King Ecbert visits the developing Viking settlement as the first harvest is sown.King Ecbert visits the developing Viking settlement as the first harvest is sown.King Ecbert visits the developing Viking settlement as the first harvest is sown.
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- TriviaIn this episode, Lagertha, having been taught Olde English/Saxon by Athelstan, is now able to converse with King Ecbert without the need for translation.
- GoofsThe King of Wessex turns up with the present of a new plough (plow) for the viking farmers to use. It looks to be of a design not created until the early 18th Century so it is about 1,000 years ahead of its time.
- Quotes
Rollo: [to Ragnar and Floki who are arguing about why they fight for the Christians and risk losing their own people] Both of you, save your breath. We have a mountain to climb. Some of us will not see a dawn like this again... not here on Midgard, at any rate. So, let us try and speak well of each other... no matter how much we have been through together.
- SoundtracksIf I Had a Heart
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Written by Karin Dreijer (as Karin Dreijer Andersson)
Performed by Karin Dreijer (as Fever Ray)
Courtesy of Mute and Rabid Records
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Not sow good
I can see the high ratings others have given this but, after 22 episodes, I would assume only diehard fans will be watching.
Personally, I am just a passerby checking up on the back catalogue of Niamh Algar's career.
I appreciate this was early on for her before becoming a noise in the UK, so to have international prominence was a great achievement whilst filming a show in her native Ireland.
Being from the West Mercia and Wessex areas of the UK, the accents and the use of the English language.
20 years ago I met an elderly man from a village near Stratford-Upon-Avon.
He had never had a TV or radio and spoke English in a way that Shakespeare probably would have done but these great warriors are already speaking 21st century English.
I appreciate that county of Wessex is no longer there but the show could have at least filmed in the West Of England rather than the East coast of Ireland.
They were indeed remarkable, nearly as remarkable as Niamh Akbar's performance was unremarkable.
I am sure it is a great way to get young people interested in where they came from as well as brainless entertainment but, I won't be needing to watch another episode.
I am off to plough through more of Niamh Algar's back catalogue (The Virtues, Calm With Horses, Pure, Deceit, Motherfatherson and The Bi-sexual are good shows but Censor is worse than this).
If you like over-the-top battles then Wrath Of Man might be your thing.
Sorry for ruining your high ratings.
Personally, I am just a passerby checking up on the back catalogue of Niamh Algar's career.
I appreciate this was early on for her before becoming a noise in the UK, so to have international prominence was a great achievement whilst filming a show in her native Ireland.
Being from the West Mercia and Wessex areas of the UK, the accents and the use of the English language.
20 years ago I met an elderly man from a village near Stratford-Upon-Avon.
He had never had a TV or radio and spoke English in a way that Shakespeare probably would have done but these great warriors are already speaking 21st century English.
I appreciate that county of Wessex is no longer there but the show could have at least filmed in the West Of England rather than the East coast of Ireland.
They were indeed remarkable, nearly as remarkable as Niamh Akbar's performance was unremarkable.
I am sure it is a great way to get young people interested in where they came from as well as brainless entertainment but, I won't be needing to watch another episode.
I am off to plough through more of Niamh Algar's back catalogue (The Virtues, Calm With Horses, Pure, Deceit, Motherfatherson and The Bi-sexual are good shows but Censor is worse than this).
If you like over-the-top battles then Wrath Of Man might be your thing.
Sorry for ruining your high ratings.
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- xmasdaybaby1966
- Oct 2, 2021
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