• Eastern Baltic, 793 A.D.

  • Northern Europe
• 2:30 — Crow

• 4:30 — Scandinavia

  • That’s a generic location..
• 5:30 — Is that the woman I hope it is? It’s Katheryn Winnick, who I know from House – (2004 show) s03e12 (58) “One Day, One Room”.
• 9:00 — It has not been established that she could fight, or that she was tough at all.
• 13:00 — Prostitution

• 16:45 — Sunstone

  • I’m sure I could find more information on the technology and techniques just described, but I’m not going to look.

• 22:00 — Valhalla

  • And no, no he would not reach Valhalla.
• 29:00 — “It’s what we do.” is a strange thing to say.
• 38:30 — Shield-maiden

• 3:00 — I thought I recognized that man’s voice, and his face. He’s from The 13th Warrior – (1999 movie). I’m glad his career continued.
• 8:00 — I was thinking that the dude was infertile and he wanted to make arrangements to get his wife pregnant.
• 10:15 — Casual misandry.
• 15:15 — The Vikings were known for their cleanliness.

• 19:45 —

  • Jörmungandr
  • Thor
• 25:15 — Judgment Day
• 27:30 — Loki
• 28:45 — Maybe he should have released the ravens before killing the nonbeliever, to make him a believer?
• 42:15 — So how do the Vikings know about Christianity, anyway?

• 2:00 — How short is the voyage anyway? I’ve never seen them eat.
• 6:45 — I like that some of his hair has grown in on his shaved patch.

• 13:45 — I’d choose my life to leave with.

  • They didn’t disobey him.
• 23:45 — Wouldn’t he miss his fellow priests?
• 26:00 — Wouldn’t he keep everything in their sacks?

• 28:45 —

  • Ælla
  • Northumbria

• 40:30 — Why the everloving fuck would he bring them to the king? Just how close by is he?

  • Also, how does he now mystically learn their language?

• 3:30 — Do they have the same day of the week?
• 5:30 — Why would they keep that guy alive? They could get another slave if they wished, a non-combatant too.

• 11:30 — Casual misandry.

  • But seriously, why did she care about the other woman?
• 1345 — Since when did Vikings use a shield wall?
• 18:30 — Why would there be vengeance? They killed the whole group.
• 31:45 — Oh, we’re just learning that he’s the dude’s brother.
• 37:00 — So now the king guy will go after other guy’s son.

• 4:45 — Why would he run up to the man?
• 9:30 — What happened to the priest?
• 16:45 — Unnecessary nudity.
• 18:30 — Arranged marriage
• 29:00 — So were threesomes an actual thing, or is this show just being stupid?

• 3:30 — Decline, follow the guy back, kill them all..
• 4:30 — She should fight him; if he can’t defeat her, then he can’t defeat the dude.
• 10:00 — Clipped hair goes white after a while, doesn’t it?
• 15:45 — That is not the correct way to bleed him out.
• 22:00 — But his wife is his family.
• 24:30 — Norse funeral
• 29:00 — But women don’t go to Valhalla.

• 10:00 — Wilhelm scream
• 34:30 — What was the point of the empty crates if there was no advantage/ambush associated with it?

• 9:00 — There are a lot of gabs in their roof.

  • 9:15 — All of those names are from Norse mythology.
• 10:45 — She’s already got a son.
• 11:45 — Crypto-Christianity
• 19:15 — I thought he spat the mushrooms out into his drink.
• 21:15 — Unnecessary nudity.

• Earldom of Jarl Borg Götaland, Sweden

  • Jarl Borg appears to be fictional.

So.. she was sent to seduce him and lie about bearing her son. Maybe she was already known to be pregnant too.

Were I the protagonist, I would have left my brother to “negotiate” unofficially, to get some significant effort completed.

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