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New Beginnings

Episode aired Dec 4, 2019
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Bjorn struggles with the responsibilities of kingship and finds he can't rely on his mother, Lagertha; she has other plans. Ivar falls into the hands of Kievan Rus, and in their ruthless and... Read allBjorn struggles with the responsibilities of kingship and finds he can't rely on his mother, Lagertha; she has other plans. Ivar falls into the hands of Kievan Rus, and in their ruthless and unpredictable ruler, Prince Oleg, he may finally have met his match.Bjorn struggles with the responsibilities of kingship and finds he can't rely on his mother, Lagertha; she has other plans. Ivar falls into the hands of Kievan Rus, and in their ruthless and unpredictable ruler, Prince Oleg, he may finally have met his match.

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Katheryn Winnick, Jordan Patrick Smith, Georgia Hirst, Ragga Ragnars, and Lucy Martin in Vikings (2013)

Katheryn Winnick, Alexander Ludwig, and Marco Ilsø in Vikings (2013)

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Katheryn Winnick and Georgia Hirst in Vikings (2013)

Katheryn Winnick, Alexander Ludwig, and Jordan Patrick Smith in Vikings (2013)

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Trivia
"Buddhist" monks are depicted in the opening scene. Buddhist monks were almost certainly present in even the Western-most regions of the Silk Road in the 9th-10th centuries. In particular, one Sufi saint-Shaqiq al-Balkhi (d. c. 810 CE)-talks about meeting "shaven-headed mendicants" on the Silk Road that seem to have been Buddhist. To be clear, those folks are *not* Himalayan, and the robes are not what Himalayan Buddhist monastics wear. I say this as a professor of Himalayan Buddhism. Regardless, in my opinion this an excellent approximation of the silk road circa 800 CE.

Goofs
Ivar the Boneless died in 873. Oleg came to the throne of Kiev only in 882. They could not have met under the circumstances depicted in the show.

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Lagertha: Lagertha: I've seen enough of war. I have seen enough of death. I have lost so many. I don't want to be a A public person anymore. I don't want to be responsible. I desire to live a totally different kind of life.

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If I Had A Heart
(Opening Titles)
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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Historically illiterate

I can see already this season is made by people who do not know a lot about that part of Russian history. Oleg the Seer was a ruler (kniaz') of Novgorod and Kiev before Rus' became Christian in 988 AD. So things like the typical Christian Orthodox onion domes, are a bit out of place. Also the clothes are not very Russian. Oleg's henchmen look more Turkic than Slavic. I think they're supposed to be Pechenegs (but I doubt the creators know about them).. they were Turkic people living on the steppe. The creators should have looked up Ivan Belibin and Vsevolod Ivanov paintings to get a general impression of the clothes/people etc. They do speak a Slavic language here (Bulgarian I think). But the creators should have chosen Church Slavonic as a language, that is the closest (ceremonial) language to east Slavic.

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