1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,840 [Uhtred] I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred. 2 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:15,520 Like my childhood friend Brida, 3 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,800 I was born Saxon but raised as a Dane. 4 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:20,880 But while she embraced her Viking life, 5 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:22,920 I chose another path. 6 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:24,040 My sword is yours. 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,720 [Uhtred] Defending King Alfred's Kingdom, supporting his vision of England, 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,159 I earned reputation as a killer of Danes, 9 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:36,040 and with my loyal followers, I have slain many a warrior. 10 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:39,000 Alfred is dying, 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,960 and all are vying for power and position. 12 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:43,600 Alfred will not live forever. 13 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:45,680 He is constantly ill, but he won't die. 14 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:46,920 Our ancestors were kings, 15 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,400 yet we're barely acknowledged as Ealdormen. We deserve more. 16 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:53,280 [Uhtred] I stole the seer Skade from her Lord Sigurd. 17 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:57,200 With Sigurd defeated in battle, she is tied to me now. 18 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:58,480 You do not yield. 19 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,040 [Uhtred] My beloved Gisela did die in childbirth, 20 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,960 leaving me with an infant I despise. 21 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,000 [Hild] She has given you a son. 22 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,040 From this moment forth, 23 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:10,920 Uhtred of Bebbanburg is cursed. 24 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,320 [Uhtred] She is the power behind my misfortune. 25 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:16,520 Destiny is all! 26 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,600 [theme music playing] 27 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,880 [breathing heavily] 28 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:12,640 [woman] Are you done, Lord? 29 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:16,320 Not quite. 30 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:18,680 Soon. 31 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:25,640 [Hild] Uhtred. 32 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:27,600 One moment, please. 33 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:29,720 Lord, I pray, 34 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,000 forgive the breaking of this peaceful ground. 35 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:34,000 It is an act of love. 36 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,680 -Amen. -Amen. 37 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:18,000 [Finan] Lord. 38 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:20,880 -Lord. -[sobbing] 39 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:35,120 It's beautiful. 40 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,760 She is drifting away from the earth 41 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,520 -and upward to the heavens. -[Uhtred sniffles] 42 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,480 [Finan] We've done a good thing here. 43 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:43,920 God knows it. 44 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,040 The gods know it. 45 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:04,560 Brother Godwin. 46 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,120 Good morning. 47 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:08,840 Lord. Good morning. 48 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,080 [Aethelwold] I'd like to speak with you... for a moment. 49 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,080 The girl there... 50 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:26,240 What of her? 51 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:28,640 She could well be fond of you. 52 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:33,200 -Fond? -As in fondle. 53 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,240 Fondling. And often. 54 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:43,760 You have my attention, Lord. 55 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:48,080 Uhtred. 56 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,080 He is not the man to guide Prince Edward. 57 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,320 He is wild, ungodly. 58 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:55,360 He is half Dane. 59 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:56,840 Oh, at least. 60 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,840 The Bishop Erkenwald needs to see this. 61 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,760 Alfred needs to be reminded of this. 62 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,800 She could be fond of you this very evening. 63 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,280 Holy ground has been disturbed, Brother Godwin. 64 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:26,640 [Beocca] Uhtred! 65 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:27,920 Uhtred! 66 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:31,840 You are needed at the palace by the King. 67 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:32,840 For what reason? 68 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,200 We are about to return to Coccham. 69 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,720 It would be better if you heard it from him yourself. 70 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:40,760 You alone. 71 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:56,240 [Uhtred] Lord. 72 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:58,280 Been telling Father Beocca 73 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,760 that you should be seizing Bloodhair's ships. 74 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:03,200 Earl Sigurd is finished with, defeated. 75 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:05,880 Take away his ships and we take away the means 76 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:07,400 by which he will leave. 77 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,440 Then take half the ships, we've killed half his men. 78 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,240 [Edward] Haesten is about to send Bloodhair on his way. 79 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:14,360 We've been assured. 80 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:16,080 He will soon be gone. 81 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:17,560 To the matter in hand. 82 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:19,160 Uhtred, 83 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:22,960 I do not forget what you have done these past days. 84 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:24,040 Past years, Lord. 85 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,120 I am acutely aware of what you have lost, 86 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:31,320 of your suffering. 87 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:34,400 Lord. 88 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,640 Gisela was a most hospitable woman. 89 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:39,320 How is the child? 90 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:41,520 She has given him her strength. 91 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:43,160 And life. 92 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:45,720 Yes. 93 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:48,480 She was a good woman. 94 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,400 -Thank you, Lord. -There has been a desecration. 95 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:56,080 You were seen. 96 00:06:57,760 --> 00:06:59,400 [Beocca] The graveyard, Uhtred, 97 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,360 it is blessed holy ground. 98 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,160 You do not have the right nor authority to break this ground. 99 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,200 You were seen willfully disturbing the peace of the dead. 100 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:11,800 I disturbed no one but my wife. 101 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:15,320 If I have done wrong, I apologize- 102 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:16,320 It is very wrong. 103 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:17,920 I put the earth back. 104 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,320 It was a desecration. 105 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,240 Uhtred, I admit I am at a loss with what to do. 106 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:23,400 Is an apology enough? 107 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,680 [Beocca] If it is heartfelt, Lord. God is merciful. 108 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,080 He is, and Uhtred's actions, understandable. 109 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:30,880 [Aelswith] But not forgivable. 110 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:33,760 [Uhtred] I swear, I meant no insult. 111 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:35,440 If I may speak, Lord? 112 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:40,760 The woman Gisela was a pagan, 113 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,320 and did not belong in holy ground. 114 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:44,560 By removing her, 115 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,840 Lord Uhtred was undoing what shouldn't have been done. 116 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:50,600 Her presence would have poisoned the soil. 117 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,640 I believe the dead are well rid of her. 118 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,000 Rid of her? 119 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,800 Brother Godwin speaks in your favor, Uhtred. 120 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:59,040 [Godwin] I speak the truth. 121 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:01,280 Gisela was a pagan and a whore, 122 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:03,880 still married to Aelfric of Bebbanburg. 123 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:09,360 -You will say no more. You will say no-- -She was a whore. Her children, bastards. 124 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:10,600 Enough, Godwin. 125 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,000 I'd have the poor wretches taken and baptized-- 126 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:15,200 Lord, I won't listen to this nonsense. 127 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,800 The souls in heaven are rejoicing... 128 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:19,960 -Godwin! -...that the heathen Gisela 129 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,320 has been taken from the earth and burnt! 130 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,600 -Brother Godwin! -[Godwin] She was no better 131 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,160 than the witch Skade whom he has brought to-- 132 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:28,360 [grunts] 133 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:30,280 No more! 134 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,240 -He has struck him! -I am not blind. 135 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,320 Now it is your turn to apologize, priest! Insulting women! 136 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,799 Hiding behind your affliction and your cross! 137 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,360 [Beocca] Get away from him now. Uhtred. 138 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,080 He did himself no favor, you all heard him! 139 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:44,560 [Erkenwald] Lord, 140 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:45,760 I fear he is dead. 141 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,880 He cannot be dead. It was a slap, no more than that. 142 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:55,080 He is dead. 143 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:04,960 It was a slap, Lord, you saw it for yourself. 144 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:06,920 -Guards, seize him. -It was a slap. 145 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,760 Seize him. Seize him now! 146 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:11,520 I said take hold of him! 147 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:16,560 Steapa, secure the city walls! No one is to leave. No one. 148 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:17,800 [Edward] Lord-- 149 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,680 I want him here by nightfall! 150 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:23,160 Uhtred! 151 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,000 -Uhtred! -[shushes] 152 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,760 I told you, big man, he's resting. 153 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,480 Uhtred, do not make me fire the house! 154 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:32,960 That is what I will do! 155 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,560 Steapa, do not make me kill you first, 156 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:37,960 that is what I will do. 157 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,440 Uhtred, do not make me step on your Irishman! 158 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:43,600 That's what I will do! 159 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:47,040 Oh, for goodness' sake, stop behaving like children. 160 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:49,440 You are goading him. 161 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:51,560 I was, Hild. And enjoying it. 162 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:55,680 So the Abbess may enter, but I may not? 163 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,360 We're afraid of the Abbess. 164 00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:58,960 [men laughing] 165 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:01,760 [boy] Sister Hild! 166 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:06,400 [Hild chuckles] Come to bed. 167 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:09,840 Lord, there can be no bloodshed. 168 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:13,640 They are throwing insults out there, but they will soon tire of that. Come. 169 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:16,760 There will not be bloodshed. 170 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:19,440 You should say that to Steapa. 171 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:21,360 His head is hurting from thinking. 172 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:23,960 Is there a solution? 173 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:25,520 I did nothing wrong. 174 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:26,440 Uhtred, 175 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,200 you killed a monk, 176 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:29,360 a holy man, 177 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:31,440 and not for the first time. 178 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:33,120 And why is she still here? 179 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:34,960 I am not your concern, witch. 180 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:37,880 [Uhtred] I did not intend to kill the monk, 181 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:39,360 nor do I regret it. 182 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:40,720 It was fate. 183 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:42,000 [Uhtred] Fetch Beocca. 184 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,480 Ask him to bring the demands of the King. 185 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:46,200 I will tell Beocca 186 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,840 that you are ready to talk and to listen. 187 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:51,160 Be sure that you do. 188 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:53,720 It would help if you cut her throat. 189 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:55,480 [Skade] He cannot. 190 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:57,880 He dare not. 191 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:11,080 Tonight, Lord... 192 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,320 you'll break your oath to Alfred. You'll have-- 193 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:16,600 You will be quiet! 194 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:18,160 It is a new beginning. 195 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:20,360 I did not wish for a new beginning. 196 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:23,840 This is your doing. 197 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:25,680 All of it. 198 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,680 You speak another word and I will end your life, 199 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,160 no matter the curse nor the consequences. 200 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,520 [Aethelwold] I thought I would keep you company, Beocca. 201 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,320 I feel more godly just walking beside you. 202 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,600 Aethelwold, you are only here for the game. 203 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:46,880 I am, but what a game. 204 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:47,920 [Beocca] Open up. 205 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:53,120 Uhtred. 206 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,480 The King and Edward have conferred 207 00:11:57,560 --> 00:11:59,880 and they have decided there will be no trial. 208 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:01,440 No punishment, 209 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,880 saving a small wergild to be paid to the church. 210 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:04,960 [Finan] A wergild? 211 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:07,080 100 pieces of silver. 212 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:08,720 [chuckles] That's all? 213 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:09,840 Of course not. 214 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,440 One hundred pieces of silver and your oath. 215 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:16,840 He has my oath. 216 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,960 [exhales] The King wishes that you swear an oath to the aetheling, to Edward. 217 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,880 Edward is not the aetheling. The crown cannot be assumed. 218 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:25,760 Then Alfred is asking for my life. 219 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:27,600 Just your loyalty to Edward. 220 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:30,920 He's a boy! Swear an oath to a boy, it is the rest of your life. 221 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,880 Father, the King asks too much. 222 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:37,120 What you must now do, Uhtred, 223 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,560 is consider what will happen if you do not swear the oath to Edward. 224 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:42,240 People will die. 225 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,080 It won't just be the men here who will die! 226 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,400 It'll be the men you fought beside... 227 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:49,960 -It will be Alfred's doing. -[Beocca] ...days ago. 228 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,240 He couldn't care less for men in his service. 229 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,000 The King cares deeply! 230 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,840 You, Beocca, you served him all your life, and for what? 231 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,680 His witan whisper about your choice of wife? 232 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,680 Without Alfred, I would be dead! 233 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:06,960 Without Alfred, there would be no Wessex, there would be no Mercia, no Christendom. 234 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:08,960 There would be Danes! And that is all. 235 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,400 The green fields would be red with blood and I'd be dead. 236 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:16,520 Look, for all your whines and moans, 237 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,560 Uhtred of Bebbanburg, you've had a good life here in Wessex, 238 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:21,600 and don't you dare say otherwise. 239 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:23,640 Alfred gave you shelter. 240 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:26,720 I have earned it. 241 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:29,720 You have land and wealth, 242 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,840 -food and drink. -I've earned it. 243 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:33,480 Make your choice, boy! 244 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:37,560 Accept your punishment or allow your friends to kill each other, 245 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,840 all to spare you the hardship of life as a lord! 246 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,160 Did I not say it would be more than a wergild? 247 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,680 Aethelwold, I swear, when the killing starts, 248 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,120 you shall be my first. 249 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,000 There will be no killing. 250 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:25,600 Steapa. 251 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:27,200 [Steapa] Lord. 252 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,960 I will not fight you nor any of these men here. 253 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:33,560 I'll go with you to the King, friend. 254 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:35,680 I am pleased to hear you say that, Lord. 255 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,160 The King is merciful. 256 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:41,640 He knows your worth. 257 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:42,800 We shall see. 258 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:47,480 You know what to do. 259 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,200 [indistinct chatter] 260 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,240 You have something to say, I'm told. 261 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:13,960 Lord. 262 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:22,040 Look around you. 263 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,880 I ask that you remember my service to you at Ethandun, 264 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:28,720 and more, much more. 265 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,880 Good service past is no excuse for breaking the law of the land. 266 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:34,400 I will pay the wergild, 267 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:37,840 but though Edward's a fine young man, 268 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,120 I cannot swear an oath I will not keep. 269 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,080 You know this. An oath to protect Edward is an oath for the rest of my life. 270 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:53,080 Your word has meaning, I will give you that, 271 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,640 which is the very reason I would like you beside my son 272 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,680 when I am gone and he is King. 273 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:01,080 [Uhtred] You have Steapa. 274 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,080 [Alfred] Steapa at his left hand and you at his right. 275 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:09,120 There is no negotiation to be had, Uhtred. 276 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:12,280 None. 277 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:17,000 Have I not given enough, Lord? 278 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:23,760 I beg of you. 279 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,760 Self pity does not suit you. 280 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,840 I am allowing you to live. 281 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,280 You will do as I ask. 282 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:47,560 No, Lord. I will not. 283 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:49,800 -Uhtred! -[Edward] Father! 284 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:52,400 -Steapa, put down your sword! -Do nothing more! 285 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:54,160 -Edward, no! -Edward, stand still! 286 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:55,440 Uhtred, this is madness. 287 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:58,480 Not one man is to take a single step closer! Not one step! 288 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:00,160 Steapa, kill the bastard. 289 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:01,080 -Do it now! -No! 290 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:04,920 -[Aelswith] Steapa! -No man is to make a single move! 291 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,200 No man is to put the King's life in danger! 292 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:08,800 Do you understand? 293 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,319 This means death for you, it can be nothing else. 294 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,839 -Away from the door! -Uhtred, please. 295 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:15,720 Every man away from the door! 296 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:16,880 [Beocca] Uhtred. 297 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,040 Please, I beg of you one last time. 298 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:20,119 Beocca, 299 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,200 you'll close and bar the door. 300 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:24,440 You will ensure no one follows. 301 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,800 Not until Alfred himself knocks. 302 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:28,960 Lord, on my oath, he will not harm you. 303 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:30,720 But if he does harm you, 304 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:33,720 I swear, I will kill him myself. 305 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,040 Beocca, the door! 306 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:36,640 Now! 307 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:49,720 I gave you glory! 308 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,680 I gave you the freedom to worship your God, 309 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,320 and still you treat me no better than a hound! 310 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,360 -I should kill you. -Then do it, 311 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,880 like the heathen you are. Think I am afraid? 312 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:01,120 [grunts] 313 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:02,920 I can smell the shit on your legs. 314 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,000 Heaven awaits me, 315 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,360 but you shall burn in hell for all eternity! 316 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,920 Valhalla is a lie and your gods are a lie! 317 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,400 [groans and gasps] 318 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,200 [panting] 319 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,760 I seem to have broken my oath, Lord. 320 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:23,880 With luck, the whole of Wessex will now burn. 321 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:25,040 [groans] 322 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:33,000 Father Beocca! 323 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:34,480 Yes, Lord! 324 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:40,280 Find him and kill him. 325 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,000 [guard 1] He's here! Close the gates! 326 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:48,640 -I wish no harm. -[guard 1] Stay there! 327 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,760 -[Uhtred] Stand clear. -[guard 2] Don't move. 328 00:18:58,480 --> 00:18:59,480 [guard 1] After him! 329 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:01,320 [Steapa] Uhtred! 330 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,720 Every man with me! 331 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:11,320 [woman shrieks] 332 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:15,840 [Steapa] Spear! 333 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:19,000 Uhtred, don't do it! 334 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:21,600 [Steapa] Uhtred! 335 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:23,800 [groans] 336 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,080 You two, come with me! The rest of you, go round. 337 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,040 [Finan] So, they decided to let you go? 338 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,080 We should ride, hard. 339 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,320 -Lord, you are cut. -Barely. 340 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,000 We ride to where, Lord? 341 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,160 To Ragnar and to the Danes. 342 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:51,840 Then we should go meet your men. 343 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,000 [Uhtred] Hurry! 344 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:55,080 Hyah, hyah! 345 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:58,920 Go, all of you. 346 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:01,160 I wish to be alone. 347 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,120 All of you, go! 348 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,680 [breathing shakily] 349 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:06,600 [Offa] Lord. 350 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:07,800 You throw an ax well. 351 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:09,800 Can you use that sword? 352 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:13,200 It's not a sword. 353 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:14,520 It's just the handle. 354 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:15,800 It did break. 355 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:17,600 In battle? 356 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,320 [clears throat] 357 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:21,640 I fell, Lord. 358 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:24,640 At least you're honest. 359 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,360 -I'm looking for men, guards. -There are guards at the palace. 360 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,880 No, I am looking to form my own guard. 361 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:32,960 If you had a sword, could you use it? 362 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:35,160 I could, yes. 363 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,200 -I'm called Offa. -Offa. 364 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,800 I will employ you and two others. 365 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,880 You know men who would make good guards? 366 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,680 I do. Good men, friends of mine. 367 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,000 Find them. 368 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:50,560 We travel tonight. 369 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,520 You will be paid in silver. 370 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,960 Uhtred has thrown everything away. Everything. 371 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:58,520 [Thyra] Did he have a choice? 372 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:00,760 No, he did not. 373 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,800 The King asked for too much. 374 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:04,600 Alfred offered him forgiveness. 375 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,440 What Alfred did was ignore Uhtred's pain. 376 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:11,600 This isn't the end of the matter. 377 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:13,040 It is only the beginning. 378 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,760 If Edward is being made ready to be King, 379 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:19,560 then Uhtred knows that Alfred's death is near. 380 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:22,560 That is what he will tell the Danes. 381 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:36,080 Lord. 382 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:39,800 She wishes to speak to you. 383 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,560 I wish to ride alongside you. 384 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,200 Your place is at the back of the line. 385 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,880 I wish to ride alongside you as your woman. 386 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,200 You have what you have always craved, your freedom. 387 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,240 Embrace it and embrace me. 388 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,400 Did I not say you would be in need of a woman? 389 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,240 Do not dare to think that you can replace my wife! 390 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,360 I saw what would occur to your wife. I was not the cause. 391 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:16,360 I know you would like to bed me. 392 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,520 You are Bloodhair's woman, are you not? 393 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,280 Unless you decide to claim me. 394 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,040 Then I will have a decision to make. 395 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,240 Bloodhair's not the warrior that you are. 396 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,320 He is not the king that you can be. 397 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:30,440 Lord, 398 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:32,400 we can be enemies 399 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,160 or lovers. 400 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,720 We can suffer or we can rule. 401 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:42,640 Back of the line. 402 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,480 Then you shall remain cursed! 403 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,080 It's your choice. 404 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,360 Why is she not food for the rats by now? 405 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,600 [Uhtred] Because she has a gift. 406 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:22,240 [groans] 407 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,400 Because she has taken hold of my path. 408 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,360 If we kill her, the curse will live on. 409 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:33,680 It is the curse that must be killed. 410 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,160 [Uhtred breathes heavily] 411 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:51,840 She is the worm and Uhtred is the apple. 412 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,600 I am Aethelwold of Wessex. 413 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:10,880 We are here to drink and to see Lord Aethelred. 414 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,160 -[guard] Open the gate! -In that order. 415 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,960 [Aethelwold swallows] What is it about Mercian ale? 416 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:23,440 [Aldhelm] It is the waters. 417 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:25,360 Divine. 418 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:29,920 I haven't seen Lady Aethelflaed. 419 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,960 My wife prefers her own company. 420 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,520 She often sits at her own estate. 421 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,600 -Your fair daughter. She's how old now? -What is it you want? 422 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:38,960 Say it. 423 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:42,960 What I want 424 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:45,680 is your disloyalty 425 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:48,200 towards Alfred. 426 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,880 You're probably aware that his health is failing. 427 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,080 His health has been failing and then recovering for years. 428 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,880 But he is now without his best warrior and kingmaker... 429 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:01,160 Uhtred. 430 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:02,320 Uhtred is dead? 431 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,080 Uhtred is, by now, on his way to Dunholm and then to Bebbanburg, perhaps. 432 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,280 Where he is not, is Wessex. 433 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,240 Uhtred is no longer Alfred's sword. 434 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,560 Uhtred is gone. 435 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,640 Uhtred is a Dane. 436 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,320 [Uhtred coughs] 437 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,160 My own ambitions are clear, I have never hid them. 438 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,040 The crown of Wessex is rightfully mine. 439 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:36,280 But I do not wish to control Mercia. 440 00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:38,040 I have no interest in Mercia. 441 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:39,400 Yes, yes. 442 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,680 I believe Mercia should have its own King. 443 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:46,600 You, Aethelred. 444 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:52,040 What you must understand is our entire world is about to change. 445 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:56,080 The opportunity to occupy the throne of our respective kingdoms is near. 446 00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:58,720 It is now. 447 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,400 And you are suggesting what, exactly? 448 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,800 I am proposing that we ally ourselves to one another. 449 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,160 A betrothal of sorts. 450 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:08,480 An alliance. 451 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:12,760 Lord Aethelred has estate, 452 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,440 a hearth guard and a fyrd to call upon. 453 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,640 You appear to have three men and a scab-ridden pack-horse. 454 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,560 I won't betray any confidence, but believe me, 455 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:22,760 I shall have an army. 456 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:27,960 As for Lord Aethelred's guard and fyrd, many say they belong to his wife. 457 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,360 She is the one with a battle reputation. 458 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,200 My men are my own 459 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,640 and no one else's, I can assure you. 460 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,600 I am repeating gossip, no more than-- 461 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,600 -My men are my own. -Agreed. 462 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:48,040 Though you must worry, 463 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,920 that despite her bravery, Aethelflaed may come to some harm, 464 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,600 alone on her own estate? Heavens forbid, but... 465 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,840 should something final befall his daughter, 466 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,680 I imagine that would weaken the pretend King further. 467 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,240 I'd guess you would imagine this weakening quite often, 468 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:08,520 Lord Aethelwold. 469 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:12,120 Nightly. 470 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,160 Should we not stop and rest? 471 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:33,960 I am tired of the sight of my horse's head, 472 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:35,280 his ears in particular. 473 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:37,040 We need shelter and fire, boy. 474 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:38,400 There's no shelter here. 475 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:40,720 We keep going. 476 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,120 For a short time at least. 477 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:44,760 [wind whistling] 478 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:52,480 [coughs] 479 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:55,000 [Sithric] Lord! 480 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:56,800 Lord! 481 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,880 Are you hurt, Lord? Is it your wound? 482 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:01,720 [Uhtred grunts] 483 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:04,760 No. 484 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:07,200 She has me. 485 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,200 [Finan] Jesus, he looks the color of a Scotsman's arse. 486 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:11,400 Anything broken? 487 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:13,880 She is squeezing the life from me. 488 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,880 [Finan] Either that or the cold has got to your bones. 489 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,520 [groans] Finan, 490 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:20,400 you will find a cart 491 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,360 and you will haul me to Dunholm, to Brida. 492 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:25,640 She will know what to do. 493 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:28,160 [Finan] Get him up. 494 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,000 [grunting] 495 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,040 We're being followed. 496 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,280 No, we are being watched, Offa. 497 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,360 Just ahead, there is a camp full of Danes led by a man they call Bloodhair. 498 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,360 Hold up the branch. 499 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,880 -Tilberht. -Higher! Above your head. 500 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,440 [Offa] What does the branch mean? 501 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,000 [Aethelwold] That we are peaceful, that we wish to talk. 502 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,840 And if they are Bloodhair's men, which they will be, 503 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,200 with luck, 504 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,080 he'll want to hear what I have to say. 505 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,240 And if they are not? 506 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,120 You will protect me with your lives. 507 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:10,440 And the branch. 508 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,360 [Offa] My God, there are hundreds of the bastards. 509 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,520 Every one of them ugly. 510 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,240 Hold the branch high. 511 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:26,960 Higher! 512 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:28,800 It's heavy, Lord. 513 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:30,360 [Offa] Higher, Tilberht! 514 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:33,520 [Aethelwold] Lord Bloodhair, 515 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,480 Haesten. What a pleasure to see you as a pair. 516 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,840 -You know this turd, Haesten? -I do. 517 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:41,600 Welcome, Lord Aethelwold. 518 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,200 You bring word from Alfred? 519 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:44,840 I bring word of Alfred. 520 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,200 And I bring word of Uhtred Ragnarson and of the Lady Skade. 521 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,840 She was once your woman, I seem to remember. 522 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,640 -Skade lives? -She does. 523 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,560 And lives well, with Lord Uhtred snug between her thighs. 524 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:00,400 But neither are in Wessex. 525 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,080 Where is Uhtred then? 526 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:03,000 Banished. 527 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:04,680 An enemy of Alfred. 528 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,600 Heading to Ragnar Ragnarson, his brother, I would guess. 529 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,760 This turd has knowledge, 530 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,400 and not just of what I've eaten. 531 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:15,600 I have a proposal. 532 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,800 There already seems to be an alliance between you. 533 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,480 What I suggest is that we grow that alliance 534 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,360 and create the greatest Dane army ever seen. 535 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:32,760 I propose that we join together. 536 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,160 Us three here, we join with Ragnar 537 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,160 and with Uhtred. 538 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:39,880 But I want to kill Uhtred. 539 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,400 -And then what, kill Ragnar? -Or you, perhaps. 540 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:45,280 We have your story. 541 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,160 What else do you offer? 542 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,440 I offer unrest in Wessex. 543 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:54,600 By speaking to certain ealdormen, 544 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,480 I could halve the size of Alfred's army in a moment. 545 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,200 I can be the bridge between Saxon and Dane. 546 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,440 [Haesten chuckles] 547 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:07,960 Are you sure Uhtred is in the north? 548 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:08,960 Yes. 549 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,880 Just as I am sure that Danes cannot fight Danes, 550 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,600 Danes cannot kill allies. 551 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,560 We cannot ignore the gift that is presenting itself. 552 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,120 A Wessex without Uhtred to protect it, 553 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,520 a weakened and frail Alfred. 554 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,640 Now is the time for all Danes to gather. 555 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:26,760 No divisions. 556 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,680 I say that we take that idea north, 557 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,120 to Ragnar and to Uhtred. 558 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:35,640 I demand 559 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,760 that the sword-Danes unite 560 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,120 and crush the Anglo-Saxons-- 561 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,160 It's not your place to make demands. 562 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,400 Enough that you have been heard. 563 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:49,520 [gasps] 564 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,200 Excellent. 565 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,040 [clicks tongue] 566 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:09,880 A few days more, Lord. 567 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,080 It is your cart that is slowing us down. 568 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,160 Remember me, arseling? [echoes] 569 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,320 You'll get out of your bed and make ready. [echoing] 570 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,040 -For what? -[echoing] To fight me. 571 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:45,560 Leofric... 572 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,280 I do not wish to fight you. 573 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,480 -Why would I fight you? -You will fight me, you piece of shit! 574 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,720 For I am Wessex! I am Saxon! 575 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,400 I am for Alfred! And you, arseling, 576 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,600 are a Dane and a traitor. 577 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:04,240 Fight me! 578 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,040 [coughs] 579 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,880 [breathing heavily] 580 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,000 Can no man hold his tongue? 581 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,440 The country's rife with news of Uhtred's betrayal 582 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:30,920 and of my apparent weakness. 583 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,600 -The talk will pass, Lord. -The talk will only build. 584 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,800 Gossip and rumor will spread like a summer's fire. 585 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:41,000 It can only serve to embolden our enemies. 586 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,840 I note that Sigurd's ships remain in Cent. 587 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:48,760 [Beocca] Yes. 588 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,520 You need to end the gossip, Lord. 589 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,719 A visit, perhaps, not to Sigurd but to several of the burhs. 590 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,000 The King doesn't have the strength to travel. 591 00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:58,360 Then something else. 592 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:00,520 A celebration. 593 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,120 Something that allows you to show yourself proud, kingly. 594 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,080 For what reason, Father Beocca, to sap him further? 595 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,200 To demonstrate that he has not weakened. 596 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,360 You will both be silent, I am still here. 597 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:15,080 Yes, Lord. 598 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,000 What would be this occasion be? 599 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:22,680 I do not know. 600 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:24,640 A saint's day? 601 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:26,960 A thanksgiving. 602 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,640 You may wish to involve Edward. 603 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:29,920 -A betrothal. -Edward? 604 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:31,880 He is old enough. 605 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,600 He's besotted with the mother of his bastard twins. 606 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,880 Oh, it cannot be her. She is a cloth's width from a peasant. 607 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,720 Then whomever is most suited? 608 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,880 What it would do is put an end 609 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,440 to one line of gossip and begin another. 610 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:45,520 Indeed. 611 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,720 Father Beocca, would you leave us, please? 612 00:35:50,720 --> 00:35:51,760 Yes, Lord. 613 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,320 I cannot allow Uhtred's betrayal nor this... 614 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,400 illness to defeat me. 615 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,840 England must not be forgotten. 616 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,880 Lord, you shall see its birth, 617 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,960 -you will grow strong. -My dear, I will not see another year. 618 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:16,160 We know it. 619 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,040 [inhales] We must continue forward. 620 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,920 We must find Edward a suitable match, one that will strengthen his hand. 621 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,000 But a better match than was made for Aethelflaed. 622 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,120 Has that marriage not served a purpose? 623 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,360 Aethelflaed has influence. 624 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,280 She's far stronger than Aethelred the pretty. 625 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,280 What you have begun, Lord, 626 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:39,800 shall continue. 627 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,240 Our children will build an England, 628 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,080 I swear. 629 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:53,840 [door opens] 630 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,160 -[Aethelred] Take it. -[woman giggling] No... 631 00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:57,920 You asked for me, Lord? 632 00:36:58,560 --> 00:36:59,480 I did. 633 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:02,800 I have been thinking about... 634 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,080 Aethelwold's visit, 635 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,720 what he said about my heroic wife. 636 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,040 The chances of her meeting harm in one form or another. 637 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:13,600 And you have decided what? 638 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:16,480 I want her dead. 639 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:19,560 And the child with her. 640 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:49,280 [Cnut] We've been trailing them for half a day now. They are mostly Saxon. 641 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:50,560 Some Danes maybe. 642 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,320 They're not of Eoferwic. They're warriors. 643 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,760 They're surrounding the cart, there. 644 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,560 Protecting it and the man that lies on it. 645 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,240 It is the riding in clear sight I find interesting. 646 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:05,400 [Brida] Mmm. 647 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:06,880 They have no fear. 648 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,680 You're staring at me. Why? 649 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:14,680 I'm looking, 650 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:16,800 nothing more. 651 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,160 And I'm thinking how fortunate my cousin is 652 00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:23,320 to have a woman to both love and fight. 653 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,840 So why do you allow him to shame you? 654 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:32,800 Cnut, you know nothing, 655 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:34,600 so you will say nothing. 656 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,400 Allow them to continue in peace. 657 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:41,320 All the way to Dunholm? 658 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:43,600 That's where they're headed. 659 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:46,560 [panting] 660 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,320 [Finan] Has he drunk any ale? 661 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,680 -A little. -A little is of little use. 662 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:05,520 [sniffs] 663 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:10,240 All right. 664 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,600 Do you have the strength to lift a wee cup, Lord? 665 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:19,080 Hmm? 666 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,080 Even if it is to wet your lips. 667 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,320 Oh, eh. 668 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:27,640 [exhales weakly] 669 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,880 I'd wager you feel like you're back on the slave ship. 670 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,840 You got past that nightmare. 671 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:38,880 You can get past this. 672 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:40,400 Believe me. 673 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:42,680 It's her, Finan. 674 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,720 Turning my insides outward. 675 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:48,960 [Finan] Then kill her. 676 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,280 -Or let me do it for you. -No. 677 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:53,400 Uhtred... 678 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,640 I fear you are dying. 679 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,960 Sihtric says we will arrive at Dunholm tomorrow. 680 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,840 They've been watching us for most of the day. 681 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,320 At least, I hope it's them. 682 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:44,160 Broth, Lord. 683 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,040 I made it myself. 684 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:50,040 I did the same at the monastery and the Brothers devoured it. 685 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,200 [grunts] 686 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,000 Please, it'll make your strength. 687 00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,400 [Leofric] Now you know how Alfred would feel. 688 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:02,840 Belly and bones aching. 689 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:04,320 [neighing] 690 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,480 But every day he got to his feet, 691 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,600 and every day he built Wessex. 692 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,840 -With my sword. -Lord? 693 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:13,760 My arse. 694 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,400 He built Wessex with my sword. 695 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,640 I see my sister's boy is with you now. 696 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:28,920 Alfred's bastard. 697 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,240 The Monk. 698 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:32,960 He's no warrior. 699 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:34,560 [Leofric] Then why is he here? 700 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:38,280 [Uhtred] Gisela. 701 00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,000 It's the fever. It will pass. 702 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,880 [Skade] He sees someone. 703 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,400 It is the gods, 704 00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:46,840 tormenting him. 705 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:49,040 [Leofric] Who is Gisela? 706 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:50,880 [Uhtred] My wife. 707 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,320 Another one? 708 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:54,760 How many is that? 709 00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:58,320 So this Gisela is to blame 710 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,560 for making my nephew a traitor to his country? 711 00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:05,320 She was fond of him. 712 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,400 That is why he is with me. 713 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,280 You look sickly. 714 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,440 What has she done to you, the witch there? 715 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,120 It is a death you will deserve, 716 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,840 for you have made every man here a traitor. 717 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,360 Alfred is their King. 718 00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:30,480 You are dead! 719 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,240 Alfred does not mourn you, so why speak for him? 720 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,200 You are dead! [coughing] 721 00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,480 Lord, Lord. You must eat and you must drink. 722 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,040 You are not thinking right. 723 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,760 [breathing heavily] 724 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:49,400 -Brida. -She will be at Dunholm. 725 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:50,920 [Sihtric] Finan, look. 726 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,200 [Brida] I'm here. 727 00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:55,200 [Finan] Brida? 728 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,480 Jackdaw, any trouble in the night? 729 00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:22,720 She showed me her tits. 730 00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:24,920 They looked very nice. 731 00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,000 [Brida] You say you're a seer, 732 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:35,760 but you have no runes. 733 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,440 -What is this? -Unless you hid them up your arse? 734 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:44,960 I wish to see my Lord, Uhtred. 735 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,280 And you will bring him to me. 736 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:50,240 You'll shut your mouth. 737 00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,440 Bring him to me or I'll bind your path to that of a river rat! 738 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:55,680 [Brida grunts] 739 00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:03,600 You will not throw curses. Not here. 740 00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,960 Not now I have this Nithstong to block your powers. 741 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:10,920 This is Freya's soil now. 742 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,440 The goddess who brought the magic to the gods will protect us. 743 00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:18,160 Don't make me bring the seer to whom this Nithstong belongs. 744 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,560 She is blood-tied to Freya. 745 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,320 Don't make her destroy you. 746 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:26,720 I swear... 747 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:29,480 I will kill you, bitch. 748 00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:32,600 -Jackdaw... -Hmm? 749 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,920 Keep your hands on your sword and your eyes off her tits. 750 00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,040 She's cleverer than you. 751 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:38,400 I heard that. 752 00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:49,480 Good? 753 00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:50,720 It is good. 754 00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:53,120 We thought you'd gone, Lord. 755 00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:55,680 The same. 756 00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,920 I feared I'd die an old man's death under furs. 757 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,600 [Cnut] So, the great Dane-slayer was afraid? 758 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,640 -You are who? -He's no one important, Uhtred. 759 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:10,760 -I am Cnut. -You are what? 760 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:12,040 [Ragnar] He is Cnut. 761 00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:15,240 He's my cousin on my mother's side. 762 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:16,840 I'm a Dane, 763 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:18,560 Lord Uhtred. 764 00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,160 So are you gonna kill me too? 765 00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:23,280 You talk like an infant. 766 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,840 How many have you already despatched to Valhalla? 767 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,680 Is it twelve? Twenty? Forty? 768 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,680 You'll shut your mouth now. Show my brother some respect. 769 00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,320 Or I may have to kill one more. 770 00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,520 [men laughing] 771 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:37,240 He's back! 772 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:39,000 He's back. 773 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:40,920 Get up. 774 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:43,880 Up on your feet! 775 00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:46,080 Get up. 776 00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:48,400 [grunts] 777 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,280 He is back where he belongs. 778 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,720 Where he has always belonged. 779 00:46:00,240 --> 00:46:01,680 You're a Dane for life now. 780 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:03,960 Say it. 781 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:07,480 I am a Dane for life. 782 00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:09,760 No. 783 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:11,920 Say it. 784 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:13,480 [thumping] 785 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:17,640 I am a Dane for life. 786 00:46:17,720 --> 00:46:19,240 [thumping continues] 787 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:20,320 Mean it! 788 00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:22,840 I am a Dane for life! 789 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:24,720 From this day onwards. 790 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:26,000 From this day onwards. 791 00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,080 This means everything to me. 792 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:32,360 [men cheer] 793 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,880 [Finan] So, do you have an army, Lord Cnut? 794 00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:46,800 [Cnut] I do. 795 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,520 Two hundred men. Two hundred good men. 796 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,760 Are they all as entertaining as you are? 797 00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,040 -You are headed where? -[Cnut] Undecided. 798 00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,800 Though if Alfred of Wessex is now without his Dane-slayer, 799 00:46:57,880 --> 00:46:59,240 may consider heading south. 800 00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,600 Call me Dane-slayer once more, and we'll fight. 801 00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:04,400 Why the anger, Lord? 802 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,360 You deny you killed many of us? Many Danes, many Northmen? 803 00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,160 Only the ones who were trying to kill me. 804 00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,360 And I'm only teasing, unfairly. 805 00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,760 You must be tired from your journey and your... 806 00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:20,320 illness. 807 00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,080 So be sure to rest. 808 00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:30,040 I like him. 809 00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:31,800 Not as much as he likes himself. 810 00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:32,840 [chuckling] 811 00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:40,880 Well, he's not wrong. 812 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,080 The prospect of Alfred without Uhtred 813 00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,600 will bring fire to the bellies of many Danes. 814 00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:48,240 You included? 815 00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:53,520 Wessex is still the jewel, 816 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,040 and I'm getting too comfortable in my fortress. 817 00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:57,600 My children are in Wessex. 818 00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:59,280 We have many friends in Wessex. 819 00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,000 More reasons to visit. 820 00:48:05,240 --> 00:48:07,240 Well, this talk is for another time. 821 00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:09,280 Another time soon. 822 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,040 You've not asked about Thyra. 823 00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:16,480 The boy Osferth told me. 824 00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:18,320 She is Christian, 825 00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:20,000 and she's married. 826 00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:22,800 She is happy. 827 00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:27,840 [Finan] Uhtred. 828 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,040 I came here to rest, to hunt, 829 00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:36,560 find a woman, maybe. 830 00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,320 I did not come here to talk of war against Alfred. 831 00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,920 I will be outside drinking ale. 832 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:48,880 Finish your plate. 833 00:48:58,040 --> 00:48:58,880 Where is she? 834 00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:01,360 Skade? 835 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:04,680 Caged for now. She can't reach you. 836 00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:06,720 She's got power, Uhtred. 837 00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,480 -I have felt it. -Power that you could wield. 838 00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,320 It's the way she works, through a man. A warrior. 839 00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:17,360 My sword is all I need. 840 00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,640 I'll not give half of myself over to a seer. 841 00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:22,000 Then you must kill her. 842 00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:26,040 I want to, but how? 843 00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:29,400 Her curse must die with her. How can I be sure that it does? 844 00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:30,960 I'll ask. 845 00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,040 I'll ask a seer more powerful than Skade. 846 00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,640 -When? -When I am sure of you, 847 00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:40,480 Uhtred of Bebbanburg. 848 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:43,240 [sighs] 849 00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,280 [sighs] I remember the very first time I took your hand. 850 00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:09,440 [chuckles softly] 851 00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:13,840 On the steps of the great hall in Eoferwic. 852 00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:20,280 A priest was hanging from the wall, 853 00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,160 a spear through his chest. [laughs] 854 00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:29,600 Ragnar tells me you have children. 855 00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:34,840 No. No, I am not a mother, no. 856 00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:36,960 But Ragnar has children by other women. 857 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:39,960 I, too, have been cursed. 858 00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,040 A child refuses to grow inside me. 859 00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:47,920 My first loss was our child in the wood. 860 00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,960 No matter. Eat as much as you are able. 861 00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,160 He will expect you to drink and play games. 862 00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:00,800 Brida. [clears throat] 863 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:01,880 Hmm? 864 00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:07,000 I'm sorry for you. 865 00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:10,880 Ragnar is my child. 866 00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:16,640 Betray him and I will kill you. 867 00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:19,400 If you are now a Dane, 868 00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:21,560 you must undo the past. 869 00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:25,880 Undo the past? How? 870 00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:28,880 You must destroy Alfred.