:57,014 --> 00:46:59,984 I will have your guts you traitorous bastard! 676 00:47:00,017 --> 00:47:01,815 This is our land! 677 00:47:01,852 --> 00:47:03,844 (CHEERING) 678 00:47:06,457 --> 00:47:08,653 (YELLING) 679 00:47:10,194 --> 00:47:11,685 Second! 680 00:47:12,263 --> 00:47:13,697 Third! 681 00:47:22,973 --> 00:47:26,273 First in line, as you wished. 682 00:47:29,013 --> 00:47:30,811 Hmmm. 683 00:47:31,449 --> 00:47:32,542 (EXHALES) 684 00:47:32,583 --> 00:47:33,983 (YELLING) 685 00:47:37,321 --> 00:47:38,880 Here they come. 686 00:47:42,660 --> 00:47:44,026 Hold. 687 00:47:47,431 --> 00:47:49,161 Hold! 688 00:47:54,772 --> 00:47:57,640 (SWORDS CLANGING) 689 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:03,875 Ah! 690 00:48:04,181 --> 00:48:06,207 Keep the wall tight! 691 00:48:10,955 --> 00:48:13,515 LEOFRIC: Have that Wulfhere, you bastard! 692 00:48:13,958 --> 00:48:15,551 Hold! 693 00:48:25,636 --> 00:48:27,832 Leofric. 694 00:48:27,872 --> 00:48:29,807 On to your feet. 695 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:30,864 Leofric! 696 00:48:30,908 --> 00:48:32,137 Leave him. 697 00:48:32,176 --> 00:48:33,405 Leave him! 698 00:48:33,444 --> 00:48:34,912 Close the gaps! 699 00:48:34,945 --> 00:48:37,244 Keep the wall tight! 700 00:48:39,417 --> 00:48:41,283 Three, two, one. 701 00:48:41,318 --> 00:48:45,085 (GRUNTING/GROANING) 702 00:48:50,094 --> 00:48:53,496 No mercy! 703 00:48:53,531 --> 00:48:55,227 Ah! 704 00:49:03,574 --> 00:49:06,169 No more ground should be lost! 705 00:49:08,913 --> 00:49:11,109 (GRUNTING/GROANING) 706 00:49:12,383 --> 00:49:14,011 Follow me! 707 00:49:18,823 --> 00:49:20,519 God have mercy. 708 00:49:24,862 --> 00:49:26,694 (SCREAMING) 709 00:49:38,542 --> 00:49:40,977 ♪ 710 00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:51,713 (GASPS) 711 00:49:57,061 --> 00:50:00,190 We fall back as one. 712 00:50:05,503 --> 00:50:06,232 Hold. 713 00:50:06,270 --> 00:50:07,169 We hold here. 714 00:50:07,204 --> 00:50:08,934 We go no further. 715 00:50:11,842 --> 00:50:14,937 It's backwards with me and my level. 716 00:50:14,979 --> 00:50:16,038 And... 717 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:20,176 (SOLDIERS GROAN AS ONE) 718 00:50:35,799 --> 00:50:38,325 Uhtred Ragnarson! 719 00:50:38,369 --> 00:50:39,496 Do you hear me? 720 00:50:39,537 --> 00:50:42,268 I hear you Skorpa. 721 00:50:42,306 --> 00:50:43,899 Do you wish to surrender? 722 00:50:43,941 --> 00:50:46,433 I have a gift for you. 723 00:50:46,477 --> 00:50:48,878 Your queen! 724 00:50:55,452 --> 00:50:57,512 No mercy! 725 00:50:57,555 --> 00:50:58,250 (YELLING) 726 00:50:58,289 --> 00:51:01,987 You will be struck down with my spear! 727 00:51:02,026 --> 00:51:03,824 (YELLS) 728 00:51:04,828 --> 00:51:08,663 And you will spend eternity in the fires of hell! 729 00:51:08,699 --> 00:51:11,464 (YELLING) 730 00:51:23,347 --> 00:51:24,440 Uhtred! 731 00:51:27,885 --> 00:51:29,183 Ah! 732 00:51:30,721 --> 00:51:33,088 (YELLING) 733 00:51:35,259 --> 00:51:36,693 Take the horse. 734 00:51:46,870 --> 00:51:48,532 (SCREAMS) 735 00:51:56,814 --> 00:51:58,908 Lord, what are your orders? 736 00:51:59,984 --> 00:52:01,008 Lord? 737 00:52:01,051 --> 00:52:02,314 Did you see that? 738 00:52:04,021 --> 00:52:06,490 He came as the priest said. 739 00:52:06,523 --> 00:52:08,014 What Lord? 740 00:52:08,058 --> 00:52:11,256 Their God is with them. 741 00:52:11,295 --> 00:52:12,991 So what are your orders? 742 00:52:17,334 --> 00:52:18,597 End it. 743 00:52:31,715 --> 00:52:36,449 ♪ 744 00:52:58,542 --> 00:53:00,033 No! 745 00:53:01,679 --> 00:53:06,208 ♪ 746 00:53:15,359 --> 00:53:17,055 No mercy! 747 00:53:21,532 --> 00:53:23,296 No mercy! 748 00:53:59,036 --> 00:54:02,006 His grave is to be marked like that of an Ealdorman. 749 00:54:03,707 --> 00:54:05,175 I shall see to it. 750 00:54:08,946 --> 00:54:10,312 Uhtred. 751 00:54:12,549 --> 00:54:15,280 Iseult is whole. 752 00:54:15,319 --> 00:54:17,948 She has been wrapped and made ready for burial. 753 00:54:21,792 --> 00:54:23,556 (UHTRED SIGHS) 754 00:54:23,594 --> 00:54:25,563 I want her to have a pyre. 755 00:54:26,697 --> 00:54:28,393 Then she shall have it. 756 00:54:31,835 --> 00:54:34,566 Uhtred. 757 00:54:34,605 --> 00:54:37,074 For all that you have done, 758 00:54:37,107 --> 00:54:40,236 for all that you have shown me, 759 00:54:40,277 --> 00:54:41,768 thank you. 760 00:54:43,947 --> 00:54:45,745 You have given everything. 761 00:54:47,651 --> 00:54:50,280 You are the man I always hoped you would become. 762 00:55:05,169 --> 00:55:10,574 ♪ 763 00:55:55,118 --> 00:55:59,214 UHTRED: In the year 878, at Ethandun, 764 00:55:59,256 --> 00:56:02,556 King Alfred defeated Guthrum of the Danes, 765 00:56:02,593 --> 00:56:04,528 and drove them from Wessex. 766 00:56:04,695 --> 00:56:06,459 ALFRED: I am indebted. 767 00:56:06,496 --> 00:56:09,489 Uhtred of Bebbanburg. 768 00:56:09,533 --> 00:56:11,900 Wessex is indebted. 769 00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:20,036 There can be no negotiation Lord. 770 00:56:20,077 --> 00:56:21,807 Only surrender. 771 00:56:21,845 --> 00:56:23,677 That is your advice? 772 00:56:23,714 --> 00:56:24,943 It is. 773 00:56:26,783 --> 00:56:28,081 I hear you. 774 00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:31,748 Lord. 775 00:56:38,362 --> 00:56:41,355 Peace was secured with hostages. 776 00:56:41,398 --> 00:56:44,926 Including my friend Brida. 777 00:56:44,968 --> 00:56:47,233 And my brother, Young Ragnar. 778 00:56:54,444 --> 00:56:57,972 Peace was further secured by Earl Guthrum's baptism. 779 00:56:58,015 --> 00:57:00,041 And acceptance of the Christian God. 780 00:57:00,517 --> 00:57:02,577 Do you renounce the devil and all his works? 781 00:57:02,619 --> 00:57:03,917 I do. 782 00:57:03,954 --> 00:57:05,650 Let this water cleanse you. 783 00:57:05,689 --> 00:57:09,990 And make you worthy of God's blessing. 784 00:57:10,027 --> 00:57:12,496 Guthrum, you are now a child of God. 785 00:57:12,529 --> 00:57:14,430 - Amen. ALL: Amen. 786 00:57:17,167 --> 00:57:19,295 As for Uhtred the Godless, 787 00:57:22,205 --> 00:57:24,333 my journey continues. 788 00:57:28,445 --> 00:57:30,573 My path leads North, 789 00:57:30,614 --> 00:57:33,743 to blood feuds, to revenge, 790 00:57:36,219 --> 00:57:38,916 and to Bebbanburg. 791 00:57:39,456 --> 00:57:42,119 Destiny is all. 791 00:57:43,305 --> 00:58:43,804 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today