1 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,560 I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred. 2 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:14,680 I have sworn my sword to Alfred 3 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:16,960 and defeated Sigefrid and Erik, 4 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,640 but now the brothers have returned from banishment, 5 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,280 and with a great army, they have taken the city of Lunden. 6 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,400 [Sigefrid] The gods are with us! 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,840 Alfred dispatched a priest to negotiate with these Northmen... 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:30,240 Father Pyrlig here was once a warrior himself. 9 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,200 ...while continuing his mission to be king of all of the English. 10 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:34,560 I am to be married? 11 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,640 -Which one of you is Aethelred? -[Uhtred] From what I know, 12 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:39,920 Alfred could not have chosen a bigger turd. 13 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,080 Having at last freed my sister, Thyra, 14 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:45,160 my friend Beocca found love... 15 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,560 I fear you have become someone I cannot live without. 16 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:48,640 Fear no more. 17 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,440 ...whereas I found myself talking to the dead, 18 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,560 and wanting to believe every word that he spoke. 19 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,240 He said that I should be King of Wessex and that you, you should be a king too. 20 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,400 King of Mercia. King of Saxon and Dane. 21 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,200 What we have just witnessed, do you believe it to be true? 22 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,000 Now I must decide where my loyalties lie. 23 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,840 Do not forget you were raised as a Dane. 24 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:13,800 Destiny is all. 25 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:15,880 ♪♪ 26 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:55,880 ♪♪ 27 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:02,440 [exhales] 28 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:07,680 You have barely washed, woman! 29 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:09,520 [exhales] 30 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,120 You've been living with Saxons for too long. 31 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,400 How can I wash in dirty waters? 32 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,000 The water is good. We're a long way from the city. 33 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:21,160 No, Uhtred! 34 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,600 [laughing] 35 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,640 -[chuckles] -We will be late for the wedding. 36 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,360 I've been thinking about the man in the grave, Bjorn. 37 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:36,240 Uhtred, no. 38 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:37,920 You would not like to be a queen? 39 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,080 -Of Bebbanburg, yes. -[chuckles] 40 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,560 Let us just enjoy an early morning. 41 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:47,240 -The two of us. -[horse neighs] 42 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:49,360 [men chattering] 43 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,200 And a hunting party. 44 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,480 Who is it? 45 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,640 It's Aethelred. The lord of Mercia. 46 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:58,520 [horse neighs] 47 00:02:58,600 --> 00:02:59,720 [Aethelred] Uhtred of Bebbanburg! 48 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,440 Word has been that you were missing. 49 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:03,720 Aethelred. 50 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,840 I see you managed to remove your head from the King's arse. 51 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:09,080 Well, for the moment. He's sleeping. 52 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:10,400 [men laugh] 53 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:14,120 -King has questions about your loyalty. -It's his way. 54 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,720 And he tells me that you've been associating with those heathen Danes. 55 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:19,360 Like this one here. 56 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,320 Uhtred, we are needed elsewhere. 57 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,480 Is he required between your legs, my dear? 58 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:28,360 [men laugh] 59 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:29,920 [chuckles] 60 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,600 [grunts] 61 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:34,640 [panting] 62 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:35,840 [Aldhelm] At ease, men. 63 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,200 -You wouldn't dare. -What? 64 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:41,800 Take your nose? 65 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,240 -I think I might. -Uhtred, we are needed. 66 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,240 Lord Uhtred, you will let Lord Aethelred go. 67 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:49,880 Please. 68 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:52,960 -Lady, on behalf of my lord, I apologize. 69 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:54,400 -He does not. -No? 70 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:55,760 [Aldhelm] There can be no bloodshed here. 71 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,040 We are all mistaken and we are all proud. 72 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:02,880 What men say is true. 73 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,280 You behave as if you were still at your mother's tit. 74 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:11,960 You will learn respect one day, I'm sure. 75 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:15,400 Lord. It is over, is it not!? 76 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:16,680 It is! 77 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,280 [Aethelred] I have The King's trust! 78 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:28,360 That's a warning! 79 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:31,960 ♪♪ 80 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:45,400 I want him dead. 81 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:47,520 Too soon. 82 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:53,040 I'm sure Alfred would prefer him dead at times, but he knows his value. 83 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:54,200 He's nothing but a heathen. 84 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:55,920 Uhtred kills Danes. 85 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,840 He kills Danes, he survives slavery. 86 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,280 He saves the life of children and mice, no doubt. 87 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:03,440 [chuckles] 88 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,120 Even my wife-to-be sings his praises. 89 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:10,680 Leave us. 90 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,440 [sighs] 91 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,400 -I do not like him -[door closes] 92 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,120 and he doesn't like me, from the moment that we met. 93 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,240 You are a threat, lord, 94 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:26,000 and he is the same. 95 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,240 Our hope lies in Daneland. 96 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,400 With luck the unrest will grow, 97 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,120 peace is not in their nature. 98 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,440 You wish for war, Aldhelm? 99 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:39,920 As a Mercian, lord... 100 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,680 what I wish is for Aethelred to be crowned King of Mercia. 101 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:46,680 And then of Wessex. 102 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,280 Why not? 103 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,960 It is Alfred we want dead. 104 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:02,640 And for that to happen sooner, we will require war. 105 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:09,920 How do we look? 106 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:16,760 As royalty. 107 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,920 Aethelflaed is a fortunate young woman. 108 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:30,840 [clears throat] 109 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:33,840 [Uhtred] I am witness: 110 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,480 you are together, never to part, 111 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,160 bound as man and his wife. 112 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:44,960 And a prayer? 113 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:46,520 I don't know any prayers. 114 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,080 [spectators chuckle] 115 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:49,760 I will say a prayer. 116 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:54,160 Hild. 117 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:55,120 Please. 118 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:57,520 [Hild] Let us pray, 119 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,760 that God and all His Saints and all His angels in heaven, 120 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:02,360 smile and bless you. 121 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:06,720 Let us pray that this union of Dane and Saxon 122 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,440 can show that this is a land for all people. 123 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:10,800 Under one God. 124 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,200 Under one God, of course. 125 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:14,720 [Hild] Amen. 126 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:16,000 -Amen. -Amen. 127 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,600 [Hild claps] 128 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,120 [sighs] 129 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,360 When are you going to tell him what Sihtric saw, 130 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,320 that the ghost is a lie? 131 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:34,200 [door closes] 132 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:35,800 If I tell him, he'll talk 133 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:37,600 and Sigefrid will hear. 134 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,160 They must believe that we believe. 135 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:46,680 I do enjoy another wedding. 136 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,120 A royal wedding in particular, 137 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,200 it is a tonic for the soul. 138 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:53,640 The excitement, the expense-- 139 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,560 Aethelwold, I'm still undecided, so do not mention talking corpses. 140 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,440 Nobles have traveled 'cross the sea, from as far as Frankia, 141 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,640 solely to see the beautiful Aethelflaed 142 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,480 marry this, pretty, bread-pudding of a boy. 143 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:11,080 A fair description. 144 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:16,240 Furthermore, he gets to hump the King's daughter all night long. 145 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:18,600 -Aethelwold, you will be quiet. -It is the truth. 146 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,120 -You will be quiet. -Or you will do what, Irishman? 147 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,440 Kill you, in your sleep. 148 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,400 [three loud knocks] 149 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:30,720 ♪♪ 150 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,000 She is so beautiful. 151 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:06,560 She is too good for him. 152 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,120 Why are we delaying? 153 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:10,160 Did Sihtric witness something 154 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:12,880 -at the grave site-- -Sihtric saw nothing. 155 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:14,440 [groans] 156 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,840 May I say that you look quite beautiful. 157 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:39,480 God looks upon me with favor I do not deserve. 158 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,200 Lord God in your heaven, 159 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:47,120 we are humbly gathered before you 160 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,560 on this day of thanks and celebration. 161 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:53,720 ♪♪ 162 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,560 [woman] Here, a gift from the King. 163 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:57,400 If you don't mind! 164 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,560 [indistinct chatter] 165 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:01,640 [grunting] 166 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,680 The point I make is simple: 167 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:12,320 all of the power, all of the wealth, 168 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,120 all of the land that could belong to you, will now belong to him. 169 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:16,120 Should I hit him? 170 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,160 Yes! Yes, by all means, strike me. 171 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:19,840 But in your heart, 172 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:21,640 in your purse, you know I speak the truth. 173 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:22,680 Yes, hit him. 174 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:23,760 [whimpers] 175 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:25,400 [chuckling] 176 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:28,760 [Aethelwold] All I will say, again... 177 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,080 is that the dead man speaks the truth. 178 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:34,040 -Lord? -Some would say it's treason. 179 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,400 -No, no, this wedding is treason. -Lord? 180 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,440 This wedding is a betrayal of Wessex and the men of Wessex. 181 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:41,440 Meaning you. 182 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,520 Should the king die, I have a strong and rightful claim. 183 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,120 Now, Alfred is working to make a new line of succession. 184 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,400 -Excuse me, Lord Uhtred. -Go away. 185 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,040 I am Osferth. 186 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,320 You are a monk, a baby monk. 187 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:55,200 Go, away. 188 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:56,680 Lord, you... 189 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:57,920 You knew my uncle, lord. 190 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:00,480 His name was Leofric. 191 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:02,360 Leofric was a great man. 192 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:05,720 You are Alfred's bastard son. 193 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:10,560 No, but I wish to join you, lord, be by your side as my uncle was. 194 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:11,800 No, we have no need of a monk. 195 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:13,280 As a warrior. 196 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,800 Lord, I wish to serve you as a warrior. 197 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:21,080 Uhtred... 198 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:24,960 Uhtred, you are wanted. 199 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,600 -The King! -Enjoy the wedding feast. 200 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,040 You. Find me again. 201 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:36,760 Bring a sword and lose your cross. 202 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,040 Thank you, my lord. I-I will. 203 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,120 [indistinct chatter] 204 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:54,400 [Steapa] Lord. 205 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:00,720 Lord. 206 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:02,520 You were seen. 207 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,000 -Seen where, lord? -Leaving Winchester. 208 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,720 Leaving Wessex, entering Saxon Mercia and crossing Watling Street. 209 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:11,880 Going into Daneland, Uhtred. 210 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:14,200 I'm sure you have an explanation. 211 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:16,160 I trust we will hear the truth of it. 212 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,080 [Alfred] What business do you have in Daneland? 213 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,320 The King's business. 214 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,040 Lord, your business. 215 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,040 You're happy for me to speak in this company? 216 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:29,520 Freely, why not? 217 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,760 ♪♪ 218 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:36,840 Lunden has been taken, 219 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,600 by the Northmen, Sigefrid and Erik. 220 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:41,520 Never. Says who? 221 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:42,840 Did my lips not move? 222 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,000 [Alfred] Sigefrid and Erik are in Frankia. 223 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:46,800 They were and now they are not, lord. 224 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,280 They have a fleet at Beamfleot, they have an army at Beamfleot, 225 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,400 some of which has sailed up river and taken Lunden. 226 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,560 If this is true, it cannot be allowed. 227 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,640 -Lunden belongs to Mercia. -They will choke the river. 228 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,040 They will, lord. 229 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:03,560 [Aldhelm] With respect, Lord Uhtred, 230 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,880 you have still not explained why you crossed the street into Daneland? 231 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:08,720 I can never remember your name? 232 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,400 I am Aldhelm. 233 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,760 I'm Commander of Lord Aethelred's household guard. 234 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,200 Would you like me to write it down? 235 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:16,040 [Aelswith] You will answer, Uhtred. 236 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,080 I was invited to Daneland, lady, to Padintune... 237 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:23,200 and there I was asked to join with Sigefrid and Erik. 238 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:25,680 I was offered the Kingdom of Mercia. 239 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:26,560 Ha. 240 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:28,760 -[Aldhelm] And your response? -He is here, is he not? 241 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,040 I would say that is response enough. 242 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,840 Uhtred, I did not see you at the church. 243 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,600 -I do hope you were there. -I was there, lady, of course I was. 244 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:42,200 And may I say how beautiful you are today. 245 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,640 -[Aethelflaed] Thank you. -[Aethelred] My dear, 246 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:46,880 we're discussing a matter of importance. 247 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:48,680 Yes, I heard, lord. 248 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:53,720 So are the Northmen intending to remain in Lunden or are they waiting for a ransom? 249 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:54,800 [Uhtred] Fair question. 250 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,240 Besides Uhtred's loyalties, it is the only question. 251 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,720 -[Alfred] We shall offer negotiations. -Quite right. 252 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,440 Once the celebrations are done, you, together with Aethelred, 253 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:05,800 shall travel to Lunden. 254 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,000 At the very least, you can assess their strength and their numbers. 255 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:09,320 An excellent way forward, lord. 256 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:11,720 Though if you had killed these brothers in Northumbria, 257 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:13,440 this event could not have occurred. 258 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,320 [Aldhelm] Lord King, may I ask, 259 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,800 what bargain was struck in Northumbria 260 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:28,480 to allow the brothers to leave with their lives? 261 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:30,200 [Aethelflaed] Uhtred has told me this story. 262 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:34,720 He defeated Sigefrid in combat, but spared him on the condition they leave. 263 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,480 He did this to preserve the lives of his own men. 264 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:38,440 Ah. 265 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:42,760 It is called negotiation, Lord Aldhelm. 266 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,320 And now we suffer the consequences of this negotiation. 267 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,280 Decisions are made and consequences follow, it is the way. 268 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,880 [Alfred] Our task is to deal with the present. 269 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:54,600 To your wisdom, lord. 270 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:03,800 [sighs] 271 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:05,880 ♪♪ 272 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:14,800 My dear... 273 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:17,800 It's not your place to involve yourself 274 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:21,040 in a conversation that became an informal Witan. 275 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:23,640 We were discussing matters of land and war. 276 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,560 Lord, I take an interest in these matters. 277 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:28,720 My father has always encouraged-- 278 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:30,760 You are no longer the King's daughter. 279 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:33,920 You are my wife. 280 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:38,360 It's me you will obey. 281 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,080 And you are delicate. 282 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,960 I find it interesting. I would speak with the King often-- 283 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:45,640 You're of Mercia now. 284 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:47,840 You are my queen. 285 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,600 And you think you're a king? [chuckles] 286 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,320 I call you queen because you mean that much to me. 287 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,440 I do not like your tone nor accusation. 288 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,040 What I would like... 289 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,800 is you, on your belly... 290 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:14,960 on the bed. 291 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:16,280 Lord... 292 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,280 Your husband wishes to ride you. 293 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:22,600 You will lie on your belly. 294 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,080 What's this? 295 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:29,680 Disobedience? 296 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:32,960 It's confusion, lord. 297 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,840 Should I hand you back to Wessex? 298 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:39,800 Unused but... tarnished? 299 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:41,640 You wouldn't dare. 300 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:45,480 We shall see. 301 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:48,680 Lord. 302 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,880 I am your wife. 303 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,960 [grunting] 304 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,480 [crying] 305 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:15,640 A good day. 306 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:19,599 -It was. -Though I'm glad it's over. 307 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,319 Lord! 308 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,119 If I may have a brief word. 309 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:28,440 Lady, it will take just a moment. 310 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:32,480 Be sure it does, Odda. The King is tired. 311 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,040 Lord... 312 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,640 I fear that you undervalue Uhtred. 313 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:50,200 He is by far our most accomplished warrior and has been nothing but loyal-- 314 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:52,000 Odda, we have discussed this many times: 315 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:55,160 he is sworn and yet he continues to behave as if he were his own man. 316 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,000 He is a little reckless at times, yes-- 317 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,040 Uhtred crosses into Daneland without advising you or I first. 318 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:01,760 [sighs] 319 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:05,040 I tolerate this behavior only because he is our most accomplished warrior. 320 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:07,360 But if he had not crossed the street, lord, 321 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,200 we would not know of the fall of Lunden. 322 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:12,960 Do not doubt for one moment Uhtred Ragnarson has ambition. 323 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,920 He will have been tempted by this offer from the Northmen. 324 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,320 And yet, he is here, lord. 325 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:21,520 Doing what? 326 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:24,120 Spying? Waiting? 327 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,320 Did he volunteer this information before being confronted? No, he did not. 328 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:30,520 No, lord. 329 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,400 Ask yourself why? 330 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:36,000 I have said many times... 331 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,440 he is a sword I would rather wield than face, 332 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,200 but he is not godly and never shall be. 333 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,880 I wish you a good night's rest, Odda. You are clearly in need of it. 334 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,960 ♪♪ 335 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,800 [Sigefrid] What troubles you, brother? 336 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:02,120 Uhtred, he doubts the dead man. 337 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:05,360 -You believe so? -Yes. 338 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,600 We should have approached him man-on-man, with honor. 339 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:14,720 You think he knows it is a trick? 340 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:18,600 Yes. 341 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,080 -Maybe. -You don't know. 342 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,600 [chuckles] 343 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:25,760 No. 344 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:29,520 [groans] 345 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,800 [grunts] 346 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,160 -How's the pain? -The same... 347 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:50,960 constant. 348 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,720 It reminds me I am alive, 349 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:01,560 that I should live. 350 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,080 If Uhtred knows that Bjorn is a lie, 351 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:10,520 then he will come... 352 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,240 -with Alfred's army. -Yes. 353 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,280 Well... 354 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:18,640 So I get to kill him after all. 355 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:19,920 [laughs] 356 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,320 If we wish, there is a way to raise the greatest army 357 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:25,800 these shores have ever seen. 358 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,240 It can be done. 359 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,640 The Temes river would be dark with ships, 360 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,600 Danes and Northmen. 361 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:38,880 All we need to be is clever... 362 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:41,280 and patient. 363 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:42,680 Patient? 364 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,040 [chuckles] 365 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,640 Oh, there will still be blood to spill, brother... 366 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,280 but this way we can be kings of it all. 367 00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,440 No Guthrum, 368 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,120 no Aethelred... 369 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:03,600 no Alfred. 370 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:06,960 No Uhtred. 371 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,680 ♪♪ 372 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 [men grunting] 373 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,440 [Sihtric] They say Lunden is dangerous. 374 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:34,000 [Finan] Oh, it is, but Lunden is alive with every kind of life. 375 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,640 [Sihtric] I hear women do not walk the streets unguarded, 376 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,720 that bodies are found in the river, daily. 377 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,800 Twice daily, with each and every tide. 378 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:44,520 Lunden is not Winchester, 379 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,440 but one year here is worth ten elsewhere. 380 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,640 Then why do you not live there? 381 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,360 And end up dead in the river? Do I look like a fool? 382 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:53,880 [laughing] 383 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,160 What's to stop them from cutting our throats and siding with the Northmen? 384 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,320 I have been pondering the same. 385 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,480 The answer is that you are Alfred's son in-law now. 386 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,480 ♪♪ 387 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:18,480 [indistinct chatter] 388 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,200 Uhtred, how is it that you know these streets so well? 389 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:23,720 I stayed here for a time, 390 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,280 with Earl Ragnar the Fearless, when I was a boy. 391 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:27,400 When you were a Dane? 392 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,600 As you can see, the one fact in our favor 393 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,400 is that the whole of Lunden cannot be defended, it's too big. 394 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,880 Even the walls surrounding the old Roman city would need many hundreds of men. 395 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,880 -So the brothers' position is weak? -[Uhtred] Not weak... 396 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,360 but Lunden's been open to all tribes for a reason. 397 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,920 [Uhtred] The ground's not far now. I shall speak. 398 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,400 You should ask for food and ale, lord. 399 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,160 My belly believes my throat is cut. 400 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:00,280 [screaming] 401 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:06,840 I do not understand how this kills a man. 402 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,760 Sigefrid, take his head and be done with it. 403 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:09,640 No, no. 404 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:10,600 No, no, no. 405 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,200 I want to know how. 406 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,840 The cross kills a man slowly, lord, over days. 407 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,080 It is both torture and execution. 408 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,240 Unlike Saxons and Danes, the Romans were clever. 409 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,040 There, you have your answer. 410 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:26,880 -Now take his head off. -[Pyrlig] Agreed, lord. 411 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:31,000 And if you please, when it comes to me, with your sharpest ax and strongest man. 412 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:32,760 You talk too much. 413 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,680 I do, you should kill me swiftly. 414 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,600 ♪♪ 415 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,800 God preserve us. 416 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,320 It is a death, nothing more. 417 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:00,160 Lord... 418 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:02,480 it is Uhtred. 419 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,840 [Sigefrid] Uhtred Ragnarson! 420 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,960 The future King of Mercia! 421 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,040 Welcome to Lunden, 422 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:22,280 your new home should you want it. 423 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:24,760 Sigefrid... 424 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,280 I thought you might want to kill me still. 425 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:30,880 Oh, for a long time I did. 426 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,520 But then I grew to like my new hand. 427 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,040 Though I have to be careful when wiping my arse. 428 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:39,640 [laughs] 429 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,360 It is good to see you here, Uhtred. 430 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,480 Though your friends are not familiar. 431 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,040 -This is Aethelred of Mercia. -Lord. 432 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,920 My spies tell me you are to marry Alfred's daughter. 433 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,040 Your spies are wrong, lord. I've already married Alfred's daughter. 434 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:57,320 Oh, how does she ride? 435 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:58,280 I've no complaint. 436 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:00,560 Uhtred, why is he here? 437 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,680 [Aethelred] I am here, lords, to ask of you your price... 438 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:04,520 for leaving Lunden. 439 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,360 Alfred wishes to negotiate. 440 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:07,360 I wish to negotiate. 441 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,320 We have only just arrived, why would we want to leave? 442 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,640 You're warriors, you will know that Lunden is impossible to defend, 443 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:16,200 so, let's get this done. 444 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:18,320 Is that a threat? 445 00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:21,600 -Your price? -It sounds like a threat. 446 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,240 I'm asking you to retreat, lords, for a price, for silver. 447 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,440 Flesh, is our price. 448 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,480 Your bride, Aethelflaed. 449 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:32,720 Nonsense. 450 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,080 She has great beauty, a good mind. I'm in need of a wife. 451 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,960 I am in need of a hump, we will share her. 452 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:39,240 She is my wife. 453 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:40,920 [Uhtred] Aethelred, they're teasing you. 454 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:47,040 Perhaps we can begin with a cup of ale? It's a long walk from the river. 455 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:49,280 A cup of ale it is, Lord Uhtred. 456 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,760 [Clapa] Do you have food, lord? 457 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,880 [Erik] The bread is stale, but good. 458 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:07,120 [indistinct chatter] 459 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,600 I have been told that you saw the dead man rise. 460 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:15,560 I did. 461 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,320 And you heard him speak? 462 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,040 Of a good plan, yes. 463 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:21,480 Could you guarantee Ragnar, 464 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,560 and all the men he commands? 465 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:24,640 Are you with us? 466 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:26,600 I'm here. 467 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,760 Yes, but are you here for Alfred or yourself or us? 468 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:32,880 Ragnar's in the north. 469 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,560 It would take some time for news to reach him, more time for him to decide. 470 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,320 I guarantee nothing, lord. 471 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:41,840 [Uhtred] Your prisoners are from where? 472 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,640 [Erik] They are from Guthrum's ass. 473 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,000 [Aldhelm] The Earl Guthrum is called Aethelstan now. 474 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,240 [Sigefrid] Guthrum is a shit stain. 475 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,760 He sends priests to Beamfleot, begging for peace, 476 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:56,080 begging for warriors to settle and do what, raise sheep? 477 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,320 Many men do, lord. 478 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,000 There are no sheep farmers in Valhalla. 479 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,880 [Uhtred] Do you intend to put all the priests on the cross? 480 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,080 It is Sigefrid's game. 481 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,720 I do not understand how it kills a man. 482 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,880 Slowly, lord. It's a cruel death. 483 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,680 -Is what the priest there said. -The priest is right. 484 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,280 The priest looks like a pale bag of bones and dough. 485 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:16,680 You should let him fight. 486 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,400 The Romans used this square for just that purpose, combat. 487 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,280 He would die too easily. 488 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,160 Give him something to fight for... 489 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:27,040 his freedom. 490 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:29,800 ♪♪ 491 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:36,480 Why? 492 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:41,680 I'd rather watch him spill his guts than nailed to a piece of wood. 493 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,520 Where's the fun in that? 494 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,400 [chuckles] 495 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,400 Boltan! We need to be entertained! 496 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:03,560 [men cheering] 497 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,320 Are you man enough to kill a priest? 498 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,520 [men cheering] 499 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:08,720 Oh! 500 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:14,840 [men cheering] 501 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:18,680 I'm almost ready. 502 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,040 Pointy end forward, is it? 503 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,960 So, when I kill him, I'm allowed to go free, 504 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,080 -that is the bargain? -That is the bargain. 505 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:27,440 [Sigefrid] Hear that, Boltan? 506 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,720 -He plans to kill you. -[Pyrlig] I do. 507 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,720 -Beware. -I am afraid, lord. 508 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,240 -Spare me this trial, I beg you. -[chuckling] 509 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:36,320 [grunts] 510 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,880 [laughter] 511 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,800 [grunting] 512 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,400 [laughter] 513 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,200 [grunts] 514 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,160 [grunting] 515 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:05,640 [Pyrlig groans] 516 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,520 Go on, priest. [chuckles] 517 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,200 [groaning] 518 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,400 [crowd chanting] 519 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:15,920 Finish him! 520 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,440 [chanting continues] 521 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,240 [grunting] 522 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,800 [groans] 523 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,720 [crowd cheering] 524 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,360 Now, I do not wish to kill this idiot, as I'm sure his mother loves him... 525 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,080 but do I have your word as warriors, that I am now a free man? 526 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,440 You have my word, priest. 527 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,560 [panting] 528 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,680 If all your men fight like this, 529 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,840 Alfred will have no trouble throwing you out of Lunden. 530 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,400 Put down your sword. 531 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:57,760 Thank you, lord. 532 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,440 It was a bit on the heavy side. 533 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,120 ♪♪ 534 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,000 [grunting] 535 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:08,320 -[groans] -[crowd gasps] 536 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,720 Where have you learned to fight, priest, the monastery? 537 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,560 I'm a Briton, lord. 538 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,120 I was brought up killing Saxons. 539 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,640 Then join us, join me. 540 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,280 Ten years ago, maybe. 541 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:29,160 But now I will fight for my God and my freedom it seems. 542 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:30,240 [exhales] 543 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,240 If it is acceptable, I will return with the Lord Uhtred. 544 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,360 But not before we've settled on a price. 545 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,200 I hope? 546 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,160 How much... for you to leave Lunden? 547 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,600 [Alfred] I find it disturbing that they will not consider silver. 548 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,920 Why should they? The longer Wessex is without trade, 549 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,680 the greater the worth of Lunden. 550 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,440 You were able to assess their strength? 551 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,400 Your priest, Pyrlig, says they have up to 1,000 men, lord. 552 00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,680 We can muster three times that number, lord, easily. 553 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,520 Lunden is not a field, it won't be a simple question of numbers. 554 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,400 Of course it is a question of numbers, it'll be a siege. 555 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,320 The more men that we have, the greater chance of success. 556 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,120 Regardless of how many die? 557 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,160 It'll be men climbing ladders, it can only succeed with numbers and with death. 558 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,120 [Uhtred] I will not lose men for the sake of too little thought. 559 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,320 There must be a clear plan. 560 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,560 Then let us hear this clear plan. 561 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,800 We attack one gate with a substantial army, 562 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,480 allowing smaller groups to enter through a second gate, a third gate even. 563 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,600 -Attacking from land? -Yes, from land. 564 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,520 -[Alfred] Not the river? -No, lord. 565 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,520 The river is worth considering, lord. It would be counter to their thinking. 566 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,320 There is a gate close to the river? 567 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,720 Yes, lord. It's called Ludd gate. 568 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,520 Perfect. Silent oars, the cover of darkness, the advantage of surprise. 569 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,600 The river runs fast at Ludd gate, making it impossible to land men safely. 570 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,120 But if the Lord of Mercia believes that men sinking to the bottom of the river 571 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,680 is an advantage then, let him attack. 572 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,880 Uhtred, your advice may well be sound, but how am I to trust it? 573 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:01,320 Lord? 574 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,320 Why do the brothers call you the next Lord of Mercia? 575 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,200 ♪♪ 576 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,000 They call me the next King of Mercia, lord. 577 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,360 Why? 578 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:21,960 Why do they call you king? 579 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,080 What has been said, Uhtred? What has been agreed? 580 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:26,240 Nothing has been agreed-- 581 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:27,920 How am I to trust you?! 582 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,080 Lord, I am weary of this-- 583 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,720 You are weary of this!? 584 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,360 You say you are sworn, yet you behave like a spy! 585 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,040 You float into Daneland and back again, 586 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,400 you tell half-truths, keep secrets 587 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,240 and you refuse to accept the existence of the one true God! 588 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:43,960 You serve your king reluctantly! 589 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,480 But I serve, lord! 590 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:46,600 I do not know you! 591 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,080 And I can never know you, I... 592 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:00,880 I do not understand you. 593 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,440 And I will never understand you, that is a fact and one of increasing concern. 594 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,480 And on top of this, my enemies now call you king. 595 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,120 And they called you a weasel, lord. 596 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,880 Neither is true. 597 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:25,920 Impossible. 598 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:27,680 [scoffs] 599 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,280 We must devise a plan of attack. Uhtred, you will leave us. 600 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,040 You will leave. 601 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,400 Oh, I will be happy to. 602 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,800 Should you need me further, you will find me at the Two Cranes Inn. 603 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,480 ♪♪ 604 00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:23,760 Lord, with the greatest respect, 605 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,239 the insolence we have witnessed, 606 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:27,840 cannot go unpunished. 607 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,840 With the greatest respect, it is not your business, it is the business of Wessex! 608 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,440 Uhtred is to return to Coccham. 609 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,719 Lord, we are on the cusp of war, you will need your best warriors. 610 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,040 Uhtred is to return to Coccham. 611 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,000 Then I will go to the Two Cranes Inn and inform him... 612 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:45,840 personally. 613 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:49,760 As you wish. 614 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,400 You will return to Mercia and gather men, a thousand, Wessex will match it. 615 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:57,280 Yes, lord. 616 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,320 My exact written instruction shall follow. 617 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,480 I want Sigefrid and Erik out of Lunden and soon. 618 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,320 It will be done, lord. 619 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:05,280 Thank you, lord. 620 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,480 [sighs] 621 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:13,400 Steapa. 622 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,360 Lord? 623 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,920 Do you trust the ealdorman Uhtred? 624 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,000 With my life, lord. 625 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,200 ♪♪ 626 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:34,600 [sighs] 627 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,160 He believes I drink too much. 628 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,280 And I do... of late. 629 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,600 It's the taste, lord. 630 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:17,520 It is the effect. 631 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,200 I'm getting old, Uhtred. 632 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,160 I'm getting old, with no son to follow me. 633 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,880 It is as though my time has been wasted. 634 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:39,600 No, lord. 635 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:41,720 Never. 636 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,680 Promise me you won't desert him... 637 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,040 not yet at least. 638 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,000 I'm not an oath-breaker. 639 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,640 How can I serve a man who doesn't trust me? 640 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,360 To whom I have given so much? 641 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,960 All he can see is how I'm different. 642 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,960 All I see in him is his piety. 643 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,080 He's a man I am beginning to despise. 644 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:20,760 I asked... 645 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,320 and all that came was further doubt. 646 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,840 I am growing Wessex. I am reaching out for an England, 647 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,600 all in the name of God. 648 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,680 Yet, I am relying upon the strength of a heathen... 649 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:39,880 the iron of a pagan. 650 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,240 It does not fit, Lord. 651 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:43,720 It does not. 652 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,400 [sighs] 653 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,720 What if all this time, it has been the work of the devil tempting me? 654 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,800 Offering me this... warrior, 655 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,000 this seemingly loyal and brave man, 656 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,400 who... piece by small piece, 657 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,000 is eating at my soul and clouding what I believe to be right and wrong. 658 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:07,160 Lord King... 659 00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,080 this is what the devil would do. 660 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,200 But I swear, your soul has not diminished. 661 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:17,880 I would have seen it. 662 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,320 Uhtred will not change, I'm sure. 663 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,240 He'll be heathen 'til his death. 664 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,600 But nor will you change. 665 00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:33,120 Your faith is one that will grow stronger. 666 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:41,440 You... are God's king, lord. 667 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,600 Yet, at my right hand is a pagan. 668 00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:51,760 Do you trust him, wholly? 669 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:54,720 I do not. 670 00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,680 I cannot. 671 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,760 Then be rid of him. 672 00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:10,240 ♪♪ 673 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,560 [indistinct chatter] 674 00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:31,560 [messenger] Lord. 675 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,800 In my hand, I have a letter... 676 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,160 from Alfred of Wessex! 677 00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:56,360 It is the promise... 678 00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,120 of 1,000 men! 679 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,040 [cheering] 680 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,240 It is the 1,000 men 681 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:08,360 demanded by our Lord, Aethelred of Mercia, 682 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:13,240 to fight alongside the great fryd of Mercia, to help rid Lunden 683 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,720 of the filthy, stinking, 684 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,440 pox-ridden, pig's arse, 685 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:22,120 ugly, heathen, Danish bastards! 686 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:23,400 [cheering] 687 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:24,640 A toast! 688 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,560 A toast... 689 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,080 to the warriors of Mercia. 690 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:32,920 Where we go, 691 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,400 Alfred and Wessex shall follow. 692 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,120 And we shall rise. 693 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:39,840 We shall rise! 694 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,480 [cheering] 695 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,040 To Mercia! 696 00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:45,400 [cheering] 697 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,400 -To Mercia! -To Mercia! 698 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,480 [cheering continues] 699 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,560 You're eating like a little bird? 700 00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:13,720 Peck, peck, peck. 701 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,240 I have no appetite. 702 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,600 Tomorrow we ride. 703 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,760 -I would like you to travel with me. -To battle? 704 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:27,720 Part of the way. 705 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,880 Or, would you rather not? 706 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,200 No, no, lord, I would like to go. 707 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,000 Then eat... 708 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,080 for strength. 709 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:49,240 Out. All of you, out. 710 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:56,520 [door closes] 711 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:07,760 You have the palest of skin. 712 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:18,000 Unblemished. 713 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:19,560 [gasps] 714 00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:23,120 My touch offends you? 715 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:28,000 No, it-it was a surprise, lord, nothing more than that. 716 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,960 [breathing heavily] 717 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,120 Lord, love should be gentle and kind. 718 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,280 Gentle and kind she says. 719 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,000 How is it that you have a knowledge of how love should be? 720 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:43,520 I do not. 721 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:44,440 Am I not the first? 722 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:46,880 You will not insult me. 723 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,400 And you will not offer me lessons on how to plow a field! 724 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,120 -That is not what I was doing. -Who is it that you've been with? 725 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,960 -How many have you been with?! -Lord, please. 726 00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:56,880 Uhtred is one, is he not? 727 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,840 You have no right to speak to me in this way! 728 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:00,720 Of course I have a right! You are my wife! 729 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,040 I am Aethelflaed of Wessex! 730 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,000 And you will not treat me like I am a servant girl-- 731 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:07,880 Do not...! 732 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,240 [whimpering] 733 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,280 [breathing heavily] 734 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,520 [whimpering] 735 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,040 Do not... 736 00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:22,040 Never raise your shrill voice to me. 737 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,160 [whimpering] 738 00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:27,240 [breathing heavily] 739 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,240 [exhales] 740 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:33,680 You will see a priest... 741 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:36,080 and we shall find the truth of this. 742 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,520 This is not love, that is the truth of it. 743 00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:40,120 You will see a priest! 744 00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:51,440 ♪♪ 745 00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,280 [indistinct chatter] 746 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,640 Father Beocca. 747 00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:40,240 I would like to speak with you... 748 00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:42,320 about prayer. 749 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,360 [Aethelred] This must go no further. 750 00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,800 I fear that I am not the first... 751 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:01,000 with my wife. 752 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:02,720 The first, lord? 753 00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,400 To lie with her, to bed her. 754 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,640 Oh, I see. 755 00:45:08,720 --> 00:45:10,600 But she is the King's daughter. 756 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:12,440 I need it proven. 757 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,400 Have you asked her, lord, directly? 758 00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:18,840 I need to know the truth of it. 759 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:21,760 Is there a way to test her word? 760 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:23,680 Lord, she is Aethelflaed. 761 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:25,960 Do I go to another priest, Father? 762 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,080 A stranger to my wife? 763 00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:29,720 [Finan] Lord Aethelred! 764 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,240 Welcome to Coccham, 765 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,360 the jewel of Wessex. 766 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,080 Uhtred is expecting you. 767 00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,280 There is a way, lord... 768 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:40,520 from the holy books. 769 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:41,600 Then do it. 770 00:45:44,240 --> 00:45:47,360 Uhtred is with the women, lord, helping them prepare food. 771 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,320 Such is the life of a banished warrior. 772 00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,520 [indistinct chatter] 773 00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:59,160 I have not seen the inside of a pagan hall. 774 00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:01,720 I am surprised at its... warmth. 775 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,440 Were you expecting to see heads on poles, lord? 776 00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:08,160 I was, lady. Excuse my ignorance. 777 00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:11,200 I will excuse you, this one time. 778 00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,800 Will Lady Aethelflaed be joining us after prayers, lord? 779 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:17,760 If she has the will, yes. 780 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:19,760 She has not traveled well. 781 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,000 Should she be traveling at all to battle? 782 00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,680 [Aldhelm] It was her wish to accompany her husband. 783 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:28,360 They are newly married after all. 784 00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:29,960 She will be kept out of harm's way. 785 00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:34,920 [Aethelwold] Uhtred, has the King written that when the siege of Lunden begins, 786 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:36,240 I am to be first up the ladder? 787 00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,120 It is after all, something you would do. 788 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,680 You accept that I am in charge... of all men? 789 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,240 [Uhtred] It's the King's wish. 790 00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,160 -It is. -Oh, dear. 791 00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:51,680 [Aethelred] You are with us? 792 00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,360 Why would I not be? 793 00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,360 I am an Ealdorman of Wessex. 794 00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,160 Alfred has decided to give you this one last chance. 795 00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:04,160 Do you have a plan? 796 00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:06,240 [Aethelred] Together we will travel down river, 797 00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:08,320 meet with the armies of Mercia and Wessex, 798 00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,080 make camp a short distance from Lunden. 799 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:11,960 Do you have a plan of attack? 800 00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,320 Yes. 801 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,680 It is not too dissimilar from your plan. 802 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,000 You will attack the north gate with your own men. 803 00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:20,520 Once the assault is underway, 804 00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:22,840 I shall attack from the marshes with the main army. 805 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,120 And how will you know my assault is underway? 806 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:26,440 I will know. 807 00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,600 [scoffs] You will know? 808 00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:30,880 [Aethelred] Uhtred, do not doubt me. 809 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,080 I want this victory. 810 00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,840 Lunden belongs to Mercia and I am Lord of Mercia. 811 00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:41,840 I will go with every man at my disposal to reclaim what is mine. 812 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:42,800 Good. 813 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:45,320 [Steapa] I am with Uhtred. 814 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:48,320 No, Steapa, you're with me. 815 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,480 I am with Uhtred. 816 00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:52,840 The king says. 817 00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:56,800 Ugh. 818 00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:58,320 Very well. 819 00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:01,880 I am with Steapa. 820 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:03,560 Behind Steapa. 821 00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,160 Your bravery knows no beginning, Aethelwold. A toast! 822 00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,520 To the Mercians who died for Wessex at Ethandun. 823 00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:14,760 And to the men of Wessex who will fight for Mercia at Lunden. 824 00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:16,840 To allies. 825 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:19,880 To allies. 826 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,160 ♪♪ 827 00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:31,880 [sighs] 828 00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:43,320 This is the word of the Lord. 829 00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:49,600 If a man fears that his wife has been unfaithful... 830 00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:51,520 I have not. 831 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,200 ...he shall bring her before a priest 832 00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,720 who shall prepare the bitter waters. 833 00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,440 A mixture of God's water 834 00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:06,040 and God's earth shall be drunk. 835 00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:11,680 [sighs] 836 00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:12,560 Know this... 837 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:16,600 if thou hast gone aside to another man, 838 00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:21,960 the lord shall make thy thigh to rot and thy belly to swell. Amen. 839 00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:25,520 Amen. 840 00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:28,960 [Beocca] Child... 841 00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,720 you will now drink the bitter waters. 842 00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,800 [sighs] 843 00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:38,920 ♪♪ 844 00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,160 This will not be necessary. 845 00:49:57,240 --> 00:50:01,120 You are pure and may God strike me down this very instant if you are not. 846 00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:02,960 [exhales] 847 00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:08,920 [Thyra] Does he beat you? 848 00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:11,880 If he does not, then he will. 849 00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:13,000 I can see it. 850 00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:22,600 He is not, uh... tender or loving. 851 00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,360 -Father Beocca, you must tell the King. -[Aethelflaed] No! 852 00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:26,760 You cannot. 853 00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,240 The King is the only man who can end it. 854 00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,200 God put an end to this ordeal before it had begun. 855 00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,000 [Aethelflaed] Not all in Mercia are friends of Wessex, 856 00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,720 not all are happy with the King's influence. 857 00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,240 And I must do my duty to Alfred. 858 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,440 My husband will not break me. 859 00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:50,000 ♪♪ 860 00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,200 You must not tell anyone what has happened here. 861 00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:57,280 [sighs] 862 00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,520 You're quiet today, Father Beocca. 863 00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:05,600 A sleepless night. 864 00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:07,080 Should I speak with Thyra? 865 00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:08,680 Tell her you need your rest? 866 00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:09,960 You shall do no such thing. 867 00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:11,880 You will not talk of such matters. 868 00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,400 And what matters are those, Father? 869 00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:17,120 I've said enough. 870 00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:18,400 You've all said enough. 871 00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,480 [laughing] 872 00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,200 ♪♪ 873 00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:54,960 Lords. They have set up their camp no more than a mile away. 874 00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:57,800 [Sigefrid] Then we get this done. 875 00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:00,520 Tofi, the fire must smoke. 876 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,440 -Black smoke! -[Tofi] Yes, lord. 877 00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:03,600 There will be smoke. 878 00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:13,200 -Every man on his feet! -Up! 879 00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:15,080 We must be ready! 880 00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:18,680 You all know what needs to be done! 881 00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:20,720 We cannot fail! 882 00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:22,680 Go! 883 00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:24,960 We cannot fail! 884 00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:26,640 [men shouting] 885 00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:29,400 ♪♪ 886 00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:57,160 It's open. 887 00:52:57,240 --> 00:52:58,160 Do you see a guard? 888 00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,320 None. I see a trap. 889 00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,080 Yes, of course, if it is a trap, we should walk towards it. 890 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:09,160 Hey. Shush your mouth. 891 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:33,680 Hey, inside. If you want to live, stay inside. 892 00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:34,960 [door closes] 893 00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:53,960 Any idea what's happening? 894 00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:56,440 None. 895 00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,160 [man] Shield wall! 896 00:54:01,240 --> 00:54:03,560 [grunting] 897 00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:16,760 Aethelred? 898 00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:19,640 Aethelred? 899 00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:21,800 [Aethelred] Uhtred. 900 00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:24,440 We've seen not a single man! 901 00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:25,760 Same! 902 00:54:27,240 --> 00:54:28,920 Then they have fled? 903 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,040 It is our numbers, lord. 904 00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:32,640 They fear our numbers. 905 00:54:33,240 --> 00:54:35,280 [Aethelred] Move! Move! 906 00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:37,400 They fear us! 907 00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,000 The city is ours! 908 00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,120 [cheering] 909 00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:44,120 No! No! No! Keep the formation! 910 00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,800 [cheering continues] 911 00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:47,920 Keep your formation! 912 00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,360 [cheering continues] 913 00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:53,400 Lord! 914 00:54:56,240 --> 00:55:01,080 [man] Fire! Fire! I see fire! Up there! 915 00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:04,440 Stand ready! It's a signal! 916 00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:07,680 It's a signal, no doubt, lord. They will come. 917 00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:10,880 [indistinct chatter] 918 00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,880 It's a signal that can be seen from a mile or more. 919 00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:22,680 Aethelred! 920 00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:24,360 Aethelred! 921 00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:27,040 [grunts] 922 00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:31,840 Move! Move! 923 00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:34,920 Aethelred! The camp! 924 00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:37,680 Thyra! 925 00:55:48,240 --> 00:55:49,720 Death. 926 00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:51,720 Death is coming. 927 00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:54,760 Death is coming. 928 00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:55,640 [men shouting] 929 00:55:55,720 --> 00:55:58,280 Death is coming! 930 00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:02,880 Wake up! 931 00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:05,920 Wake up! 932 00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,560 Death is coming! 933 00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,320 Wake up! 934 00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,480 Wake up! 935 00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:19,000 Take up your swords! 936 00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,360 Wake up! 937 00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:25,600 -Death is coming! -Aethelflaed is to be protected! 938 00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:29,920 With your lives for God and for the King! 939 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:31,080 Go! 940 00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:43,320 [grunting] 941 00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,720 [screams] 942 00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:48,440 [Thyra] This way! 943 00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:50,920 [screams] 944 00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,520 Aethelflaed! 945 00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:58,320 -Aethelflaed! Aethelflaed! -[Aethelflaed] Thyra! 946 00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:00,000 [grunting] 947 00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:01,720 [man] Princess! 948 00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,360 -The forest! -Thyra! 949 00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,080 [grunting] 950 00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:07,600 [panting] 951 00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:09,680 [Thyra] Come, come! 952 00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:11,760 [screaming] 953 00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:24,560 [Thyra] This way! 954 00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:26,640 [screaming] 955 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:27,840 [Thyra] The forest! 956 00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:29,920 [panting] 957 00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:36,520 [Thyra] Aethelflaed, let go of my hand! Run! Run! 958 00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:38,600 [panting] 959 00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:42,560 [grunts] 960 00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:45,000 ♪♪ 961 00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:47,080 [panting] 962 00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,360 ♪♪