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I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred.
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Like my childhood friend Brida, I
was born Saxon, but raised as a Dane.
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But while she
embraced her Viking life,
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I chose another path.
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My sword is yours.
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Defending King Alfred's kingdom,
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supporting his
vision of England,
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I earned reputation
as the killer of Danes,
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and with my loyal followers,
I have slain many a warrior.
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Alfred is dying, and all are
vying for power and position.
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Alfred will not live forever.
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He's constantly ill,
but he will not die.
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Our ancestors were kings
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and yet we are barely acknowledged
as Ealdormen and we deserve more.
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[Uhtred] I stole the seer
Skade from her Lord Sigurd.
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With Sigurd defeated in
battle, she is tied to me now.
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Bloodhair, you do not yield.
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[Uhtred] My beloved
Gisela did die in childbirth,
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leaving me with
an infant I despise.
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[Hild] She has given you a son.
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From this moment forth,
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Uhtred of Bebbenburg is cursed.
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[Uhtred] She is the power
behind my misfortune.
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Destiny is all.
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[woman] Are you done, Lord?
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Not quite.
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Soon.
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Uhtred.
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One moment, please.
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Lord, I pray, forgive the
breaking of this peaceful ground.
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It is an act of love.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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[Finan] Lord.
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[sobbing]
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Lord.
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[sniffles]
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It's beautiful.
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She is drifting away from the
earth and upward to the heavens.
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[Finan] We've done
a good thing here.
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God knows it.
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The gods know it.
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[man] Godwin.
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Brother Godwin.
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- Good morning.
- [Godwin] Lord.
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Good morning.
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I would like to
speak with you...
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for a moment.
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The girl there.
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What of her?
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She could well be fond of you.
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Fond?
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As in fond-le.
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Fondling.
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And often.
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[sighs]
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You have my attention, Lord.
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Uhtred.
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He is not the man to
guide Prince Edward.
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He is wild, ungodly.
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He is half Dane.
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Oh, at least.
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The Bishop Erkenwald
needs to see this.
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Alfred needs to
be reminded of this.
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She could be fond of
you this very evening.
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[grunts softly]
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Holy ground has been disturbed,
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Brother Godwin.
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[Beocca] Uhtred!
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Uhtred!
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You are needed at
the palace by the King.
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For what reason?
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We are about to
return to Coccham.
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It would be better if you
heard it from him yourself.
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You alone.
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[Uhtred] Lord.
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I've been saying
to Father Beocca
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that you should be
seizing Bloodhair's ships.
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Earl Sigurd is
finished with, defeated.
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Take away his ships
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and we take away the means
by which he will leave these lands.
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Take half the ships.
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We've killed half his men.
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[Edward] Haesten is about to
send Bloodhair on his way, Uhtred.
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We've been assured.
He'll soon be gone.
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To the matter in hand.
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Uhtred,
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I do not forget what you
have done these past days.
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Past years, Lord.
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I am acutely aware of what
you have lost, of your suffering.
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Lord.
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Gisela was a most
hospitable woman.
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How is the child?
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She has given him
her strength, Lord.
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And life.
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Yes.
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She was a good woman.
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Thank you, Lord.
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There has been a desecration.
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You were seen.
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[Beocca] The graveyard, Uhtred.
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It is blessed holy ground.
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You do not have the right nor
authority to break this ground.
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You were seen wilfully
disturbing the peace of the dead.
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I disturbed no one but my wife.
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If what I have done
is wrong, I apologise.
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It is very wrong.
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I did put the earth
back into the hole, Lady.
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It was a desecration.
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Uhtred, I admit I am at
a loss with what to do.
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Is an apology enough?
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[Beocca] If it is
heartfelt, Lord.
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God is merciful.
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He is, and Uhtred's
actions understandable.
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[Aelswith] But not forgivable.
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[Uhtred] Lord, I swear,
I meant no insult.
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If I may speak, Lord?
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The woman Gisela was a pagan
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and as such did not
belong in holy ground.
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By removing her,
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I would say the Lord Uhtred was
undoing what should never have been done.
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Her continued presence would
have further poisoned the soil.
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In my opinion, the
dead are well rid of her.
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Rid of her?
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Brother Godwin speaks
in your favour, Uhtred.
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[Godwin] I speak the truth.
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Gisela was a pagan and a whore,
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still married to
Aelfric of Bebbanburg.
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- You will say no more, priest...
- In the eyes of God,
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- she was a whore...
- You will say no more.
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And her children, bastards.
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Enough, Godwin.
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I would have the poor wretches
taken and baptised to save their souls.
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Lord, I will listen to
this nonsense no more.
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The souls in heaven
are rejoicing...
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- Godwin.
- That the heathen Gisela
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- has been taken from the earth and burnt.
- Brother Godwin.
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She was of no greater
worth than the witch Skade
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whom he has brought to...
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- [man] Uhtred.
- No more!
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Good Lord, he's struck him.
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I am not blind.
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Now it is your turn
to apologise, priest.
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Insulting women?
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Hiding behind your
affliction and your cross?
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[Beocca] Come away from him now.
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Uhtred.
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He did himself no
favour, you all heard him.
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Lord, I fear he is dead.
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He cannot be dead. It was
a slap, no more than that.
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He is dead.
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It was a slap, Lord.
You saw it for yourself.
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Guards, take hold of him.
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It was a slap!
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Seize him. Seize him now.
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I said take hold of him!
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Steapa, secure the city walls.
No-one is to leave. No-one.
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- [Edward] Lord...
- I want him standing
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before me by nightfall.
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Uhtred!
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Uhtred!
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Shh, shh, shh.
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I told you, big
man, he's resting.
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[Steapa] Uhtred, do not
make me fire the house.
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That is what I will do!
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Steapa, do not
make me kill you first.
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That is what I will do.
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Uhtred, do not make
me step on your Irishman.
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For that is what I will do.
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Oh, for goodness' sake,
stop behaving like children.
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You are goading him.
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I was, Hild. And enjoying it.
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So the Abbess may
enter, but I may not?
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We're afraid of the Abbess.
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[men laugh]
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Sister Hild.
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Come, to bed.
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Lord, there can be no bloodshed.
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They are throwing insults out
there, but they will soon tire of that.
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Come.
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There will not be bloodshed.
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You should say that to Steapa.
His head is hurting from thinking.
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[girl] Come on, let's go
to bed. It's time to sleep.
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Is there a solution?
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I did nothing wrong.
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Uhtred, you killed a monk,
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a holy man,
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and not for the first time.
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And why in God's
name is she still here?
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[Skade] I'm not
your concern, witch.
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I did not intend
to kill the monk,
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nor do I regret it.
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It was fate.
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[Uhtred] Fetch Beocca.
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Ask him to bring the
demands of the King.
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I will tell Beocca that you
are ready to talk and to listen.
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Be sure that you do.
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And it would help
if you cut her throat.
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He cannot.
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He dare not.
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[door opens]
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[door closes]
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Tonight, Lord...
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you will break your oath to
Alfred. You have no other choice...
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You will be quiet.
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It is a new beginning.
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I did not wish for
a new beginning.
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This is your doing.
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All of it.
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You speak another word
and I will end your life,
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no matter the curse
nor the consequences.
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I thought I would keep
you company, Beocca.
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I feel more godly just
walking beside you.
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Aethelwold, you are
only here for the game.
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I am,
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but what a game.
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[Beocca] Open up.
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Uhtred.
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The King and
Edward have conferred
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and they have decided
there will be no trial,
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no punishment at all,
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barring a small wergild
to be paid to the church.
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[Finan] A small wergild?
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100 pieces of silver.
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[chuckles] And
that's it? That's all?
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Of course not.
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100 pieces of
silver and your oath.
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He has my oath.
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The King wishes that you swear
an oath to the aetheling, to Edward.
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Edward is not the aetheling.
The crown cannot be assumed.
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Then what Alfred is
asking for is my life.
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He is asking for your
loyalty to Edward.
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Edward is a boy.
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Swear an oath to a boy
and it is the rest of your life.
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Father, the King asks too much.
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What you must now do, Uhtred,
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is consider what will happen if
you do not swear the oath to Edward.
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People will die.
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It will not just be the
men here who will die.
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It will be the men standing outside,
men you fought beside days ago.
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And it will be Alfred's doing.
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He could not care less
for men in his service.
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The King cares deeply.
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You, Beocca, you served
him all your life, and for what?
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His witan whisper
about your choice of wife.
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Without Alfred, I would not be
standing here at all. I would be dead.
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Without Alfred, there would be no Wessex,
there would be no Mercia, no Christendom.
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There would be
Danes, and that is all.
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The green fields
would be red with blood
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and my insides would
be hanging from the trees.
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Look, for all your whines and
moans, Uhtred of Bebbanburg,
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you've had a good life here in Wessex,
and don't you dare say otherwise.
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Alfred gave you shelter.
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I have earned it.
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00:13:17,997 --> 00:13:20,933
You have land and wealth,
all you can eat and drink.
258
00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:21,831
And I have earned it.
259
00:13:21,934 --> 00:13:23,562
Make your choice, boy!
260
00:13:24,604 --> 00:13:25,799
Accept your punishment.
261
00:13:25,905 --> 00:13:27,567
Or allow your friends
to kill each other,
262
00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:30,804
all to spare you the
hardship of life as a Lord.
263
00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:49,160
Did I not say it would
be more than a wergild?
264
00:13:49,262 --> 00:13:50,262
Aethelwold,
265
00:13:50,763 --> 00:13:52,755
I swear, when
the killing starts,
266
00:13:53,199 --> 00:13:54,690
you shall be my first.
267
00:14:06,446 --> 00:14:07,446
There will be no killing.
268
00:14:14,487 --> 00:14:15,487
Steapa.
269
00:14:16,322 --> 00:14:17,322
Lord?
270
00:14:18,391 --> 00:14:21,054
I will not fight you nor
any of these men here.
271
00:14:21,828 --> 00:14:23,558
I will go with you to
the King, my friend.
272
00:14:23,663 --> 00:14:25,791
I am pleased to hear
you say that, Lord.
273
00:14:28,801 --> 00:14:30,201
The King is merciful.
274
00:14:30,303 --> 00:14:31,635
He knows your worth.
275
00:14:31,704 --> 00:14:32,865
We shall see.
276
00:14:36,242 --> 00:14:37,574
You know what to do.
277
00:14:51,858 --> 00:14:54,327
[indistinct chatter]
278
00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,062
You have something
to say, I am told.
279
00:15:03,169 --> 00:15:04,169
Lord.
280
00:15:06,172 --> 00:15:07,196
[sighs]
281
00:15:11,043 --> 00:15:12,043
Look around you.
282
00:15:14,213 --> 00:15:16,944
I ask that you remember
my service to you at Ethandun
283
00:15:17,183 --> 00:15:18,879
and more, much more.
284
00:15:19,218 --> 00:15:22,882
Good service past is no excuse
for breaking the law of the land.
285
00:15:22,955 --> 00:15:24,446
I will pay the wergild,
286
00:15:25,725 --> 00:15:27,887
but though I consider
Edward to be a fine young man,
287
00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:29,895
I cannot swear an
oath I will not keep.
288
00:15:29,962 --> 00:15:30,895
You know this.
289
00:15:30,963 --> 00:15:34,195
An oath to protect Edward is an
oath for the remainder of my life.
290
00:15:40,606 --> 00:15:42,973
Your word has meaning,
I will give you that.
291
00:15:44,644 --> 00:15:47,637
Which is the very reason I
would like you beside my son
292
00:15:47,747 --> 00:15:49,739
when I am gone and he is King.
293
00:15:50,116 --> 00:15:51,226
[Uhtred] You have Steapa, Lord.
294
00:15:51,250 --> 00:15:53,981
[Alfred] Steapa at his left
hand and you at his right.
295
00:15:55,888 --> 00:15:59,120
There is no negotiation
to be had, Uhtred.
296
00:16:01,060 --> 00:16:02,060
None.
297
00:16:05,164 --> 00:16:06,894
Have I not given enough, Lord?
298
00:16:12,638 --> 00:16:13,662
I beg of you.
299
00:16:15,975 --> 00:16:17,568
Self-pity does not suit you.
300
00:16:19,445 --> 00:16:21,641
I am allowing you to live.
301
00:16:24,584 --> 00:16:26,280
You will do as I ask.
302
00:16:36,329 --> 00:16:37,661
No, Lord. I will not.
303
00:16:38,531 --> 00:16:39,829
- Uhtred!
- [Edward] Father!
304
00:16:39,932 --> 00:16:41,009
Steapa, put down your sword.
305
00:16:41,033 --> 00:16:43,093
Do no more. Do nothing
more. Edward, no!
306
00:16:43,169 --> 00:16:45,297
- Stand still.
- Uhtred, this is madness.
307
00:16:45,371 --> 00:16:48,466
Not one man is to take a
single step closer. Not one step!
308
00:16:48,541 --> 00:16:50,252
Steapa, kill the godless
bastard and do it now!
309
00:16:50,276 --> 00:16:51,505
- No!
- [Aelswith] Steapa!
310
00:16:51,611 --> 00:16:54,945
No man is to make a single move.
311
00:16:55,014 --> 00:16:58,542
No man is to put the king's life
in danger! Do you understand?
312
00:16:58,651 --> 00:17:01,177
This means death for
you. It can be nothing else.
313
00:17:01,854 --> 00:17:03,823
- Away from the door.
- Uhtred, please.
314
00:17:03,890 --> 00:17:05,688
[Uhtred] Every man
away from the door!
315
00:17:05,791 --> 00:17:06,986
[Beocca] Uhtred.
316
00:17:07,326 --> 00:17:09,056
Please, I beg of
you one last time.
317
00:17:09,161 --> 00:17:10,161
Beocca.
318
00:17:10,663 --> 00:17:12,325
You will close and bar the door.
319
00:17:12,832 --> 00:17:14,300
You will ensure no one follows.
320
00:17:14,901 --> 00:17:16,836
Not until Alfred himself knocks.
321
00:17:16,903 --> 00:17:18,895
Lord, on my oath,
he will not harm you.
322
00:17:19,372 --> 00:17:20,704
But if he does harm you,
323
00:17:21,574 --> 00:17:23,702
I swear, I will kill him myself.
324
00:17:23,809 --> 00:17:24,868
Beocca, the door!
325
00:17:25,878 --> 00:17:26,878
Now!
326
00:17:38,190 --> 00:17:39,681
I gave you glory.
327
00:17:40,426 --> 00:17:42,657
I gave you the freedom
to worship your God
328
00:17:42,728 --> 00:17:45,357
and still you treat me
no better than a hound.
329
00:17:45,431 --> 00:17:47,366
- I should kill you.
- Then do it,
330
00:17:47,433 --> 00:17:49,163
like the heathen you
are and will always be.
331
00:17:49,235 --> 00:17:51,227
- Do you think I am afraid?
- [grunts]
332
00:17:51,337 --> 00:17:52,896
I can smell the
shit on your legs.
333
00:17:53,005 --> 00:17:56,339
Heaven awaits me, whereas
you shall burn in hell for all eternity.
334
00:17:56,409 --> 00:17:58,901
Valhalla is a lie and
your gods are a lie.
335
00:17:59,011 --> 00:18:00,104
[grunts]
336
00:18:00,212 --> 00:18:01,441
[gasps]
337
00:18:05,418 --> 00:18:06,716
[panting]
338
00:18:08,387 --> 00:18:10,856
I seem to have
broken my oath, Lord.
339
00:18:11,724 --> 00:18:14,216
With luck, the whole of
Wessex will now burn.
340
00:18:21,867 --> 00:18:23,028
Father Beocca!
341
00:18:23,102 --> 00:18:24,126
Yes, Lord!
342
00:18:28,608 --> 00:18:29,871
Find him and kill him.
343
00:18:33,879 --> 00:18:35,074
[guard] He's here!
344
00:18:35,147 --> 00:18:36,147
Close the gates.
345
00:18:36,882 --> 00:18:38,594
- I do not wish to harm you.
- [guard] Stay where you are.
346
00:18:38,618 --> 00:18:40,218
[Uhtred] Stand clear.
[guard] Don't move.
347
00:18:41,821 --> 00:18:43,119
[grunting]
348
00:18:48,561 --> 00:18:49,561
After him!
349
00:18:50,096 --> 00:18:51,155
[Steapa] Uhtred!
350
00:18:52,064 --> 00:18:53,327
Every man with me!
351
00:18:55,234 --> 00:18:56,234
[crash]
352
00:18:59,438 --> 00:19:01,236
[woman screaming]
353
00:19:04,744 --> 00:19:05,744
Spear!
354
00:19:07,313 --> 00:19:08,975
Uhtred! Don't do it.
355
00:19:10,783 --> 00:19:11,783
Uhtred!
356
00:19:12,618 --> 00:19:13,677
[groans]
357
00:19:15,454 --> 00:19:18,151
You two, come with me.
The rest of you, go round.
358
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,162
[Finan] So they
decided to let you go?
359
00:19:31,303 --> 00:19:33,272
We should ride, hard.
360
00:19:33,339 --> 00:19:34,807
Lord, you are cut.
361
00:19:35,541 --> 00:19:36,541
Barely.
362
00:19:36,709 --> 00:19:37,938
We ride to where, Lord?
363
00:19:38,010 --> 00:19:40,138
To Ragnar and to the Danes.
364
00:19:40,212 --> 00:19:41,942
Then we should go meet your men.
365
00:19:42,948 --> 00:19:44,007
Hurry!
366
00:19:44,116 --> 00:19:45,116
[urging horses]
367
00:19:47,353 --> 00:19:48,377
Go, all of you.
368
00:19:50,056 --> 00:19:51,056
I wish to be alone.
369
00:19:52,992 --> 00:19:54,016
All of you go!
370
00:20:11,744 --> 00:20:12,744
[door closes]
371
00:20:55,554 --> 00:20:56,554
[man] Lord.
372
00:20:56,622 --> 00:20:57,715
You throw an axe well,
373
00:20:58,758 --> 00:20:59,885
but can you use that sword?
374
00:21:02,061 --> 00:21:03,061
It's not a sword.
375
00:21:03,562 --> 00:21:04,562
It's just a handle.
376
00:21:04,897 --> 00:21:05,897
It did break.
377
00:21:06,732 --> 00:21:07,732
In battle?
378
00:21:07,967 --> 00:21:09,060
[clears throat]
379
00:21:10,536 --> 00:21:11,731
I fell, Lord.
380
00:21:13,305 --> 00:21:14,465
Well, at least you're honest.
381
00:21:15,574 --> 00:21:17,270
I'm looking for men, guards.
382
00:21:17,376 --> 00:21:18,420
There are guards at the palace.
383
00:21:18,444 --> 00:21:20,470
No, I'm looking to
form my own guard.
384
00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:22,960
If you had a sword,
could you use it?
385
00:21:24,283 --> 00:21:25,283
I could, yes.
386
00:21:26,252 --> 00:21:27,252
I'm called Offa.
387
00:21:27,386 --> 00:21:28,386
Offa...
388
00:21:30,790 --> 00:21:32,816
I will employ you
and two others.
389
00:21:32,925 --> 00:21:34,765
Do you know men who
would make suitable guards?
390
00:21:34,994 --> 00:21:37,395
I do. Good men, friends of mine.
391
00:21:37,763 --> 00:21:38,763
Find them.
392
00:21:39,765 --> 00:21:40,765
We travel tonight.
393
00:21:42,434 --> 00:21:43,732
You will be paid in silver.
394
00:21:44,837 --> 00:21:47,500
Uhtred has thrown
everything away. Everything.
395
00:21:47,606 --> 00:21:48,606
Did he have a choice?
396
00:21:49,942 --> 00:21:50,942
No, he did not.
397
00:21:51,143 --> 00:21:52,805
The King asked for too much.
398
00:21:52,912 --> 00:21:54,608
Alfred offered him forgiveness.
399
00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:55,841
What Alfred did
400
00:21:56,582 --> 00:21:58,312
was ignore Uhtred's pain.
401
00:22:00,085 --> 00:22:02,953
This is not the end of the
matter. It is only the beginning.
402
00:22:03,756 --> 00:22:06,521
If Edward is being
made ready to be King,
403
00:22:06,826 --> 00:22:09,455
then Uhtred knows that
Alfred's death is near.
404
00:22:10,462 --> 00:22:12,624
That is what he
will tell the Danes.
405
00:22:25,311 --> 00:22:26,311
Lord.
406
00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:29,541
She wishes to speak to you.
407
00:22:37,056 --> 00:22:38,490
I wish to ride alongside you.
408
00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,124
Your place is at
the back of the line.
409
00:22:43,729 --> 00:22:45,493
I wish to ride alongside
you as your woman.
410
00:22:46,665 --> 00:22:48,665
You have what you have
always craved. Your freedom.
411
00:22:49,201 --> 00:22:50,794
Embrace it and embrace me.
412
00:22:52,404 --> 00:22:54,464
Did I not say you would
be in need of a woman?
413
00:22:55,207 --> 00:22:58,234
Do not dare to think that
you can replace my wife.
414
00:22:58,344 --> 00:23:01,405
I saw what would occur to
your wife. I was not the cause.
415
00:23:04,083 --> 00:23:06,416
I know you would like to bed me.
416
00:23:06,685 --> 00:23:08,586
You are Bloodhair's
woman, are you not?
417
00:23:08,687 --> 00:23:10,349
Unless you decide to claim me.
418
00:23:11,357 --> 00:23:13,087
Then I will have a
decision to make.
419
00:23:14,193 --> 00:23:16,321
Bloodhair's not the
warrior that you are.
420
00:23:16,662 --> 00:23:18,358
He is not the King
that you can be.
421
00:23:19,565 --> 00:23:20,565
Lord...
422
00:23:21,267 --> 00:23:22,565
we can be enemies,
423
00:23:23,269 --> 00:23:24,269
or lovers.
424
00:23:26,739 --> 00:23:28,708
We can suffer or we can rule.
425
00:23:31,443 --> 00:23:32,443
Back of the line.
426
00:23:36,015 --> 00:23:37,540
Then you shall remain cursed.
427
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,115
It's your choice.
428
00:23:57,636 --> 00:24:00,435
Why is she not food
for the rats by now?
429
00:24:04,944 --> 00:24:06,572
[Uhtred] Because she has a gift.
430
00:24:11,250 --> 00:24:12,250
[groans]
431
00:24:14,053 --> 00:24:16,113
Because she has
taken hold of my path.
432
00:24:16,455 --> 00:24:19,289
If we kill her, the
curse will live on.
433
00:24:21,927 --> 00:24:23,793
It is the curse
that must be killed.
434
00:24:39,645 --> 00:24:41,978
She is the worm and
Uhtred is the apple.
435
00:24:55,594 --> 00:24:57,654
I am Aethelwold of Wessex.
436
00:24:58,364 --> 00:25:00,856
We are here to drink
and to see Lord Aethelred.
437
00:25:00,966 --> 00:25:01,831
[guard] Open the gate!
438
00:25:01,934 --> 00:25:03,266
In that order.
439
00:25:10,275 --> 00:25:12,005
[Aethelwold] What is
it about Mercian ale?
440
00:25:12,111 --> 00:25:13,204
[Aldhelm] It is the waters.
441
00:25:14,613 --> 00:25:15,613
Divine.
442
00:25:18,550 --> 00:25:20,109
I have not seen the
Lady Aethelflaed.
443
00:25:20,185 --> 00:25:21,847
My wife prefers her own company.
444
00:25:22,654 --> 00:25:24,555
She often sits at
her own estate.
445
00:25:24,656 --> 00:25:25,487
And your fair daughter?
446
00:25:25,557 --> 00:25:27,317
- She's how old now...
- What is it you want?
447
00:25:28,193 --> 00:25:29,193
Say it.
448
00:25:31,730 --> 00:25:32,789
What I want...
449
00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:35,694
is your disloyalty...
450
00:25:37,403 --> 00:25:38,403
towards Alfred.
451
00:25:40,639 --> 00:25:43,199
You'll be aware of the
talk that his health is failing.
452
00:25:43,308 --> 00:25:46,039
His health has been failing
and then recovering for years.
453
00:25:46,145 --> 00:25:48,307
But he is now without his
best warrior and Kingmaker...
454
00:25:50,315 --> 00:25:51,146
Uhtred.
455
00:25:51,216 --> 00:25:52,309
Uhtred is dead?
456
00:25:52,384 --> 00:25:56,151
Uhtred is, by now, on his way to
Dunholm and then to Bebbanburg perhaps.
457
00:25:57,056 --> 00:25:59,150
Where he is not, is Wessex.
458
00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:03,160
Uhtred is no longer
Alfred's sword.
459
00:26:05,531 --> 00:26:06,590
Uhtred is gone.
460
00:26:07,766 --> 00:26:09,530
Uhtred is a Dane.
461
00:26:13,572 --> 00:26:15,370
[coughing]
462
00:26:18,710 --> 00:26:20,906
My own ambitions are
clear. I have never hid them.
463
00:26:22,347 --> 00:26:24,043
The crown of Wessex
is rightfully mine.
464
00:26:24,116 --> 00:26:26,585
But unlike Alfred, I do
not wish to control Mercia.
465
00:26:26,685 --> 00:26:28,017
I have no interest in Mercia.
466
00:26:28,087 --> 00:26:29,385
Yes. Yes.
467
00:26:31,857 --> 00:26:34,759
I believe Mercia should
have its own King.
468
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:36,419
You, Aethelred.
469
00:26:37,629 --> 00:26:42,090
What you must understand is
our entire world is about to change.
470
00:26:42,434 --> 00:26:43,766
The opportunity
to take our place
471
00:26:43,869 --> 00:26:45,895
on the thrones of our
respective Kingdoms is near.
472
00:26:47,806 --> 00:26:48,739
It is now.
473
00:26:48,807 --> 00:26:51,140
And you are suggesting
what, exactly?
474
00:26:52,945 --> 00:26:55,779
I am proposing that we ally
ourselves to one another.
475
00:26:55,881 --> 00:26:57,144
A betrothal of sorts.
476
00:26:57,249 --> 00:26:58,410
An alliance.
477
00:27:01,153 --> 00:27:02,815
Lord Aethelred has estate,
478
00:27:03,088 --> 00:27:05,455
a hearth guard and
a fyrd to call upon.
479
00:27:05,557 --> 00:27:08,721
You, Lord, appear to have three
men and a scab-ridden pack-horse.
480
00:27:09,461 --> 00:27:12,431
I will not betray any confidence,
but believe me, I shall have an army.
481
00:27:12,831 --> 00:27:17,963
As for Lord Aethelred's guard and
fyrd, many say they belong to his wife.
482
00:27:18,070 --> 00:27:20,471
She is the one with
the battle reputation.
483
00:27:21,406 --> 00:27:22,430
My men...
484
00:27:23,342 --> 00:27:24,401
are my own...
485
00:27:25,277 --> 00:27:27,974
and no-one else's,
I can assure you.
486
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:29,657
I am repeating gossip,
Lord, no more than...
487
00:27:29,681 --> 00:27:30,681
My men...
488
00:27:31,250 --> 00:27:32,343
- are my own.
- Agreed.
489
00:27:36,755 --> 00:27:38,087
Though you must worry...
490
00:27:39,191 --> 00:27:41,922
that despite her bravery,
Aethelflaed may come to some harm
491
00:27:41,994 --> 00:27:43,326
alone on her own estate.
492
00:27:43,829 --> 00:27:44,829
Heavens forbid...
493
00:27:46,265 --> 00:27:48,928
but should something
final befall his daughter,
494
00:27:49,268 --> 00:27:52,761
I imagine that would weaken
the pretend King further.
495
00:27:54,773 --> 00:27:57,208
I would guess you would
imagine this weakening quite often,
496
00:27:57,309 --> 00:27:58,333
Lord Aethelwold.
497
00:28:00,946 --> 00:28:01,946
Nightly.
498
00:28:18,630 --> 00:28:19,825
Should we not stop and rest?
499
00:28:21,833 --> 00:28:25,292
I'm tired of the sight of my
horse's head, his ears in particular.
500
00:28:25,370 --> 00:28:28,465
We need shelter and fire,
boy. And there's no shelter here.
501
00:28:29,474 --> 00:28:30,498
We keep going.
502
00:28:31,510 --> 00:28:33,206
For a short time at least.
503
00:28:40,219 --> 00:28:42,017
- [horse neighs]
- [coughs]
504
00:28:44,056 --> 00:28:45,056
Lord!
505
00:28:46,058 --> 00:28:47,321
Lord.
506
00:28:47,392 --> 00:28:49,520
Are you hurt, Lord?
Is it your wound?
507
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:51,729
[grunting]
508
00:28:53,865 --> 00:28:54,889
No.
509
00:28:56,268 --> 00:28:57,201
She has me.
510
00:28:57,269 --> 00:29:00,239
[Finan] Holy Jesus, he looks
the colour of a Scotsman's arse.
511
00:29:00,339 --> 00:29:01,500
Is there anything broken?
512
00:29:02,074 --> 00:29:03,906
She's squeezing
the life from me.
513
00:29:04,009 --> 00:29:06,945
[Finan] Either that, or the
cold has got to your bones.
514
00:29:07,713 --> 00:29:08,713
Finan...
515
00:29:09,114 --> 00:29:10,343
you will find a cart...
516
00:29:11,250 --> 00:29:13,515
and you will haul me
to Dunholm, to Brida.
517
00:29:14,219 --> 00:29:15,710
She will know what to do.
518
00:29:17,256 --> 00:29:18,256
[Finan] Get him up.
519
00:29:22,894 --> 00:29:24,055
We're being followed.
520
00:29:28,233 --> 00:29:30,395
No, we are being watched, Offa.
521
00:29:30,769 --> 00:29:34,297
Just ahead, there is a camp full of
Danes, led by a man they call Bloodhair.
522
00:29:35,307 --> 00:29:36,468
Hold up the branch.
523
00:29:37,709 --> 00:29:38,540
Tilberht.
524
00:29:38,610 --> 00:29:39,976
Higher. Above your head.
525
00:29:40,946 --> 00:29:42,539
[Offa] What does the
branch mean, Lord?
526
00:29:43,081 --> 00:29:44,481
That we are peaceful,
527
00:29:44,983 --> 00:29:46,246
that we wish to talk.
528
00:29:47,085 --> 00:29:49,384
And if they are Bloodhair's
men, which they will be,
529
00:29:50,422 --> 00:29:51,422
with luck,
530
00:29:52,457 --> 00:29:54,085
he will want to hear
what I have to say.
531
00:29:54,159 --> 00:29:56,219
And if they are not?
532
00:29:56,295 --> 00:29:57,991
You will protect
me with your lives.
533
00:29:59,431 --> 00:30:00,431
And the branch.
534
00:30:07,673 --> 00:30:08,673
[Offa] My God.
535
00:30:09,141 --> 00:30:10,541
There are hundreds
of the bastards.
536
00:30:10,909 --> 00:30:12,309
Every one of them ugly.
537
00:30:14,079 --> 00:30:15,138
Hold the branch high.
538
00:30:16,014 --> 00:30:17,014
Higher.
539
00:30:17,649 --> 00:30:18,776
It's heavy, Lord.
540
00:30:18,850 --> 00:30:20,284
[Offa] Higher, Tilberht!
541
00:30:22,087 --> 00:30:23,207
[Aethelwold] Lord Bloodhair.
542
00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:26,485
Haesten. What a pleasure
to see you as a pair.
543
00:30:26,591 --> 00:30:28,082
You know this turd, Haesten?
544
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:29,253
I do.
545
00:30:30,028 --> 00:30:31,519
Welcome, Lord Aethelwold.
546
00:30:32,030 --> 00:30:33,191
You bring word from Alfred?
547
00:30:33,298 --> 00:30:34,766
I bring word of Alfred.
548
00:30:36,001 --> 00:30:39,301
And I bring word of Uhtred
Ragnarson and of the Lady Skade.
549
00:30:39,771 --> 00:30:41,967
She was once your
woman, I seem to remember.
550
00:30:42,808 --> 00:30:43,808
Skade lives?
551
00:30:43,975 --> 00:30:45,102
She does.
552
00:30:45,177 --> 00:30:49,012
And lives well, with Lord
Uhtred snug between her thighs,
553
00:30:49,114 --> 00:30:50,377
but neither are in Wessex.
554
00:30:50,482 --> 00:30:52,041
Uhtred is where
if not in Wessex?
555
00:30:52,150 --> 00:30:53,150
Banished.
556
00:30:53,685 --> 00:30:54,778
An enemy of Alfred.
557
00:30:55,821 --> 00:30:58,689
Heading to Ragnar Ragnarson,
his brother, I would guess.
558
00:30:59,157 --> 00:31:00,819
This turd has knowledge
559
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:02,858
and not just of what I've eaten.
560
00:31:04,463 --> 00:31:05,658
I have a proposal.
561
00:31:10,802 --> 00:31:13,897
There already seems to be an alliance
between you, Haesten and Bloodhair.
562
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,305
What I suggest is that
we grow that alliance
563
00:31:17,743 --> 00:31:20,474
and create the greatest
Dane army ever seen.
564
00:31:21,046 --> 00:31:22,742
I propose that we join together.
565
00:31:23,014 --> 00:31:25,074
Us three here, we
join with Ragnar...
566
00:31:26,051 --> 00:31:27,051
and with Uhtred.
567
00:31:28,487 --> 00:31:29,580
But I want to kill Uhtred.
568
00:31:31,323 --> 00:31:32,416
And then what, kill Ragnar?
569
00:31:32,524 --> 00:31:33,524
Or you perhaps.
570
00:31:34,359 --> 00:31:35,359
We have your story.
571
00:31:36,027 --> 00:31:37,188
What else do you offer?
572
00:31:40,065 --> 00:31:42,364
I offer unrest, in Wessex.
573
00:31:43,402 --> 00:31:44,734
By speaking to
certain ealdormen,
574
00:31:44,836 --> 00:31:47,431
I could halve the size of
Alfred's army in a moment.
575
00:31:48,373 --> 00:31:51,070
I can be the bridge
between Saxon and Dane.
576
00:31:51,543 --> 00:31:52,543
[laughing]
577
00:31:56,348 --> 00:31:57,941
Are you sure Uhtred
is in the north?
578
00:31:58,049 --> 00:31:59,073
[Aethelwold] Yes.
579
00:31:59,384 --> 00:32:00,943
Just as I am sure
580
00:32:01,052 --> 00:32:04,682
that Danes cannot fight
Danes, Danes cannot kill allies.
581
00:32:05,891 --> 00:32:08,554
We cannot ignore the
gift that is presenting itself,
582
00:32:08,627 --> 00:32:11,119
a Wessex without
Uhtred to protect it,
583
00:32:11,229 --> 00:32:13,596
a weakened and frail Alfred.
584
00:32:13,865 --> 00:32:17,199
Now is the time for all Danes to
gather. There can be no divisions.
585
00:32:17,602 --> 00:32:19,764
I say we take that idea north,
586
00:32:20,038 --> 00:32:22,030
to Ragnar and to Uhtred.
587
00:32:24,776 --> 00:32:25,776
I demand...
588
00:32:26,578 --> 00:32:28,274
that the sword-Danes unite
589
00:32:29,281 --> 00:32:31,079
and crush the Anglo-Saxons...
590
00:32:31,149 --> 00:32:33,277
It's not your place
to make demands.
591
00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:35,447
It's enough that
you've been heard.
592
00:32:42,794 --> 00:32:43,794
Excellent.
593
00:32:58,643 --> 00:32:59,906
A few days more, Lord.
594
00:33:00,512 --> 00:33:02,572
It's your cart that's
slowing us down.
595
00:33:23,635 --> 00:33:25,263
Remember me, arseling?
596
00:33:27,772 --> 00:33:30,367
You'll get out of your
bed and make ready.
597
00:33:31,776 --> 00:33:32,607
For what?
598
00:33:32,677 --> 00:33:33,677
To fight me.
599
00:33:34,679 --> 00:33:35,679
Leofric...
600
00:33:37,215 --> 00:33:38,979
I do not wish to fight you.
601
00:33:40,986 --> 00:33:41,885
Why would I fight you?
602
00:33:41,987 --> 00:33:44,354
You will fight me,
you piece of shit.
603
00:33:45,023 --> 00:33:47,686
For I am Wessex. I am Saxon.
604
00:33:47,792 --> 00:33:50,387
I am for Alfred.
And you, arseling,
605
00:33:50,495 --> 00:33:52,521
are a Dane and a traitor.
606
00:33:53,164 --> 00:33:54,325
Fight me!
607
00:33:55,033 --> 00:33:57,002
[coughing]
608
00:34:13,718 --> 00:34:15,812
Can no man hold his tongue?
609
00:34:17,022 --> 00:34:19,514
The country is rife with
news of Uhtred's betrayal
610
00:34:19,591 --> 00:34:20,889
and of my apparent weakness.
611
00:34:20,992 --> 00:34:23,757
- The talk will pass, Lord.
- The talk will only build.
612
00:34:25,163 --> 00:34:27,928
Gossip and rumour will
spread like a summer's fire.
613
00:34:28,033 --> 00:34:31,003
It can only serve to
embolden our enemies.
614
00:34:35,540 --> 00:34:37,839
I note that Sigurd's
ships remain in Cent.
615
00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:38,909
[Beocca] Yes.
616
00:34:39,711 --> 00:34:41,577
You need to end
the gossip, Lord.
617
00:34:41,947 --> 00:34:44,781
A visit perhaps, not to Sigurd,
but to several of the burhs.
618
00:34:44,883 --> 00:34:47,011
The King does not have
the strength to travel.
619
00:34:47,085 --> 00:34:48,280
Then something else.
620
00:34:49,454 --> 00:34:50,547
A celebration,
621
00:34:51,056 --> 00:34:54,185
something that allows you to
show yourself, proud, kingly.
622
00:34:54,426 --> 00:34:57,123
For what reason, Father
Beocca? To sap him further?
623
00:34:57,395 --> 00:34:59,193
To demonstrate that
he has not weakened.
624
00:34:59,264 --> 00:35:01,358
You will both be
silent. I am still here.
625
00:35:04,202 --> 00:35:05,202
Yes, Lord.
626
00:35:09,374 --> 00:35:10,614
What would be this occasion be?
627
00:35:11,610 --> 00:35:12,610
I do not know.
628
00:35:13,712 --> 00:35:14,736
A Saint's Day?
629
00:35:15,981 --> 00:35:16,981
A thanksgiving.
630
00:35:17,048 --> 00:35:18,573
You may wish to involve Edward.
631
00:35:18,650 --> 00:35:19,811
- A betrothal.
- Edward?
632
00:35:20,919 --> 00:35:21,919
He is old enough.
633
00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:24,582
He remains besotted with
the mother of his bastard twins.
634
00:35:24,656 --> 00:35:26,090
Oh, it cannot be her.
635
00:35:26,157 --> 00:35:27,887
She's a cloth's
width from a peasant.
636
00:35:27,959 --> 00:35:29,723
Then whomever is most suited.
637
00:35:29,794 --> 00:35:34,425
What it would do is put an end to
one line of gossip and begin another.
638
00:35:34,499 --> 00:35:35,499
Indeed.
639
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,728
Father Beocca, would
you leave us, please?
640
00:35:40,772 --> 00:35:41,772
Yes, Lord.
641
00:35:47,646 --> 00:35:50,241
I cannot allow Uhtred's
betrayal nor this...
642
00:35:51,249 --> 00:35:53,241
illness to defeat me.
643
00:35:54,953 --> 00:35:56,751
England must not be forgotten.
644
00:35:56,821 --> 00:35:57,821
[Aelswith] Lord...
645
00:35:58,623 --> 00:36:00,819
you shall see its birth,
you will grow strong.
646
00:36:00,925 --> 00:36:02,791
My dear, I will not
see another year.
647
00:36:05,430 --> 00:36:06,430
We know it.
648
00:36:10,435 --> 00:36:12,028
We must continue forward.
649
00:36:12,137 --> 00:36:15,938
We must find Edward a suitable
match, one that will strengthen his hand.
650
00:36:16,508 --> 00:36:19,000
Though a better match than
was made for Aethelflaed.
651
00:36:19,110 --> 00:36:20,942
Has that marriage
not served a purpose?
652
00:36:21,846 --> 00:36:23,439
Aethelflaed has influence.
653
00:36:23,848 --> 00:36:26,010
She's far stronger than
Aethelred the pretty.
654
00:36:26,618 --> 00:36:28,348
What you have begun, Lord,
655
00:36:28,787 --> 00:36:29,787
shall continue.
656
00:36:31,022 --> 00:36:33,048
Our children will
build an England,
657
00:36:34,059 --> 00:36:35,059
I swear.
658
00:36:42,667 --> 00:36:43,862
[door opens]
659
00:36:43,968 --> 00:36:45,880
- [Aethelred] Take it. I said take it.
- [girl giggles]
660
00:36:45,904 --> 00:36:47,805
- [girl] No, my Lord.
- You asked for me, Lord?
661
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:49,640
I did.
662
00:36:51,209 --> 00:36:52,871
I've been thinking about...
663
00:36:54,345 --> 00:36:55,677
Aethelwold's visit.
664
00:36:56,648 --> 00:36:58,810
What he said about
my heroic wife.
665
00:36:59,084 --> 00:37:02,145
The chances of her meeting
harm in one form or another.
666
00:37:02,487 --> 00:37:03,546
And you have decided what?
667
00:37:05,490 --> 00:37:06,490
I want her dead.
668
00:37:08,093 --> 00:37:09,093
And the child with her.
669
00:37:35,553 --> 00:37:37,553
[Cnut] We've been trailing
them for half a day now.
670
00:37:37,956 --> 00:37:39,254
They're mostly Saxon.
671
00:37:39,357 --> 00:37:40,416
Some Danes maybe.
672
00:37:41,226 --> 00:37:43,286
They're not of Eoferwic.
They're warriors.
673
00:37:43,394 --> 00:37:45,454
They're surrounding
the cart, there.
674
00:37:47,065 --> 00:37:47,930
Protecting it.
675
00:37:48,032 --> 00:37:49,466
And the man that lies on it.
676
00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:54,069
It is the riding in clear
sight I find interesting.
677
00:37:54,305 --> 00:37:55,637
Hmm.
678
00:37:55,740 --> 00:37:56,935
They have no fear.
679
00:38:00,044 --> 00:38:01,410
You're staring at me. Why?
680
00:38:03,715 --> 00:38:04,739
I'm looking.
681
00:38:05,750 --> 00:38:06,750
Nothing more.
682
00:38:08,820 --> 00:38:11,153
And I'm thinking how
fortunate my cousin is
683
00:38:11,256 --> 00:38:13,452
to have a woman
to both love and fight.
684
00:38:15,994 --> 00:38:18,759
So why do you allow
him to... shame you?
685
00:38:21,566 --> 00:38:22,659
Cnut, you know nothing,
686
00:38:23,434 --> 00:38:24,663
so you will say nothing.
687
00:38:27,405 --> 00:38:28,998
Allow them to continue in peace.
688
00:38:30,508 --> 00:38:31,508
All the way to Dunholm?
689
00:38:32,477 --> 00:38:33,672
That is where they're headed.
690
00:38:42,854 --> 00:38:43,947
Has he drunk any ale?
691
00:38:44,856 --> 00:38:46,017
A little.
692
00:38:46,124 --> 00:38:47,683
A little is of little use.
693
00:38:59,304 --> 00:39:00,304
All right.
694
00:39:05,176 --> 00:39:07,338
Do you have the strength
to lift a wee cup, Lord?
695
00:39:08,112 --> 00:39:09,112
Hmm?
696
00:39:09,147 --> 00:39:11,844
Even if it is to...
wet your lips.
697
00:39:16,888 --> 00:39:17,888
[sighs]
698
00:39:21,326 --> 00:39:23,818
I'd wager you feel like
you're back on the slave ship.
699
00:39:25,063 --> 00:39:26,691
You got past that nightmare.
700
00:39:27,398 --> 00:39:28,696
You can get past this.
701
00:39:29,467 --> 00:39:30,491
Believe me.
702
00:39:31,069 --> 00:39:32,537
It's her, Finan...
703
00:39:33,671 --> 00:39:35,503
turning my insides outward.
704
00:39:37,542 --> 00:39:38,542
[Finan] Then kill her...
705
00:39:40,411 --> 00:39:41,504
or let me do it for you.
706
00:39:41,579 --> 00:39:43,241
- No.
- Uhtred...
707
00:39:46,651 --> 00:39:48,415
I fear you're... dying.
708
00:39:58,396 --> 00:40:01,059
Sihtric says we'll arrive
at Dunholm tomorrow.
709
00:40:01,699 --> 00:40:03,725
They've been watching
us for most of the day.
710
00:40:04,836 --> 00:40:07,396
At least, I hope it's them.
711
00:40:33,398 --> 00:40:34,398
Broth, Lord.
712
00:40:34,766 --> 00:40:35,766
I made it myself.
713
00:40:36,935 --> 00:40:39,734
I did the same at the monastery
and the Brothers devoured it.
714
00:40:41,072 --> 00:40:42,072
[groans]
715
00:40:42,307 --> 00:40:44,071
Please, Lord, it will
make your strength.
716
00:40:47,712 --> 00:40:49,476
[Leofric] Now you know
how Alfred would feel.
717
00:40:51,416 --> 00:40:52,884
Belly and bones aching.
718
00:40:52,951 --> 00:40:54,419
[horse neighs]
719
00:40:54,752 --> 00:40:56,277
But every day he got to his feet
720
00:40:57,555 --> 00:40:59,649
and every day he built Wessex.
721
00:41:00,625 --> 00:41:02,059
With my sword.
722
00:41:02,327 --> 00:41:03,818
- Lord?
- My arse.
723
00:41:03,928 --> 00:41:06,488
He built Wessex with my sword.
724
00:41:13,604 --> 00:41:15,505
I see my sister's
boy is with you now.
725
00:41:17,408 --> 00:41:18,967
Alfred's bastard.
726
00:41:19,310 --> 00:41:20,334
The Monk.
727
00:41:21,279 --> 00:41:23,009
He's no warrior.
728
00:41:23,114 --> 00:41:24,314
[Leofric] Then why is he here?
729
00:41:27,118 --> 00:41:28,313
Gisela.
730
00:41:28,419 --> 00:41:29,459
[Osferth] It is the fever.
731
00:41:29,821 --> 00:41:30,821
It will pass.
732
00:41:31,255 --> 00:41:32,348
[Skade] He sees someone.
733
00:41:33,257 --> 00:41:34,316
It is the gods...
734
00:41:35,593 --> 00:41:36,593
tormenting him.
735
00:41:37,462 --> 00:41:38,691
Who is Gisela?
736
00:41:39,764 --> 00:41:40,959
My wife.
737
00:41:41,265 --> 00:41:42,289
Another one?
738
00:41:43,701 --> 00:41:44,828
How many is that?
739
00:41:46,304 --> 00:41:51,641
So this Gisela is to blame for making
my nephew a traitor to his country?
740
00:41:53,778 --> 00:41:55,440
She was fond of him.
741
00:41:56,514 --> 00:41:58,506
That is why he's with me.
742
00:42:01,953 --> 00:42:02,953
You look sickly.
743
00:42:06,357 --> 00:42:08,485
What has she done
to you, the witch there?
744
00:42:12,130 --> 00:42:14,190
It is a death you will deserve,
745
00:42:14,298 --> 00:42:16,893
for you have made
every man here a traitor.
746
00:42:17,402 --> 00:42:19,371
Alfred is their King.
747
00:42:19,470 --> 00:42:20,470
You are dead!
748
00:42:20,538 --> 00:42:23,372
Alfred does not mourn
you, so why speak for him?
749
00:42:23,474 --> 00:42:25,306
- You are dead! [coughing]
- [Finan] Lord?
750
00:42:25,743 --> 00:42:28,508
Lord, you must eat
and you must drink.
751
00:42:28,579 --> 00:42:30,571
You are not thinking right.
752
00:42:30,681 --> 00:42:32,513
[panting]
753
00:42:37,422 --> 00:42:39,357
- Brida.
- She'll be at Dunholm.
754
00:42:39,424 --> 00:42:40,687
[Sihtric] Finan, look.
755
00:42:41,159 --> 00:42:42,159
[Brida] I'm here.
756
00:42:44,062 --> 00:42:45,257
[Finan] Brida?
757
00:43:09,187 --> 00:43:11,053
Jackdaw. Any
trouble in the night?
758
00:43:11,289 --> 00:43:12,587
She showed me her tits.
759
00:43:13,691 --> 00:43:14,715
They looked very nice.
760
00:43:22,733 --> 00:43:24,065
You say you're a seer,
761
00:43:24,569 --> 00:43:25,867
but you have no runes.
762
00:43:26,104 --> 00:43:26,935
What is this?
763
00:43:27,038 --> 00:43:28,678
Unless you have them
hidden up your arse?
764
00:43:33,311 --> 00:43:35,109
I wish to see my Lord Uhtred.
765
00:43:36,948 --> 00:43:38,382
And you will bring him to me.
766
00:43:39,317 --> 00:43:40,250
You will shut your mouth.
767
00:43:40,318 --> 00:43:41,251
You will bring him to me
768
00:43:41,319 --> 00:43:43,550
or I will bind your path
to that of a river rat.
769
00:43:44,222 --> 00:43:46,214
[grunts]
770
00:43:51,329 --> 00:43:53,730
You will not throw
curses, not here.
771
00:43:54,465 --> 00:43:56,934
Not now, I have this
Nithstong to block your powers.
772
00:43:59,403 --> 00:44:00,894
This is Freya's soil now
773
00:44:01,839 --> 00:44:04,502
and the goddess who brought
the magic to the gods will protect us.
774
00:44:05,309 --> 00:44:07,778
Don't make me bring the seer
to whom this Nithstong belongs.
775
00:44:09,013 --> 00:44:10,504
She is blood-tied to Freya.
776
00:44:12,950 --> 00:44:14,418
Don't make her destroy you.
777
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:16,520
I swear...
778
00:44:17,622 --> 00:44:18,954
I will kill you, bitch.
779
00:44:21,259 --> 00:44:24,661
Jackdaw, keep your hands on
your sword and your eyes off her tits.
780
00:44:25,596 --> 00:44:26,655
She's cleverer than you.
781
00:44:27,131 --> 00:44:28,463
I heard that.
782
00:44:38,609 --> 00:44:39,609
Good?
783
00:44:39,844 --> 00:44:40,844
It is good.
784
00:44:41,612 --> 00:44:42,944
We thought you'd gone, Lord.
785
00:44:44,782 --> 00:44:45,782
The same.
786
00:44:47,051 --> 00:44:49,646
I feared I'd die an old
man's death under furs.
787
00:44:50,021 --> 00:44:52,547
[Cnut] So, the great
Dane-slayer was afraid?
788
00:44:55,126 --> 00:44:56,126
You are who?
789
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:57,719
It's no one important, Uhtred.
790
00:44:58,629 --> 00:45:00,188
I am Cnut.
791
00:45:00,298 --> 00:45:02,130
- You are what?
- [Ragnar] His name is Cnut.
792
00:45:02,733 --> 00:45:03,733
He's my cousin,
793
00:45:04,402 --> 00:45:05,402
on my mother's side.
794
00:45:05,903 --> 00:45:06,903
I'm a Dane,
795
00:45:07,572 --> 00:45:08,572
Lord Uhtred.
796
00:45:09,740 --> 00:45:11,208
So are you gonna kill me too?
797
00:45:11,976 --> 00:45:13,376
You talk like an infant.
798
00:45:13,477 --> 00:45:15,969
How many of us have you
already dispatched to Valhalla?
799
00:45:16,414 --> 00:45:18,679
Is it 12? 20? 40?
800
00:45:18,749 --> 00:45:21,742
Cnut, you will shut your mouth now,
and show my brother some respect.
801
00:45:21,852 --> 00:45:23,320
Or I may have to kill one more.
802
00:45:23,387 --> 00:45:25,151
[men laugh]
803
00:45:26,023 --> 00:45:27,321
He is back.
804
00:45:27,858 --> 00:45:28,858
He's back.
805
00:45:30,027 --> 00:45:31,027
Get up.
806
00:45:32,263 --> 00:45:33,754
Up on your feet.
807
00:45:35,666 --> 00:45:36,666
Get up.
808
00:45:41,839 --> 00:45:43,364
He is back where he belongs.
809
00:45:45,042 --> 00:45:47,773
Where he has always belonged.
810
00:45:50,248 --> 00:45:51,739
You're a Dane for life now.
811
00:45:52,917 --> 00:45:53,917
Say it.
812
00:45:56,287 --> 00:45:57,550
I am a Dane for life.
813
00:45:58,356 --> 00:45:59,356
[Ragnar] No.
814
00:46:01,092 --> 00:46:02,092
Say it.
815
00:46:05,963 --> 00:46:07,727
I am a Dane for life.
816
00:46:08,933 --> 00:46:10,401
Mean it!
817
00:46:10,901 --> 00:46:12,426
I am a Dane for life.
818
00:46:13,304 --> 00:46:14,704
From this day onwards.
819
00:46:14,772 --> 00:46:15,899
From this day onwards.
820
00:46:19,043 --> 00:46:21,137
This means everything to me.
821
00:46:21,412 --> 00:46:23,745
[men cheering]
822
00:46:32,923 --> 00:46:35,654
[Finan] So, do you
have an army, Lord Cnut?
823
00:46:36,227 --> 00:46:37,320
[Cnut] I do.
824
00:46:37,428 --> 00:46:38,487
Two hundred men.
825
00:46:38,763 --> 00:46:39,763
Two hundred good men.
826
00:46:39,797 --> 00:46:41,823
And are they all as
entertaining as you are?
827
00:46:42,233 --> 00:46:43,233
You are headed where?
828
00:46:43,301 --> 00:46:44,735
[Cnut] Undecided.
829
00:46:44,802 --> 00:46:47,795
Though if Alfred of Wessex
is now without his Dane-slayer,
830
00:46:47,905 --> 00:46:49,271
I may well consider
heading south.
831
00:46:49,340 --> 00:46:50,774
Call me Dane-slayer once more
832
00:46:50,841 --> 00:46:52,673
and I will make the
square and we will fight.
833
00:46:52,977 --> 00:46:54,502
Why the anger, Lord?
834
00:46:55,446 --> 00:46:58,439
Do you deny that you killed many of
us? Many Danes, many Northmen?
835
00:46:59,150 --> 00:47:01,449
Only the ones who
were trying to kill me.
836
00:47:04,488 --> 00:47:06,354
And I'm only teasing, unfairly.
837
00:47:06,457 --> 00:47:08,858
You must be tired from
your journey and your...
838
00:47:09,460 --> 00:47:10,484
illness.
839
00:47:11,762 --> 00:47:13,196
So be sure to rest.
840
00:47:19,170 --> 00:47:20,035
I like him.
841
00:47:20,137 --> 00:47:21,833
Not as much as he likes himself.
842
00:47:21,939 --> 00:47:23,635
[laughs]
843
00:47:29,613 --> 00:47:30,979
Well, he's not wrong.
844
00:47:31,215 --> 00:47:33,116
The prospect of
Alfred without Uhtred
845
00:47:33,184 --> 00:47:35,653
will bring fire to the
bellies of many Danes.
846
00:47:37,154 --> 00:47:38,315
You included?
847
00:47:41,826 --> 00:47:43,624
Wessex is still the jewel.
848
00:47:43,861 --> 00:47:46,023
I am getting too
comfortable in my fortress.
849
00:47:46,130 --> 00:47:47,621
My children are in Wessex.
850
00:47:47,698 --> 00:47:49,326
We have many
friends in Wessex, Lord.
851
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,062
More reasons to visit.
852
00:47:55,206 --> 00:47:56,834
Well, this talk is
for another time.
853
00:47:58,175 --> 00:47:59,175
Another time soon.
854
00:48:00,378 --> 00:48:01,869
You've not asked about Thyra.
855
00:48:05,015 --> 00:48:06,244
The boy Osferth told me.
856
00:48:07,385 --> 00:48:08,385
She is Christian
857
00:48:08,986 --> 00:48:09,986
and she's married.
858
00:48:11,889 --> 00:48:12,889
She is happy.
859
00:48:16,894 --> 00:48:17,894
Uhtred...
860
00:48:21,265 --> 00:48:24,099
I came here to rest, to hunt,
861
00:48:24,735 --> 00:48:26,431
to find a woman, maybe.
862
00:48:27,838 --> 00:48:30,398
I did not come here to
talk of war against Alfred.
863
00:48:32,910 --> 00:48:35,744
I will be outside drinking ale.
864
00:48:37,448 --> 00:48:38,507
Finish your plate.
865
00:48:48,058 --> 00:48:49,058
[Uhtred] Where is she?
866
00:48:50,461 --> 00:48:51,461
Skade?
867
00:48:52,263 --> 00:48:54,562
Caged, for now. But
she can't reach you.
868
00:48:55,533 --> 00:48:56,557
She's got power, Uhtred.
869
00:48:58,235 --> 00:48:59,066
I've felt it.
870
00:48:59,136 --> 00:49:00,434
Power that you could wield.
871
00:49:01,472 --> 00:49:04,408
It's the way she works,
through a man. A warrior.
872
00:49:05,876 --> 00:49:07,276
My sword is all I need.
873
00:49:08,078 --> 00:49:10,741
I'll not give half of
myself over to a seer.
874
00:49:10,981 --> 00:49:11,981
Then you must kill her.
875
00:49:14,919 --> 00:49:16,114
I want to, but how?
876
00:49:16,420 --> 00:49:19,049
Her curse must die with her.
How can I be sure that it does?
877
00:49:20,057 --> 00:49:21,057
Ask.
878
00:49:21,892 --> 00:49:23,827
I'll ask a seer more
powerful than Skade.
879
00:49:26,397 --> 00:49:27,397
When?
880
00:49:27,665 --> 00:49:28,724
When I'm sure of you,
881
00:49:29,300 --> 00:49:30,324
Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
882
00:49:54,992 --> 00:49:56,119
[sighs]
883
00:49:56,193 --> 00:49:58,355
I remember the very
first time I took your hand.
884
00:50:01,799 --> 00:50:03,927
On the steps of the
great hall, in Eoferwic.
885
00:50:08,539 --> 00:50:10,007
A priest was
hanging from the wall,
886
00:50:11,542 --> 00:50:13,170
a spear through his chest.
887
00:50:13,277 --> 00:50:14,643
[laughs]
888
00:50:17,948 --> 00:50:19,473
Ragnar tells me
you have children.
889
00:50:22,486 --> 00:50:24,887
No. No, I'm not a mother, no.
890
00:50:25,189 --> 00:50:27,021
But Ragnar has
children by other women.
891
00:50:28,792 --> 00:50:30,021
I, too, have been cursed.
892
00:50:31,362 --> 00:50:33,228
A child refuses
to grow inside me.
893
00:50:35,866 --> 00:50:37,466
My first loss was
our child in the wood.
894
00:50:40,004 --> 00:50:41,004
No matter.
895
00:50:41,906 --> 00:50:44,967
Eat as much as you're able. He'll
expect you to drink, play games.
896
00:50:49,380 --> 00:50:50,380
Brida.
897
00:50:55,819 --> 00:50:56,819
I'm sorry for you.
898
00:50:59,690 --> 00:51:00,817
Ragnar is my child.
899
00:51:05,362 --> 00:51:06,694
Betray him and I will kill you.
900
00:51:08,265 --> 00:51:09,494
If you are now a Dane,
901
00:51:10,167 --> 00:51:11,601
you must undo the past.
902
00:51:13,771 --> 00:51:15,933
Undo the past, how?
903
00:51:17,708 --> 00:51:18,937
You must destroy Alfred.
904
00:51:31,589 --> 00:51:33,581
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905
00:51:34,925 --> 00:51:36,917
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