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00:00Bi-Hilka! Bi-Hilka! Bi-Hilka! Bi-Hilka, right now!
00:37He is with God.
00:42May his soul rest in peace for all eternity.
00:46Amen.
00:47Fire!
00:48Sound the bell!
00:50Fire!
00:51Fetch the water barrels!
00:54We should meet, Lord.
00:56Continue our previous discussion.
00:58For what purpose?
00:59The Danes will hear of Alfred's death and they will attack Mercia.
01:03Mercia will be ready.
01:04To die or to thrive, find me.
01:10I find him to be lower than a snake's belly.
01:13That does not mean that he is wrong.
01:20We need to stop the fire spreading!
01:22Give him the water!
01:24Firestar, give him the water!
01:26Oh, good, Jesus.
01:29Oh, dear Lord.
01:30Fetch, Father Bianca.
01:31Fetch him now!
01:32No!
01:32What water!
01:33Sit down!
01:34Tourette, it's inside!
01:35What's the...
01:36What's the show at the palace?
01:37No, no, she left.
01:38She walked out.
01:39What water!
01:40What water!
01:41What water!
01:41What water!
01:42What water!
01:44What water!
01:56What water!
01:57Lady Ellsworth, forgive me, appears to be going against the King's wishes.
02:02Father Beocca, you may be needed.
02:09Get the door! Get the door! Get back!
02:23No! No, this is not happening!
02:27No! No! No! No! No!
02:28Are you here? Are you here?
02:31No! No!
02:32No! No!
02:43I do not know.
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05:52Another word, and you will pay.
06:06What have I been saying? Wessex is splintered.
06:09I will have no more of it.
06:32What is this?
06:33It is the beginning, my friend.
06:36Alfred, king of the shit-eating Saxons, has breathed his last!
06:42But he is dead!
06:46Hesse, and you are certain this time?
06:48Arthur!
06:49It is true, Lord. We have heard it many times.
06:53From priests, and warriors, and peasants alike.
06:57They cry in the streets of Winchester!
07:00Then it begins!
07:03It begins!
07:05Sharpen your blades! It begins!
07:28Is that to be a trial, or just a simple execution?
07:30Uhtred, it was my mother's intention to cut your throat.
07:33But she has been persuaded to revert to banishment.
07:37You are to leave Winchester and Wessex and never return.
07:40And what if Edward...
07:41What if the king's letter is pardon? Is that count for nothing?
07:44Uhtred, you must leave, or she will have you killed.
07:50Find Bjorka.
07:53I must speak to Bjorka. Fetch him, please.
07:56I cannot fetch him.
07:58He has trials enough.
08:01What trials?
08:04I am here.
08:07I have heard what the lady has said.
08:09And I am here to beg you, Uhtred, to beg you to stay.
08:11Father Bjorka, he cannot stay.
08:13There will be a hearing.
08:13Perhaps.
08:14And we shall be heard.
08:15We must be heard.
08:16What has happened?
08:17Accept a trial and speak out of you do not, then the devil will have won.
08:21Bjorka.
08:21Do not abandon what you helped build.
08:23There is a change in you?
08:36Tura...
08:37Is with God.
08:40The gods, even.
08:46Why?
08:47How?
08:48Fire.
08:51Set by good Christian men.
08:53No doubt.
08:55Rich men.
08:56She is with Gisela now.
08:59She is with her mother.
09:02We cannot allow ourselves to be consumed by her death.
09:06All that Alfred stood for is crumbling.
09:09You, Uhtred, cannot be dragged into the shadows.
09:12You must become the light.
09:29My Lady Aethelflaed.
09:32You will inform your brother and your mother that Mercia has a king with his own mind.
09:38I will do nothing of the sort.
09:39Alfred is gone.
09:42Therefore all agreements made with Alfred no longer stand.
09:44Mercia will remain allied with Wessex.
09:47The two countries will stand together or they will fail.
09:49Two countries are equals.
09:51Each free to choose who to befriend and who to fight.
09:56Who to fight?
09:59Lord Aldhelm, you must remind my husband what it means to be a Mercian.
10:07Lord King, I must say I do not disagree with her.
10:14I need assuring, Lord, that you will not align Mercy with Aethelwold nor the Danes.
10:18It would be a betrayal.
10:19You need assuring.
10:21We are proud Mercians, Lord.
10:22Do you question me?
10:25I am concerned.
10:27Do you doubt me?
10:30I simply wish to understand your thinking.
10:32My guard of fifty men.
10:35Did you send for them?
10:36You will agree they are needed at home, Lord.
10:38Did you send for my guard of fifty men?
10:44I did not.
10:50Should you live, Aldhelm?
10:53Never disobey me again.
10:55Never.
11:00Your wound is from an alehouse brawl.
11:08I have been considering my defection to the Danes.
11:11I will hold until the very last moment.
11:14Meaning what?
11:15Edward will march and I will promise to join him.
11:17But I will arrive late.
11:19As the Danes attack from the front, I will attack from the rear.
11:23My army against a feud of peasants.
11:25It will be a slaughter and my men will survive.
11:30I can almost hear the screams of panic.
11:41I can't break.
11:41I can't break.
11:42I can't break...
11:57I can't break.
11:58No, no, no, no!
12:03Okay, I can't break.
12:05Lady, forgive me.
12:07I did not know where else to go.
12:13He believes he can negotiate.
12:18Or he's at least considering the possibility.
12:22The bleeding has stemmed, I hope.
12:26A gut wound is a slow death.
12:28A gut wound can heal.
12:30It will heal.
12:45Lady, you have my heart.
12:49I fear that I love you.
12:54If I can't say it when I'm dying, when would I say it?
12:56You're not dying.
13:00Lady, you must act for Mercia.
13:04You must.
13:05Call the men to arms.
13:07And save us.
13:23It's time.
13:25I am to take you to the frontier of Mercia.
13:28To witness you leaving Wessex.
13:31No.
13:37Lord, what is this?
13:40A hunting party?
13:41I'm an outlaw once again.
13:43To be banished or executed.
13:45Should we follow you, Lord?
13:47Leave Winchester for the Danes?
13:56Lord, walk.
13:59What is he doing?
14:01He's standing still, lady.
14:12Uhtred, you will walk and you will get up onto your horse.
14:26I am a free man.
14:29I have a letter of pardon.
14:31It bears the king's seal.
14:33It is written in the king's hand.
14:35Someone take his tongue.
14:36It's the word of Alfred, Count, for nothing in Winchester now that he has gone.
14:39You are a man who once held a knife to the king's throat.
14:42Show us one witness who can say this letter was written willingly.
14:46One witness.
14:47There was no witness.
14:48We are gifting you your life.
14:50You should be grateful and you shall leave this land in peace.
14:53There will be no peace, lady.
14:55War is coming.
14:57There is a Dane army marching this very moment.
15:01And I will not abandon the people of Wessex.
15:03Who do you think you are?
15:05Stay upper.
15:06Mother of the entire city is watching.
15:07Uhtred speaks the truth.
15:08And you are nothing but smitten.
15:10Lady Ailsmith, I cannot let this injustice go unchallenged.
15:14If Uhtred Bebbenberg claims to have been made a free man by King Alfred himself,
15:19we cannot dismiss it so lightly.
15:22Only a king can deny a king.
15:23Wessex has no king.
15:24Wessex has no king.
15:26We have Edward Rex.
15:27It is for the Witton to decide who is king.
15:29Edward is the Aetheling.
15:30He has no authority.
15:32He is Alfred's son and nothing more.
15:34I'm sure the monasteries are full of Alfred's sons.
15:37Do all bastards have a claim to the crown?
15:39Mr. Peckham-Walt, you will end this display.
15:41King or not, if Edward believes the letter of pardon to be untrue,
15:45then I will leave Wessex.
15:46Stay upper.
15:47You will return the prisoner to the palace.
15:49This is not the place for such decisions.
15:51This is precisely the place.
15:53Justice must be seen to be done.
15:54Stay upper.
15:56Unhand the prisoner.
15:58Though he remains a prisoner,
16:01I will allow Lord Uhtred to speak.
16:04He has earned that right.
16:05Though you have not, Lord, not yet,
16:07you have no authority.
16:09Do you object to the people bearing witness to justice, Lord Aethelwalt?
16:13I do not.
16:16Uhtred, the king swore that you were to die.
16:19Why are they changing his heart?
16:21Because he believed that I deserved his forgiveness.
16:23Is that a boast?
16:24Look to his chronicle.
16:25I am there on every page.
16:26That is a lie.
16:27You are not named even once.
16:30But I am there.
16:32Unwritten lady, but I am there.
16:34The warriors of Wessex know it.
16:37The Danes know it.
16:40And it is what the king has told me himself.
16:42I have heard enough.
16:43I am with him from the Somerset marshes to Aethenden and all of the battles that have followed.
16:53He was a man that I loved and despised.
17:04But it was never less than an honor to serve him.
17:10He was my king.
17:12And he did not wish to go to his god without granting me what I have earned many times over.
17:19My freedom.
17:22But the question remains.
17:24Why did he choose not to announce it?
17:48You will remember my great friend Leifrich.
17:51A warrior and a Saxon to the bone.
17:55He told me once that I could never better Alfred.
18:00Because the bastard thinks he said.
18:07Perhaps your father chose not to announce my freedom for this very reason.
18:12So that the people could witness their new king, Edward.
18:16Dispensing justice?
18:19Fairly, I hope.
18:21Will you accept the decision of Edward Rex?
18:24I will.
18:25I give you my word.
18:27Lord.
18:27Again I say, and with respect, the boy does not have the power to make such a statement.
18:32He is an aetheling and nothing more.
18:35He is no more an heir to the crown than myself.
18:37Lord.
18:38The decision is yours to make.
18:50My father, King Alfred, demanded loyalty.
18:54Unity.
18:55He believed in his god and doubted those who did not.
18:59A heathen would not be trusted completely until he had embraced Alfred's god as his own.
19:11And yet, it was a heathen he did trust most.
19:20It was the word of Uhtred that he respected most.
19:28Uhtred of Bebomber, I find the letter written by my father to be true.
19:33Alfred's pardon does stand.
19:36You are a free man able to choose your own path.
19:41May I ask?
19:43Lord Uhtred, may I ask?
19:44Now that you are a free man once more, where will your path lead?
19:49I would like to know.
19:52Stay upper, my sword.
19:58One day, father, I hope that my path will eventually lead north to Bebomber.
20:05Now I believe I am needed here.
20:08I will follow Edward Rex.
20:30Knot, swear to the gods that it was Æthelworld who killed Ragnar.
20:34It was, I swear.
20:37And he must not fall in battle.
20:39If you wish to see Ragnar in the Hall of the Slain, then Æthelworld must not just fall to any
20:42sword.
20:43I do not understand.
20:44Keep him safe until I am ready.
20:45Do it for me.
20:47And for Ragnar.
20:49I will.
20:49I will keep him safe.
20:51We fight for Ragnar!
20:53And for every Dane that has ever fallen to a Saxon sword!
21:01If the Danes are moving through East Anglia and towards Eastern Mercia, then that land is Dane law.
21:06Our army can only grow.
21:10As before, we must march out to meet them.
21:12I have spies inside Dane law.
21:13They have confirmed that they are moving closer.
21:16I have issued an order for my men at the frontier to retreat.
21:18Retreat?
21:19It is good sense, Lord.
21:21Every warrior must be made to count.
21:22But how far do I retreat?
21:25Where and when does Mercia make a stand?
21:28Where and when will we be joined by Wessex?
21:30That is to be decided.
21:31I would like to know.
21:32Because Wessex appears to be in a land of chaos and doubt.
21:36Does each of the handful of eldermen here stand with Edward?
21:39We do.
21:41Of course we do.
21:43He is to be king.
21:47Lord Sigibrit?
21:50We do.
21:52And what of those who are not here?
21:54Those who have already hurried back to their halls, despite knowing there must be talk of war.
21:58They are with us, Lord Etherred.
21:59Wessex will not have great numbers, I am hearing.
22:01We shall be marching, and we shall be marching to fight, Lord.
22:04Lord King.
22:05Do not dare believe there is another option.
22:07Hesn and Knut are men without honor.
22:09They will take your land, your silver, and the tinkran from your head.
22:18All of you hear me.
22:20Yes, it is likely that the Danes will have greater numbers.
22:23But this is a battle that we can win.
22:26Though it will take all of us, every man and every sword,
22:29and we will fight with all the guile and wit that Alfred has instilled.
22:35God is with us.
22:42I shall return to Mercia.
22:44Send word of your intentions, and soon.
22:46But I warn you, I will not fight a battle that cannot be won.
22:49I will not be seen to send my subjects into a slaughter.
22:51Do you wish to become a puppet, Lord Etherred?
22:56Send word.
23:03Lord.
23:11He is right.
23:14I am not my father.
23:20When Winchester fell to Guthrum,
23:23your father hid himself away in the marshes.
23:26For months,
23:27he hid in fear for his life and a failure.
23:30But he overcame that fear.
23:35We will find the words,
23:36and you will write letters to each and every elderman and thane of Wessex,
23:39and they will answer your call.
23:41They will come.
23:47To where?
23:48Lord,
23:50if we have fewer men,
23:52the very last place we want to fight is open ground.
23:57Beddonford.
23:59Beddonford is a good distance away.
24:02It is the path they would take.
24:05It is a long march, Lord.
24:07The land could be to our advantage.
24:10It could, Lord.
24:13Beddonford, it must be.
24:20Then I will do it.
24:22With your help,
24:25I will find the words.
24:33The devil cannot win.
24:36The devil will not win.
24:39I will need a sword,
24:41or an axe,
24:42a shield.
24:44This is a battle I will not watch.
24:47I need to fight,
24:48until I can fight no more.
24:50The devil will not win.
24:50The devil will not win.
24:50The devil will not win.
25:01The devil will not win.
25:01Well, it's in great.
25:06You're leaving in the night?
25:08There is an army to raise.
25:11You have been sitting with Aethelwold for some time.
25:14If you are questioning my loyalty,
25:16do not.
25:16I am Wessex,
25:18as was my father and my grandfather.
25:20But you are not for Edward.
25:22That does not make me a traitor to my country.
25:24Then you will be there,
25:24in battle.
25:25I will.
25:28Wessex will need the men of Kent.
25:31A letter will soon find you.
25:34We will be there.
25:36For the good of Kent,
25:37and for Wessex.
25:39Yes, for Wessex,
25:41Lord Seagerbury.
25:44You are one day Saxon,
25:45and the very next day,
25:46Dane Uhtrin.
25:49I have not yet offered you
25:51my condolences for Ragnar.
25:55Your brother deserved a warrior's death.
25:58I am sorry you will not see him in Valhalla.
26:01This is where you belong, Aethelwold.
26:03Winchester?
26:04Standing on a stable floor
26:06like a horse's turd.
26:09Will you be riding for Edward?
26:10Like Seagerbury,
26:11I will be there,
26:12and I will be praying
26:12for a great victory.
26:13For Saxon, or for Dane?
26:14Do you care?
26:15You belong to neither.
26:19I did once fear you, Uhtrin,
26:21but now I see you are nothing but a sword,
26:24a lump of metal.
26:26Yes, you have reputation,
26:28but that will fade,
26:29and you will die forgotten
26:31and unwritten.
26:33You will go neither to heaven
26:35nor to Valhalla.
26:47This letter from Edward,
26:49but I better be good.
27:01A letter has been sent.
27:04It speaks out to every man in the kingdom
27:06demanding
27:07that he answers the call
27:09and joins us on the road to battle.
27:12It says that this will be a battle
27:14that will be spoken of
27:15for lifetimes to come.
27:16It is a battle
27:18that no man can ignore.
27:20No man can stand by
27:21and watch.
27:23Every man must find a weapon,
27:26and every man must fight.
27:28Wessex
27:29will always be the light,
27:32and no matter how heavy
27:34our swords become,
27:36we must fight.
27:37Fight!
27:39Fight and keep on fighting
27:40until the victory is ours!
27:52We march!
27:57Fight!
27:57Fight!
27:58Fight!
28:00Fight!
28:00Fight!
28:01Fight!
28:06Fight!
28:09Fight!
28:34I have noticed that the wall is not with us.
28:36I wonder why the stench had gone.
28:38No doubt he's making his way to the Danes.
28:41He may know of Badenford. He will tell them.
28:44Which is why we're heading towards the woods, beyond Badenford.
28:48We are?
28:48We assembled Badenford as requested in the letter,
28:51but then we march on to attack the Danes and the woodlands.
28:54Small advantage for us, all the members.
29:01You have the blood kept safe.
29:03I do, Lord. Always.
29:05And it is blessed.
29:09To this blood?
29:11Yes.
29:13And it will save Ragnar's soul?
29:15It will take him from Nevelheim to Valhalla, yes.
29:19From hell into heaven.
29:24You must kill the man who killed Ragnar with the blade marked with Ragnar's blood.
29:28To this blood?
29:30It's the same.
29:33Who is this man you will kill?
29:37I do not know.
30:28So, Trud lives?
30:31No rides with Edward?
30:33Yes.
30:35You were supposed to kill him.
30:38And I did not.
30:39We do not find him sleeping.
30:50Barely matters because Wessex is broken.
30:53Half of the Eldermen will not answer Edward's call, and in one that will, we have an ally.
30:57Sigurbrigt of Kent.
31:00He commands one of the greatest armies of Wessex, and he is with us.
31:03He is?
31:04And he will join us, well, he will join us in battle.
31:11My plan is that he will arrive to attack the Saxons from the Rio once battle has begun.
31:18Good.
31:27Jackdaw?
31:29What?
31:30Kent will be sending out spies in charge of the Saxon camp.
31:33You will follow.
31:35I will?
31:36You will find Utrecht and give him a message.
31:56Still no word from Lord Sigurbrigt.
31:58I had hoped some men would be here already.
32:00They will come, Lord.
32:02We must continue on to the woodland and begin the fight.
32:05Cannot allow them into open ground.
32:08And this may well be the place we die, Utrecht.
32:12Or it may well be the place you become King, Lord.
32:15A great king, like your father at Etherndon.
32:30There is nothing more useless than a dead spy.
32:39Finan?
32:50Jackdaw?
32:50He says he has a message, Lord.
32:52I do, Lord.
32:54It's from Breida.
32:57Say it.
33:00Am I to be spared?
33:01Yes, you will be spared, but you will not be returning to the Danes.
33:05Say your message.
33:07She says Æthel will be, Lord.
33:11She says do not fail.
33:22How long before they come?
33:25They are near.
33:27You are facing death, for certain.
33:29You are wrong, Jackdaw.
33:30I will not die.
33:35What's first?
33:38The blood.
33:55Today, I ask you not to fight for Alfred.
33:59I ask you not to fight for Edward nor the crown,
34:03but to fight for yourselves and your forefathers.
34:08They are buried in the soil of Wessex and Mercia,
34:13and they have become the soil.
34:15They are the land.
34:17And even as I speak,
34:20it is for them
34:22we are fighting!
34:24They are the last ìž¡ì•„ and its hitting.
34:29They are the hog Stephen.
34:36They are the one who that probe will fight for their wine.
34:46They and some running away from the soil.
34:46They are the one with the frying Poor Mary.
34:47It is not to go to the air laughs.
34:48You are the only útil in the air?
34:51I cannot do it.
34:53They are the kinds of theatre.
34:53I may seek you to perfect curiously.
34:53Oh, my God.
35:36Oh, my God.
35:45Oh, my God.
35:59Oh, my God.
36:18Oh, my God.
36:26Oh, my God.
36:30Oh, my God.
36:33Oh, my God.
36:35Oh, my God.
37:05When will your man attack?
37:06Soon.
37:07When they have tired.
37:08Very soon.
37:26There, there, there, there he is.
37:27Did I not say...
37:29What position is he taking?
37:43For our forefathers!
37:52Is he joining us?
37:54Is he joining our line?
37:55Is he joining our line?
38:11I need to...
38:16Quit this!
38:22Fight!
38:23Stand your ground!
38:24And fight!
38:25Fight!
38:38We have been betrayed.
38:58Oh, my God!
39:00Oh, my God!
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39:04Get down!
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40:06They are possessed by devils.
40:09It is lost.
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40:38It hurts!
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42:37No!
42:38No!
42:48No!
42:49No!
42:57No!
42:57No!
42:57No!
42:57No!
43:01No!
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43:13No!
43:16No!
43:26Orchard?
43:29Look.
43:30A bridge.
43:33He's crossing to Valhalla.
43:36Oh.
43:39He's free.
44:10It will be written in the Saxon chronicle that Edward did gain a great victory over the Danes.
44:17Ensuring he would become king of Wessex.
44:21But other battles lie ahead, both with the Danes and within Wessex itself.
44:27A king must decide who he can trust and who he must discard.
44:36He must understand the minds of both his enemies and his friends.
44:43He must recognize that the truth of a man lies not in the land of his birth, but in his
44:51heart.
44:58A king must be a king on his own terms.
45:02He cannot be his father.
45:04He can only be himself.
45:12The chronicle will grow.
45:14Pages will be added.
45:16But Uhtred of Bebenberg will not be mentioned.
45:20Although I too was victorious.
45:26My name is Uhtred, son of Uhtred.
45:31My name is Uhtred Ragnarsson.
45:35Destiny is all.