re: Vikings Season Long Thread

Okay only the first episode of Vikings premiered last night and the second is supposed to premiere next Sunday. Then why is the second episode already up on Hulu.com.
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Last night I think I heard them say the second episode would be available on History's website.

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That makes sense thanks!

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Tom Hardy characters like in Lawless

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One of my favorite characters of the past year

Just started it but I thought this would focus on the Viking expansion, Erik the Red and possibly Harald Hardrada. I'm guessing these characters aren't based on much?

The beginning dates it to 793, which would be very close to the first recorded Viking raids of the North Sea areas- remember they mentioned "Russia" the the East which would be more like a bay when compared to the rocky waters of the North sea.

A quick wiki and found Lindisfarne, an island off the east coast of England, which was in coincidentally 793 to be raided by Vikings.

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In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne[8] caused much consternation throughout the Christian west, and is now often taken as the beginning of the Viking Age. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records:
In this year fierce, foreboding omens came over the land of Northumbria. There were excessive whirlwinds, lightning storms, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky. These signs were followed by great famine, and on 8 January the ravaging of heathen men destroyed God's church at Lindisfarne.
The more popularly accepted date for the Viking raid on Lindisfarne is 8 June; Michael Swanton, editor of Routledge's edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, writes "vi id Ianr, presumably [is] an error for vi id Iun (June 8) which is the date given by the Annals of Lindisfarne (p. 505), when better sailing weather would favour coastal raids."
Alcuin, a Northumbrian scholar in Charlemagne's court at the time, wrote:
Never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race. . . .The heathens poured out the blood of saints around the altar, and trampled on the bodies of saints in the temple of God, like dung in the streets.

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That's some real shite


Hope they don't gay up the place with a fraternal dispute over a hot "shield maiden". The creator wrote the Tudors.

Decent Article

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Just started it but I thought this would focus on the Viking expansion, Erik the Red and possibly Harald Hardrada. I'm guessing these characters aren't based on much?

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The main character is this guy.

So is this worth a watch?

Just set the DVR

Thanks.

Viking wife....

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The creator wrote the Tudors

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Awww shite. I used to dig me some Tudors. real underrated, imo

And yeah, I watched both 1 and 2 tonight. I'm in this mf'er. Looks to be awesome.

Btw, is this a good or bad thing for the career of Gabriel Byrne? Idc, just asking opinions

And I'm digging Ragnar so far. Pretty badass. Hard to tell how far they're going to develop his character so far. I assume he'll be central to the storyline