Keep in mind that while Ragnar was away, the sons saw Bjorn like a father figure. You can see how much Ubbe respects Bjorn for example. Ivar spend more time with his mother and Floki. During the blood eagle you can see on Bjorn’s face how much this matters to him. He came back home in all this chaos and he doesn’t really know what to do, that’s why he was acting strange. He has to avenge his father, but also protect his mother.
What I love is you really see every detail of the expressions on the faces of the Sons of Ragnar while this is going on.....Bjorn is definitely letting loose, and expressing out in anger the sadness that he had bottled up from losing his dad, letting it go on Aella's ribs that is lmao.....Sigurd is a tad bit more retrieved and offset, Hviserk and Ubbe both take pleasure in the situation, and Ivar just finds pure morbid satisfaction in calmly watching and seeing the lights go off.
It's interesting that all sons had different expressions during the blood eagle. Björn had a very sad expression, Ubbe relief, Hvitserk happiness, Sigurd anger and Ivar... idk, intrigue? He was so fascinated.
Aethelwulf is probably one of the top 3 most selfless characters of the show. His personal life is in shambles. His wife's gladly and unapologetically cheating on him with his dad, smirking at him about the fact that she does. He's raising another man's son. His father doesn't love him and is using him for his strategic goals, and Aethelwulf being the reliable, efficient, selfless man that he is, uses the frustration from his personal life as the driving motivation for his war duties. He doesn't let his sorrows distract him from his responsibilities. He simply bears up and he does them, no matter what. Aethelwulf is a fricken beast!! And Judith.. well all she did was look after her own needs.. and expect to be treated as a queen because of it. Let's think about this, what *one action* has Judith ever made that was for anyone else's benefit but her own and how hard is it to just.. do what you want? How does one deserve respect from that?
Bjorn is constantly struggling between giving in to his inner desires and his fear of becoming a dismissive and undeserving parent and husband like Ragnar often was. His own failures as a father haunt him but still he carries on, still striving to surpass his father, trying to be a BIGGER and BETTER man than he ever was. It's hard to fight against your own blood and fate.
Ragnar and King Alle brought this upon themselves, you don't invade someone Kingdom and kill Priests and monks. And yes King Alle wasn't a good leader.
And I also need to mention that according to both Scandinavian and Anglo Saxon accounts, Ælla died with his ribs spread apart, being picked at by birds. Anglo Saxon says he died on the battle field in this fight, and was face down in the mud with his back slashed open, therefor allowing birds to pick and eat. Scandinavian accounts says it was this way, the one you see portrayed in Vikings. It's so exciting!!!! And disgusting of course, but you know!
⚔⚔ 6:30 Here we see the Vikings invented the first steamroller many centuries before one was built. Here comes the Great Heathen Army. The little piggies have only begun to grunt. I love seeing the differing detailed reactions on the faces of the Sons of Ragnar when they performed the Blood Eagle on King Aella.
Those aren't the colors of Lagertha and Ragnar, they are the colors of Hedeby and Kattegat, those blue shields were in Hedeby before Lagertha took over. Lagertha has now merged Hedeby and Kattegat under her rule, so it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with Ragnar.
@@firstlast55555 this is funny because she practically never refers to Hedeby again in the series. And this change only occurs when Ragnar dies and not when she takes the throne of Kattegat. So yes, it can be interpreted in both ways without considering any totally wrong.
King Ragnar got his revenge . but the crazy thing is even celts used the blood eagle on people who wronged them ,prolly cause alot of northman became celts . even the real ivar lived and died in ireland . being of celtic and scandinavian heritage . that kinda blew my mind .
This is how it actually happened in history, Aelle killed Ragnar in the snake pit, the sons of Ragnar formed the "Great Heathen Army" (the actual term historians use - don't look it up) for revenge and killed Aelle using the blood eagle. In the Norse sagas, King Aelle is one of the two named victims of the blood eagle. The show intentionally shows the contrast between Aelle's blood eagle and the earlier one against Jarl Borg, which was there specifically to introduce the blood eagle ahead of time so the audience would be familiar when it was time for Aelle to die which everyone who knew the history knew was coming. Jarl Borg's blood eagle is shown as a dark, haunting work of art with trance-like spiritual music - it's Ragnar giving Borg a chance to prove himself and enter Valhalla despite what he did. Meanwhile, Aelle's blood eagle is rough and grisly, a work of horror with chilling music with no spiritual singing - it's intended as torture and an actual punishment, not a chance for redemption like the one with Jarl Borg. I'm really glad they didn't show the "battle" between the Vikings and Aelle. Obviously it wouldn't even be a fight, the Vikings would just immediately steamroll the Northumbrians, but the way they instantly cut from the charge to Aelle being dragged perfectly underscored what an annihilation it must have been. Ecbert aged the most because of the stress of everything he's been doing to achieve his ambitions of unifying England (it's like how Obama aged unusually fast during his presidency). Aelle has clearly led a lazier life and hasn't aged nearly as much, he just has some gray showing while Ecbert has gone full white. Ecbert and Aelle are around 60, Rollo and Floki around 50, Lagertha late 40s, Aethelwulf late 30s, Judith mid 30s, Bjorn early 30s. People often had children very early in those days, often as teens, and women even earlier then men, so many of the parents on the show aren't as old as would be typical in modern times.
And girls.... It's crazy but you two could fit right in, in a shield maidens scene, you are so beautiful, fierce (even savage at times!), very intelligent and observant. You are amazing ❤️🔥
AND, adding insult to injury (injury to insult?), Judith, his wife, who's all but taken up with his father, literally stabbed in the back the woman he HAD actually fallen for, Kwenthrith. Now she sleeps in his father's bed while presumably Aethelwulf sleeps alone. His wife -- though, admittedly, not exactly a union of love from the get-go -- sleeps with a chaste monk and gives birth to that monk's son. Then she takes up with his father, who clearly prefers this adopted grandchild NOT of his own blood, sired by this monk and his daughter-in-law, now his mistress, to the grandchild sired of this same woman and his own son, a grandson of his own blood. AND THEN, while his own wife slept with a chaste monk and then his own father, Aethelwulf is the only man in the bloody kingdom able to turn away Kwenthrith's seductions -- making him the only one patient and noble enough to get past her nymphomaniacal exterior to the vulnerable woman behind it, with whom he falls in love and sires a child. And then Judith killed that woman and the child she was carrying. Oh f--! I hadn't even thought of that yet! She was carrying Aethelwulf's child! Judith killed the woman he actually loved AND Aethelwulf's child! Bloody hell.... Poor bastard.
It's not confirmed that Ragnar is in Valhalla, the show is careful with its words and portrayals. The seer said he briefly saw Ragnar on his way to Valhalla, not that he reached Valhalla, then he sarcastically followed that up with "he looked so happy" and started laughing. In this show, and this is stated by the creator, they will never literally show anything like Valhalla or heaven or other supernatural places, everything that is shown is a matter of belief, imagination, or hallucination and framed from the perspective of a living character. It's like the seer told Ragnar after he renounced the gods, "If you believe it, so it is true". The various things the Vikings see are a representation of their beliefs and stories, and the same for the Christians. The show won't pick sides and show Ragnar in Valhalla or heaven or hell or none of the above because different characters believe different things. Obviously, all the Vikings believe he's in Valhalla, but Ragnar didn't believe it. Everything the seer says happens for the Viking characters that believe it, but his prophecy about Ragnar's death was wrong, as Ragnar explained during the carriage ride. He didn't believe in the prophecy and it didn't happen, but of course the seer worded it so vaguely that for those that do believe, they can convince themselves it was true (anyone at the snake pit can be explained away as the blind man, metaphorically, Aelle, Ecbert, etc. even though that would require one to willfully ignore the actual blind man who saw him a few days before the seer predicted). So basically, he's only in Valhalla if you believe in Valhalla, like the seer said, "I may have been wrong". The Vikings will imagine him Valhalla, the Christians will imagine him in hell, but Ragnar is gone, everything is only from the perspective of the living characters and whatever is going on in their minds.
I woke up to this, what a treat!! I also want to point out that the Great Heathen Army was real, and it's estimated they were around 3000 vikings. They arrived of the shores of East Anglia in 866. In Danish it's called "Den store hedenske hær", and we really did f*ck them up! (I say we because the vikings in the Heathen army were Danish and so am I 😁)
I kind of did too 😅 to be fair, he didn't seem like a good king, at least not from what we saw in the first season, and he did torture Ragnar, but it's true that they attacked first
@@kyuujinreacts You guys are the first that i saw that brought this topic up and were fair when looking at the situation from both sides. Many reactors when watching those scenes never really think but wait, ragnar did attack first and his people killed lots of innocent people they just seem to bypass that and would give alle all the hate in the world and not want to talk about it, but you guys surprised me, at least you admitted he attacked first.
It's so easy to take sides when enjoying a good show! XD sometimes, emotions make us pretty biased, but we always try to be as objective as possible in the discussions (it's not always easy, but it makes for great debates ;) )
I didn't feel bad for Aelle because he basically tortured Ragnar instead of just killing him, but Vikings does do a great job of having you not be able to pick a side. Even though the show is called Vikings, I still feel torn whenever the Vikings and English go at each other, mainly because of how well written and well acted the characters are. Ecbert especially.
If u think about it the vikings are just like tdays IS. They invade, destroy whatever they think is fake gods, rape, mudrer and steal. Exactly the same thing. Ella just defended himself. Think about it if u were in his shoes, u wouldve wanted do the same he did with ragnar. Ragnar was their leader and they all followd him. Its rlly weird that ppl vote for the vikings and hate Ella when he actually dosent deserve any of this.
For me the best part of the episode was the conversation between Ecbert and Aethelwolf and the Floki swagger accompanied by the heavy rock music. Otherwise I was repulsed by the human sacrifice and the Björn-Astrid affair.
Very much, although I thought I would not! There are many things why I like it more than the Vikings (historicity, the humour and the kind of moral character that Uthredt has). But then there are things that are a bit childish, too. The things I like better in Vikings is the depth of conversations like this between Echbert and his son and between Ecbert and Ragnar (except in TLK 3:9 between Alfred and Uthredt).
Great acting by everyone concerned. It's crazy, on other sites, how some people who have made comments get carried away with their opinions on the death of Alle. It's all great acting. 😂😂 Omg, I just can't accept that the fictional character Athelstan is the father of Alfred of Wessex or Judith is the mother. History is all. Whatever happens in the end of all this, it all goes to make a united England.
Hey ladies back with another comment was hoping u girls would watch a tribute video called Ragnar The Choice by zurik23 it has no spoilers it was actually ment to be watched right after episode 15. But anyways please check it out that vid it has millions of views and please have some tissues because its so beautifully edited you will surely cry 😢.
Keep in mind that while Ragnar was away, the sons saw Bjorn like a father figure. You can see how much Ubbe respects Bjorn for example. Ivar spend more time with his mother and Floki. During the blood eagle you can see on Bjorn’s face how much this matters to him. He came back home in all this chaos and he doesn’t really know what to do, that’s why he was acting strange. He has to avenge his father, but also protect his mother.
What I love is you really see every detail of the expressions on the faces of the Sons of Ragnar while this is going on.....Bjorn is definitely letting loose, and expressing out in anger the sadness that he had bottled up from losing his dad, letting it go on Aella's ribs that is lmao.....Sigurd is a tad bit more retrieved and offset, Hviserk and Ubbe both take pleasure in the situation, and Ivar just finds pure morbid satisfaction in calmly watching and seeing the lights go off.
It's interesting that all sons had different expressions during the blood eagle. Björn had a very sad expression, Ubbe relief, Hvitserk happiness, Sigurd anger and Ivar... idk, intrigue? He was so fascinated.
It shows their different personalities and experiences really well ;)
Great reaction. One of my favorite episodes in the series. I wished you would include flokis carpenter scene
Aethelwulf is probably one of the top 3 most selfless characters of the show. His personal life is in shambles. His wife's gladly and unapologetically cheating on him with his dad, smirking at him about the fact that she does. He's raising another man's son. His father doesn't love him and is using him for his strategic goals, and Aethelwulf being the reliable, efficient, selfless man that he is, uses the frustration from his personal life as the driving motivation for his war duties. He doesn't let his sorrows distract him from his responsibilities. He simply bears up and he does them, no matter what. Aethelwulf is a fricken beast!!
And Judith.. well all she did was look after her own needs.. and expect to be treated as a queen because of it. Let's think about this, what *one action* has Judith ever made that was for anyone else's benefit but her own and how hard is it to just.. do what you want? How does one deserve respect from that?
Y'all were unbiased with the whole alle situation. This why I like this channel. Whether you dislike a character or not you still keep it fair
A stillframe of the brothers and Floki standing looking up at King Ælla's body, has been my header on Facebook ever since the episode came out 😁
Excellent choice ;)
Bjorn is constantly struggling between giving in to his inner desires and his fear of becoming a dismissive and undeserving parent and husband like Ragnar often was. His own failures as a father haunt him but still he carries on, still striving to surpass his father, trying to be a BIGGER and BETTER man than he ever was. It's hard to fight against your own blood and fate.
Blood Eagle was for Royalty not just anyone
If historical records are to be trusted, it only happend twice - *ever*
Not saying that those two were Jarl Borg & King Aelle ...
Ragnar and King Alle brought this upon themselves, you don't invade someone Kingdom and kill Priests and monks. And yes King Alle wasn't a good leader.
And I also need to mention that according to both Scandinavian and Anglo Saxon accounts, Ælla died with his ribs spread apart, being picked at by birds. Anglo Saxon says he died on the battle field in this fight, and was face down in the mud with his back slashed open, therefor allowing birds to pick and eat.
Scandinavian accounts says it was this way, the one you see portrayed in Vikings. It's so exciting!!!! And disgusting of course, but you know!
Thank you for the extra reaction 😊 these reactions are keeping me entertained until the next season half starts.
⚔⚔ 6:30 Here we see the Vikings invented the first steamroller many centuries before one was built. Here comes the Great Heathen Army. The little piggies have only begun to grunt.
I love seeing the differing detailed reactions on the faces of the Sons of Ragnar when they performed the Blood Eagle on King Aella.
it's wonderful how Laguertha incorporates Ragnar's red in her blue shields after his death! ❤️❤️💙
Those aren't the colors of Lagertha and Ragnar, they are the colors of Hedeby and Kattegat, those blue shields were in Hedeby before Lagertha took over. Lagertha has now merged Hedeby and Kattegat under her rule, so it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with Ragnar.
@@firstlast55555 this is funny because she practically never refers to Hedeby again in the series. And this change only occurs when Ragnar dies and not when she takes the throne of Kattegat. So yes, it can be interpreted in both ways without considering any totally wrong.
King Ragnar got his revenge . but the crazy thing is even celts used the blood eagle on people who wronged them ,prolly cause alot of northman became celts . even the real ivar lived and died in ireland . being of celtic and scandinavian heritage . that kinda blew my mind .
This is how it actually happened in history, Aelle killed Ragnar in the snake pit, the sons of Ragnar formed the "Great Heathen Army" (the actual term historians use - don't look it up) for revenge and killed Aelle using the blood eagle.
In the Norse sagas, King Aelle is one of the two named victims of the blood eagle. The show intentionally shows the contrast between Aelle's blood eagle and the earlier one against Jarl Borg, which was there specifically to introduce the blood eagle ahead of time so the audience would be familiar when it was time for Aelle to die which everyone who knew the history knew was coming. Jarl Borg's blood eagle is shown as a dark, haunting work of art with trance-like spiritual music - it's Ragnar giving Borg a chance to prove himself and enter Valhalla despite what he did. Meanwhile, Aelle's blood eagle is rough and grisly, a work of horror with chilling music with no spiritual singing - it's intended as torture and an actual punishment, not a chance for redemption like the one with Jarl Borg.
I'm really glad they didn't show the "battle" between the Vikings and Aelle. Obviously it wouldn't even be a fight, the Vikings would just immediately steamroll the Northumbrians, but the way they instantly cut from the charge to Aelle being dragged perfectly underscored what an annihilation it must have been.
Ecbert aged the most because of the stress of everything he's been doing to achieve his ambitions of unifying England (it's like how Obama aged unusually fast during his presidency). Aelle has clearly led a lazier life and hasn't aged nearly as much, he just has some gray showing while Ecbert has gone full white.
Ecbert and Aelle are around 60, Rollo and Floki around 50, Lagertha late 40s, Aethelwulf late 30s, Judith mid 30s, Bjorn early 30s. People often had children very early in those days, often as teens, and women even earlier then men, so many of the parents on the show aren't as old as would be typical in modern times.
reaction ragnar tribute video .the choice
And girls.... It's crazy but you two could fit right in, in a shield maidens scene, you are so beautiful, fierce (even savage at times!), very intelligent and observant. You are amazing ❤️🔥
X3 thank you!! ❤️
Thanks 😘
A double upload ? 😂 man this is great
AND, adding insult to injury (injury to insult?), Judith, his wife, who's all but taken up with his father, literally stabbed in the back the woman he HAD actually fallen for, Kwenthrith. Now she sleeps in his father's bed while presumably Aethelwulf sleeps alone. His wife -- though, admittedly, not exactly a union of love from the get-go -- sleeps with a chaste monk and gives birth to that monk's son. Then she takes up with his father, who clearly prefers this adopted grandchild NOT of his own blood, sired by this monk and his daughter-in-law, now his mistress, to the grandchild sired of this same woman and his own son, a grandson of his own blood. AND THEN, while his own wife slept with a chaste monk and then his own father, Aethelwulf is the only man in the bloody kingdom able to turn away Kwenthrith's seductions -- making him the only one patient and noble enough to get past her nymphomaniacal exterior to the vulnerable woman behind it, with whom he falls in love and sires a child. And then Judith killed that woman and the child she was carrying.
Oh f--! I hadn't even thought of that yet! She was carrying Aethelwulf's child! Judith killed the woman he actually loved AND Aethelwulf's child! Bloody hell.... Poor bastard.
Yep...my heart really goes out to him, he deserves better than all this bullshit ):
It's not confirmed that Ragnar is in Valhalla, the show is careful with its words and portrayals. The seer said he briefly saw Ragnar on his way to Valhalla, not that he reached Valhalla, then he sarcastically followed that up with "he looked so happy" and started laughing. In this show, and this is stated by the creator, they will never literally show anything like Valhalla or heaven or other supernatural places, everything that is shown is a matter of belief, imagination, or hallucination and framed from the perspective of a living character. It's like the seer told Ragnar after he renounced the gods, "If you believe it, so it is true".
The various things the Vikings see are a representation of their beliefs and stories, and the same for the Christians. The show won't pick sides and show Ragnar in Valhalla or heaven or hell or none of the above because different characters believe different things. Obviously, all the Vikings believe he's in Valhalla, but Ragnar didn't believe it. Everything the seer says happens for the Viking characters that believe it, but his prophecy about Ragnar's death was wrong, as Ragnar explained during the carriage ride. He didn't believe in the prophecy and it didn't happen, but of course the seer worded it so vaguely that for those that do believe, they can convince themselves it was true (anyone at the snake pit can be explained away as the blind man, metaphorically, Aelle, Ecbert, etc. even though that would require one to willfully ignore the actual blind man who saw him a few days before the seer predicted).
So basically, he's only in Valhalla if you believe in Valhalla, like the seer said, "I may have been wrong". The Vikings will imagine him Valhalla, the Christians will imagine him in hell, but Ragnar is gone, everything is only from the perspective of the living characters and whatever is going on in their minds.
Dang y'all cut out where Bjorn yells Ragnar
🤔 hhmm I don't remember seeing that part at all during editing...I must have missed it
@@kyuujinreacts rite before they charge Alle then other people yell Ragnar
@@kyuujinreacts Shame on you! ; )
I woke up to this, what a treat!! I also want to point out that the Great Heathen Army was real, and it's estimated they were around 3000 vikings. They arrived of the shores of East Anglia in 866. In Danish it's called "Den store hedenske hær", and we really did f*ck them up! (I say we because the vikings in the Heathen army were Danish and so am I 😁)
I felt bad for alle he didnt invade no ones land they came to him, he just tried to defend himself and his people.
I kind of did too 😅 to be fair, he didn't seem like a good king, at least not from what we saw in the first season, and he did torture Ragnar, but it's true that they attacked first
@@kyuujinreacts You guys are the first that i saw that brought this topic up and were fair when looking at the situation from both sides. Many reactors when watching those scenes never really think but wait, ragnar did attack first and his people killed lots of innocent people they just seem to bypass that and would give alle all the hate in the world and not want to talk about it, but you guys surprised me, at least you admitted he attacked first.
It's so easy to take sides when enjoying a good show! XD sometimes, emotions make us pretty biased, but we always try to be as objective as possible in the discussions (it's not always easy, but it makes for great debates ;) )
I didn't feel bad for Aelle because he basically tortured Ragnar instead of just killing him, but Vikings does do a great job of having you not be able to pick a side. Even though the show is called Vikings, I still feel torn whenever the Vikings and English go at each other, mainly because of how well written and well acted the characters are. Ecbert especially.
If u think about it the vikings are just like tdays IS. They invade, destroy whatever they think is fake gods, rape, mudrer and steal. Exactly the same thing. Ella just defended himself. Think about it if u were in his shoes, u wouldve wanted do the same he did with ragnar. Ragnar was their leader and they all followd him. Its rlly weird that ppl vote for the vikings and hate Ella when he actually dosent deserve any of this.
love your reaction ❤❤👍👍 thank you both
Ragnars revenge to unite all the Viking kingdoms to rain hell on England
For me the best part of the episode was the conversation between Ecbert and Aethelwolf and the Floki swagger accompanied by the heavy rock music. Otherwise I was repulsed by the human sacrifice and the Björn-Astrid affair.
I can't wait for y'all to watch the choice Ragnar lothbrok it's so good
Hiatoricaly they brought 15000 from Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Anyone here enjoy The Last Kingdom?
Very much, although I thought I would not! There are many things why I like it more than the Vikings (historicity, the humour and the kind of moral character that Uthredt has). But then there are things that are a bit childish, too. The things I like better in Vikings is the depth of conversations like this between Echbert and his son and between Ecbert and Ragnar (except in TLK 3:9 between Alfred and Uthredt).
Saxon was of Germanic origin, just like the Scandinavians
Great acting by everyone concerned.
It's crazy, on other sites, how some people who have made comments get carried away with their opinions on the death of Alle.
It's all great acting. 😂😂
Omg, I just can't accept that the fictional character Athelstan is the father of Alfred of Wessex or Judith is the mother. History is all.
Whatever happens in the end of all this, it all goes to make a united England.
Bjørn is the Alpha male and can pretty much do whatever he wants
Shits about to get real !
Great reaction sisters!!! Is there any new drama tv shows n the future ? May I suggest Netflix The last kingdom and Hulu show Harlots
We have a poll prepared for (perhaps) next month and a few shows we're preparing on the side ;)
Hey ladies back with another comment was hoping u girls would watch a tribute video called Ragnar The Choice by zurik23 it has no spoilers it was actually ment to be watched right after episode 15. But anyways please check it out that vid it has millions of views and please have some tissues because its so beautifully edited you will surely cry 😢.