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Tell me about Paris.

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It has these walls all around.

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This city is impregnable.

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Give us the name of the father of your child?

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Athelstan.

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Athelstan.

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The Lord has come to me.

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Then you're a Christian again?

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With all my heart.

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It is better that I leave Kattegat now.

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What do you mean? You cannot leave!

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You're the only one I can trust so you must stay.

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Blood must be spilled.

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A sacrifice be made.

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My purpose is clear.

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Lord, receive my soul.

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There is nothing that can console me now.

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Forgive me, my friend, not for what I have done.

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But for what I am about to do.

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Lord Ragnar.

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It is all very well to criticize others.

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If they had agreed to act,

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the progress of the Northmen would have been frustrated

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at every reach of the river.

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But while others have neglected their responsibilities,

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I have not been idle.

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Paris has been prepared for this attack.

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We are well-provisioned with food and water,

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enough to last the whole summer.

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I am relieved to hear it.

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To some extent,

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we are at your mercy, Count Odo,

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for you must protect us against these pagans.

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Your Highness, it is still not too late for you to leave the city.

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Many here would urge you to save yourself.

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Surely,

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they would blame me for abandoning

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our capital at such a time?

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Perhaps they would think it is a sensible precaution.

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Allow me a moment to reflect, Count Odo.

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Father?

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Count Odo thinks it might be a good idea for me to leave.

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You must tell Count Odo that

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you have no intention of abandoning your people.

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That whatever happens,

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you will stay with them,

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be with them,

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protect them.

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I am sure, father, that that was always your intention.

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Count Odo,

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I am determined not to quit the city.

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Not in its most urgent hour of need.

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These next few days and weeks

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will test the faith of all of us.

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I pray to God Almighty that not one of us is found wanting

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in either courage

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or belief.

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Yours is a heavy burden,

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Count Odo.

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You have many Christian souls in your care.

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I carry this burden with a light heart,

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knowing I share it with our Lord, and with your Highness.

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But I must ask your Highness if you have appealed to

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your brother, the Eastern Emperor, for help?

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He could surely provide an army for our relief.

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I will not ask either of my brothers for help.

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I must prove myself better than my brothers, Count Odo,

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and these Northmen have provided the opportunity.

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Defeat them,

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and I will be seen as a worthy successor

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to my grandfather,

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to the great Charlemagne.

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So you see, Count Odo,

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that your burden is...

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Really much heavier than you imagined.

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Raise shields!

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Climb! Climb aboard!

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Row! Row!

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Forgive me

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for asking, my son, but how is your marriage?

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It's a marriage.

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It is hard to forget what happened, and...

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I try hard to forgive,

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as our Lord requires us to do.

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"Even those who trespass against us."

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I'm glad to hear it.

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There is something I wanted to ask you.

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Judith is King Aelle's daughter.

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What does she think of her father?

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And...

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What would she think if we decided to overthrow him?

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You would really do that?

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Of course.

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How else would I become Bretwalda, King of Kings?

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King of all England. Of course I must overthrow him.

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I just wondered how upset your wife would be.

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From what Judith has told me, there is no love lost between them.

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That is what I thought.

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Do you plan to invade?

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Not initially. I have certain plans in place.

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Various suggestions to invite chaos.

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Including, perhaps, assassination.

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My god! Father, Aelle is your ally and your friend.

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Oh, no.

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Not my friend.

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I don't have any friends.

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It's better that way.

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Come here, Alfred.

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Come to your grandfather.

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A magnificent boy!

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I wonder how he is?

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Who?

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Athelstan.

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It's that name again.

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Why must you forever bring him to mind?

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For when I think of that filthy apostate,

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it reminds me of how my wife whored with him.

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-And how much more she should

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have suffered for it. -ECBERT: Aethelwulf!

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This is not to do with you, father!

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This is between me and this Jezebel!

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This harlot!

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Leave. Now.

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Here.

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You wanted to talk to me, Ragnar?

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I miss him.

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Athelstan.

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I wish he was here with us.

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Since you carry his cross, he still is here with us.

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He would have been useful.

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We will manage without him.

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Well.

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We have no choice now.

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Father, forgive me.

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Holy Father, forgive me.

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For behold, I am a miserable sinner.

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I must speak with the prince.

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Prince Aethelwulf!

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Prince Aethelwulf!

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You have interrupted the sacred.

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There is no excuse.

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There is one, my Lord.

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Death waits for no man!

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Who is this?

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You sent nobles with Queen Kwenthrith,

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to look after our interests in Mercia.

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What happened to you?

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The Queen

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repudiated the contract she signed with us.

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She wants to rule alone.

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She tried to kill all of us that

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were sent to safeguard the interests of Wessex.

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She is quite mad.

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Speak no more.

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Rest, my Lord.

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I know we have had our differences of late.

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Perhaps it is my fault, I have not been myself.

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I want you to know, Floki,

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that I need you.

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Now more than ever.

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I've always

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believed in you.

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Right this way.

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I want you to be in command of this raid.

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Me?

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Sit, sit.

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It's okay, sit.

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King Ragnar, we have reached Paris.

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Now...

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-Now, we all want to know... -Puh, puh, puh, puh...

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The king...

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My oldest friend has asked me to take command.

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So...

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How do we best attack the city?

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Some of us...

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Have taken a closer look at the city from further up the bank.

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And we suggest a plan.

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To mount simultaneous attacks

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both from the water and from the land.

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I will lead an assault on the tower and the gates of the city.

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We will attack the gates together.

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I said I would lead the assault.

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We may need the tools Erlendur made.

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I will make that decision, if and when we need to make it.

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I trust Earl Kalf to make it.

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I don't think you were listening.

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At the same time as the attack at the gates,

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there will also be a river-borne attack.

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The ships will be filled with warriors and means of scaling,

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we will beach beneath the walls.

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We will climb up and gain entry to the city that way as well.

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In which case, Floki, you will be responsible for constructing

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whatever it is we need to scale these walls.

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Oh, don't you worry about me, Rollo.

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I will make something truly astonishing.

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Just wait and see.

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All those who agree with the plan, say aye.

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Aye!

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Aye.

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Let's hope the gods bless your efforts.

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Please take her.

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Take my baby.

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What are you talking about?

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I cannot care for her.

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Of course you can.

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I can't.

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I want her to be like your sons.

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I want her to be Viking.

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What does it matter what you call someone?

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Whether she's Viking or not Viking is not important.

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What is important is that you love and nurture her.

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For if you are fortunate, she will grow up healthy.

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And give you grandchildren to be proud of.

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Think of Bjorn.

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I am...

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This is why I want you to raise his daughter.

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Bjorn loves you.

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Bjorn will be much happier

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and better off without me.

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That is not true.

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It is what I believe.

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It is a very selfish thing to believe.

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I cannot help it.

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Your daughter needs you.

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She needs her mother.

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You must not talk this way.

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Pray to Freya.

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Freya will comfort you as she comforts me.

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We women bear heavy burdens.

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But it is not to be helped.

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And even when we are dealt with harshly,

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remember, it is the gods who have woven our destinies.

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Not ourselves.

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My son.

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I have another mission for you on our behalf.

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You must go to Mercia and persuade Queen Kwenthrith

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that her interests and ours are one and the same.

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She has killed six of our nobles.

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Yes.

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That is certainly...

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Unfortunate.

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And she ought to be punished.

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So much for gratitude.

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What kind of a world do we live in,

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when the friends of our friends, kill our friends?

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But still, there is a way

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for this deluded Queen to find some redemption.

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There is?

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My son,

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Mercia has been weakened by years of civil wars.

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She is no longer what she was,

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and must acknowledge the power of Wessex.

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Without Wessex, Mercia is now more than ever

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at the mercy of the Northmen.

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As well as other Saxon neighbors.

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Like Northumbria?

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Precisely. Like Northumbria.

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Yes.

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Those closest, but unexpected, can sow a terrible harvest.

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I charge you to go to Mercia.

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And tell the Queen that she

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may be forgiven for slaughtering our nobles

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but only if she begs mercy

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and reconfirms her subjugation to Wessex.

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If not,

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we will show her the iron fist.

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We will invade and we will destroy her,

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and her limbs being fastened to four horses,

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her body will be torn apart.

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Or something of that sort.

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But also tell her that we have a repugnance for such measures,

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being Christians.

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Torvi...

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Torvi, I should have spoken before.

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Why?

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You know why.

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It doesn't matter.

280
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I am not with child, neither am I a child.

281
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I took advantage.

282
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So did I.

283
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This is for you.

284
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What's that?

285
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Nothing.

286
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-Let me see! -No.

287
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You are hurting me.

288
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It's far too good for you.

289
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Whore.

290
00:25:17,610 --> 00:25:19,470
The Northmen have been scouting the countryside,

291
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and our defenses.

292
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We must expect an attack any day now.

293
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EMPORER CHARLES: Gisla,

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I regret not sending you to safety in time.

295
00:25:28,290 --> 00:25:30,330
It is much on my mind.

296
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I did not want to be sent away.

297
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I wanted to stay here with you.

298
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There is nowhere I would rather be than here in Paris,

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beside you, in your hour of need.

300
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But I must tell you both,

301
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I have been much about the city.

302
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The people of Paris are frightened to death by this pagan army.

303
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So far, only their firm belief in god's grace and protection,

304
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prevents them from becoming hysterical and violent.

305
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I am aware of the need to pacify and control the population.

306
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Thank you, Princess Gisla.

307
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Perhaps you yourself might help to reassure them

308
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that we are well-protected,

309
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and have enough supplies to withstand a long siege.

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Though, god willing, it will not come to that.

311
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You may rely upon me to do everything possible to

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persuade the people of our ultimate victory.

313
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Even your presence in the city, Princess,

314
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helps them to believe in that.

315
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,710
Yet it is for my father to lead us to that victory.

316
00:26:19,470 --> 00:26:20,910
Is it not, father?

317
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I must to bed.

318
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I am tired.

319
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But I am glad we have had this conversation,

320
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and I am also very glad

321
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that I have placed my faith in you, Count Odo,

322
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as well as in God Almighty,

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for the successful outcome of this matter.

324
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I must too go to bed.

325
00:26:59,830 --> 00:27:00,950
Of course.

326
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:05,370
And yet I beg you to stay a moment and listen to me.

327
00:27:06,180 --> 00:27:08,490
You once refused my offer of marriage.

328
00:27:13,010 --> 00:27:15,430
What had I achieved? What could I offer you?

329
00:27:16,540 --> 00:27:17,980
But then I heard how many

330
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other offers of marriage you had declined,

331
00:27:19,470 --> 00:27:22,590
from men far richer, far grander than me, and...

332
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,290
So, it gave me hope.

333
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And my hope is that once

334
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I have successfully managed the defense of Paris,

335
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,300
and the defeat of the Northmen, and...

336
00:27:32,310 --> 00:27:34,460
Gained a new and high reputation,

337
00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:37,630
you will look again at my proposal?

338
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If you save Paris,

339
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I will forever be in your debt.

340
00:27:44,550 --> 00:27:46,670
But your first duty, Count Odo,

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is to concentrate on the defeat of the Northmen.

342
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On that, I am sure we both agree.

343
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Higher up.

344
00:28:37,060 --> 00:28:40,120
Pull again, pull again. It needs to be more at an angle.

345
00:28:43,950 --> 00:28:46,630
You must be hungry. I have brought you something to eat.

346
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:47,740
I'm not hungry.

347
00:28:47,750 --> 00:28:49,350
My work nourishes me.

348
00:28:50,370 --> 00:28:53,360
I have so many responsibilities now, Helga.

349
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,730
Everyone is depending on me.

350
00:28:55,790 --> 00:28:59,160
My inventions will allow us to enter Paris.

351
00:28:59,380 --> 00:29:00,620
You will see, Helga.

352
00:29:00,630 --> 00:29:02,670
Our warriors will storm the walls

353
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,070
and we will all win the greatest renown.

354
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:06,940
Especially me.

355
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,550
Floki, the boat builder.

356
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:13,410
Floki, the tower maker.

357
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,690
But, of course...

358
00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:21,310
It's not me making these towers.

359
00:29:21,590 --> 00:29:23,010
It's the gods

360
00:29:23,190 --> 00:29:25,230
using my poor hands.

361
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,570
Do you know why they are helping me, Helga?

362
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,250
Do you know why?

363
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,070
It's because I gave them a great sacrifice.

364
00:29:35,430 --> 00:29:36,930
I appeased them.

365
00:29:36,950 --> 00:29:38,580
I delighted them.

366
00:29:38,590 --> 00:29:40,130
I filled them with joy.

367
00:29:40,140 --> 00:29:42,050
Do you know what I did, Helga?

368
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:43,700
Do you know what I did?

369
00:29:45,060 --> 00:29:46,990
I killed Athelstan!

370
00:30:12,390 --> 00:30:13,440
Who are you?

371
00:30:13,450 --> 00:30:14,940
You know who I am.

372
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,120
Now take me to her.

373
00:30:16,130 --> 00:30:17,750
Not until you tell me the purpose of your visit,

374
00:30:17,770 --> 00:30:19,340
the Queen will need to know.

375
00:30:19,350 --> 00:30:22,460
Queen Kwenthrith knows perfectly well, that the son

376
00:30:22,470 --> 00:30:25,080
of King Ecbert of Wessex wishes to speak to her.

377
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,160
She would certainly be ill-advised if she refused to meet me.

378
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,460
Look! You...

379
00:30:33,380 --> 00:30:34,680
Do as you're told.

380
00:30:35,190 --> 00:30:36,760
If you want to spare your life.

381
00:30:56,890 --> 00:30:58,150
Judith...

382
00:31:01,850 --> 00:31:05,610
You spoke before in the baths of the Romans.

383
00:31:05,820 --> 00:31:07,370
I was surprised.

384
00:31:07,570 --> 00:31:09,800
Most of our people know nothing about them.

385
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,270
I still know very little,

386
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:13,940
but I was always curious.

387
00:31:14,350 --> 00:31:16,160
I have some words, here...

388
00:31:16,170 --> 00:31:18,130
From the Romans themselves.

389
00:31:19,230 --> 00:31:22,210
Athelstan helped me to translate them.

390
00:31:23,540 --> 00:31:24,960
Athelstan?

391
00:31:37,930 --> 00:31:40,200
"Don't ask, we may never know,

392
00:31:40,210 --> 00:31:43,960
Leuconoe, what the gods plan for you and me.

393
00:31:44,540 --> 00:31:46,670
"Leave the Chaldees to parse

394
00:31:46,690 --> 00:31:48,910
"The sentence of the stars."

395
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:50,900
So strange.

396
00:31:51,970 --> 00:31:55,720
As though he is here, talking to us now.

397
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,970
"Of expectation. Life's short.

398
00:32:01,980 --> 00:32:07,270
"Even while we talk, time, hateful, runs a mile.

399
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,470
"Don't trust tomorrow's bough for fruit,

400
00:32:11,510 --> 00:32:15,610
"Pluck this, here, now."

401
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:22,050
Well, whoever wrote those words must be very wise.

402
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:29,700
Judith.

403
00:32:31,020 --> 00:32:35,080
As long as there is breath in my body, I will protect you

404
00:32:35,090 --> 00:32:38,380
and your son, Alfred. Believe me.

405
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,040
KWENTHRITH: Prince Athelwulf.

406
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,030
Do forgive me for keeping you waiting.

407
00:33:59,130 --> 00:34:00,180
I was bathing.

408
00:34:00,190 --> 00:34:03,530
Queen Kwenthrith, I bring a message from my father.

409
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,370
He condemns the murder of our nobles,

410
00:34:05,380 --> 00:34:07,250
who accompanied you here in good faith.

411
00:34:07,260 --> 00:34:08,760
He insists that you reaffirm

412
00:34:08,770 --> 00:34:11,270
the status of Mercia as a client state of Wessex.

413
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,530
Ah, so much talk of business.

414
00:34:16,130 --> 00:34:17,640
Come, now.

415
00:34:18,590 --> 00:34:21,140
May I offer you a cup of wine?

416
00:34:28,290 --> 00:34:29,920
To our alliance.

417
00:34:42,010 --> 00:34:43,120
There.

418
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,250
Now, come.

419
00:34:45,660 --> 00:34:46,730
Sit.

420
00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:51,710
So...

421
00:34:59,510 --> 00:35:01,970
I'm quite happy to discuss these matters further.

422
00:35:01,980 --> 00:35:03,320
What is there to discuss?

423
00:35:03,330 --> 00:35:04,280
My father insists that...

424
00:35:04,290 --> 00:35:06,470
My father, my father!

425
00:35:07,210 --> 00:35:09,950
How old are you, Aethelwulf?

426
00:35:10,310 --> 00:35:11,440
Hm?

427
00:35:11,450 --> 00:35:13,490
Do you always do what your father tells you?

428
00:35:13,510 --> 00:35:15,420
Don't you have your own thoughts and your own feelings?

429
00:35:15,430 --> 00:35:17,370
I have feelings of duty.

430
00:35:17,650 --> 00:35:19,430
I try to do what is right.

431
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,700
For my country and for my god.

432
00:35:28,980 --> 00:35:30,530
Do you know what I wonder?

433
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,490
I wonder what your father threatened to do to me.

434
00:35:35,550 --> 00:35:37,620
Hm... Let's see.

435
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,050
Did he want to tear me apart?

436
00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:44,770
Violate me?

437
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:46,940
Whip me?

438
00:35:47,860 --> 00:35:50,150
Oh, whip?

439
00:35:51,420 --> 00:35:54,000
Would you like to whip me?

440
00:35:56,380 --> 00:35:58,030
Would it excite you?

441
00:36:03,970 --> 00:36:05,940
Come to my bed.

442
00:36:07,140 --> 00:36:09,990
After all, why not enjoy what your father enjoyed?

443
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:16,520
Lead me not into temptation,

444
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,130
but deliver me from evil.

445
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:21,900
Goodnight.

446
00:36:31,260 --> 00:36:32,610
Sweet dreams.

447
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:54,090
Come.

448
00:36:59,740 --> 00:37:01,460
Prince Aethelwulf?

449
00:37:02,090 --> 00:37:03,780
May I present to you, my son,

450
00:37:04,730 --> 00:37:06,180
Prince Magnus.

451
00:37:07,030 --> 00:37:08,290
Hello darling.

452
00:37:08,380 --> 00:37:10,790
That is a Northern name, that is not one of ours.

453
00:37:11,940 --> 00:37:13,660
Oh, clever you.

454
00:37:13,830 --> 00:37:15,750
Yes, he's named after his father.

455
00:37:16,020 --> 00:37:17,180
His father?

456
00:37:17,190 --> 00:37:18,700
I think you may know him.

457
00:37:19,450 --> 00:37:20,880
Ragnar Lothbrok.

458
00:37:25,750 --> 00:37:27,260
Our nobles...

459
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:29,330
Before you killed them...

460
00:37:29,690 --> 00:37:31,370
Never reported that you were with child,

461
00:37:31,380 --> 00:37:33,130
still less that the father was Ragnar Lothbrok.

462
00:37:33,150 --> 00:37:36,020
Nevertheless, he is Ragnar's son.

463
00:37:36,670 --> 00:37:38,950
And nothing will stop him from returning to these shores

464
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,450
both for Magnus and for his settlement.

465
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,940
We have destroyed his settlement.

466
00:37:46,620 --> 00:37:48,330
Then he will return

467
00:37:48,340 --> 00:37:49,960
with vengeance upon you.

468
00:37:49,980 --> 00:37:52,270
In which case, it will inconvenience us a great deal

469
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,860
if he were to find a ready ally here in Mercia.

470
00:37:56,790 --> 00:37:59,610
So whether or not this poor child is Ragnar's son,

471
00:37:59,630 --> 00:38:01,330
makes no difference.

472
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,070
He cannot help you.

473
00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:06,160
And you can't threaten us with him.

474
00:38:06,540 --> 00:38:07,890
Guards!

475
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,070
Queen Kwenthrith,

476
00:38:15,570 --> 00:38:17,880
You would be unwise to kill us.

477
00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:21,030
It would give my father the very pretext he needs.

478
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,130
A pretext to invade Mercia

479
00:38:23,170 --> 00:38:24,960
and become its king.

480
00:38:27,450 --> 00:38:31,040
He may even have been prepared to sacrifice me

481
00:38:31,270 --> 00:38:32,960
to attain his ends.

482
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,410
So, if you value your life,

483
00:38:35,790 --> 00:38:36,970
and that of your son,

484
00:38:36,980 --> 00:38:40,310
then I suggest you sign the documents we have brought with us,

485
00:38:40,330 --> 00:38:43,460
reaffirming the fact that Mercia is a vassal state of Wessex,

486
00:38:43,470 --> 00:38:46,150
and must, in future, pay not only homage,

487
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,700
but also taxes to Wessex

488
00:38:47,710 --> 00:38:49,190
for the privilege.

489
00:39:58,270 --> 00:40:00,070
Everything ready, Floki?

490
00:40:02,290 --> 00:40:03,480
Yes.

491
00:40:03,580 --> 00:40:05,270
Everything is ready.

492
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,200
Tomorrow we attack Paris.

493
00:40:10,305 --> 00:41:10,762
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