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00:01I was born an Elderman of England.
00:08True heir to the Northumbrian lands of Bebbanburg.
00:13Our ancestors took this land and you will die for it if needed.
00:18I was 12 years old when I first went to war.
00:22I saw my father killed.
00:25My uncle took my lands and pledged his allegiance to the Danes.
00:28My advice for you is to never cross Abba and never, never fight him.
00:35Stolen by the invaders along with a Saxon girl, Brida.
00:39I became first a slave and then a son to Earl Ragnar.
00:43That was my family, my life. Young Ragnar my brother and Brida my lover.
00:48Fate had made me a dave and then fate brought betrayal.
00:52I will not stand by and have everything that's mine taken from me.
01:01Bebbanburg's mine!
01:03Destiny is all.
01:05Horses!
01:06Horses!
01:07Satsang with Mooji
01:37Head for the woods!
02:07You're right, there's a gully over that ridge!
02:37Hoof marks! There must be hoof marks!
02:43There must be hoof marks somewhere!
02:47I've fetched more men. I want him found.
02:50I'll go as far as Mercia if need be, but I want him found,
02:54and I want him dead.
02:57He looked like my father.
02:58Now he knows you're alive. He'll keep looking for you.
03:01Let him. I'm going to kill him and take back what's mine.
03:05He has an army. He's the choice of the Danes. All you have is me.
03:08No. We have Abba.
03:11We go to him with our story,
03:13and with his army, we avenge Ragnar's death,
03:16and we take back Bedlybar.
03:18It's that simple.
03:20Yes.
03:23Yes.
03:35You're quiet.
03:51Rita!
03:52Rita!
03:53Sing me a song.
03:54I won't, I'm not your skull.
03:57True, and what's more you'd frighten the birds.
04:00What?
04:02There's a taste in the air.
04:07Death.
04:30Power.
04:32Four.
04:33Four.
04:34Seven.
04:35Five.
04:37Five.
04:38Six.
04:40Five.
04:42Six.
04:43Six.
04:45Six.
04:46Seven.
04:50Eight.
04:51Seven.
04:55Eight.
04:59Three.
05:00Oh, my God.
05:30Who did this?
05:45Who sacked the village?
05:46I cannot move.
05:48Your back is broken.
05:49Who did it?
05:53Who did this?
05:55Deans did this.
05:56Why?
05:57I don't believe you.
05:59Why should the Danes attack a village that feeds them?
06:02Revenge.
06:03But since when have Danes need an excuse to kill?
06:06Revenge?
06:07Revenge for what?
06:10Huh?
06:13Revenge for what?
06:14And I'll end it.
06:16An uprising north of here.
06:19A Saxon slave.
06:20He killed his master at a wedding party.
06:22What was the name of the slave?
06:30Huh?
06:31You speak English well for a day.
06:34His name!
06:38I regret it.
06:46End it.
06:47Say it.
07:04Say what?
07:05What you're thinking.
07:07I'm thinking that you have a turd where there's supposed to be a mind.
07:11We should never have gone to Babinburg.
07:14We should have let them believe that you were dead.
07:21No, you're wrong.
07:23I want them to know that I'm alive.
07:26I need them to know that I'm alive because they hold what's mine.
07:29I feel better for it.
07:33Yeah?
07:34So does a dog pissing on a tree.
07:38You wish me to bark?
07:39What we needed to do was to ride south to the chieftain Uba
07:42and tell the story of Ragnar's death.
07:45We'll do it now.
07:46Now there is a second story about some slave who killed his master.
07:50Uba knows that Ragnar was my father.
07:52He knows nothing.
07:53I doubt he'll even remember you.
07:55He will believe the story that he hears first and he will kill you.
07:59If he could write, then you could write to him.
08:08If he could read.
08:14You've left us no choice.
08:16We must find Uba and hope he believes you.
08:41Father, Father, Father!
08:50Father Bjorka.
08:52Father.
08:54Say what?
08:56I'll see you in the King's Hall.
09:11My lord, my lord Alfred, it is I, Father Bjorka.
09:25My lord the king has called council.
09:28Do not look at me, Father.
09:31I am a sinner. I am a grievous sinner.
09:34We are all sinners, my lord.
09:36And I am married. I should never have married.
09:39He sends temptation to test us.
09:42And when we fail, he sends the Danes to punish us for their failure.
09:45I should never have married. I should have joined a church.
09:48I should have gone to a monastery.
09:50And God would have found a great servant in you.
09:52But I feel he has other plans.
09:55If your brother were to die, he would be to you, the people would turn.
09:58Oh, pray God, he does not die.
10:01What kind of a king would I be?
10:04You would be God's king, my lord.
10:06You have been blessed and chosen by the Holy Father in Rome.
10:09You will be God's king.
10:14I have seen a girl who torments you.
10:15Must be banished.
10:16No, I believe the opposite. She should be brought into your service.
10:18No.
10:19No, I could not. I could not.
10:21You will resist her. You will let him see your strength.
10:24You will thank him for tempting you and then praise him for resisting the temptation.
10:36Notwithstanding, I have news you may wish to take to council.
10:42What news?
10:43I have an English uprising lord in the north.
10:45It was defeated.
10:46But the nobleman responsible was Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
10:50I know him.
10:51He was taken by the Danes as a child.
10:54A God-fearing child.
10:56Clearly, his heart remains English.
10:58He lives?
10:59I believe so.
11:00He's a warrior lord.
11:02They say he killed his Danish master and 40 men.
11:05He knows their ways. He speaks their language.
11:07He would be useful, would he not?
11:09You could mention him in council.
11:10Why would he kill his master?
11:13For blood, for money, for pleasure?
11:15For England, Lord.
11:16Yes, but how do we know?
11:18He may well be just one more pagan with a busy sword.
11:22But I know him.
11:23No, Father Beocca, you knew him once.
11:26You knew him as a child.
11:29I could send word out into the country, God willing.
11:31Father Beocca, he's a ghost. He's a pagan rumour.
11:33Should he become flesh and blood, then he may merit a mention.
11:37However, my faith, I reserve for God alone.
11:45Now, about this girl.
11:46You may be right about her.
11:49Bring her into my personal service.
11:52And pray for me.
11:54As always, my lord.
12:00If the Danes are there, why else would they be back?
12:02I can see no other words.
12:05Alfred.
12:08King Edmund of East Anglia writes a plea to Wessex for an army.
12:11An attack by the Danish chieftain Earl Abba is inevitable.
12:14This was two days ago.
12:17A long march to fight the Danes at a place of their choosing
12:19is not a strategy worth considering.
12:21To say the least, my lord.
12:22I'm of a mind to decline.
12:23Unrightly.
12:24Abba, he is the Dane whom King Edmund has fed and watered in the past.
12:29He is.
12:30Perhaps in the hope that he would simply pass through East Anglia
12:32on his way to invading Wessex.
12:35It is my opinion that Edmund deserves nothing but silence.
12:37Too harsh, young order.
12:39I believe it was Edmund's hope to convert the Danes from pagan to Christian,
12:43beginning with charity.
12:44For that he deserves praise, surely.
12:46You are true, my lord.
12:47If indeed that was his hope.
12:48Edmund is a godly man.
12:49We have no reason to mistake his actions for cowardice.
12:53Regardless of Edmund's intentions, barring a miracle,
12:55East Anglia will soon fall to the Danes.
12:57And he shall have all our prayers for such a miracle, my lord.
13:00He will need them.
13:01He will not, however, have one man of Wessex.
13:03On that we are agreed?
13:04Yes, lord.
13:05Aye.
13:07Then we must therefore recognize that we now stand alone.
13:11The last kingdom of England.
13:14It will soon be men of Wessex staring across a field at the pagan army.
13:17We must be ready.
13:18We must pray.
13:19We must prepare.
13:20Order, I require that Mercia, London, and East Anglia be watched.
13:24Carefully.
13:25Forward knowledge is everything.
13:26What is that, my lord?
13:27And scribe.
13:28I require the forges of every town and village to be burning night and day.
13:31We shall need all the iron those fires can proffer.
13:33Yes, my lord.
13:35Most of all, I require men.
13:39Strong, fighting men who are prepared to die.
13:42Because that, in the end, is what it will take to save us.
13:49The blood of men.
13:54Ravan used to say, never fight Abba.
13:57It looks like East Anglia has just made that mistake.
14:07We should stay away for now.
14:09Build our own fire.
14:13Abba is unpredictable.
14:14He takes his orders from the gods.
14:17I know.
14:18He only listens to a sorcerer.
14:20And he's half mad.
14:21How will you approach him?
14:24As a man.
14:28It has to be done.
14:30Yes, it has to be done.
14:32But we need to guard your life.
14:36How?
14:37I don't know.
14:38We should hump tonight.
14:50We should.
14:51It's written.
14:53That we should hump?
14:56Our destiny is to hump.
14:59Tonight.
15:00I'm enjoying the thought of it.
15:16That's all you'll enjoy tonight.
15:17Mm-hmm.
15:26Stop.
15:27Stop.
15:28Stop.
15:29What?
15:30What is it?
15:31I...
15:32I think I have it.
15:34We take a hostage.
15:36A shield.
15:37A guarantee for your life.
15:39Ooh.
15:41I don't know.
15:43Someone you can't do without.
15:46Story.
15:47A sorcerer.
16:02Who is this woman?
16:05Why is she not on her back?
16:07Well, not that it's your concern, but she's for story.
16:10Saxon Hawke from Abba.
16:12I've seen you before.
16:15I served El Ragnar, and now I serve Abba.
16:19You'll see me again, I'm sure, boy.
16:24And told stories at the church.
16:25He's up at the monastery, looking after King Edmund.
16:28And killing his priests.
16:42Hello?
16:43Leave, or it will be the death of you.
16:48This church is mine by the order of Abba.
16:51Master's story, I have a gift for you.
16:53Really?
16:54She's from El Abba.
16:55A woman?
16:56Why would Abba send me a woman?
16:57I have no need for a woman.
16:58She's a sorceress.
16:59She's a sorceress.
17:00She wishes her dead, but is afraid of a curse.
17:01Saggy tits.
17:02Stinking breath, but...
17:03You'll be rewarded.
17:04Her head's weight in silver.
17:05A sorceress.
17:06A sorceress.
17:07She has the face of a she-wolf.
17:08Does she bite?
17:09Yes.
17:10She bites.
17:11Leave her with me.
17:12I will do as Abba.
17:13I have a gift for you.
17:14I have a gift for you.
17:15Really?
17:16She's from El Abba.
17:17A woman?
17:18Why would Abba send me a woman?
17:19I have no need for a woman.
17:20She's a sorceress.
17:21She wishes her dead, but is afraid of a curse.
17:22Saggy tits.
17:23Stinking breath, but...
17:24You'll be rewarded.
17:25Her head's weight in silver.
17:26A sorceress.
17:30She has the face of a she-wolf.
17:32Does she bite?
17:33Yes.
17:34She bites.
17:35Leave her with me.
17:36I will do as Abba asks, and she will die.
17:39Slowly.
17:43You belong to me now, old man.
17:45And you will die slowly, unless you do as I say.
17:48On your feet.
17:50We're going for a walk, and you will keep your mouth shut.
17:58This is so foolish.
18:00Abba will come look for me.
18:02And you will be here soon.
18:04I said be quiet.
18:05Then I'll wait for him here.
18:06I'll wait for Abba here.
18:11That means it's just you and me?
18:12Okay.
18:13Where's story is supposed to be here?
18:14Edmund?
18:15Edmund?
18:16Edmund?
18:17Edmund?
18:18Edmund?
18:19Edmund?
18:20Edmund?
18:21Edmund?
18:22Edmund?
18:23where story is supposed to be here
18:31Edmund
18:35Edmund
18:38Edmund
18:41Edmund
18:43Come here
18:46Miserable King Edmund of East Anglia
18:50You've had a night to consider my offer
18:53How do you answer?
18:57Are you dead or breeding still?
18:59With luck he's dead
19:00We allow far too many of them to live as it is
19:02He will have nothing
19:04He lives
19:05It is God who decides who lives
19:07I will say your God has left your hanging, sir
19:10If he has done so
19:11It's because it is his will
19:13Take him down
19:16And do not let him fall
19:18And hail and for Earl Gathryn
19:20I don't understand
19:21We do this all the time
19:23And we allow half of them to live
19:24I say kill them all
19:25All but the young women
19:26And who should work the fields?
19:28The old women
19:29The pregnant women
19:30Put him there
19:32And give the man some ale
19:35And Abba
19:35If I may speak freely
19:39I know you
19:40I'm Uhtred Ragnarsson
19:43I'm here with the truth of how my father died
19:45Yes
19:46You are Ragnars' slave
19:48And you killed him
19:49I don't know what stories you've heard
19:50But Earl Ragnar was killed by his own
19:52By Danes
19:53His former ship's master
19:55Kjartan
19:55And his half-blind son Sven
19:57They let the attack
19:58On a sleeping wedding party
19:59Can't you see that
20:00We are entertaining a king?
20:01Lord Abba
20:02I'm telling you that
20:02Earl Ragnar was killed by Danes
20:04You will cry, boy
20:05And you will wait
20:07Kill him
20:07Not another word
20:08Bardidors
20:10He does not leave
20:11Gotham is right
20:12We are entertaining a king
20:13So no more interruptions
20:15I just have to know
20:17Who is that?
20:18Hmm?
20:22His eyes are watching me
20:23And me?
20:25Who's
20:25Who's what?
20:26Who?
20:27You're the half-naked image here
20:29Who is it?
20:34That is Saint Sebastian
20:35A former Roman soldier
20:37Who found God
20:38Found him where?
20:40He found him in his heart
20:42Do you wish me to tell you the story?
20:47I have time
20:48The emperor of Rome
20:55On discovering that Sebastian had found God
20:57Ordered him to renounce his fate
20:58He refused
20:59So then the emperor
21:01Ordered that he be filled full of arrows
21:03And yet
21:05He lived
21:06He lived?
21:09Yes he did
21:10Is this true?
21:11Of course it's true
21:12God saved Saint Sebastian
21:15And God should be praised for that mercy
21:16For how long did he live?
21:19Well sadly
21:20He
21:20He then ordered him to be
21:22Clubbed to death
21:23So he died?
21:28We went to heaven
21:28So he lived
21:29I heard mention of this heaven
21:32What is this heaven?
21:34Heaven is Valhalla Lord
21:35To the Christians
21:36But without the fighting
21:37Feasting and humping
21:38Heaven is heaven
21:40It's not heathen
21:41But to answer your very first question
21:45I have considered your offer
21:47And yes
21:48I will continue to rule East Anglia
21:50As you suggest
21:51I will suffer your presence
21:53I will provide you with
21:55Horses
21:56Food
21:56Coin
21:57And hostages
21:58I will do all that you demand
22:00But
22:02Only if you
22:06Lord Abba
22:07And all of your men
22:09Submit to God
22:11That is my demand
22:14You
22:15Must be baptised
22:16You must stand in a barrel of water
22:22And they pour more water over you
22:24They want to wash me?
22:28No
22:29Your scent upsets the mother
22:31To cleanse you of your sins
22:33There is only one God
22:34And I demand
22:35That you serve him
22:36Kill him now!
22:37Why must I serve him?
22:38Because God is great
22:39All-powerful
22:40All-magnificent
22:41Have him stop his yapping
22:43And prove it!
22:44Ah, agreed
22:45Prove to me your God is great
22:47Prove it
22:48Prove?
22:48Prove
22:49Look
22:50Here
22:50God spared
22:52Saint Sebastian
22:53But the man still died
22:54Because it was God's will
22:55So would your God protect you from my arrows?
22:58If he was all-powerful
22:59He would
22:59Yes
23:00If it was God's will
23:01He would
23:01Yes
23:01So let us try
23:02We shall shoot arrows at you
23:06And if you survive
23:08We will all be washed
23:13Including Gotham here
23:15Why not?
23:23Very well
23:24I will continue to be king
23:31But we will dispense for the need for the baptisms
23:35The, uh, the washing
23:37I withdraw my request
23:40But you claim your God is all-powerful
23:42I want it proven
23:45Strip it
23:47Archers
23:49Wait
23:56Tell me truthfully
24:05Are you afraid?
24:09God is great
24:10We will see
24:14Shoot
24:20Shoot
24:22Shoot
24:23Ah
24:24They are my men
24:27And only I tell them when to shoot
24:29Shoot
24:32Do you now wish to be clubbed
24:40Or will the arrows be sufficient?
24:44He come a long way, boy
24:48To tell me that it was Danes
24:50And not you that killed Ragnar
24:51It was Kjartan and Sven, Lord
24:54And others
24:55It's the truth
24:58Where else would I be here?
25:00To spy
25:00To lie
25:02No, Lord
25:02Perhaps to kill me
25:05No, Lord
25:06Have you been washed?
25:09Odin is my God
25:10But have you been washed?
25:14Yes, Lord
25:14How did it feel?
25:19The washing?
25:20Cold, Lord
25:21The water was cold
25:22Nothing else?
25:25I was a child, Lord
25:26Now I'm a Dane
25:27Yeah, a Dane
25:29So
25:35Now let us see
25:37If Odin will protect you
25:40From the arrows
25:40I like this game
25:42Strip
25:44Keep away from me
25:45Not another step
25:47Access at the end
25:48I have hostage
25:49What?
25:50I have story
25:51Stop
25:51If I die, he dies
25:53If I die, your sorcerer dies
25:55And you're without his guidance
25:56He lies, I can smell it
25:57I have proof
25:58His runes
26:00The story will be returned to you safely
26:05Take his head from his shoulders
26:07Author and be quiet
26:09Have them open the doors
26:10I will release Story
26:13When I'm clear of this place
26:14You go nowhere
26:16Then he dies
26:16Your sorcerer dies
26:18I'll open the doors
26:21One day I will kill you
26:37The story will tell you otherwise
26:39And I'm telling you the truth
26:43About right now
26:44This is what happens
26:57When we allow too many of them to live
26:58Excellent firewood
27:04You're alive
27:09That's good
27:11Did he hear you?
27:14Did not
27:15Not a word
27:17What did he say?
27:18That he'll kill me
27:19Nothing else?
27:21My story
27:22What did he say?
27:27He's naked
27:28It was necessary
27:29There's a branch up his ass
27:32Which is why he's naked
27:34Uhtred
27:37He must have said something
27:50He believes the lie
27:52He believes that I killed Radna
27:55There's nothing more to do
28:06You should put distance
28:12Between us and this place
28:13And go where?
28:16Anywhere that's not here
28:17I say we go to young Ragnar
28:21He's an island
28:23Then we go to Ireland
28:24How?
28:25In what?
28:25We sail in what?
28:27And with whom?
28:28Danes?
28:28Then we wait for him to return
28:29What if he doesn't return?
28:31What then?
28:31Accepted we're lost
28:36We're alive and breathing
28:39For a reason
28:40Breeder
28:40We are no longer Danes
28:42We have to return
28:52We're alive and기는
28:53We have trapped
28:54We're alive andour
28:55We have a lung
28:55We have to go
28:56We have to say
28:56We have to wait for him
28:57And we have to go
28:57We hook for him
28:58We have to stay
28:58For a reason
28:59We have to wait for him
29:00We have to go
29:00To how to run
29:01To where to run
29:03We have to go
29:04He is everybody
29:04We have to go
29:05We have to gren 가는
29:05How much for your work?
29:27For a long sword.
29:29Tell me what you need and I'll tell your price.
29:32A warrior sword to last a lifetime.
29:35And what are you, Saxon or dame?
29:41Northumbria.
29:45It'll take some time to make her right.
29:49Which means she'll be expensive.
29:52If she's right, I'll pay in silver.
29:54How much?
29:56Ten pieces, half now.
29:57Oh, six, no more.
29:59Eight, and I'll make her my finest.
30:01Eight? And if she's not your finest, you'll be her first.
30:05I want this stone set into the handle.
30:19That can be done.
30:22Don't sell it, no loser.
30:23Hail, my lord.
30:43You stand too close, girl.
30:44Just a little to take away the taste of the gruel.
30:47You stand too close.
30:49It is broth, not gruel.
30:52Is it?
30:54Well, I think it is.
30:56You should be thanking God for its goodness and the banishment of its awful cramps.
31:00I am happy to eat as you eat.
31:03Oh, well, you are safely, my dear.
31:04Brother Beocca, join us for breakfast.
31:07How dare you?
31:08Alas, why not ever eaten?
31:10You're fortunate.
31:12Bad news, Lord.
31:13Your nephew, Ethelwald.
31:15Isn't it always?
31:16He's drunk.
31:17He's sleeping in the palace gardens.
31:19Should I take him to the king?
31:20It's the second time this week.
31:22May God strike him down, painfully.
31:34On your feet, boy.
31:36Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
31:37Come on.
31:38The king wants to see you.
31:40Drunk!
31:41Hey!
31:42What, again?
31:44You think this is fit?
31:46Out, all of you.
31:47Leave us.
31:51Do you think this is fit?
31:52I have been mistreated.
31:54You saw this for yourself.
31:56I demand that this bear is punished.
32:00Ethelwald, your years do not hide the fact that you are a disappointment.
32:03May I ask why?
32:04That you need to ask tells your father all he needs to know.
32:09What?
32:10That you are an unsuitable heir.
32:12That is what?
32:16Then I will change.
32:18You should.
32:19I will.
32:20Look, all I ask is that you become a man, and quickly.
32:24Today.
32:27Today.
32:28I promise.
32:35Am I excused?
32:37I'm not convinced he is my son.
32:53If his mother were not already dead, I'd have her beheaded for adultery.
32:57If I'm to fall in the battles that will come, he cannot be king.
33:10You favor Alfred?
33:11I do.
33:13Even though he is often weak in body?
33:16Well, that his illness does not tie him to his bed shows the strength of my brother.
33:22Alfred is my heir.
33:24He knows it.
33:25And when the time comes, order, my friend, you must steer the Witton to make this choice.
33:36My lord.
33:36It's done.
33:45We should be safe for now.
33:47They say Dane's rarely come here.
33:50What did Storys say to you to make you bind his mouth and, uh...
33:55He threw a curse.
33:56Saying what?
33:58It's not important.
34:00I responded with a brunch.
34:01What are you doing?
34:08You know what I'm doing.
34:10I'm removing the last of his curse with a kiss.
34:13I don't want to.
34:19If you want to go to the Danes, then go find a new lord.
34:26It's me they wish to kill.
34:29You sound like a child.
34:30I'm offering you a choice.
34:32You're talking through your ass.
34:33I'm sitting on my ass.
34:34So your ass is cleverer than you.
34:36It can do two things at once.
34:40Your tongue is sharp, woman.
34:45Show me again.
34:46No.
34:49You're right.
34:52We can't go to young Ragnar.
34:54But we should wait for him to find us, which he will.
35:01He will want to know the truth.
35:06In the time between, we stay alive.
35:10We pass the time.
35:13Doing what?
35:14Hey, hey.
35:15Watch out.
35:27Hey, hey.
35:27What the?
35:27You're not looking out.
35:28No.
35:29Oh, my God.
35:59Oh, my God.
36:29I've given her some beauty, but she is a tool.
36:48No more, no less.
36:49She's exactly as I'd hoped.
37:02She's worth ten.
37:05Lord, men have been asking of you and your woman.
37:09Danes or Saxon?
37:12Lord, men have been asking of you.
37:14And your woman.
37:16Danes or Saxon?
37:19Pick five or more.
37:21Make her sing.
37:28Frida, we should leave.
37:31There are men looking for us.
37:32For mother?
37:33I don't know.
37:34Saxon and Danes are looking for us.
37:36We seem to be collecting enemies as we go.
37:38Go.
37:39Get to the bushes.
37:40Go, go, go.
37:43Get to the bushes.
37:44Go, go, go.
37:50Out of the way, out of the way.
38:06Look, see you.
38:16Go, stop.
38:23Go, go.
38:30How to pass, come on.
38:34Oh, oh, oh, oh!
39:04No!
39:05No!
39:10Brida, the horses are just there.
39:12Wait!
39:13There's another.
39:14We have to go.
39:15Come!
39:28Brida, the door!
39:31Wait.
39:35Wait.
39:36Wait.
39:37Now!
39:49You're right.
39:50We should leave.
39:53Whoever it was that sent them, Abba or your uncle, they won't rest.
39:57There'll be others.
39:59I can't go home without help.
40:04Uhtred, you should forget Babba.
40:09No.
40:10No, I won't vanish.
40:13Nothing changes.
40:14Kjartan and my uncle will pay for Ragnar's death.
40:15And I will have those lands.
40:16But how?
40:17With whose help?
40:18You said yourself we only have Babba.
40:19The English.
40:20If we're dead to the Danes, we have no choice.
40:21There is no England.
40:22The Danes have England.
40:23No.
40:24No, there is one place south of here.
40:25It's Wessex.
40:26They'll take one look at you and kill you as a Dane.
40:29Or a Zepa will kill me as an Englishman.
40:30With King Æthelred we have a chance of everything.
40:31What do you say?
40:32Come with me.
40:33Come with me.
40:34Come with me.
40:48Come with me.
40:51Come with me.
40:55Why did I start?
41:25They think you're pretty, or they've never seen a Dane so close, but they will.
41:47Come on, wait.
41:49Come on!
41:51Go!
41:53Go!
41:55Go!
41:56Go!
41:57Go!
41:58Go!
41:59Go!
42:00Go!
42:01Go!
42:02Go!
42:03Go!
42:04Go koÅŸ!
42:05Go koÅŸ!
42:08Go koÅŸ!
42:09We have business with the king, Æthelred.
42:20I say we have business with the king.
42:24Do you not understand English?
42:26Is that what you're speaking, Arsley?
42:28Sound like a Dane.
42:31Why are you dressed as a warrior when you're clearly a farmer?
42:36Farmer, aren't they?
42:37Well, I'd wager this farmer against you at any time.
42:41We're here to see the king, peaceably.
42:43Uchard, what are you doing?
42:44What is it, farmer? First blood, no to the death.
42:48I'll be spitting your skull, boy.
42:51So one follows the other.
42:52Come on, Lord, Prince. Come on.
42:56Uchard.
43:01Barbeuka.
43:04My goodness.
43:05You know this, Arsling Father?
43:06I do.
43:07Yes, I do.
43:08Uchard, you're...
43:10You're fully grown.
43:13And you're old.
43:16I am.
43:18Oh, you're a man.
43:20He claims business with the king.
43:22Yes, yes, that's true.
43:24But not with the king. It must be with Alfred.
43:26You vouch for him?
43:27I vouch for him. Yes, I will vouch for him.
43:29God has sent you, surely.
43:31You're a man.
43:35Father, this is Brida.
43:38My greatest friend.
43:40A woman?
43:42Yes.
43:43I am.
43:44I have tits.
43:50I see.
43:53Have their horses fed and watered.
43:56And I'll inform Alfred that you're here with me both.
43:58We need the weapons, father.
43:59Why not inform the king?
44:01The king's busy.
44:03But you will like Alfred.
44:04He's an impressive man.
44:05Come on.
44:16You like it?
44:19I do.
44:22It's beautiful.
44:25You can rest here. It's so quiet.
44:27Peaceful.
44:29The Romans, they built this courtyard for just that purpose.
44:34Try and call it it.
44:35You're Alfred.
44:37I am.
44:39My lord.
44:41You are Uhtred.
44:42I hear word. You are a considerable warrior.
44:45Not been tested, lord.
44:47Not yet.
44:49And I've been lucky.
44:51Well, luck is good.
44:53Or so are my own warriors, say.
44:56Now, I haven't quite worked out the theology of luck.
44:59Can there be luck if God disposes?
45:05Well, if God's with you, you're a lucky man.
45:09Yes.
45:11You're right.
45:13Simply put, but you were right.
45:15With me, we shall talk inside briefly.
45:17I spend much of my time in here.
45:35Do you read, Uhtred?
45:37Schooled as a Child by Father Beocca.
45:39I was not a good student.
45:41There's much to know outside of letters.
45:43Oh, I am certain there is.
45:45But do not underestimate the power of the written word.
45:49When a man dies, if nothing is written, he is soon forgotten.
45:53For instance, who is remembering Earl Ragnar?
45:55You know of Ragnar?
45:57Father Beocca has talked much about you, Uhtred.
46:01He believed you a prisoner, a slave to Earl Ragnar.
46:05Is that the case?
46:06Ragnar was a father to me.
46:07I loved him.
46:12Yet in Efferwitch, they're saying that you killed him.
46:15They lie.
46:20Kjartan.
46:21Kjartan, is that how you pronounce it?
46:23Kjartan?
46:24Kjartan.
46:25Has benefited most from Ragnar's death.
46:28He has taken his place and is Earl Kjartan now, a great lord with ships.
46:33That's written down.
46:34Whatever I discover about my enemies is written down.
46:38It is in Kjartan's interest to kill you, is it not?
46:41He would not want Ragnar's son to hear a different tale.
46:45You do not wish him to hear the truth?
46:47No, no.
46:49And the chieftain Abba, although he himself has now travelled north, he has sent men to Mercia.
46:54Asking of your whereabouts, but not your welfare, I surmise.
47:00How do you come by all of this?
47:02I have eyes and ears in each of the kingdoms.
47:04One day, it is my hope that all kingdoms will become one, united under one god.
47:19One king?
47:22If all men can agree, yes.
47:26All that remains of England is Wessex.
47:29The birth of an England, the idea of a single kingdom called England has to begin here.
47:44There is nowhere else.
47:46But for how long will Wessex remain?
47:49The fate of Wessex will be determined by Englishmen, all Englishmen.
47:54Only by joining together and saving Wessex can we have England.
47:59Only by saving Wessex can we have a Northumbria, a Bebanburg.
48:07And if Wessex can't be saved?
48:10Then we are all no more.
48:16Prayers.
48:24And a little discomfort.
48:26I will summarise.
48:35The Danes are gathering a great army.
48:38They have in fact gathered an army.
48:40They gather where?
48:40They have moved upriver from London to Readingham.
48:43They are settling as we speak.
48:45You said of us in the North, so who leads them?
48:47The Earl Guthrum leads them.
48:49And Earl Guthrum.
48:49We will need every advantage.
48:55And Father Bjorka considers you, Uhtred of Bebanburg, to be an advantage.
49:01Whereas I believe you are here solely to hide, to save yourself.
49:06I look at you and I see a Dane.
49:14I see Uhtred of nowhere who cares for no one but himself.
49:21Now I must go to prayers.
49:23You will join me?
49:24My Lord will excuse me.
49:29Us both.
49:31Of course.
49:32I expected as much.
49:36Father Bjorka.
49:37Lord.
49:38Take your guests for refreshments.
49:40I will, my Lord.
49:41They may remain in Winchester, but I hold you responsible.
49:45Yes, Lord.
49:46You should have gone along and prayed with him.
49:53He would have bonded you.
49:54He believes we are pagans.
49:56What Alfred believes is that the Danes have abandoned you.
49:59Abba has abandoned us.
50:00There are other lords.
50:02Most, if not all, follow Abba.
50:04So believe me, girl, you have been abandoned.
50:06Yeah, you know everything about the Danes, don't you?
50:08This way.
50:09I want to show you something.
50:13The Charters of Bebanburg.
50:16Yeah, the land books.
50:17Yeah.
50:18Kept them safe.
50:20No, I have shown them to Alfred.
50:21He knows.
50:23You are the Elderman, by right.
50:27I will continue to keep them safe, but Uhtred, you...
50:31You must behave like an Elderman.
50:43The Charters have no meaning.
50:44Northumbria belongs to the Danes.
50:47It does not belong to the Danes.
50:48It has been stolen by them.
50:50If you want wealth, you take it.
50:52You can't ignore what's true.
50:53If the Danes are at Redingham, I'll go to Redingham.
50:55What?
50:56For what purpose?
50:57Knowledge.
50:58We have knowledge, and you should stay away from the Danes.
51:01For new knowledge.
51:03You know where they're settling, but you don't know why.
51:05We know their number and their position.
51:07But not their intention.
51:09Am I a prisoner?
51:10Their intention is to attack.
51:14When?
51:17Spring.
51:18It's always spring.
51:18I'll go to Redingham.
51:20Where is it?
51:21It's too dangerous.
51:22Not for me.
51:23I'm a godless stain, remember?
51:25So why spy for Alfred?
51:26Because he is an Elderman of England.
51:28Lord, regarding the conversion of the pagans to Christianity.
51:44Yes, Lord.
51:45How do we decide what is proper?
51:48To enlighten them or to kill them?
51:51Spreading God's word is, of course, our mission.
51:54But I fear that the pagans, the true pagans, must first witness and feel his power.
52:10Uhtred, uh, will return?
52:12Yes, he will return.
52:13Yes, but how will he return is who, is what?
52:15I know this boy.
52:16I know this boy is now a man.
52:19I know his soul.
52:21Brother Biocha, he has no soul.
52:22And you say yourself, the pagans need to feel the power of God.
52:28It is written, now, here.
52:31You may leave me.
52:34We shall see what the days bring, my lord.
52:52If wrestling through the winter was their intention, they would have remained in London, yes?
53:06It's you who's Alfred's spy.
53:07The next step is to kill for him.
53:09Will you do that?
53:09Answer me this.
53:10If we were to cross this river and find Guthrum, what would happen?
53:13He'd kill us both.
53:15We owe them nothing.
53:16Alfred needs to know about the Danes, and I need to win his trust.
53:21You think he'll deliver you, Babenberg?
53:23What if you're wrong?
53:23Alfred, you have called counsel for what reason?
53:46Lord, forgive me.
53:47It may well be for no good reason, but we have a pagan in court who claims to have knowledge regarding the Dane army.
53:51Pagan, forgive me, lord.
53:53He is Utrud of Babenberg.
53:55I vouch for his word.
53:57You too.
53:58Alfred.
54:01Lord.
54:05I've been to Readingham.
54:07I've watched the Danes.
54:08Their intention is not to settle.
54:10If it were, they would have remained in London.
54:12You are saying what?
54:13That they intend to attack?
54:15I am, lord.
54:15You already know this.
54:16Come spring, they'll be at our door.
54:18They'll be marching within days, lord.
54:19I'm sure of it.
54:20How can you possibly be sure of it?
54:21The ground is sodden all around.
54:22It makes no sense.
54:23They made their sacrifices.
54:24The ordinary warriors, they've caught and killed birds, jackdaws.
54:27This is only done in the days before battle.
54:29And they're hungry.
54:30Then perhaps they've eaten these jackdaws.
54:32They've many hundreds of men and horses and few supplies.
54:34They'll first seize a town rich with grain and livestock.
54:38I don't know the country well, but I've traveled.
54:40I believe Avendam is such a place.
54:41To defeat the Danes, you must meet them on the road to Avendam.
54:48It'll be within days, lord.
54:50You went to Redingham alone?
54:51With Brida.
54:52Why alone?
54:55Why not?
54:56Well, because for most of your life, you have lived as a Dane.
54:58You look like a Dane.
54:59You can speak the language of a Dane.
55:01Therefore, I surmise.
55:02You can set a trap like a Dane.
55:04Agreed, my lord.
55:05He imagines we are jackdaws.
55:07Where on the road to Avendam?
55:09Where would you choose to meet that army?
55:10I would choose a place called Ashes Hill, lord.
55:12You would choose or Guthrum would choose?
55:14I've seen it.
55:15The pass narrows.
55:16You cannot be outflanked.
55:17For the Danes to fight uphill, it'll be difficult, but they'll be confident.
55:21They don't fear West Saxons.
55:22Why?
55:24Why do they not fear us?
55:25They believe you to be farmers.
55:26Nothing more.
55:27So even with the sun in their eyes, which is possible, they will climb the hill to fight,
55:33and that can be to our advantage.
55:34To our advantage, he says.
55:36You've been here for a matter of days, and already you claim to be of Wessex.
55:40This is nonsense.
55:41This is all far too convenient, my lord.
55:43My lord, my sword was made by a Saxonsmith.
55:45My sword is for Wessex.
55:46Do not interrupt a noble when he is speaking.
55:48Order.
55:49I believe this man, this bag of rags that follows him to be imposters.
55:52No army marches as winter approaches.
55:54No, order.
55:55Enough from you now.
55:57My lord.
56:03You.
56:06You've spoken, given this council much to discuss.
56:10My lord.
56:14Alfred, he's here at your invitation.
56:16What now?
56:18Should the Danes march, we must face them.
56:22And I would rather be at the top of a hill than on the flat.
56:25I say we march to Asher's hill.
56:31But.
56:34Take him.
56:36Take them both.
56:37Make them secure.
56:38My lord.
56:39What is this?
56:39My lord.
56:40I've spoken the truth.
56:42I've spoken the truth.
56:44Father Beelker.
56:44My lord, please.
56:45Beelker, help me.
56:48Beelker.
56:48Have faith.
56:49Have faith.
56:49Have faith.
56:49Let's go.
57:19Hold! Hold!
57:34Hold!
57:42Left flank, hold!
57:44Hold!
57:46Archers ready!
57:56On my command!
57:58For God!
57:59For Wessex!
58:01For England!
58:03For you!
58:04Come on!
58:05What the?
58:07Come on!
58:09Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!
58:11Oh-oh-oh-oh!
58:12Oh!
58:13Oh-oh-oh-oh!
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