1 00:00:25,625 --> 00:00:26,583 Sigrid! 2 00:00:27,541 --> 00:00:28,875 Sigrid! 3 00:00:30,333 --> 00:00:31,875 Sigrid. 4 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:38,958 Sigrid! 5 00:00:44,625 --> 00:00:47,583 Sigrid the Unwed. 6 00:00:47,583 --> 00:00:49,875 The willful and wounded. 7 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:52,083 What do you want from me? 8 00:00:52,083 --> 00:00:55,291 A long time have I lived with gods, 9 00:00:55,958 --> 00:00:59,458 but I am giant-folk first. 10 00:01:00,125 --> 00:01:02,000 {\an8}Giants just died. 11 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,208 {\an8}I don't care what's in your blood. 12 00:01:04,208 --> 00:01:07,416 {\an8}I care that you hid while theirs was spilt. 13 00:01:07,416 --> 00:01:08,833 And what of me? 14 00:01:09,416 --> 00:01:10,875 Did I die for you as well? 15 00:01:11,875 --> 00:01:13,458 It's Hel you visit, 16 00:01:14,166 --> 00:01:15,500 but you'll survive. 17 00:01:16,458 --> 00:01:19,875 You are a guest in my graying queendom. 18 00:01:20,750 --> 00:01:22,875 Hel is a place 19 00:01:23,583 --> 00:01:25,791 and also a person, 20 00:01:26,666 --> 00:01:29,625 my ever-dying daughter. 21 00:01:30,833 --> 00:01:33,166 The dead-of-war go to Valhalla, 22 00:01:33,166 --> 00:01:35,416 carried on by Valkyries. 23 00:01:36,041 --> 00:01:40,083 Hel, she takes the thieves and traitors... 24 00:01:40,083 --> 00:01:43,416 The liars and cowards and cunts. 25 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,458 I'm only one of those. 26 00:01:46,208 --> 00:01:49,500 And you called me a guest. Is your guest free to leave? 27 00:01:50,333 --> 00:01:51,708 Yes, Blood-Bride. 28 00:01:51,708 --> 00:01:55,541 But you want revenge, not release. 29 00:01:55,541 --> 00:01:57,333 You said you'd give me Thor. 30 00:01:58,416 --> 00:02:02,083 - Do you have a weapon that can kill him? - God-killing iron is easy enough. 31 00:02:02,791 --> 00:02:05,208 The dwarf, Andvari, can arm you, 32 00:02:05,916 --> 00:02:09,083 but Asgard will withstand you well. 33 00:02:09,083 --> 00:02:12,500 Its bulwarks have buckled but once. 34 00:02:13,666 --> 00:02:16,541 The bramble gods besieged and breached it 35 00:02:17,291 --> 00:02:19,958 when of old they warred with Odin. 36 00:02:22,625 --> 00:02:23,708 The Vanir? 37 00:02:24,666 --> 00:02:27,375 You want me to make a deal with the old gods, 38 00:02:27,375 --> 00:02:29,041 to rekindle the first war? 39 00:02:29,041 --> 00:02:31,041 What you want is impossible. 40 00:02:31,541 --> 00:02:32,583 It's madness. 41 00:02:33,166 --> 00:02:37,916 Our madness would remake the world. 42 00:02:38,541 --> 00:02:41,833 The age of petty gods must end. 43 00:02:41,833 --> 00:02:44,541 Riven and rent, at Ragnarök. 44 00:02:44,541 --> 00:02:46,208 {\an8}You help me kill Thor, 45 00:02:46,916 --> 00:02:49,500 {\an8}and you can do what you like with the world. 46 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:54,416 Gather fighters and fare to Vanaheim. Your passage I pledge to abet. 47 00:02:54,916 --> 00:02:57,000 Choose well your soldiers. 48 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,041 Seek those in pain. 49 00:02:59,041 --> 00:03:01,125 Men with Hel in their heart. 50 00:03:01,791 --> 00:03:05,041 But go you quick and quiet now. 51 00:03:05,041 --> 00:03:08,250 Ere Odin makes his own plans. 52 00:03:19,125 --> 00:03:20,125 Sigrid! 53 00:03:23,708 --> 00:03:25,000 Sigrid! 54 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,916 What happened? Where were you? 55 00:03:30,250 --> 00:03:31,125 Hel. 56 00:03:32,083 --> 00:03:34,666 {\an8}I was in Hel. 57 00:03:35,958 --> 00:03:37,833 {\an8}He offered me aid. 58 00:03:37,833 --> 00:03:40,000 He? Who is he? 59 00:03:46,625 --> 00:03:48,958 Loki of Asgard. 60 00:04:07,250 --> 00:04:08,958 You need to grieve. 61 00:04:12,125 --> 00:04:16,166 Sigrid, Loki is no friend of yours. 62 00:04:16,166 --> 00:04:17,125 He's... 63 00:04:20,125 --> 00:04:21,208 Let me take you home. 64 00:04:21,791 --> 00:04:23,208 You want tears from me? 65 00:04:24,291 --> 00:04:25,500 I have none to give. 66 00:04:26,541 --> 00:04:29,041 - It's revenge I need. - Sigrid... 67 00:04:29,041 --> 00:04:31,166 I am the last of my family. 68 00:04:32,125 --> 00:04:33,708 Honor demands it. 69 00:04:34,416 --> 00:04:36,750 I must kill Thor. 70 00:04:36,750 --> 00:04:39,375 He is not bound by our codes or by honor. 71 00:04:39,375 --> 00:04:40,916 He is Thor. 72 00:04:41,916 --> 00:04:45,541 We fear no gods. 73 00:04:48,083 --> 00:04:49,541 I do not trust Loki. 74 00:04:51,416 --> 00:04:52,416 He wants a war? 75 00:04:53,666 --> 00:04:55,083 I will give it to him. 76 00:04:56,791 --> 00:04:58,791 So long as it serves me. 77 00:05:02,125 --> 00:05:04,750 We'll take five warriors for the journey. 78 00:05:05,708 --> 00:05:08,250 One for each finger of the Open Hand, 79 00:05:08,250 --> 00:05:10,416 closed around us in a fist. 80 00:05:15,083 --> 00:05:17,208 We'll need others who are lost. 81 00:05:17,791 --> 00:05:19,458 Others with nothing to lose. 82 00:05:19,958 --> 00:05:22,666 And who's the first you'd send to their death? 83 00:05:23,708 --> 00:05:26,125 A shield-biter who'd like nothing more. 84 00:05:29,333 --> 00:05:32,750 I don't remember that much blood when I was first split. 85 00:05:32,750 --> 00:05:36,625 My family is dead, murdered by Thor Odinson. 86 00:05:37,250 --> 00:05:39,000 I will see him dead. 87 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,500 If I'm to succeed, I need you with me. 88 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:43,000 No law, no names, 89 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,583 we ride beneath no banner, and will like as not die in the effort. 90 00:05:51,333 --> 00:05:53,125 I'll piss and we can go, yeah? 91 00:05:56,416 --> 00:05:58,250 Oh, Egill... 92 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,083 My name is wonderful in your mouth, Marja. 93 00:06:02,958 --> 00:06:05,458 Do you know why my mother named me Egill? 94 00:06:06,041 --> 00:06:07,250 Why? 95 00:06:07,833 --> 00:06:10,875 It's after Egill "One-Hand." 96 00:06:10,875 --> 00:06:13,875 My namesake lost his hand and gained a sword. 97 00:06:13,875 --> 00:06:17,833 Perhaps my mother knew much would be taken from me in this life. 98 00:06:17,833 --> 00:06:22,083 But I like to think she knew what I'd be able to give one-handed. 99 00:06:24,375 --> 00:06:28,708 But you... have two hands. 100 00:06:28,708 --> 00:06:29,916 That he does. 101 00:06:31,791 --> 00:06:34,000 Such a generous thrall. 102 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,041 It is my destiny to serve and be served. 103 00:06:37,041 --> 00:06:38,458 Stop talking! 104 00:06:38,458 --> 00:06:40,166 But don't stop that! 105 00:06:40,791 --> 00:06:42,166 Father! 106 00:06:42,916 --> 00:06:44,916 Motherfucker! 107 00:06:44,916 --> 00:06:47,083 The poet tricked us. 108 00:06:47,083 --> 00:06:51,166 He bound us tight with his filthy words, and we were helpless. 109 00:06:52,416 --> 00:06:53,250 Mm. 110 00:06:55,625 --> 00:06:57,458 Kill that poet! 111 00:06:58,083 --> 00:06:58,958 Get him! 112 00:07:01,083 --> 00:07:02,208 There he goes! 113 00:07:04,083 --> 00:07:05,333 Where'd he go? 114 00:07:09,958 --> 00:07:11,000 Where is he? 115 00:07:12,791 --> 00:07:15,625 {\an8}- Don't stand here and-- - That way. 116 00:07:19,916 --> 00:07:20,958 Who'd you fuck? 117 00:07:22,291 --> 00:07:23,333 Who'd you kill? 118 00:07:24,041 --> 00:07:25,000 No one yet. 119 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:30,083 This is not how I want to die. 120 00:07:31,166 --> 00:07:32,541 You do not need me. 121 00:07:33,625 --> 00:07:34,666 What are we doing? 122 00:07:36,458 --> 00:07:39,708 If you must talk so much, poet, spin us a tale. 123 00:07:39,708 --> 00:07:41,750 Yes, why not? 124 00:07:41,750 --> 00:07:44,583 Perhaps a story that suits our destination. 125 00:07:45,250 --> 00:07:47,208 If only I knew where we were going. 126 00:07:47,208 --> 00:07:50,125 We require more magic than is in your sticks. 127 00:07:50,625 --> 00:07:51,708 I want the Seid-Kona. 128 00:07:51,708 --> 00:07:57,000 Then I will tell the tale of why this is an awful idea. 129 00:07:57,708 --> 00:08:00,583 Now hear of the Seid-Kona, 130 00:08:01,875 --> 00:08:03,541 who knows I speak of her, 131 00:08:03,541 --> 00:08:05,291 as she knows all things, 132 00:08:05,291 --> 00:08:08,500 even the thoughts in our heads as we broach her lands. 133 00:08:10,291 --> 00:08:12,666 The Seid-Kona began as you and I. 134 00:08:12,666 --> 00:08:16,833 But in exchange for power, she gave up her most human offering. 135 00:08:17,333 --> 00:08:18,625 Her son. 136 00:08:18,625 --> 00:08:22,958 She ate him raw, screaming, 137 00:08:23,750 --> 00:08:26,541 for Freya to grant her what she wished, 138 00:08:27,041 --> 00:08:28,875 the all-seeing eye. 139 00:08:31,541 --> 00:08:36,208 Such a one that would rip her baby apart with her teeth for power, 140 00:08:36,791 --> 00:08:40,958 such a one will do much worse to us for knocking on her door unbidden. 141 00:08:41,583 --> 00:08:43,750 Why do we call on this person? 142 00:08:45,875 --> 00:08:48,750 Because even gods fear the future. 143 00:09:07,125 --> 00:09:09,333 She's made a world tree. 144 00:09:10,250 --> 00:09:12,041 Gods, the stink! 145 00:09:17,208 --> 00:09:18,875 We are not alone. 146 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:28,666 Wolf! 147 00:09:29,833 --> 00:09:32,583 No, it's just a cunt in wolf's clothing. 148 00:09:40,958 --> 00:09:42,375 Come on then, pup. 149 00:10:22,500 --> 00:10:24,500 Come to heel, Ulfr. 150 00:10:35,083 --> 00:10:36,458 A demonstration. 151 00:10:37,083 --> 00:10:39,833 I think his teeth deserve a god's throat. 152 00:10:40,791 --> 00:10:41,666 Don't you? 153 00:10:44,916 --> 00:10:47,583 She knows! She knows already. 154 00:10:48,291 --> 00:10:53,416 She looked into her baby's guts, and they told her our plans! 155 00:10:53,416 --> 00:10:54,625 Oh... 156 00:10:54,625 --> 00:10:58,875 The son I ate for Freya's good favor? They still tell that? 157 00:10:59,875 --> 00:11:01,916 I can help your thrall. 158 00:11:02,625 --> 00:11:03,458 Come in. 159 00:11:03,458 --> 00:11:05,375 Come in where? 160 00:11:17,583 --> 00:11:18,416 Who is he? 161 00:11:19,166 --> 00:11:23,750 Ulfr was born a bastard and has behaved in kind ever since. 162 00:11:23,750 --> 00:11:27,208 I found him in the midst of a black deed and bound him. 163 00:11:27,208 --> 00:11:31,791 Now I am his confessor, and his wrongs are my power. 164 00:11:34,750 --> 00:11:37,791 I'll save his hand if you allow it. 165 00:11:37,791 --> 00:11:39,916 Why should we trust you, witch? 166 00:11:39,916 --> 00:11:42,708 Because you will, so you do. 167 00:11:42,708 --> 00:11:45,791 - That's no kind of-- - Do it! Whatever it be, do it. 168 00:11:49,583 --> 00:11:51,375 - Do not touch him. - Wait. 169 00:11:52,083 --> 00:11:55,833 You'd have us all die, so long as we halt at your word! 170 00:12:08,041 --> 00:12:09,750 You were half right. 171 00:12:10,583 --> 00:12:14,041 There was a Seid-Kona who bore a son. 172 00:12:14,041 --> 00:12:18,125 But she could look at me and know that my future was a woman's life. 173 00:12:20,458 --> 00:12:25,250 And she loved me and made me the Seid-Kona that followed. 174 00:12:25,750 --> 00:12:29,791 Now, I take up my mother's clothes and keep her work alive. 175 00:12:30,375 --> 00:12:33,833 The truth took a turn when the poets got involved. 176 00:12:35,375 --> 00:12:36,416 I'll work on it. 177 00:12:37,500 --> 00:12:39,166 You offer your wolf to me. 178 00:12:39,875 --> 00:12:41,333 I came for a witch. 179 00:12:41,333 --> 00:12:42,583 You have one. 180 00:12:42,583 --> 00:12:45,208 Those reindeer outside already told me. 181 00:12:45,208 --> 00:12:46,541 We're bound. 182 00:12:47,583 --> 00:12:49,708 Whether I like it or not. 183 00:12:50,833 --> 00:12:53,416 That monster almost killed us, 184 00:12:53,416 --> 00:12:55,083 and you didn't care. 185 00:12:55,083 --> 00:12:57,375 We need madness for a mad quest. 186 00:12:57,375 --> 00:12:58,750 Do you disagree? 187 00:12:58,750 --> 00:13:00,541 My path is the same as yours, 188 00:13:00,541 --> 00:13:04,083 but you are meddling with things that you cannot control. 189 00:13:04,083 --> 00:13:05,500 What course do we set? 190 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,708 Do you not know already? 191 00:13:08,333 --> 00:13:12,166 All of us together would make only a straw target for Thor, 192 00:13:12,166 --> 00:13:15,833 but there is a dwarf, I'm told, who can give us an edge. 193 00:13:15,833 --> 00:13:17,083 We go to Nidavellir. 194 00:13:26,333 --> 00:13:27,208 Careful. 195 00:13:28,416 --> 00:13:30,625 That sheen on the lake skin is metal. 196 00:13:31,541 --> 00:13:34,083 The dwarves make their forges here. 197 00:13:34,083 --> 00:13:36,125 The bog gives them their iron. 198 00:13:36,125 --> 00:13:38,208 It had another purpose too. 199 00:13:38,208 --> 00:13:41,625 Kings and priests, they drowned their women here. 200 00:13:42,208 --> 00:13:43,041 Women? 201 00:13:43,041 --> 00:13:46,166 Women who loved and were branded "whore." 202 00:13:46,166 --> 00:13:49,250 Women who spoke sharp and were cut. 203 00:13:49,250 --> 00:13:50,541 They were tossed in, 204 00:13:51,041 --> 00:13:53,125 turned to stone in liquid fire. 205 00:13:54,291 --> 00:13:56,875 Their agony lives in the dwarves' weapons. 206 00:13:56,875 --> 00:13:58,833 I will make their rage my own. 207 00:14:40,916 --> 00:14:42,666 Dead-Speak. 208 00:14:42,666 --> 00:14:46,375 And she would be answered before we're granted leave to enter. 209 00:14:53,416 --> 00:14:54,916 Then I will negotiate. 210 00:15:17,625 --> 00:15:20,916 Loki, you spider, make good on your oaths. 211 00:15:35,541 --> 00:15:37,833 Hail, Sigrid. 212 00:15:38,375 --> 00:15:41,541 So, this is your man. 213 00:15:41,541 --> 00:15:44,666 Brave boy to join this battle. 214 00:15:51,583 --> 00:15:57,083 I am called Eager-to-Shine, the lone one. 215 00:15:57,666 --> 00:16:00,333 No father or mother have I. 216 00:16:00,916 --> 00:16:05,041 I stem from stone and live in the hearth. 217 00:16:05,666 --> 00:16:08,583 And there I will spend my life. 218 00:16:09,166 --> 00:16:11,166 A riddle guards the gate. 219 00:16:11,166 --> 00:16:12,500 Flint. 220 00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:14,708 Flint is the answer. 221 00:16:17,375 --> 00:16:20,208 The divine spark of the dwarves. 222 00:17:17,916 --> 00:17:19,416 Where is this Andvari? 223 00:17:19,416 --> 00:17:20,458 He'll come. 224 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,250 Unless your "friend" led us here for his own private fun. 225 00:17:25,250 --> 00:17:27,083 He's probably hiding somewhere. 226 00:17:33,375 --> 00:17:36,541 Andvari, master of his forge. 227 00:17:36,541 --> 00:17:40,666 I am Leif, son of Gorm and King of the Völsung. 228 00:17:40,666 --> 00:17:44,250 - We've come a long way for-- - I know what you're here for. 229 00:17:49,458 --> 00:17:50,708 I know that blood. 230 00:17:50,708 --> 00:17:53,541 You've been to Hel and back. 231 00:17:53,541 --> 00:17:55,750 You've come for god-killing metal. 232 00:17:56,875 --> 00:17:57,875 Follow. 233 00:18:11,791 --> 00:18:15,250 Long time since I've had a customer brave enough. 234 00:18:16,208 --> 00:18:17,416 Name your price. 235 00:18:18,583 --> 00:18:19,833 You have been misled. 236 00:18:20,416 --> 00:18:22,000 I'm not paid in gold. 237 00:18:22,750 --> 00:18:23,791 What price then? 238 00:18:23,791 --> 00:18:24,750 Souls. 239 00:18:26,750 --> 00:18:29,791 "You may take many lives with me, but in turn, 240 00:18:30,708 --> 00:18:32,041 I will take yours." 241 00:18:32,750 --> 00:18:37,208 My metal cuts the threads of fate and brings misfortune. 242 00:18:37,208 --> 00:18:39,916 But how and when, no way to tell. 243 00:18:40,708 --> 00:18:43,291 This is my ward against the thieves. 244 00:18:43,291 --> 00:18:44,625 One in particular, 245 00:18:45,208 --> 00:18:46,458 perhaps you know him, 246 00:18:47,208 --> 00:18:48,250 Loki. 247 00:18:49,791 --> 00:18:52,958 Never met him. It's Thor I want. 248 00:18:52,958 --> 00:18:56,458 And I'm no thief. I'll pay whatever the weapon requires. 249 00:18:56,458 --> 00:18:58,541 Wait. You don't know what you're doing. 250 00:18:59,333 --> 00:19:00,291 Sigrid. 251 00:19:04,375 --> 00:19:05,958 It's called Antler, 252 00:19:07,125 --> 00:19:09,458 and it's yours... now. 253 00:19:11,125 --> 00:19:13,333 And you profit by her curse? 254 00:19:13,333 --> 00:19:17,291 I am older than I look, and not by accident. 255 00:19:17,875 --> 00:19:21,416 When she meets her fate, I'll be spared mine. 256 00:19:24,708 --> 00:19:26,708 We are done here. No one else need-- 257 00:19:26,708 --> 00:19:28,791 I take the knives. 258 00:19:28,791 --> 00:19:31,166 Lost my axe in the fucking bog. 259 00:19:33,083 --> 00:19:35,541 I am weapon enough 260 00:19:36,250 --> 00:19:38,208 and cursed enough. 261 00:19:41,500 --> 00:19:43,708 I really should mention... 262 00:19:44,250 --> 00:19:46,166 I tried to tell the woman, 263 00:19:46,166 --> 00:19:49,250 my weapons can only be used by those of true intent. 264 00:19:49,250 --> 00:19:53,916 If the weapon senses hesitation in the warrior, the warrior burns alive. 265 00:19:54,583 --> 00:19:57,500 I saw her conviction... 266 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:59,916 ...but you, my friend, 267 00:20:01,166 --> 00:20:03,125 I see doubt in you. 268 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,833 Stop. You have nothing to prove. 269 00:20:07,416 --> 00:20:08,625 It seems I do. 270 00:20:10,041 --> 00:20:12,708 - If you can't believe me-- - I don't want to lose you. 271 00:20:20,625 --> 00:20:21,958 I am yours. 272 00:20:23,583 --> 00:20:25,916 Come Ragnarök or ruin. 273 00:20:35,875 --> 00:20:37,541 You have not finished yet. 274 00:20:38,208 --> 00:20:42,291 Five warriors you sought, and it's only four I count. 275 00:20:42,875 --> 00:20:43,791 Hold! 276 00:20:45,083 --> 00:20:46,333 I'm coming with you. 277 00:20:46,958 --> 00:20:48,000 To what end? 278 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,000 My business is my own. 279 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,416 Do you refuse me? 280 00:20:59,625 --> 00:21:02,333 I can make that blood your power 281 00:21:02,333 --> 00:21:04,041 if you're open to pain. 282 00:21:04,583 --> 00:21:05,625 How? 283 00:21:10,458 --> 00:21:12,375 The iron will harden the blood. 284 00:21:13,708 --> 00:21:17,291 Nothing can hurt more than burning my kin. 285 00:21:17,875 --> 00:21:19,166 Remember you said that. 286 00:21:24,708 --> 00:21:26,000 Sigrid! 287 00:21:31,833 --> 00:21:33,875 The women will clad her in iron. 288 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,166 Our reach is yours. 289 00:21:44,208 --> 00:21:47,500 Our grief is yours. 290 00:21:48,833 --> 00:21:52,583 Our iron is yours. 291 00:21:52,583 --> 00:21:54,041 Sigrid! 292 00:21:54,875 --> 00:21:55,708 Sigrid. 293 00:22:00,875 --> 00:22:03,333 It's all right. It's all right. 294 00:22:06,833 --> 00:22:09,000 I cannot cry for them, Leif. 295 00:22:10,875 --> 00:22:12,458 I cannot even cry. 296 00:22:12,458 --> 00:22:13,583 I know. 297 00:22:20,666 --> 00:22:22,500 There are your tears. 298 00:22:23,166 --> 00:22:24,708 If you wish, 299 00:22:25,958 --> 00:22:27,708 you will shatter the sky. 300 00:22:34,166 --> 00:22:36,500 My old friends, 301 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:38,500 Thought and Memory, 302 00:22:39,333 --> 00:22:42,250 send Sigrid's plans to my sight. 303 00:22:47,833 --> 00:22:49,041 Sigrid. 304 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,041 Beauty. 305 00:22:51,583 --> 00:22:53,000 Blood-Bride. 306 00:22:53,541 --> 00:22:56,583 Waging war against my son. 307 00:22:57,166 --> 00:23:01,375 Odin opens his eye upon you.