Top 1000 Quotes From The Last Kingdom

- Osferth...
- Fetch uhtred, tell him we have a guest.
- A woman.
- How can you tell it's a woman?
- You have to ask?
- Fetch uhtred.

- Swiftly.
- Yes, lord. I will gather what I need.
- Lord.
- You are ready?
- I am.
- There's still a little decorative work to be done.
- Now, do not touch it.
- You have ink on your hands.

- Fetch the others, tell them brida is traveling north.
- I'll go ahead.
- Uhtred, no.
- Brida escaped.
- It was not your doing, you know that.
- You must stop blaming yourself.
- She did not escape.
- I let her go.

Uhtred: Faster!
- Shield! Shield!
- Fill the breach!
- Close the wall!

Beocca: Nothing I'm sure that cannot be resolved given time.
Uhtred: I'll see Alfred.
- Uhtred, Alfred is at peace.
- Uhtred, please!
- Uhtred, please.
- You cannot disturb prayers.
- Uhtred, your sword!

- They are, lady.
- Sihtric, I choose you because you are loyal to lord uhtred.
- Always, lady.
- You will give this note to hild when she returns. She will return.
Sihtric: How long will you be gone, lady?
- All I know is that I cannot stay.

- I fear you have become someone
- I cannot live without.
- You fear?
- Life without you...
- Fear no more.
- I'm here.
- Always.

[Man] Lord, the cart is stuck.
- Release the horse from its harness and ride.
- Sihtric, your axe.

- Shield wall!
- Shield wall!

- She would want you to be with her, uhtred.
- You must go to her.
- I thought one day we might...
- I thought there would be more...
- There is so much I should have said.
- There's still time.

- And you told me that you feared my father was to blame!
- For the blame is his!
- His disregard sent her to the pilgrims.
- I did not know!
- If I had known, never would I...
- Never!

- Bnda.
- What have you done?
- Only what you could not!
- I'm sorry.
- I'm cold.

- With Saxon blood.
- You... are to be king.
- King of mercia.
- King of Saxon and Dane.
- King of other kings.
- You, lord uhtred.

- Stay back!
- Dear god.
- We can swim through.
- No. I'd rather face them and die now.
- I'm not sweating and shitting in three days' time.
- I want to try. I am not ready to die.
- No, stiorra!

- Never leave his side. Amen.
[All] Amen.
- Allow him pure and holy thoughts, and the power to carry out your work on this earth as our king.
- Allow this anointing of Alfred to enable your will.
- You are god's king,
- Alfred of wessex.

- Huh.
- He's right, you should rest.
- We're wasting away, you and I.
- We should be saving what's left of our strength to run.
- But to run we'll need skin on our feet and not rotting flesh.
- Then we should bail.

- So that you and aelfwynn would be safe.
- If I am ruler of mercia,
- I can protect you.
- I appreciate all you have done for us, uhtred. But it does not change my conviction that mercia needs a ruler who is independent of wessex.
- Apologies, I can return if you wish.
- I was just leaving, father.
- I know you will do what is right.

- I do not wish to be confined.
- It's a chance to mourn.
- May I suggest you make this simple and comply?
- Lady aelswith...
- Good, a man I trust.
- Follow my next instructions...
- And I am sure you will be well rewarded.

Storri: Do you have something for me, uhtred?
Uhtred: Brida, no!
- Yes! Trust me!
- Don't touch him, don't touch him!
- Trust me, don't do anything!
- Don't!

- At the ready!
- You trust this skorpa?
- We have no choice but to trust him.
- Now turn!
- You bastard Danes! You'll cry for your stinking whore mothers!

- Come on, priest.
- Finish him!

- Ragnar.
Brida: Their signal.
- It begins.
- Now?

- Uhtred, name your price!
- It will be done, I swear.
- I give you my word.
- Kill him and you kill yourself.
- Your word?!
- I swear! Believe me!
- You will take one ship and you will leave northumbria.
- One ship! You will not return!
- For my brother's life, this is done.

- We will, um...
- We will continue with a moment of silence to help find the peace once more.
- This interruption cannot be allowed to go unpunished.
- It must be death.
- Peace be with you, my dear.

- Tell us.
- Uhtred ragnarson is in aegelesburg.
- He had your sons with him.
- Haesten appears to have traded them for his life.
- Tell me that my sons live.
- I will not harm you.
- Just tell me the news.

- We need to be quick and discreet.
- Quick and discreet...
- We are off to the great north, you and I.
- I am to be Alfred's errand boy.
- He wants me away from Winchester...
- Aethelwold, I am not listening...
- He wants me dead even.
- That is the plan, I know it!

- The charters of bebbanburg.
Beocca: Yeah, the land books. Yeah.
- You kept them safe.
- I have shown them to Alfred.
- He knows you are the ealdorman by right.
- I will continue to keep them safe, but, uhtred, you must behave like an ealdorman.

- If that is your command.
- I will need someone loyal to hold the border lands in northumbria.
- We confront the Scottish king on the road!
- We break his alliance with lord aethelhelm and make a bargain for aethelflaed's daughter.
- We retain northumbria for the Saxon people!

- I will need the help of...
- No!
- No, he's too young.
- Not his help. No, not his at all.
- Is by any piece of luck the trader haesten still in these lands?
- Uhtred, truly the gods are with you.
- Come.

Uhtred: Lord.
- I want to thank you for not abandoning me.
- I know that would have been a choice, a reasonable choice.
- I'll go to your estate now, to see mildrith and my son.

- To protect her people, to protect you, her only child.
- You're not just her hope for the future of this kingdom.
- You're her heart, aelfwynn.
- She thinks only of you.
- Come.
- She is eager to see you.

- and I am imprisoned...
- At a time when my sister is seen only as a Dane.
- Is that not what she is?
Uhtred: An enemy.
- In a hole is where you belong.
Uhtred: Destiny is all!

- She was always angry.
- Now she is nasty.
- Either she has changed or I have changed.
- She once loved you.
- Not anymore.
- Even I could see that much.

Aldhelm: What is it?
- We're being followed. Come on!
Aldhelm: Go!
- Could we have been discovered?
Aldhelm: We cannot outrun them.
- We must hide. Hyah! Away!

- We are resolved.
- Every man who can wield an ax should be building defenses.
- Mother?
- What news do you talk of?
- Perhaps I could offer the wisdom ofexpenence.
- Take comfort that all is well.
- Come.

- This is a good place.
- We rest here for the night.
Eadith: You can sleep now.

- God is merciful. That is her horse.
- She will be close by.
- Wait here in case she returns to it.
- We will look for her.

- Again, I say and with respect, the boy does not have the power to make such a statement!
- He is an aetheling and nothing more.
- He is no more an heir to the crown than myself.
- Lord...
- Decision is yours to make.

- We have no fear of it!
- It only takes sinners!
- Is that true?
- Move, I'm getting out of the bad air!
- I'm not risking the sickness.
- I will double the reward of every man who chooses to stay!

- We're in the city.
- Make a square!
- Well, now I know what a turd feels like.

Haesten: They are holding firm!
- Aethelwold, when will your man attack?
- Soon!
- When they are tired! Very soon!

- Thor strikes his hammer when he's displeased.
- But he will be appeased if we make another offering.
[Screams] No, please! Please, no!
- No!
Stiorra: I cannot hide any longer.
- I'm sorry.
- We cannot sit and wait to be saved.

- Ragnar.
- Ragnar, it's over! It's over!
Uhtred: Shh... shh...

Brida: No!
- You kill him.
- He's my kin.
Brida: He has betrayed our gods.
- He allowed the christians to take root here and poison our brothers.
- Kill him, hmm?

- And my fleet is where?
- They left lundene several days ago and are nearly here.
- Every last ship will be here.
- Every man will be with you.
- That is good news.
- I dispatch you to your heaven.
- No need to thank me.

- And if today I die?
- I have not seen your death.
Beocca: Uhtred!
- Uhtred!
- The king wishes to speak to you.
- - about what?
- He is unsure what to wear this morning and needs your advice. With me.

- His spirit has been banished to niflheim.
- So with brida I sought out the seer storri to find a way to free him.
- And now, we must send him to his rightful resting place Valhalla!
- You must kill the man who killed ragnar.
Uhtred: Destiny is all!

- It appears to be good progress, lord.
- The people of coccham seem to be in good spirits.
- It would appear so.
- We shall see.
- Man: Lord king.
- Open the gates!

- We have work to do.
- No flirting with the nuns.
- We'll leave that to you, uhtred.

- What now, eh?
- Where are we left? In shit?
- Now we have time.
- How? You've made them want to kill us even more.
- We should attack.

- You did well. Why the tears?
- They are for the stranger's child.

- Bnda?
- I just did what one has to do to break a curse.
- You have to kill the sorcerer without breaking the skin and without shedding one drop of blood.
- And you've got to do the same to skade.
- Or if you can't, you can make her your woman.

Esgar: No!
- No! [Sobs]
Esgar: No!
Uhtred: Leave!
- Or I will kill the other one also!
- Now...
- Go!

- You can smell it on the air.
- They're burning bodies.
- It means the fever is just fields away.
- Lady, no one has passed by for hours.
- They've probably closed the roads to contain the sickness.
- Uhtred will have gone on ahead to ceaster.
- We should do the same.

- A lady wants to meet you.
- Go to the garden.

[Guard] You, secure the gate! Secure it!
Uhtred: Oh no, no, not yet.

- Have them brought to Winchester.
- Arrange for their welfare and education.
- Introduce them to god.
- Rest well, father beocca.
- Yes, lord.
- Rest well.

- Lord, you are with me, you will not desert me.
- I feel nothing, except your love.
- Iseult.
[Viking 2] Look out!
[Viking 1] Ah!

- He is aethelstan.
- He cannot be here.
- And my fate has changed with an unexpected otter.
- If I place someone to rule here who might forge a path to peace,
- I wondered if that person should be you.
[All] Uhtred of mercia!
[U htred] Destiny is all./

- But with luck, he will fall in battle, and soon.
- Please tell me that you're hungry.
- I am a little.
- Meet me in the kitchens.
- I have arranged a meal for the pregnant.
- But do not rush prayers.
- No. No. Of course not. Heh.

- From the smallest pig, to the golden crown upon Alfred's head.
- Wessex and everything it holds shall belong to the warriors of bloodhair!

- For king, yes, but not for silver.
- I need to raise an army and they get away further with every second!
- I'll not allow half these men or more to die.
[Iseult] I can give you what you need.
- There is more.
- Silver.

- Do you want a dog?
- Nobody wants you, dog.

- There'll be plenty of ale and wine at this wedding,
- I suggest you refrain.
- You do not like me enjoying myself?
- I do not like you drunk.
- Perhaps this wedding will be followed by a funeral, a sobering enough thought.

- You were my husband's mistress and your brother killed aethelred.
- To allow you to remain here would make me look weak.
- I do not wish to punish you too harshly.
- I will arrange a place for you at the nunnery, where you can live and be safe.
- I would prefer to find my own way.
- May I say goodbye to aelfwynn?
- Yes.

- Yes.
- They are at the gates and I do not want to be here for the fight.
- And you are coming with me.
- No. No, no, I cannot.
- They will be slaughtered!
- Come with me.
- Many women have grown to appreciate my charms, given a year or so.

- Alfred could marry me off to some ealdorman and you won't be here to stop it.
- What is funny?
- It would not be the first time a king has tried.
- You're not coming with me, it would be too dangerous for you.
- It is for you too.

- Siege at Winchester, it is imprinted on my memory.
- And yet you lived and thrived aftennards.
- We were both...
- Younger men.
- My grandson barely slept for years aftennards.
- Well, I have removed the icicles from my balls and will be on my way.

- We are restored!
- Remove the Saxon sign!

- What are you doing? We will freeze.
- Niflheim is much colder than you will ever be.
- If ragnar suffers, then so shall we.
- There will be no comfort for you here.
- I'm going to sleep.
- Wrapped in fur?

- We would appreciate some water, for ourselves and the horses.
- It's yours. There.

- It is.
- She is confined to a nunnery.
- Whilst Edward marries another without so much as a backward glance it appears.
- I would understand it entirely if you could not serve him.
- But do men like you and me really have a choice?
Beocca: The king.

- Aethelflaed will not like it.
- With respect, your sister needs to start doing as she's told.
- That man eardwulf, he seems respected by his warriors.
- He is younger and we know him to be brave.
- But he's not an ealdorman.
- Find out what you can about him.

- But you are right.
- If we do not, we will be hunted.
- They are planning to kill us.
- We do not know that.
- We are too powerful to be left to tell the tale.
- They know what forces I can raise.
- If we are going to act, it has to be now.

- He needs to be on horseback, not on his knees.
- I hate this place.
- It grows worse.
- I was not told you were here.
- How pleasing.
- Lord.
- And so much of you.
Uhtred: Is he ready?
- The king is ready, as is his council.

[Guard] Open the gate!
Eardwulf: Halt!
- Make way!
[Man] Gently.
- Lift him. Careful.
- Have no fear. He will recover.

- Aelfwynn! Run!
- No! Grandmother! Help me! Grandmother!

- Good. Fewer to protect here.
- Let Edward see us in retreat.
- Bring down the men.
- You are sworn to him, but he is sworn to me.
- Pull back!
- Pull back. Stand down!
- Stand down!

- Ask him to bring the demands of the king.
- I will tell beocca that you are ready to talk and to listen.
- Be sure that you do.
- And it would help if you cut her throat.
- He cannot.
- He dare not.

- We're helping to free the lady aethelflaed.
- Man: We've got nothing to give!
- Any man or woman found to be hiding the value of their wealth shall be punished!
- All must pay their share.
- You have the gratitude of the king, of god.

Sigefrid: Now it is clear.
- Each man has a right to see her.
- And every man will guard her with his life!
- She is our wealth.
- She belongs to us all!

- I hope you win what you have longed for.
- Uhtred...
- What if you die doing this?
- Then you will be the last woman to hump uhtred of bebbanburg.
- Is that your way of promising to be faithful?
- Do not answer that.

- Scallion, if my brother falls in battle, the boy must fall.

Finan: Put your back into it!
Finan: Come on! It's moving! Come on!
Finan: Can you get under it, lord?
- A little more.
Finan: Go on, lord!

- Jackdaw!
- What?
- Cnut will be sending out spies in search of the Saxon camp.
- You will follow.
- I will?
- You will find uhtred and give him a message.

- Poor wretches.
- And us, father, what are we?
- We are fortunate, lord.
- We know god.
- Although granted,
- I'm in no hurry to meet him.
- Let us pray he feels the same.
[Man] Amen.

- Guards!
Brida: Take the priests.

- I will travel with half my number, no less.
- Ag Reed.
Aethelred: The lady aethelflaed, she is well?
- There'll be no negotiation until I have seen her.
- She is well. My lord Erik sees that she is... most content, lord.
- Ride on and we'll follow.
- Oh, you will not be needing horses.

- Ah, yes.
- They sit in my hall as we speak.
- They eat my food, they drink my wine, and ale...
- And they raise a cup...
- To the happy pair.
- May god help them.

- Your horses belong to whom?
- Lord odda.
- You'll let us pass?
- You selling or buying?
- Selling. To the Danes.
- There is a peace.
- Did you not know?
- That odda has made a peace?
- No, I did not.

- The lady warrior, putting her strength to good use, I see.
- To think men died to defeat you.
- I wouldn't give you the satisfaction.
- You smell of shit.

- What we must do now is save the lives of your nuns and my men.
- And aethelflaed.
- Abbess?
- I will do it.
- No, this is my house, it's my responsibility.
- I will do it.

- My men are restless.
- Hunting is not enough.
- I may go across the river, spill a little blood.
- Across the river is wessex.
- Then if I see Alfred, I will tell him that my brother is humping his daughter.
- I can see that you like her.
- I would like to ride her, yes.
- Then ride her.
- One tiny cock isn't going to hurt her.

- That ram we have dragged, it will not work.
- It will not force open the gates.
- But it will work...
- In its own way.
- We rest. We wait.

- Time is moving against us.
- We can only sustain these attacks from the Scots for so long.
- He's desperate for it, you say, aethelred?
- This is what I have heard.
Aidan: The monks he dispatched will arrive here soon.
- Then we shall bleed silver from him and buy the men.

- You looking for company, girl?
- I prefer the company of the gods to stupid men.
- Another time, then?

- I could not leave, lord.
- You feared I could not rid myself of the curse?
- I did.
- I stayed here for the lady gisela, lord.
- This is her hall and there was no kinder, gentler lady.
- You clearly did not know the lady gisela.

[Volunteers] Queen killers!
- Dane-loving scum!
- Do your duty and rid the cockles from the wheat!
- Stop it!
- Danes here! Christian there!
- Separate them.
Bresal: Dane! Saxon!

- May god guide and protect him always.
- And may god surround him with strength and wisdom.
- Amen.
- Amen.
- Lord.
- I have orders to kill you, should you not leave the hall quietly.

- You do not have a husband?
- My sister will marry when appropriate.
Guthred: Excellent.
- Well, hopefully we will be bonded for a long, long time.
- To peace.
- To peace.

- I do not pretend it was easy.
- But you will not be alone.
Aelfwynn: I will be strong.
- I'll do as you wish.
- I'll serve as queen when you're gone.
- The witan will stand behind you.
- I am sure of it.

- You are an imposter...
- But for whom?
- Who are you?
- I am uhtred of bebbanburg!
- It is unwise to mock me.
- Kill him.

- I'm here to remind you that you're a woman and a hostage.
- I like the paleness of your skin.
- Show me. Take off your clothes.
- Does the lord Erik know that you're here?
- It was the lord Erik that sent me here.
- Now remove your clothes or I will rip them from you.

- It is unusual to honor the girl, whilst the widow aelswith lives, to say the least.
- But aelflaed has an ambitious father.
- Yes, lord aethelhelm is ambitious.
- But king Edward just accepts this ambition from an ealdorman?
- Let's just say we feel his father's absence.

- Edward, why...
- Please do not argue with me, mother.
- She is aethelflaed's child!
- I am aware of her bloodline.
- But I am also aware of lord aethelhelm.
- I will not react with haste to this provocation, nor chase him blindly.
- We do not even know where he is, so allow me to follow what I know to be the right path.

- Alert lord aelfric.
- He'll want to see this.

- You dig your own grave?
- Mine...
- Or yours.
- I'm prepared.
- Either way, it ends where it began.

- It's her, finan...
- Turning my insides outward.
Finan: Then kill her...
- Or let me do it for you.
- -Uhtred...
- I fear you're... dying.

- All debt to me is paid.
- Twice over.
Aethelhelm: Now come, tonight we celebrate your arrival.
Aethelhelm: Drink well, feast well, all.
- Great energy will be required for the times ahead.
- Eat!

- How long...
- Before I am taken? Do you know?
- Is that something that you can see?

- Lord aethelhelm has many friends across the kingdoms.
- All of you know the young lady aelfwynn is not fit to rule.
- Does your master propose an alternative solution?
- He does indeed, lord burgred.
- One he trusts you will all find...
- Advantageous.

[Aelswith panting] Oh, dear god!
- We will need a priest.
- We've tried everything.
- She needs the final rites, lord.
- Find me every healer in town.
- Do not speak a word of this to anyone.
- Yes, lord. Come with me.
[Edward] Go.
- Do you think she will survive?

- To remind me of who I am.
- Who you are, lord...
- Is defined by what you do, and what you have done has given you reputation, but reputation is not a shield.
- I think father beocca asks too much.

- I feel she is alive, in my heart.
- But what might they do to her?

Guthrum: Follow me out front!
[Man 1] Keep away!
- Keep away!
- Stand back, I warn you.
- God will protect me.
- God will... ah!

- Head over that Ridge. Go!
Eadith: Come, aelfwynn!
Uhtred: Faster!
- Come, aelfwynn!
- Quick!
- Help the children! Don't look back.
- Keep moving.
- We're not going to outrun them, father!

- She could help your son.
- Thank you.
- If you help, then you better succeed.
- If the child dies, you will be blamed.
- We cannot do nothing.
Hild: That is not what I am saying.
- Iseult is a pagan and a woman.
- She will be blamed, regardless of her meaning well.

- You know how to use it?
- Pointy end forward, as pyrlig would say.
- We should divide.
- We divide.
- Pointy end forward.
- Shh, shh.

- Ah. The king grows wiser by the day, true.
- He has all the makings of a great leader, I'm sure.
- But time may be against you.
- Those around him have ambition.
- And it is not the ambition of the king, or of his father, who we both loved.
- So, you do what you must.

- [Gasps}
Aethelhelm: This cannot be.
- Forget them!
- Protect me at all costs!
[Shouts] Shield wall!

- Will you hurry, sable!
- Ah, the monks.
- I'll fetch your silver.
- You leave for northumbria immediately.
- St. oswald's heart? Bloody long way to go for a piece of dried offal.
- Still, a few taverns to stop at along the way.
- Northumbria's a piss-hole place to waste a journey on.

- Surely that is a good thing?
- We would not be marching to beamfleot in support of uhtred but to protect the kingdom.
- And to delay a greater battle and give me time.
- Time to become worthy of your crown.
- You should have approached me.

- I do want to live alongside you, father.
- It's just... coccham is small.
- And peaceful and safe.
- Could we not go to Winchester?
- We were happy there.
- Have those riders been following us?
- No. We are just on a trading route.

- Will eardwulf not kill you for this?
- He will try but he will not succeed.
- Go, lady.
- My brother cannot be controlled and will bring nothing but disaster.
- Find uhtred on the road to ceaster.
- Tell him to meet me at the ruins of Saint milburg's priory.
- Do this and I will ensure you never go penniless.

- Vvhoa.
Finan: Right, come on. Move.
- It's rognvaldr come to slaughter.
- Will you stop?
- You'll unsettle all the men.
- Rognvaldr is nothing.
- He's just a coward who buys reputation.
- Trust us. We've fought a lot of Danes.

- Die! Die!
Brida: No! Wait! Hold back!
Uhtred: Now... charge!
- With me!

Uhtred: I am now called a traitor.
- I, brother asser, swear these oaths.
Uhtred: Alfred's court decided I should be executed.
- I request that he dies at my sword.
- You will fight to the death.
Uhtred: Destiny is all.

- We Mark him with the sign of your cross.
- God, who is creator of all people, let us rejoice in the gift of grace bestowed on uhtred that he could not attain on this earth, but only by divine blessing.
- You are now catechumen.
- I ask your sponsor to come fonuard.

- You gave her up to save yourself...
Bloodhair: She is mine.
- If I have to kill you, then that is what I will do.
- Right here.
- You are a guest of my brother, so I will ignore you this once.
- But threaten me again and I'll feed your guts to the pigs.

- He has betrayed us!
- We still have the numbers!
- That is your man!
- Push! With me!
- Fight!
- Stand your ground and fight!

- Send me an angel, lord.
- What, so you can hump her?
- A titless angel to guide me.
- No more servant girls in my bedchamber, lord.
- Please.
- I beg you.

- It's the beginning of our army.
- That is where we're headed.
- Uhtred, I will do everything I can to help.
- I will be at your side.
- I'll be a flea in Alfred's ear.
- Thank you.
- Your father would be a proud man.
- As am I.

- Lady aelswith?
- Leave me.
- Icannot leave me. lady...
- You need comfort.

- Indeed.
- As is uhtred.
Aethelwold: Father beocca.
- Welcome to dunholm.
- It comes as no surprise to see you here.
- Amongst friends.

- Lord, I was there with the lady aethelflaed, finan, the boy, sihtric, osferth.
- Some others may have overheard possibly.
- Father, it is a worthy plan.
- I gave my word that...
- What you gave was not yours to give!
- Father...
- Say nothing!

- Steapa.
- No, no, no, no.
- No, lord!
- No, please, no!
- No, no, please, no wait, wait, wait, no please!
- Please!

- Even the walls surrounding the old Roman city would need many hundreds of men.
- So the brothers' position is weak?
- Not weak, but lundene's been open to all tribes for a reason.
- The ground is not far now.
- I shall speak.
- You should ask for food and ale, lord.
- My belly believes my throat is cut.

- They are possessed by devils!
- It is lost.

- and we'll tell you what great plans we have for mercia.
- Hey, hey, hey. Stay awake.
Stiorra: Mmm!
- Mm.
- Not hers.
- She will have milk.
Stiorra: What?
- I'm not incurring the wrath of the lord and protector of mercia on his first day...

- Because, unlike you,
- I'm not rewarded for my service.
- You should have licked more asses.
- Perhaps.
- And...
- I no longer want war.
- I'm too old to sleep in the dirt.
- I want silver and lord aethelred has it?

- I've been told not to answer that.
- And though I hope the gods will allow peace,
- I fear ambitions will lead us back to war.
- When we return to aegelesburg,
- I will publicly castrate you!
- But the heat of battle has brought eardwulf unexpected re ward.
- Destiny is all/

- Will he return?
- I doubt I will see him alive again.
- It is over for us.

- He says the gods sent men to save him.
- He always has a tale to tell.
- Do you know he pays sailors to say they fear him?
Sigtryggr: Better a lying rogue than a killer.
- You're too tender.
- Send him on his way.
- And break an oath of hospitality, my love?

- then I am minded to bring her into this hall and allow each man here to take his turn.
- I swear, she will be tied to a cart and she will travel the kingdoms.
- Is that what you want... Saxon?
- Do not insult me.
- I'm not insulting you.
- Do not.

- He boasts because the gods have not favored him.
- That doesn't mean you should.
- He is my brother and so I honor him.
- For all his faults, our blood is shared.
[Whispering] Blame the christians.
- They have spoken too much of forgiveness.

- She must have restrained Edward more than we knew.
- I fear we could be next, that he will come to conquer.
- Take a band to the border and double the patrol.
- Send a warning to the king himself.
- Yes.
- Dispatch a warrior to speak this in my name,
- "if he chooses to come north, we will be ready."

- You will soon have need of a woman.
- You have not killed me, lord, because that will leave you cursed still.
- Until the end and beyond.
- Our paths are entwined and our fate is shared.
- He is here.

- Steapa, no.
- I will kill you and take every consequence.
- What you did to me,
- What you did to halig,
- I could never forget.
- I shall never forgive.

- I cannot forget the boy held hostage with me in Winchester who offered the Danes his life for mine.
- There is talk of an uprising in rumcofa.
- People there found the men that slew the visionary.
- You need to go inside immediately.
- And you need to fetch the king... now.

- Thank you.
- Sleep well.
- Lord Abbot, the most holy Saint is safe and covered.
- Thank you, brother.
- Well, I will bid you goodnight.
- One other small matter.

- Uhtred is mine to kill, when I'm ready.
- Now, go, while you still have your balls.
- Cnut will hear that you are protecting him.
- Tell cnut I will return, and when I do, he will have my men.
- He will know what that means.
- Now, go.

- I'll fight you, ubba, if that's what you want, but you will die.

- I think of gisela every morning I wake and every night before I sleep.
- I understand.

- Ragnar?
- He had waited years for you to come home, and within a matter of days, you were gone.
- You should have left the Saxon bitch to die.
- Where is he? I will go to him.
- He's dead! Ragnar is dead!

- When the time is right,
- I swear I will be with you.
- I know.
- I can't believe I'm about to let you go.
- Lose you.
- You have been half my life.
- All of my madness.

- My companion and I have all we need.
- What news did he offer?
Pyrlig: Nothing of importance, but we should set out at once.
Brida: What's the hurry?
- Honestly...
- I cannot wait to escape this blasted cold.
- Besides, the sooner we meet with uhtred the better.

- There is a beauty to a burning village.
Sigefrid: It's like you said. Chaos.
- I wish to be known as sigefrid...
- Lord of chaos.
- Come.

- Our ways with women are not the same as yours.
- I'm a man of honor.
- Perhaps I am misunderstood.
- You're a liar.
- Your plot is discovered and your other men captured.
- Tell me the truth of why you came to bebbanburg and I shall take only their lives.

- I'm in need of a hump.
- We will share her.
- She is my wife.
Uhtred: Aethelred, they are teasing you.
- Perhaps we can begin with a cup of ale?
- It was a long walk from the river.
- A cup of ale it is, lord uhtred.
Clapa: Do you have food, lord?
Erik: The bread is stale, but good.

- Shh.
Sihtric: I'll get you out, be ready.
Finan: Come on, you bastards, you!
- Ha-ha!

- That is what we believe, is it not?
- That is what I say, lord.
- There will be reward enough, in heaven.
- You are a king before you are a father.
- I know my place.
- Now you will leave me.
- Lord.

- He was trusted by my father.
- He lives too well.
Leofric: I'm on my way to the barn.
- You can sleep in the house.
- I prefer the barn. Thank you.
- It is your wedding night.
- Good night, lady.
- Arseling.

- I was not a man to fight Danes, it was said.
- And which is true because
- I know the Danes will win. Heh, heh. Yes.
- Whereas... whereas Alfred...
- Alfred believes that he can win.
- Even now?
- Yes.
- He's wrong, of course, but his faith...
- That god will not desert him, will make him believe that he will win.

- I must take your eyes.
- Lady, no, be merciful.
- And your tongue.
- Bitch.
- I will kill...
- No. No.

- The guards will soon be discovered missing.
- And when they are, it's over.
- We cannot wait.
- But, lord, we have lost half our men.
- And there are hundreds of them, both inside and outside the fortress.
- And a few more men will not be noticed.
- We go to the fortress.

- She was my prize, but she holds me under her spell.
- The world is in crisis and Alfred's daughter, the lady of mercia is threatened by her own husband.
- I want her dead.
- It would be of great comfort to know that I could call upon you again.
Uhtred: Destiny is all.

- And you can fight for the witch...
- To the death.
- Agreed.
- Lord, say nothing.
- Agreed.
- We fight.

- But she has been struck by illness and may not survive.
- I fear she's getting worse.
- We must return to aege/esburg, re veal eardwu/f's treachery and we tell him what kind of a man he trusted.
- A new ruler must be found to bring peace, or all will be lost.
- Destiny is all./

- Who's this?
- She's a queen.
- Queen of where? Of whom?
Uhtred: Britons.

- Some will take a while to recover.
- Perhaps you might... stay and care for them here at bebbanburg.
- Perhaps.
- I think that is an excellent idea.
- The sea air is very good for all manners of illness.
- I shall of course need rooms with a sea view.

- I accept he will never know god...
- Icannot but if you sent him to beamfleot, if she saw him...
- You know I cannot.
- Perhaps her spirits would rise.
- She believes in him.
- Our belief is in god. In prayer.
- It is.
- I will leave you to your letters.

- To Alfred, a man who would become king.
- Though not all agreed.
- I am my father's heir.
[U htred] I swore an oath to this king.
- An oath that lost me brida and prevented me from joining my brother ragnar.
- But destiny is all.

- But you speak the truth.
- You are not yet ready, far from it.
- You gave your word without the means nor ability to keep it.
- Perhaps you will never be ready.
- Leave me.
- Father...
- I said, leave me.

- I will offer negotiations. While these negotiations are taking place, we will send out hunting parties, several.
- Alfred will come.
- I'll attend these negotiations with ubba.
- You have not been invited.
- It's my right.

- When our armies are united, we will face cnut together.
- By the time aethelred returns, there will be no mercia to defend.
- This is your decision?
- It is.
- You will not oppose it.
- Edward!

- Hmm, charming.
- Aethelhelm, I shall bring you into my confidence immediately.
- War is coming, your lands are under threat.
- Danes are marching in numbers from north to south.
- Let us pray for the strength and fortitude to defeat them once again.
- Join me.

- Then I will go to thyra.
- I will discover who killed ragnar.
- And we send him on his way to Valhalla?
- At some point,
- I will see you on the battlefield.
- I won't hesitate to kill you.
- That does not mean you do not love me.

- Lord, I think you need to see this.
Sihtric: Who are they?
- The ealdormen.
Sihtric: Come!
- Who gave your orders?
Sihtric: Come on. Tell us!
- Uhtred, I know him.
Aethelstan: I saw him talking with the king last night.

[sees his son watching the fortress gates]
Lord: Why do I leave the villages unprotected and bring the men inside? Is that your question? A village can be rebuilt. A warrior can die only once.

- Let me speak with him.
- Let me speak with the king.
- Go with this man.
- If he kills Danes, kill him.

- That is not something he would forgive.
- Lord!
Uhtred: He will go nowhere.
- And you will go nowhere and you will say nothing about what you've just heard.
- Yes, lord.
- You mean, "no, lord."
- I'll...
- Do as I say.

- You think it's an attack?
- The king is here and undefended.
[Sighs] Piss.
- Go and find uhtred. I'll get the others.
- Do not do anything stupid.
- Do you hear me?
Aethelstan: Yeah.

- Bastard Scots! Kill them!
- Slay them all!
- Don't spare a single one of them!
- Sons of whores!

- Lord aethelred, I heard you were injured.
- Yes, I...
- Forgive me if I do not get up.
- They told me that...

- Find uhtred.
- I will not leave my people to your mercy.
- We will find your wife, you know we will.
- So I offer you this bargain.
- I will spare her life only if you bring me uhtred.
[Shouting] Sigtryggr!

- Edward, you are certain?
- Set a day for the attack and I will be there.
- You shall have the men.
- Draw haesten out of the fort.
- Our army will be hidden in the woods, waiting.
- You have my word. I swear.

- Nor a wife.
- This is why I'm stronger than you.
- Give me my children!
- I command it.
Sigtryggr: I will give you one of your sons if you retreat.
- And you may choose which.

- Go on.
- Let me talk to him.
- Go on.
- How long have we been on the road, lord?
- Two days?
- And no sight of Edward's men.
- They do not know the land up here, lord.
- Children need their rest.
- Worried about your father's grandchildren, osferth? Huh?

- No! I need one of them alive!
- Not you.

- It was cold, so I lit a fire.
- I hope you don't mind.
- We have servants to light fires.
- Come.
- Sit.
- I do not have an appetite.

- Why does constantin place his men here?
[In Scottish accent] We do not discuss what measures we take to ensure my lord is protected.
- King constantin?
- Your man strays where he is not wanted.
- He's no man of mine.

- pray for strength and to expunge these unholy thoughts that fill my mind.
- You want land in wessex?
- It's my way back to bebbanburg.
- Any silver you find under Alfred will be taken by the Danes, along with your life.
- They can't be beaten.
- Why are you doing this?
- I've said, wealth.

- Does he know you're here?
- It does not matter.
- You know me.
- You believe in me.
- All I want...
- Is your victory.

- Per istam sanctam unctionem et suam...
- Piissiimam misericordiam...
- Indulgeat tibi...
- Dom/nus quidquid per visum...
- Del/guisti

- The ale is good.
- It is.
- Very good.
- To the creators of fine ale!
- May god... bless them.
- May the gods bless them. Him.

- Just leave.
- Have your child.
- Leave while you can.

- How do I know you are brida?
[Stammering] I fought with guthrum.
- I followed ragnar.
- I killed men at tettenhall...
- So, you have heard of Saxon battles.
- That does not make you brida.

- You're a dead man!
- Fight me!
- I'll kill you! I'll kill you!
Aethelhelm: Get me away from here!
Finan: Fight me!
Sihtric: Pull back!
- Too many protect him!

- Cnut.
- He wanted to lead the Danes...
- And he wanted ragnar's woman who used to be yours.
- He told aethelwold that ragnar would kill him.
- He guided the blade... [inhales]
- Into ragnar's heart.

- Am I to be spared?
- Yes, you will be spared, but you will not be returning to the Danes.
- Say your message.
- She says, "aethelwold", lord.
- She says, "do not fail."

Stiorra: Father, sigtryggr is...
- His brother's betrayal, there's a shadow on him now.
Uhtred: His pride is wounded.
- He needs time to heal.
- It's not just his pride.
- I know you see it too.
- He needs your guidance.
- He'll listen to you.
- Will you stay?

- You have something to say to me boy?
- I do.
- Yield to me.

- Indeed. Aelfweard, come and bow to king constantin...
- A word of advice from a king to a future king.
- Trust no one who advises you.
- Understood.
[Laughing] Well, let's eat.
- Ask lady aelfwynn to join us.

- He is cunning.
- Whilst you played lord and the saxons fought amongst themselves, he...
- Captured Winchester!
- No!
- Yes! Lady aelswith, you're going home!
- Take the girl, too.
- No.
- You will not fight it!

- He cursed you when?
- Along time ago, we were young. [Laughs]
- He threw a curse, I stuck a branch up his arse. It was that day.
- I've been a barren bitch ever since.

- He is to be offered no safe harbor, no support.
- That is the word of the king, is it?
- If asked, he would deny it.
- Thought I was going after the young bastard.
- Yes.
- After you have finished playing messenger, you may return to rumcofa.

- Cnut and only cnut.
- That's good enough.
- Less men at the camp.

- I have to speak with him.
- No!
- At least not now.
- The Danes are defeated.
- Let us just enjoy the peace...
- Just for one night.
- I will do as you ask...
- Just for one night.

- You're half naked, lord, you might catch a chill.
- This will not take long.
- Was it you? The fires?
- Must have been the gods.
- They're angry with you.
- First blood or to the death?

- Come here, bitch!
- You see this? It belonged to cnut himself.
- No, it did not... you lying turd.
[Men raucously] Oh!
- Throw the Danish whore in the pit!

- King constantin of scot/and has formed an alliance with the lords of northumbria, disputed territory he claims as his own.
- This is a moment to join as one.
[U htred] Among them is my cousin w/htgar, who murdered his father to steal my birthright for himself destiny is all/

- A wise decision, lord.
- I think it would be right if your son were to travel with the delegation.
- Aelfweard is very fond of his aunt.
- Perhaps I could accompany him?
- He may be some comfort to his cousin aelfwynn.
- The poor girl.

- We have soldiers to feed.
- It could be a lean winter.
- All the more reason to celebrate while we can.
- It's blood month festival. [Chuckles]
- I need ale and you need to hump the tall girl from frisia.
- The tall girl from frisia's too tall.
Finan: It's border country, lord.
- You don't get to be too picky.

- Drink enough water, then give me back the jug.
- After that point, do not drink anymore.
- Why?
- If the king cannot choose between his sons, it may be that we need to ensure aethelstan does not have a powerful friend.

- Only I can defeat uhtred.
- You know it to be true.
- I have never lied to you, sigurd.
- But what you wish for and who you wish for, it can never be real while haesten is alive.
- You must kill him.

- Did I not say it would be more than a wergild?
- Aethelwold,
- I swear, when the killing starts, you shall be my first.

Stiorra: Leave him. It is done.
- Go and play.
- She is nothing to fear!
- She's here to rescue you, turn you back to the gods.
Rognvaldr: Do not fight them, brother.
- She has the power. Yield!

Wolland: My queen.
Stiorra: Do not forget me on this, your final journey.
- Your blade and my heart will remain yours.
- Tonight all love is buried.

- I will always answer mercia's call with you on the throne.
- I know.

- It makes no sense.
[Edward] Dismount!
- Archers ready!
- Let's take back what is rightfully ours!
- That way to the walls.
Sigtryggr: Archers.
- We have to stop them, lord, before it gets them all killed!

- But if we can get in and I kill brida...
- She'|I have men within protecting her.
- I have men within and they will be loyal to me.
- You take this band outside the gates, we can bring townspeople out to you.
- We still need to get into eofennic, lord.
[Shouting] My wife will not die trapped like a rat!
- I did not conquer all I have conquered to let her suffer this!

- Put a sword to his throat if he does not!
- Give me time. I can make this right.
- Rognvaldr will betray you.
- You know this...
- Then I shall execute him and find another and another and another until I can turn my back on this wretched town forever.
- I advise you do the same.

- Lower your weapons!
- Come!
- Talk to us at the gate!
- Come now!
- Your sons want to see their father!
- Lord, do not approach the gate.

- Lord! Lord! Lord!
- Run!

- [Qasdsi hmm.

- As a dying infant.
- I feared my prayers had not been answered...
- And I gave him to you...
- And to iseult.
- You remember her.
- Always.

- God has not forsaken you, lord.
- Fetch aelswith, fetch his mother!
- The prayers of the whole of wessex have been answered.
Alfred: Indeed.
- Every mass, lord, every mass said by 100 priests or more has been heard.
- Look at him. Look at him, he is well.
- God is good. Praise him!
- Yes, praise him, father beocca.

- This isn't part of the plunder.
- It's a holy cross.
- It goes back to the church.
- There'll be blessings.
- It's all ours.
- Home?
- Wessex. And our separate ways.
- There's a bishop I must see.

Hild: Up. You've been asleep for a day or more.
[Grunts] I can do it.
- Take off your clothes.

- Can you hear me?
- I hear you, skorpa.
- Do you wish to surrender?
- I have a gift for you.
- Your queen!
- No mercy!
- You will be struck down with my spear!
- And you will spend eternity in the fires of hell!

- They've been after silver, so let's give them some.
- Keep going! Ride!
Steapa: We must not be seen!
- We track them, and then we kill the bastards!

- Perhaps is enough.
- We follow the way of turds.
Uhtred: Wait!
- You die before I do and my daughter will not forgive it.
- Uh, lord, this is a bad idea.
- The romans protected their buildings with ghosts.

- If guthrum were Christian and not pagan, there would be no war.
- But he's not.
- You do well to remember I am king.
- King of what? Look around you.
- He is our king.
- Like every kingdom before it, wessex has fallen.
- He's Alfred, a man.
- King of nothing.

- What happened here with you? [Gasps]
- Which one of these is the farm girl from lewes?
- I am the visionary.
- A visionary, but you did not see us coming.
- Whose men are you?
- We were sent by king sigtryggr.

Sigtryggr: I will not harm you. Do not.
- I only wish to speak with you.
- Answer me truthfully and I will treat you kindly.
- I've heard of men's kindness and I do not want it. [Pants]
- I am the Dane who took Winchester.
- If I wanted to hump a woman,
- I would not need to use force.

Finan: Steapa!
- What is this?
- Hmm? What is this?
- Finan, do nothing.
- He's a free man!
- Do not think I am afraid of you!

- She is an angry woman.
Skade: Attack now!
Uhtred: What is your answer?
- I have a mind to kill her regardless.
- She tires me.
- He cannot do it, lord! He is cursed!
- Kill them all!
- You will not harm her again!

- This is madness.
- The rightful king of wessex helping to avenge the death of a big, hairy viking.
- It would make a good song.
- Should you die, aethelwold,
- I shall have it written.

- He has taken my woman, my seer, he shames me. I'd like to slit his belly.
- Now is not the time.
- I would accept the fight of skill, with staffs. Skade as the prize.
- Bloodhair, now is not the time.
- My answer is no.

- I will never surrender.
- Kill me as I killed my father.
- That is the legacy of our line.
- Do this and your son will kill you.
- That is the destiny.
- No, it's not.

- He has chosen, uhtred, and I cannot go back on my word.
Uhtred: He is not the one to blame.
- Aethelhelm is responsible.
- And yet he has fled the battlefield.
- Aethelhelm worked to destroy the peace you created.
- If sigtryggr dies, he has won.
- Do not let him.

Sigtryggr: You are still alive, then?
Rognvaldr: That's because of you.
Rognvaldr: Will you look?

- There are two northmen, sigefrid and Erik, two godless brothers with a voracious appetite for land, silver, slaves and war.
- I want it known and I want them to know that god, Alfred and the ealdormen of wessex are watching.
- The day of reckoning will come.

- You are.
- Safe journey.
- All the way back to frankia.
- Uhtred ragnarson.
- You will always have my respect.
- But do not forget you were raised as a Dane.

Aethelflaed: Edward, you swore you'd not betroth her to a man I despised.
- He is a great warrior.
- He is a leader of men.
- Aethelred still rules here, and he will not allow this.
- I cannot wake him.

- where he shall pray every hour of the day and night...
- I wish to remain at the palace.
- Until god grants him the sense to realise that being king is not a pastime, not a choice, but a duty.
- Your wife will be dealt with.
- You shall never dare put at risk all that I have achieved.

- Clapa's a bear. A big, angry bear.
- Should we call a halt?
- No, not at all.
- With a little luck, a blow will land.
Beocca: All he's doing is showing off his feathers.
- I believe the lady feels the same.
- They usually do.
- Even his scars are handsome.

- It's Alfred. He lives.
- Stand!
- Every man is to stand!
Uhtred: Come on!
Haesten: Stand!
- She's why we are here, lord! Take her!

- What... what is it, lord?
- We must ride after brida.
- Now.
- Uh, lord, I must speak with you...
- Fetch father pyrlig.
- He will be with the townspeople.
- Then stay here and make sure the rest of the city is secured.

- and I shall remind him how fond you are of his seat.
- Do that.
- But allow me to remind you of this.
- The only man capable of cleaning up this puddle of shit is the man you are desperate to blame.
- Uhtred, king of mercia.

- The bride has been given her price?
- She will.
- You are witness.
Mildrith: Thank you, lord.
- If the betrothed couple would like to join me at the altar...
- And join hands.
Odda the Elder: Be brief.

- Ragnar!
- Ragnar was weak...
- And I needed him to die!
- But my son... my son was innocent!
- Brida...
- Give me your seax!
- Give me your seax!

- Move!
- This is a mistake. I was lost!
Wihtgar: You were trying to steal away!
- I was not!
- Why? Huh? Why?
Uhtred: Get me those oars.
- In there, osferth.

- Say it, lady aethelflaed, so that we may witness your oath.
- I swear... that as long as I hold the mercian throne,
- I will remain chaste.
Ludeca: Is the witan agreed?
[All] Agreed!
- Agreed!
- Then, lady aethelflaed, you may take the throne.

- If you can delay the Danes until lady aethelflaed arrives, she will persuade Edward to endure a longer siege.
- You know that we can take back the town when they're depleted.
- That is not my plan, aldhelm.
- Ha! Told you.
- Why else would you make such a dangerous offer?
- Because I believe I can end this.

Uhtred: We will take them to aethelflaed in mercia.
- I remember watching you ride out from Winchester...
- Before you fought at the battle of fearnham.
- I remember.
- Your mother was there.
- It was the last time I saw her.

- My exact written instruction shall follow.
- I want sigefrid and Erik out of lundene and soon.
- It will be done, lord. Thank you, lord.
- Steapa.
- Lord?
- Do you trust the ealdorrnan uhtred?
- With my life, lord.

- Lord god in heaven,
- Grant this witan the benefit of your divine wisdom as you guide us today.
- Amen.
[All] Amen.

- Eadred: See how the flesh is uncorrupted.
- A miracle.
- Eadred: You will take his hand, lord, and swear your oath.
- Uhtred, you are the commander of my household troops.
- You will be beside me.

- Haesten looks a broken man.
- He looks like shit. He brings my woman.

- Brida, not that way.
- Take the goat out the side.
- Next time, I promise.
- Mother, look.
- It's beautiful. It really is.
- I can't believe
- I'm losing you already.
- I will be living across the field.
- If he doesn't treat you well, come marching back across that field.

- She is so beautiful.
- She is too good for him.
- Why are we delaying?
- Did sihtric witness something at the graveside?
- Sihtric saw nothing.

- Not as a wife.
- No longer as a wife.
[Sighs] But you will always be half my life.
- And all of your madness, is what you said.
- It's true.

- The arrow would miss.
- Then you know nothing of the weapons of the desert.
- Put down the bow.
- Put down the bow!
- You've lost everything, osbert!
- I won't tell you again, put down the bow!

Alfred: Time has passed so quickly.
- Take comfort that steapa would kill any man who dared to harm her, husband included.
- He's as much her man as he is yours.
Alfred: Yes, he is.
- Should I have him beheaded as a traitor?

- Trust that I have good reason to refuse.
- You're like the worst of your father.
- Uhtred...
Uhtred: And you a coward!
- I will do this alone, even if you give me nothing!
- How you've changed.
- How you have not.

- I asked, are you satisfied?
- You have my sincere apologies, father.
- Lady.
- He was here.
- I can smell him.
- Will we see you at the wedding, lords?

- Aethelwold's visit.
- What he said about my heroic wife.
- The chances of her meeting harm in one form or another.
- And you have decided what?
- I want her dead.
- And the child with her.

- He was too reasonable.
- You underestimate how men crumble in the face of Alfred's widow.
- Anyway, fear not. Our guards are close.

- It has grown heavier these past weeks.
- I will manage.

- Lady aelswith, forgive me...
- You appear to be going against the king's wishes.
- Father beocca?
- You may be needed.
- Get the door! Get the door!
[Man] Get back! Get back! It's falling!

- Ragnar is spent.
- That said, he will kill you.
- What? Why?
- He blames you for losing uhtred.
- Why? I merely opened his eyes.
- And he will close yours, for all time.
- I like you, aethelwold, but ragnar will kill you. Soon.

- Maybe just someone trying to frighten me.
- And are you frightened?
- No. But I expect worse.
- Lord, you're brooding.
- My wife thinks it's the change of the seasons getting to you.
- We have scouts at every lookout point from here to the burh at thelwall.
- Hey, hump the tall girl.

- Should I hand you back to wessex?
- Unused but... tarnished?
- You wouldn't dare.
- We shall see.
- Lord!
- I am your wife.

Man: Lord?
- Lord, when will you need assistance?

- I would, if I believed you were sincere in accepting god into your heart.
- Do you worry if every child baptized is sincere in accepting god into their heart?
[Scoffs] I'm confident few of them are using it to lay claim to a throne.
- God is infinitely wise, is he not?
- He will know if I am sincere.
- Lord uhtred, come fonnard and receive god's grace.

- Give no ground!
- Where are the mercians!

- Pull!
- Pull!
- And pull!
- Pull!
- And pull!
- And pull!

- Did you hear that, bitch?
- Do you want to congratulate us?
- Oh, she cannot speak for thirst.
Rhodri: Hey, want a drink?
- Come on. Come on.
- {gasping} -[Men laughing]

- Because we cannot rush mercia into conflict with wessex.
- Stay with aethelflaed. Guard her quarters.
- No one is to enter without her permission.
- What about her brother?
- No one. You two, with me.
- Where, lord?
- To ensure aethelflaed will not have to rely on Edward's goodwill for her survival.

- What does he want with cumbraland and with our king?
- He wants bebbanburg, his ancestral home.
- And it's in the king's gift to help him.
- Hm. He will need to be watched.
- He's a pretender,
- I'm sure.

- We cannot hand Winchester over to the Danes for the life of one man.
[Edward] Indeed.
- Set the hay sacks close to the gates.
- Add shit and lime, so they may choke on the stench.
- We force men from the ramparts and into the streets, breach the gates and slaughter them!

- Ah!
- Uhtred!
- Arseling!
Uhtred: I have your sword.

- I may have been too emphatic in my encouragement of the king.
- Come, ride with me south.
- No! I will not flee the battle.
- I will stay where I may be of use to injured men.
- I am not suggesting we flee, but if you want to avert a slaughter, then follow.

- Negotiation.
- Silver.
- We will take his silver and his land.
Guthrum: And if he refuses?
Ubba: He will never refuse.
- He wants to live and he wants to be called king. Heh, heh, heh.

- You have no leader.
- Then I shall lead!
- With bloodhair, we will Bury ragnar and we will march.
- Then get it done and keep her quiet.
- Release her.

- Uhtred!
- Take the horse.

- Only constantin of scotia, the true Christian king, has power to end Edward's tyranny.
- King constantin will be expecting a gift.
- We shall give him one.
- The ladyaelfi/I/ynn is without allies.
- You must retrieve her.

- Uhtred, you are his man.
- You more than anyone will bring about his dream of an england.
- Alfred's wish is for guthred to become the one true lord of the north, and you will make that happen.
- I say it as I now see it.
- You have shit in your eye.
- I see it as a king would see it.

- He was a child then...
- A baby.
- A life passes so quickly.
- Edward, you shall fetch father beocca.
- We shall prepare for the first day...
- In a new land.

- Already you wish me to become king of eofewvic?
- Why wait? The brothers will return, weakened or not.
- I'd rather they remain outside the walls of eofewvic.
- Lord! Lord, the Roman wall!
Guthred: We follow the wall all the way to cumbraland. Home.
- And then, uhtred, we prepare to take eofewvic.

- Danes, they have other customs.
- Take the survivors to danelaw.
- Mercia is no place for us.
- We will take osferth back to the place of his birth.
- Let him rest in wessex.
- Take finan with you to meet uhtred.

- Stand down your men!
- Edward, stand down!
- Stand down!

- You are god's king, lord.
- Yet at my right hand is a pagan.
- Do you trust him wholly?
- I do not.
- Icannot then be rid of him.

Leofric: How do we do this?
- How do we share?
- We don't share.
- Oh, we can fight and some of us will die, including your queen.

- In the mind of brother asser, she is a witch and yet you gladly drink her potions.
- It is a tonic.
- I can read you.
- You wish to put our child in the hands of the devil.
- Our prayers are not being answered.
- Is it any wonder we find ourselves living in a muddy puddle?

- Not a single one.
- Not a single man has answered my call.
- Then we wait.
- We must wait, lord.

- He would play games every day if he could.
- Is there spit in your hands?
- Good earth beneath your feet?
- Come on! Get on with it, ragnar!
Finan: Come on! Let's do this!
- Pull!

- Lord king!
Aldhelm: Shield wall!
[Edward] Pull back!
Aethelstan: Get back!
[Edward] Pull back!

- See they are fed and watered, horses and slaves.
Erik: You are called sihtric?
- Yes, lord. Good evening to you, lord.
- Uhtred says you can be trusted.
- So you will take him this letter.
- This is a great responsibility.

- Your husband is a fortunate man.
- My husband does not see me.
- Then he's blind or stupid.
- He is not blind.
- And he is not gentle, I would guess.
- He is the one who mistreats you?
- He is not the man
- I would choose to be with.

- while it's still in Saxon hands and before the brothers return.
- Hmm. I will speak with the Abbot.
- Lord, the Abbot is an Abbot.
- I am a warrior, you're a king.
- The Abbot and his dream is the reason I am king.
- I will speak to the Abbot...
- And my sister shall do her duty.

- and in respect so he may lead in a godly manner.
- Beo...
- Beocca, he's cleansed.
- Amen.
- Uhtred, son of uhtred of bebbanburg, welcome to the Christian world.
- Behold your people and your land.

- Faith.
- Faith in those I love...
- For they will not abandon me.
- Lord, I beg of you.
- Amen.
- Amen.
- You! With me!

- What will happen to my daughter?
- She's too valuable to simply kill, lord.
- It would be humiliation.
- She will be taken to every town where Danes rule.
- She will be paraded before mocking crowds.
- And men would pay to take their turn.

- My sword's weight in silver.
- I agree I may have been robbed, but we like you, boy.
- We're going to keep you.
Uhtred: Does this mean I'm a Dane?
- It means you're uhtred ragnarson.
- You are a son to me now.
- Ah!

- Bnda!
- Ah! You should not have come for my children, brida.
- It's not like the little priest was using his cock.

- My lady. Forgive me.
- I was, hoping for a moment to discuss the ealdorman uhtred.
- Father, forgive me, but my lord is in need of rest.
- He is.
- You are, um...
- Forgive me.

- Lord?
[Elder] What is it?
- Have the Danes arrived?
[Younger] Leofric, he is outside.
- Then bring him inside. He's our man.
- Bring them both to me.

- So, when I kill him,
- I'm allowed to go free, that is the bargain?
- That is the bargain.
- Hear that, boltan? He plans to kill you.
- I do. Beware.
- I'm afraid, lord.
- Spare me this trial, I beg you.

- Ragnar!
- Again?
- Yes.
- It's the last time, I promise.
- One more son, I swear.
- If it's not, I will take your cock.

- Soldier: What's happening?
- Get the shields!
- Watch your backs!
- Rypere!
- Finan!

- What laws will prevail?
- You have had your time...
- Soon it will be the turn of others.
- God, or the gods...
- They will decide.
- Agreed.

- Not my business.
- He kills a man I have known all my life.
- He refuses to pay wergild to a family I have known all my life, and the village my father helped build now call him uhtred the godless.
- Not forgetting I refuse to have my son baptised a Christian.
- I'll excuse myself.
- Sit, please.
- None of this is my business.
- I'll stop.

- Instead you swore an oath to kill Danes.
- You know my reasons.
- We have been living in a palace.
- What happens if you find yourself facing young ragnar in battle?
- We fight.

- Perhaps we should rest here.
- For a short while.
- Is it cold? I feel so cold.
- It is cold enough.

- Who's been telling you this?
- Men, begging to live.
- Would say anything.
- That's where you'll go, to cynuit?
- Well, I have ships to repair, the coastline here has been murderous.

- Now you will crawl all the way to the palace where you will kiss the cross and lie flat down on your face.
- And then what?
- God and the king will forgive you.
- Go.
[Man 1] That's it.
[Man 2] Go on, then.
[Man 3] Get down.

- You will need silver to travel.
- A ship's fare.
- Yes.
- I would.
- Not much.
- You will never see this face again.

- From ragnar...
- And from me.
- I have always loved you.

- Thyra, thyra it's me. Beocca.
- One moment!

Haesten: You were right, lord she has beauty.
- She does.
- More than that, she's worth ten times her weight in gold and silver.
- I'm thinking we should fatten her.

- I wish to see guthred. Guthred!
- Make yourself known!
- Guthred of cumbraland!
- Can you hear me?
Sven: I will decide when you see your man.
- You will give us the ransom and you will give it now.
- You will do everything I say.

- I see the new king is keeping you busy.
- He is.
- I do not know you.
- Where will I find the man uhtred?
- Lord uhtred will be that way, with the king's guard and the king, and half the townsfolk starved of interest.

- Osferth, at times we're all afraid.
- Courage is finding the will to overcome your fear. Nothing more.
- Perhaps we'll find you an axe.
- It requires less skill than a sword.
- But you must find the courage.
- Yes, lord.
- Thank you, lord.

- I will not take orders from a Dane.
Sigtryggr: Let us talk, eye to eye!
- This is a game and I will not play.
- Tell him to surrender, or I will give the signal to burn them all.
- Bring the boys.
- Lord king!

- How did you like your first battle?
- I swear it will be my last.
- From now on,
- I will be staying in the tent.
- You showed the spirit of a true warrior.
- Perhaps my family honor is restored.
- If only those who cared for me were still here to see it.

- You are uhtred, son of uhtred.
- Lord of bebbanburg.
- It's time you remembered that.
- You kept the blade sharp.
- I knew you'd return.

- It has been an eventful time.
- Mm. Then you have surely earned a good rest.
- I will ensure you are given the grandest chamber in eofennic.
- The king and I can sleep elsewhere.
- It is my honor to honor you.
- I hope, in time, you deem me worthy of your son.

- He's made his choice.
- And I have made mine.
- You made no choice.
- If you had not killed the monk, you would still be Alfred's oathman.
- Then I'm glad I killed the monk.
- I am Dane.

- Uhtred of bebbanburg.
- Uhtred the impostor! Yes!
- This alliance has brought me nothing!
- Now he hunts me in my own fortress!
- If he hunts you, I suggest you find him.
- Send all armed guards to the gate!
- Bring my grandson aelfweard to me.
- I want the atheling by my side.

- He's never failed!
- He never failed because good men followed him.
- But even he could not take on an army alone.
- It was unwise.
- It is painful to speak it, but your lord has lost a battle he could never win.
- There is no hope for him.

- They will be satisfied with this.
- Let me go. She will show no mercy.

- Has he drunk any ale?
- A little.
- A little is of little use.

- You will find us at the river ouse, one army.
- It was either you or bloodhair who killed ragnar.
- Brida, you cannot accept that his last night was spent with a whore and that she killed him.
- Who knows what goes on between a man and a woman?
- Ragnar did not appreciate nor deserve your love.

- from eofenlvic, kjartan and bebbanburg.
- Bebbanburg and what lies within it belongs to no man but me.
- You are for yourself it would appear.
Guthred: Gisela?
- I would like you beside me at the negotiation.
- Uhtred, mine is the only voice that the brothers shall hear.

- You choose now to act with caution?
- When you have shown such boldness of late?
- The pilgrims may be resting peacefully in lindisfarne as we speak.
- Or killers maraud your lands without consequence...
[Edward] Perhaps!
- But I will not be moved to retaliate until I am certain.

- and take away any and all fever and sickness.
- Restore health and strength to the child and to his ever watchful parents.
- Amen.
- Amen.
- Amen.
Aelswith: Shh-shh-shh.

- I do not care. My life is over.
- Are you the king of the Scots?
- Are you the bride?
- So I'm told.
- Why are you not married?
- You're older than my father.
- Which father would that be?

Finan: Get your saintly arse on the bench, osferth.
Uhtred: Let's go.
- He gets sick traveling backward.
Osferth: I do not. I just like to see where we're going.

- You must not tell anyone what has happened here.
- You're quiet today, father beocca.
- A sleepless night.
- Should I speak with thyra?
- Tell her you need your rest?
- You shall do no such thing.
- You will not talk of such matters.
- And what matters are those, father?
- I have said enough.
- You've all said enough.

- I am a Dane for life.
- Mean it!
- I am a Dane for life.
- From this day onwards.
- From this day onwards.
- This means everything to me.

- Protection.
- You are too good a woman for god alone.
- Uhtred, it is you.

- Do they want to speak?
- Five men, to match theirs.
- And only I speak.
- Aethelwold?
- Only the great uhtred speaks.

- Uhtred!
- You will walk and you will get up onto your horse!

- He is no fool. He will not wait for us to knock on his door.
- He will want to choose the place of battle and we cannot allow him that advantage.
- We each volunteer a man, you, me and bloodhair.
- Yes, lord.
- Will you speak to bloodhair or shall I?
- You.

- Bloodhair, you do not yield.
- Do not yield.
Uhtred: Give them no ground!
- Give them nothing but your sword!
Aldhelm: They are running scared!
- They are beaten!

- I would have liked to have seen my land of Devonshire once more.
- How did it look?
- Devonshire was beautiful, lord.
- God be with you.

- I was just thinking about you.
- You were in my prayers...
- Is what I mean.
- Thank you, hild.
- Please continue.
- Do not let me disturb your peace.
- Would you care to sit with me...
- In peace, lord?
- I would, hild. I will.

- Aelfwynn, do not fear.
- They look at us and they see weak and feeble women, but therein lies our strength.
- Aethelhelm and his men are fools to underestimate us.

- You alone will kneel.
- I will not.
- Kneel!
- I have come to negotiate.
- I demand respect.
- If you do not wish to hear my price, then I will leave, happily.
- Aethelflaed.
- As you can see, she is well.
- I would like to speak with her.
- Then do it.

Aelswith: I have come to wish you goodnight, lord.
- Rest well.
- Stay.
- Stay.

- Stay a while, haesten.
- We have such memories to share.

Hild: This bitterness is not her.
- Her role is diminished and she is veiled in grief.
- Yes.
- It can make a person less than they should be.
- I should know.

- Can we not simply give you the silver and be on our way, lord? Please.
Sven: There is nothing to fear but the lies of a priest.
- I know it.
- Lord?
- Oh, dear god in heaven, it is him.
Sven: It is who?

- Uhtred and ragnar? Pagans.
- There is that risk, but firstly, uhtred is a warrior, a viking even, he will forever be restless.
- Perhaps.
- And secondly, should he turn his attention to bebbanburg and indeed to northumbria as a whole, then steapa is under instruction to kill him.

- It's beautiful.
- She is drifting away from the earth and upward to the heavens.
Finan: We've done a good thing here.
- God knows it.
- The gods know it.

- He's a good man.
- He is my friend...
- And a traitor.
- May I go, lord?
- You are free to go.
- As my oath-man.

- Which men?
- She is with gisela now, she is with her mother!
- We cannot allow ourselves to be consumed by her death.
- All that Alfred stood for is crumbling.
- You, uhtred, cannot be dragged into the shadows!
- You must become the light.

[Grunts] Of course, I would slit her throat after she'd been ridden!
[Pants] Wait, uhtred.
- She's too well used to fight over.
Uhtred: Now I will kill you!

- Steapa, when you are ready.
- Yes, lord.
- [Gasdingl
- We march, men of wessex!
- We march!

- You reek of death, lord.
- I do. Sadly, I do.
- Why sadly?
- Your life has been rich, you have reputation.
- There is more to be done.
- I must see that it is done.
- Ask your question.

- Kill anyone who looks like they cannot work!
- Fat ones we can sell as slaves. [Roars]

- I will return to my church, father.
- I curse myself for my headstrong children.
- What can I say? My blood is the blood of a stubborn bastard.

Uhtred: Aethelstan!
- Sihtric, get him to safety!
- You find sigtryggr,
- I'll deal with aethelhelm!

[Man] Did you get any of his pork this morning?
[Man 2] Bloody sausages...
[Man 3] Take it all out.
- Thank you.
[Man] Father beocca.
- Segwall.
- I'll see you in the kings hall.

- Come play with us.
Aethelflaed: In a moment.
- First I must talk to eadith.

- I need a loyal man to lead the mercian guard.
- Live here alongside them and be my presence here in aegelesburg.
- Perhaps that man could be you in recompense for...
- My banishment?
- There are worse fates than to be raised by uhtred.
- It'll be a better use of your talent than spying on your father.

- How long? Before they come?
- They are near.
- You are facing death, for certain.
- You are wrong, jackdaw. I will not die.
- Osferth!
- The blood.

- I will get you out of here.
- But you will take me to your camp.
- You're no longer sworn to uhtred, boy?
- Uhtred is cursed and has lost his mind.
- I am at the mercy of gods, and this is their will.
- Are you with me or not?

Guthred: You did.
- But you made me a slave.
Guthred: Yes.
- Hmm.
- Yes, but, in my defense,
- I was meant to kill you.
- I spared your life...
- Uhtred! No!

- Tofi, the fire must smoke, black smoke.
- Yes, lord. There will be smoke.
- Every man on his feet!
- We must be ready!
- You all know what needs to be done!
- We cannot fail!
- Go! We cannot fail!

- If the king seeks to threaten us, we retaliate...
- Even if it means fighting against those that I love.
- I never wanted to rend you from your family.
- I held the peace so I may hold you, unfractured.
- I am not fractured.
- And we are united.

- You are my blood.
- Do you understand? You are my blood.
- The rest will come in time.

- More than that, she was the devil in disguise.
- It is what he would do.
- Hmm.
- Ale and women.
- And prayer.
- Absolutely.
- But in that order.

- Revenge for what? And I'll end it.
- An uprising north of here.
- A Saxon slave.
- He killed his master at a wedding party.
- What was the name of this slave?
- -
- Huh?
- You speak English well for a Dane.
- His name.

- God-given.
- Hmm.
- If you will excuse me, lord.
- Of course.
- Edward, you are late for your lessons.
- Come.

- Don't turn away from me.
- This was done in your name.
- I did not order this, uhtred.
- Aethelhelm claims he acts for you.
- Look at me!

- This is it? This is where we find storri?
- I see him.
- Huh?
- The gods are with us.
- And this is from your wife?

- Seize the land to the north until you reach the sea.
- And then we will see which Saxon kingdom is the greatest.
- And who should knee! To whom.

- May god have mercy on each of us.
- Where is he taking him?
- Am I allowed to know?
- To iseult.
- God is watching.

Hild: I would like you to teach me how to fight. Swordcraft.
[Uhtred laughs] Skill.
- The Danes call it sword skill.
- Then I would like you to teach me sword skill.
- To help you kill men who stare?
- No, lord, to protect myself and those I care for.
- Yourself included.

- And she will be loyal to you if you allow her.
- She is not a threat, Edward.
[Hywel] Deheubarth fortress lies ahead.
- It will be well defended, but we have darkness and surprise on our side.
- So, move swiftly and attack without mercy.
[Commander] Yes, lord king.

- There is no curse.
- If I say there is no Christian god, does that make it so?
- There is no curse, sihtric.
- I have seen women throw a curse and the next day a man is dead.
- Right, that is enough talking.
- To speak of it makes it stronger.

- Pyrlig, find Edward.
- Tell him what has happened here.
- Yes, lord.
- We go ahead to Winchester.
- They will not take what is not theirs, not whilst I live!
[Pants] Lord!
- What?
- Run!
- Let's go.

- No! No, give me my sword.
- For Valhalla you must give me my sword.
- I won't beg you!
- Die.
- Give me my sword!
- Yes!

- Release her and I will not kill him.
[Softly] Uhtred.
- Do you want to see him die?
- Let her go.
- Run.
- Run!

Aethelwold: What I ought to do is slit his gizzard. Unh!
Leofric: Say that to anyone but me, boy, and you'll be hanged.
- You are hurting royalty.
- You are lucky Alfred hasn't had you killed.
- God will not allow him.
- I like god.

- You are god-fearing christians no more.
- You are Danes now.
- Pagans.
- You don't cross yourself nor look to the heavens.
- Let's make ourselves rich!
[Men] Yeah!

- Before he concedes one square of wessex land.
- You are a pack of fools...
- Unknowingly, you have trapped yourselves within these walls.
- For once, the heathen are all in one place.
- And when the fire comes, as come it shall...
- We will watch your souls burn as we ascend!

Cnut: Where is he?
- Give me your hand! Pull!

- I cannot do that.
Brida: But your god can.
- You're his voice! So speak! Give her back!
Brida: Give her back!
- Dear god, spare her!
- Put no more blood on her hands!
Pyrlig: She was born your servant.
- She need not die in torment.
- She can still repent and join her daughter in paradise.

- It is no lie. Eardwulf has near confessed it before his men.
- This was found on him.
- It belonged to lord aethelred and was stolen from his dying hand.
- Eardwulf has done many things to harm mercia.
- You all chose to turn your eyes from it.
- This is the consequence.

- Half-naked, lord.
- He's at an age, lord.
- Is this true?
- Half-naked?
- Yes, lord.
- Then I shall only take his one eye.
Kjartan: No, lord, please.
Sven: Ah!
- Kjartan, you are banished from my land.

- Yes, lord.
- Steapa.
- Lord sigebriht.
- An approximation to a witan has gathered.
- The outlaws are required.
- What is an approximation to a witan?
- It's almost a witan but not quite.
- We must be without the king.

- You have broken my peace.
- You have broken the peace of Christ, brought weapons into a sacred place.
- I'm telling you the truth.
- Go to the courtyard and wait for me to pass judgement.
- Judgement? For what?
- I've done nothing wrong...
- You will be quiet!

- But if he is to become a true ealdorman, he must accept his burden.
- That is the test.
- Yes, lord.
- Mildrith is his beautiful consolation.
- Was he struck by her?
- He was, lord.

- Thank you.
- Quickly grab what you can and return to your posts.
- And keep an eye out for more Danish ships!
- I'd like somewhere quiet to dress.
- Are there ladies' quarters in the fortress?
- You may find your way down to the kitchen.
- There are some women there.

- Why is she not food for the rats by now?
Uhtred: Because she has a gift.
- Because she has taken hold of my path.
- If we kill her, the curse will live on.
- It is the curse that must be killed.

- Stop crying! I cannot bear it!
- Be kind.
- She wants her mother.
- We survived without a mother.
- You must be stronger. Be grateful.
- Better this than being wed to an old man.

- Along with all of these silks and furs.
- Just... a good life...
- For a girl who has nothing.
- Am I being very unfair?
- Have I misjudged your Christian soul?
- It can all be arranged.

- Bloodhair.
- A private moment, lord sigurd?

- This is so foolish.
- Ubba will come look for me and he will be here soon.
- I said be quiet.
- Then I'll wait for him here.
- I'll wait for ubba here.
- That means it's just you and me.

- And you are uhtred ragnarson.
- And I wish to serve a warrior and a lord. A true lord.
- If you believe me to be these things, then put down your sword.
- You guarantee my life?
- Put down your sword.
- Kill him.
- No.
- Put down your sword.

- Do his men still bar the gate?
- Yes, and the mercians seem set on departure.
- I fear neither will back down.

- He is a man without a soul.
- Then I will be his soul.
- I will pray for him. I will ride beside him always and into battle.
- I will be his conduit to god.
- And if you fall in battle?
- With the help of your prayers,
- I shall become invincible, I'm sure.
- Brother asser...
- I should like you to be the first of my messengers.

- You're impossible to reason with.
- Everything is a game.
- I hope for mildrith's sake, your time on this earth is short.
- You are not an ealdorman and never shall be.
[Man] Hey! Here!

Yahya: It is the king.
- A king would choose a finer ship.
- Except for perhaps this one.
- My men disembark at the sea gate.
- A king arrives at a fortress through the front. [Laughs heartily]

- But it may be the only compromise.
- The ealdormen will complain, but this time, do not treat them too harshly.
- Then you will find some redemption.
- I do not need redemption, either.
- Oh, my son, you do.
- If only for the sins of your mother.

- I don't like black. It's so cold.
- It would be a strange man who does.
- It is time.
- She asked that you protect mercia.
- You have only done as you saw right and good.
- Perhaps.

- Father beocca, you do not need to trouble yourself.
- No, lord?
- Unlock the door.
- What are they doing?
- Alfred's said he'd like to hump the witch.
- No word of lie.

- I will leave if you wish.
- I do not wish.
- But you cannot stay.
Uhtred: And if I'm quiet?
- We could both be quiet.

- Take my horse and join her.
- The earth will be warm.
- Heh, heh, heh.
- Why not?
- I just thought in order to be a real Dane, I had to marry a Dane.
- Come on.
- I love you like I love young ragnar.

- It is about pain.
[Crowd chants] Three!
Wolland: An agony of burning that the flesh never forgets.
- Then we wait to see if the blood sickens.
[Crowd chants in unison] Four!
[Crowd chants in unison] Five!
[Crowd chants in unison] Six!

Hild: No!
- No, please don't...
- Oh, lord... [panting]
- Oh, forgive me. [Pants heavily]
- Thank you.
Hild: There's more. Stay back!

[Sniffles] I know I must act.
- He must answer for his crimes.
[Sighs] But all my life,
- I have protected him.
- I do not know what to do.
- He does not deserve your mercy.
- Perhaps we could let the gods decide.

- I am not looking for the monastery.
- Saxons are not welcome here, father.
- I know.
- But I've urgent business with king hywel.
- Are you Saxon?
- Well, I was born a briton.
- You will only find trouble here, brother.
- You will find more than trouble if you do not let me pass.

- She is married and it cannot be undone.
- Make her a widow.
- No!
- Gisela is married to aelfric, not to Aidan.
- I have a wife already.
- A different wife.
- Uhtred, I'm bored with this.
- Kill them all.

- I will be forever the man who killed the great warrior uhtred.

- It would be written that Alfred, frail and sick...
- Did find the strength to slay the warrior uhtred ragnarson.
- That will not happen.
- Because I lack the will?
- Because we are bonded.
- You cannot kill me, just as I cannot kill you.

- Then choose.
- Do you stand with us, with each of us, or not?
Bloodhair: You will give your answer,
- Dane-slayer.
- Let us hear you.

- Speak nothing of how we vanquished the Dane-slayer.
- We collect our reward from sigtryggr and leave this place with silver.
- Only then do we let it be known who the true warriors are!

Pyrlig: To the woods! Hide yourselves!
Pyrlig: Take cover!

Uhtred: Lord king.
- Uhtred.
- Are you here or is it my sickness?
- I wish to tell you that I will remain in Winchester until Edward is crowned king.
- I swear.

- I have lost my lands.
- I've lost my name.
- I can no longer call myself uhtred of bebbanburg.
- I am nothing.
- If men want to leave me, you should let them go.
- I can no longer be their lord.

- Come now, aelfwynn.
- Let us visit the church together.
- Mother?
- You must rest.

- Uhtred is dead?
- Uhtred is, by now, on his way to dunholm and then to bebbanburg perhaps.
- Where he is not, is wessex.
- Uhtred is no longer Alfred's sword.
- Uhtred is gone.
- Uhtred is a Dane.

- Do we split her too?
- You have the tits, I'll have the arse.
- She's mine.
- You are here for the silver?
- It is beneath this seat.

- I will earn it, by taking the first head.
- You can take what you want.
- Just take it.
- No, I will earn it.
- You earned it at the stables.
- I need to become accustomed to how it feels.

- It makes you appear weak.
- My dear, you have been invited to leave us.
- And you will do what?
- Ask him to stand at Edward's side?
- I will decline.
- I will not have it!
- Aelswith, you will leave us!

- We know what "halt" means, big man.
- Steapa, we are both thirsty and hungry.
- You may enter the hall, lady, the outlaws do not.
- Then I choose to remain here with the outlaws.
- As you wish.
- Erm, what if I need to piss?

- No, he did not.
- No, lord.
- Ask yourself why.
- I have said many times, he is a sword
- I would rather wield than face, but he is not godly and never shall be.
- I wish you a good night's rest, odda.
- You are clearly in need of it.

- Show yourself!
- There are many horses at the stable.
- Why have her other men not shown themselves?
- Because like the men we just killed, they are busy filling their breeches.
- Aethelflaed!
- She is here!

- is Earl ragnar, the man I used to serve until he banished me.
- He has a slave, treats him well.
- This is a slave you're entitled to buy back if you wish to.
- Buy back?
- It's your nephew uhtred, lord.
- He lives.

- To flee the palace and ally with a man who has done so much wrong to me and to wessex,
- I do not think I can forgive it.
- We have another son in your belly.
- Perhaps I should accept aelfweard is forfeit and allow him to range like a fugitive with aethelhelm.

- I do not need his solace.
- I need him to speak to me.
Aelswith: My life, I have given to him.
- I have prayed for so many hours, lord uhtred.
Aelswith: I have begged him to save her.
- I need to know that he is listening.

- And, as lord of bebbanburg,
- I will provide for and protect you!
- And this cruel shit, who has hated you and mistreated you, will die.
- I've come home!
- Swear to me and you will have my oath.
- Aidan... you remember me?
- Who has your allegiance?

- This way!
- Aethelflaed! Aethelflaed!
- Thyra!
- Aethelflaed!
- Man: Princess!
- The forest!
- Thyra!
- Come on!

- We must.
- I need to be inside the church.
- No, tonight we get drunk.
- I'll take you to the church myself.
- Or we sleep where we fall, ha, ha.
- And, uh...
- We must talk of the future.

Aelfweard: Do with him what you will.
- Aelfweard, no.
- I said you would live if you spoke true and you did.
- Now face the agony you caused.
- Tell my grandson I am a man of honor.

- I am not going to take the words of a prattler who has deceived us!
- Mother, that is unfair.
- What is unfair is telling us it could be cured and then failing to cure it!
- Lady, I never told you that...
- Do not speak to me!
- Do not!

- Pay every craftsman in the country to finish the job that that bastard king offa of mercia started centuries ago.
- A barrier between us and the saxons!
- And, in honor of our delicious friend here, I swear...
- The Saxon pigs will never set another foot in our beautiful land!
- Eat!

- Must I kill another before I get the truth?
- Let the holy man go free.
- He means you no harm!

- He will not allow me to fight.
- I would like you, warrior leofric, to teach me how to fight and I shall teach you how to...
Leofric: Go on.
- You will not forget to pay for this.
- Have I ever?
- Once or twice.

- Look! A boat!
- Blessed Jesus, there's a bastard boat!

- because I was in ragnar's charge,
- Alfred did blame ragnar.
- He was going to have him put on trial and then killed.
- The options given to me were to swear a second oath to Alfred or my brother's life.
- You didn't tell ragnar?

[Man] Protect your king!
- [Qasdsi

- Word reached me...
- Of the abduction of a young Deacon.
- So, I felt I should, uh...
- You came to help me be a better father.
- Well, there is that.
Uhtred: And?

- and asks that you convey yourself to buccstan for Sunday.
- There you will meet with lady aelfwynn and marry her.
- Why have I been selected for this alliance?
- Because you're a nobody.
Aethelstan: If aelfwynn marries you, no ealdorman can force her hand.
- Then I will be honored to preserve the safety of the Princess.

- Other Danes are coming.
- We will live as Danes and die as Danes.
- You will not find peace here.
- Then I will find it in sigtryggr's dead embrace.
- No, do not say that.
- That path is not meant for you.
- That is not what the gods want.
- I no longer believe in destiny.

- They did. They spoke my name.
- But the lord guided her.
- She stood for me, claimed my place in the slaughter.
- I wanted only to see the holy isle.
- Why did St. cuthbert lead me...
- Then let this happen?

Sigtryggr: Lock them up.
Sigtryggr: Do we hold the town?
- Soon enough.
- We have ripped out the Saxon heart.
- So, it begins!
- Ready yourselves.
- Take your positions.

- the brothers Erik and sigefrid.
- I know the brothers will seek revenge for what they lost.
- And that kjartan the cruel will not rest in his search for the dead horseman.
- Uhtred ragnarson is mine.
- Destiny is all.

Leofric: Uhtred.
- The water is rising.

- Please.
- Go. Go. Please.
- Iseult, you must prepare.
- It can only be tonight.
- She will be ready.
- Shh-shh-shh.

- Ragnar is my child.
- Betray him and I will kill you.
- If you are now a Dane, you must undo the past.
- Undo the past, how?
- You must destroy Alfred.

- Reject our plea to sell us your riches, but...
- Do not deny my boyhood dream.
- Well, I am generous and a loyal servant to the church.
- So, um...
- You are welcome.
- Put them in the slave quarters.

- If you disagree with me, Saxon, then fight me!
- Kill him, ragnar, and be done with it!
- It is over! It is done.
- Take what belongs to you. Take your witch.
- She belongs to me!
- I shall see you across the battlefield.
- Have no doubt, I will kill you.
- Leave while you are still alive.
- Alfred needs his arse to be wiped!

- But the king, he may need you.
- The king, in his wisdom, has all but banished him, father beocca.
Aldhelm: You should also raise the question of how the northmen came to know of aethelflaed's situation, of where she would be.
- Man: Move on.

- What the...
- My lord! My lord!
- Push on, men... to victory!

- I have purpose, lord.
- My child is with god and I am close to god.
- There is joy in my days, at times.
- Do not fear the Danes.
- You will be protected.
- My son will ensure that.

- We have the numbers. God is with us!
- We shall become richer in body and soul.
- We shall become the masters of northumbria!
- Yeah!
- To eoferwic!
- Would you share a jug of ale with me?
- Tomorrow, I must return to wessex.

- I despise him.
- We need him.

- They have made provisions against fire, so, let us use smoke to conceal an attack.
- If god and the winds are in our favor, it will choke those guarding the gates and allow us to breach the walls.
- But if the wind turns, then we ourselves are smothered.
- Lady, I beg you.
- Give lord uhtred more time.
- Lord uhtred is already dead.

Man: Shield wall!
- Now kill the bastards!

- What did he whisper, skorpa, when he was leaving?
- I will tell you when I believe you need to know.
- How was I?
- As a warrior?
- Aethelwold, you are as much a warrior as you are a king.

- Lord! Breach!
- With me now!
- Steapa! To the gate!

- This is no storm.
- My mother and I came to this land on a ship that lost half of its crew to the sea.
- Waves taller than a barn swept them to their death.
- This is not a story I wish to hear.
- The real storm you will face will come at dunholm.

- No, uhtred, you cannot.
- Retrieving his body means nothing now.
- His journey in this world has ended.
- He is left with thieves and traitors!
- He should lie beside thyra where his friends can grieve.
- Instead, I led him to die among strangers.

- He will assume you are lying and take aelfweard anyway.
- Are you lying?
[Softly] I do not know.
- Which of these two children is more precious to his heart?
- I'm the elder brother. I should be chosen.
- I will take them both.

Cenric: ...Formation!
- Halt!

- that if on his death bed your father were to name you as his successor, the witan would find it difficult to go against him.
- I believe your father would only be too happy to whisper in your ear, whether he was conscious or not.
- Your counsel will not be forgotten, young odda.
- Thank you, lord.

- They will surrender or die...
- And then we move into the heart of wessex.
- Shield wall!
- Advance! One! Two!
[Man 1] Horseman approaching!
- Halt.
- Pick it up! You there, pick it up!

- from the temes to the sea.
- "Valhalla in this life."
[Laughs] Yes. "Valhalla in this life," yes, he said that.
- How proud would he be if together we marched a great army and we took that land?

- but I will arrive late.
- As the Danes attack from the front,
- I will attack from the rear.
- My army against a fyrd of peasants, it'll be a slaughter and my men will survive.
- I can almost hear the screams of panic.

- I know Edward is your family, husband to your daughter!
- And that...
- That is the thing.
- Forgive me, lord king, for she was murdered!
- News of the queen's death had yet to reach my ears.
- Edward would have wessex believe it was Danes.

- That we are here with god!
- And this is our land!
- This is our land!
- Our wessex!
- This is our england!
- And we shall murder any heathen bastard that tries to take it!

- But every lord is the hero of his own songs.
- I understand my absence.
- It will not be written that
- Alfred did stand on uhtred's shoulders...
- Many times.
- But I know it to be true.
- Thank you, lord.

[Chuckles] I suppose, once more, you ride out to save the lady aethelflaed.
- Continue if you like, uhtred.
- It seems fate has brought us together again.
- Your men look like ragged dogs in need of meat and we have plenty.
- We camp here tonight.
- Join us.

- I will go with you to the king, my friend.
- I am pleased to hear you say that, lord.
- The king is merciful.
- He knows your worth.
- We shall see.
- You know what to do.

- I command the king's guard.
- No doubt you've heard stories about the king, about his delicate temperament.
- I'm telling you he does not wish to be disturbed, so, if you want to test it...
- Cnut's armies have attacked mercia.
- The lord's estate has fallen.
- The heart of mercia is gone.

- smile and bless you.
- Let us pray that this union of Dane and Saxon can show that this is a land for all people.
- Under one god.
- Under one god, of course.
- Amen.
- Amen.
- Amen.

- Where we will drink with you again!
- We will meet again!
- To Valhalla!
- To sigtryggr!
[All cheering] To sigtryggr!
- To sigtryggr!

- I should despise ragnar for whoring...
- But I can't.
- You loved him.
- More than he knew.
- The thought of him in he!
- Is not one I can bear.

- Fire. Fire! Fire!
- Outside, now! Quickly!
- Put the fire out!
- Find something to carry water!
- Six men stay with the Princess!

- What if he sees me, lord?
- What if...
- What if he knows that I am near?
- Then you shit yourself. [Chuckles]
- You will remain unseen and keep watch.
- Yes, lord.

- Drop your weapons, it's over.
- Shield!
Brida: Ragnar, no.
- No, ragnar, don't give him the chance.
- Burn the bastard! Ragnar!
Uhtred: Brida!
- You and me.
- Move!
- We make this square.

- Come with me!
Finan: Ingrith!
Ingrith: Get out of my way!
- Ingrith!
- Ingrith, go!
- Come on!
Bresal: Fight me, boy!

- If I place someone to rule here who might forge a path to peace, someone who might not necessarily please the ealdormen, but whose popularity with the people might force them to accept it...
- Let us call him a lord and protector who would rule here just for a few years until things are less volatile.
- I wondered if that person should be you.

- This is not the way succession is determined!
- Until my sister's rule, succession was always determined by bloodshed.
- I did not want it to be so again.
- Better the blood of the few than the blood of the many.
Aldhelm: You have murdered mercia's ealdormen.
- And in doing so,
- I have ensured mercia's protection.

Rognvaldr: Brother.
- It is as we hoped.
- We may have found a way across the ice.
- Then the gods have answered us.
- Tell the men.
- We rise before dawn and we attack them in their deepest sleep.
- When we cross over, make for the high ground.
- Strike down those saxons as they try to flee.

Cnut: What do you have for me, bjorgulf?
- The head of a Saxon turd.
- So, another village burns in mercia!
- The smell of Saxon blood stiffens our warriors for battle!
- But I hope not your cock.

[Softly] Thank you for staying by my side.
- Your wife has commanded it.
- They all wish me dead, do they not?
- Why? Did I do something to offend my people?
- All of you, leave me alone... with...
- With eadith.

- Tie them all together.
- Form a chain.
- Bind them tightly.
- If any object, march them into the river.
- Get this inside your belly, arseling.
- God knows you deserve it.

- Receive your servant uhtred into the ranks of your devout saints and most bright angels.
- Let the water cleanse him so that he may know your wisdom to do what is just.
- Uhtred, you are now a child of god.
- Amen.
[All] Amen.

- She puts the men of wessex and all the Christian kingdoms at risk!
- I demand you call her back.
- You will show loyalty to your king.
- I cannot swear loyalty to a plan that is misguided!
- Aethelflaed will summon the mercian fyrds to tettenhall.
- You mustjoin her.

- We have an invitation.
- Who leads here?
- I am haesten and you... are uhtred of bebbanburg.
- You spared me at eofenlvic, lord.
- You're expected and welcome.

- How does she ride?
- Oh, you wouldn't like her, she's bony and she squeals.
- She passes the time.
- And if you put a pup in her belly?
- Then Alfred will get two for the price of one.
- And viking blood to strengthen his line, eh?

- And I swear that I will kill you, uhtred ragnarson. This is not finished!
- I see you are a funny man.

- She is a pagan.
- And yet she has helped the king.
- I am to trust a stranger with my child.
- There is good in iseult.

- I can be of use to you, lord.
- Eadred: He's nothing but a heathen.
- Kill him!
- No one is to move.
- Kill him now!
- I say no one is to move, and no one is to speak but me. No one!

- And what about them?
- Lord!

- I would like to understand.
- Children are frail.
- You will have other sons, I'm sure.
- With your queen.
- Is she here?
- Yes.
- I would like you to leave me alone.
- Never speak to me again.
- We have nothing that binds us, nothing.
- Avoid me. Please.

- And you will need skade, the seer, to help you lead.
- It is not a seat I want.
- I have made my choice, uhtred, now you must do the same.
- Make your life your own once more.
- Turn away from me and you and those you love shall be tormented 'til death and beyond.

- It's been half a day.
- Maybe he's scared of the priest.
- Vveleave!

- Osferth's spirit will stand in place.
- His spirit is busy taunting the fool that got him killed.
- You're not guilty of this, finan.
- Save your anger for the ones that are.
- Aethelhelm will get what is coming to him.
- But first we must avert this war.

- Father! We cannot wait! We cannot.
- For wessex! And for the king!
- For the king!
- Charge!
- Edward! It's Edward and his army!

Ragnar: Uhtred!
- Uhtred!
- Uhtred? It's me, it's ragnar.
- Ragnar...
- Did you believe we would abandon you?
- Free them all.

- But she was wrong.
- There has already been so much death, uhtred.
- I could not bear more of it.
[Finan groans] I've had too much. Oh...
Finan: Leave me here.
Sihtric: You're all right.
Finan: Oh, god.
Sihtric: Come on. Up the stairs.

- Uhtred...
- I came here to rest, to hunt, to find a woman, maybe.
- I did not come here to talk of war against Alfred.
- I will be outside drinking ale.
- Finish your plate.

- Who is a little too fond of himself.
- Will uhtred be coming to the wedding?
- Sadly, he will. I'm sure.
- I consider him to be our lucky charm.
- Now, now. There will be no mention of luck or charms.
- There is god's will and nothing more.
- Praise him.

- Stay.
- Uhtred, he... sa... saved me once...
- Before, from sven, when he was your little boy.
- Yes, he would do that.

- I saw them all, lord.
- I saw the lady skade.
- I saw uhtred ragnarson. The whole army.
- Every man and every sword with me.
- It's time!
- Horses!
[Man] Close the gates!

Aelfweard: No, it was the Danes.
- He may not have loved her as we did, but... but that he would not do.
- Of course. I am sure you are right.
- But everything we do hence is to honor her hopes for you.
- Are we united?
- Always. With a whole heart.

- Bless you.
- Uhtred, you have given me so much, but giving me the courage to approach thyra, that was your greatest gift.
- I will be in your prayers, no doubt?
- Perhaps.
- Always.

- No. You're not ready.
- Take him to the alehouse.
- Celebrate his victory.
Sihtric: You had us worried there for a second, boy.
- Just a scratch. Come on!
Osferth: Tonight we dine in rumcofa.
- You're the one not ready.
[Finan laughs] He's still a virgin though!

- Halig.
- Get in the boat!
- Lord, leave me here!

- Quickly! Quickly, go to your positions!
- As fast as you can. We can hold them off.
- They are dogs. We are men!
- Quickly, carry on!
- Carry on!
- Go! Go!

Sven: Pick it up.
- Pick it up!
- He... he's too weak.
- I will kill you.
- Uhtred, I am pleased that you will try.
- He is too weak!

- {giggles}
Brida: You little dog, huh?
- No longer the man he was.
- Christians have a story for it.

- We are here at the request of Alfred of wessex!
- The king will wish to see us!
Uhtred: Open the doors.
Beocca: Uhtred, I will speak first.
Uhtred: Father, you will say nothing.

- Edward will fulfill Alfred's dream.
- By sacrificing mercia?
- And my sister?
- Your father knew that uniting the kingdoms could not come without a cost.
- And your sister...
- Has chosen her own fate.

Haesten: Here.
- There is some water in a flask here.
Eadith: But what are you doing?
- Don't worry. I will look after you.

Brida: We will never get an opportunity like this again.
- Winchester is weak and nobody realizes except us.
- You told me you would not ask your men to risk death...
- Unless for food, or land, or to protect their families.
- Winchester provides all things and more.
- And there is no risk.

- Find her. Find her.
- Raise the alarm. Now!
- Son.
- My son.
- Lord Jesus Christ, in a rich man's house.
- A fallen woman cried as she dried his feet...

Pyrlig: To the woods!
- Hide there until it's safe to come back.
- These men will take you to the others.
- Do not be afraid.

- If he comes to the gate,
- I will speak to him.
- Why are we on the ramparts?
- To show Edward you are still alive.
- That is not what was discussed.
- Show her to the saxons.

- Don't let them kill us.
- I've been told you are in charge.
Aethelhelm: I am not the king.
- I'm aware you're not the king.
- Would you like to fight or to yield?
- Yield.

- I need to wash away the taste of defeat.
- Sigefrid, we are not finished.
- Men will come.
- We will take eoferwic back.

- I am told your god gives mercy.
- Where is he?
- Where is he?
- I've never seen him.
- It is not my god that you hate...
- But the fact that I am not you.

- Yes, yes, he is dead. He is dead.
- That he is dead.
- I'm s o rry, I'm 8 o r[Ii but he is trapped in niflheim.
- He did not die a warrior's death that privilege was stolen from him.
- Thyra, only your blood can save him now.
- A cup full, not all of it.

- You are trying to protect her.
- Perhaps I should have accepted it all with good grace.
- I was married young and I survived.
- Lady, your husband wished you dead.
- Maybe that's what royal husbands do.
- Maybe that's what I should have been preparing aelfwynn for.

- I have recovered serpent-breath, and when you are able to stand,
- I shall return her. We will be leaving.
- I will decide when we're leaving.
- I am uhtred, son of uhtred.
- I will not be schooled by a nun.
- She is not wrong, lord. You have been drinking whole fields of barley.
- Nor will I be lectured by an arseling!

- Lord, we should not do this.
- If she found us, so will they.
- Are you good with children?
- Not really.
- Excellent, neither are we.
- We go back!

- Go, quickly.
Wulfhere: Hee-yah!
- There'll be nothing left in the stables but horse shit!
- Let's go this way.

- All you have is me.
- No.
- We go to him with our story and with his army, we avenge ragnar's death and we take back bebbanburg.
- It's that simple?
- Yes.
- Yes. Tsk, tsk.

- I've lost every family I had.
- Beocca was always there...
- The only constant.
- Without beocca, I have no home.

Brida: Wessex, Mercians, all Christians. This will bring them together.
Haesten: Then you will have united the Saxons. Alfred would be very proud!

Guthrum: Men, the peace is over.
- Prepare for battle.
- The Saxon hostages, kill them all.
Guthrum: Catch him!
[Man] Get him.
Guthrum: Cut him to pieces!
Guthrum: Kill him!

[Man] Boy.
- For the king.

Steapa: Gather your weapons.
- Off your arses now and gather your weapons.
- Gather your weapons!
Edward: Steapa!
- We march, lord, to beamfleot.
- Come on. Make ready. We march!

Sihtric: We are under attack!
- Haesten says to ready the ships!
- Untie them now!
Finan: Come on!

- And there is talk that they do not honor the union.
- As in mercia break from wessex?
Aldhelm: Some are saying that, yes.
- Then we must appease them. I understand their frustrations with my husband, but to sever Saxon unity would hurt us all.
- We must remain united.

- Edward is your heir.
- If he lives, I would say it is a sign...
- Wessex will live.
- Shh.
- There is barely a heartbeat.
- Let me give the child to iseult.

- Uhtred! Get her out of here!
Aethelflaed: Erik, no!
- We need to go.
- Aethelflaed!

- How have you strayed so far?
- Forging an alliance with mercia is everything.
- I did not intend to harm any child.
- But children should not be dragged into politics, Edward. We know this.
- The ones that are...
- Well, we know they rarely survive.

- It seems like a fair exchange.
- Married to a man who kills those who displease him?
- Again, it seems like...
- He is volatile and we must be careful.
- Promise me, if he asks you to attack lady aethelflaed, you will refuse.
- I will never defy the wishes of king aethelred.
- And nor should you.

- I'm thinking of keeping them both, the boy and the girl.
- Can help your mother.
- Disagree?
- No.
- But we did kill his father.
- If he's an ealdorman, we could sell him for ransom.
- Perhaps.

- We have our proof, rypere.
- You will go to uhtred. Now.
- Why so many guards?
- Are you afraid of me?
- You're a prize, lady.
- Even when unwashed.
- She's the daughter of a king.
- You will all turn away.
- Show her the backs of your heads.
- Lord, where is the harm in looking?
- The back of your heads!

- You will do as I command.
- You will raise the somerset fyrd.
- Lord, forgive my son. Please!
- I will not forgive what I have seen.
- You will raise the fyrd.
- Yes, lord.

- Lord, I... I would never...
- You told me dunholm has no weaknesses.
- Yet last time I was there,
- I saw a door along the east wall.
- Access to a water spring.
- Yes, lord, but you could never bring an army through it.
- I would not be bringing an army.

- Did you hear me, lady?
- He is ready to leave.
- Then let him leave!
- We will remain here until
- I've finished my work with the priests.
- Tell him we will follow.
- But he is to leave my guard.
- Yes.

- Kill him, go on!
- Take the legs off him, lord!
Brida: Kill him!
- Uhtred! Lord! Here!
- His shoulder!
Finan: Yes, lord!

- We cannot use the Roman roads.
- We can make our way to my farmstead, from there, across covered ground to odda's.
- And that is the safest path, leofric?
- It is, lord.
- Let's return to the others.
- There is pain here for you, my love.

- Brida. The horses are just there.
- Wait, there is another.
- We have to go. Come.
- Move, move, move, out of the way!
- Brida, the door.
- Wait.

- Stop looking impressed.
- You will push up the price.
- Has he given the signal?
- Lord.
- Nothing.

Smith: [presenting the finished sword] I've given her some beauty, but she is a tool, no more, no less.
Uhtred: [examines it] She's exactly as I'd hoped. We said ten?
Smith: We said eight.
Uhtred: She's worth ten.
[gives him the remaining silver]
Uhtred: Thank you.
Smith: Thank you.

- Hey! All stand for the king!
- My son, who has led us to such victory!

- But we need to guard your life.
- How?
- I don't know.
- We should hump tonight.
- We should. It's written.
- That we should hump?
- Our destiny is to hump, tonight.

- But try to use the mind inside this head.
Uhtred: Stay.
- You can be my priest at bebbanburg.
- You are in need of a priest, are you?
- Only if he is beocca.
Uhtred: Go carefully.

- I know the pain you feel.
- It's almost unbearable.
- Even for a queen.
- I will stay only for as long as you need me, for a moment or a year.
- He is dying.

- But lady aethelflaed...
- She has been taken from us.
- That is a cruelty, father.
- But she's at peace.
- It is of some comfort.
- There has been much cruelty.

- Whoa!
- I think we might be feeding you too much.
- Don't forget your daughter.
- She's here too.
- It went well?
- It did. Not a scratch.
- You have a visitor.
- He has been here all night.

- Were you due to hump an alehouse whore, lord?
- Aelflaed, continue to the palace.
- I was due to eat, nothing else.
- Yes, my lord.
- If people have been gossiping, they are wrong, as I hope they are wrong about
- Edward having a whore and children?

- I have proof. His runes.
- Storri will be returned to you.
- Take his head from his shoulders.
- Guthrum, be quiet.
- Have them open the doors.
- I will release storri when I am clear of this place.
Ubba: You go nowhere.
- Then he dies. Your sorcerer dies.
- Have them open the doors.

[Iestyn] Do you know what that is?
- It's a fort.
- Beating heart of this land they called bernicia.
- Bebbanburg.
- The lord who resides here is volatile, so be on your guard.
- What if he does not welcome us?
- Then we will not be welcomed home.
- And we will be forced to sail to frisia to sell your backside in return for food.

- End of negotiation.
- You smell like you've shit yourself.
- I've not been well. Unh!
- I pledge to you my allegiance. Unh!

Alfred: He cannot be tamed.
- But he can be trusted.
- I will not abandon him completely.
- He may have a use, I'm sure.

- Instruct the priest to pray for our deliverance.
- Aelfric!
- Lord?
- Get them inside.
- Take in the women and elders.
- The rest to higher ground, out of sight.
- Rouse the country.
- I want every man in this fortress.
- And every man must be prepared to die.

- Jesus!
- Get the prisoners back with the pigs, bound!
- Sihtric!
- I will leave first light.
- But I will return.
- And if you are here still...
- Then I will kill you.

- Uhtred ragnarson, keep your sword in its scabbard.
- Wise queen.
- She stays with me.
- She stays with me!
- Do nothing!

- I fear your prayers have been wasted.
- Please, let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant.
- Please, let my lord listen to the words of...
- Lady aelswith...
- I am trying to make him hear me!

- I am sent to tell you peredur will pay you well to help him recapture this fort.
- Pay us well? How much?
- I do not know the sum, but I am sure he will be generous.
- He has silver?
- He is a king.

- It is good to see you safe, lady.
- Lord aldhelm.
- I shall advise the king you're here.

- Letting christians roam your lands?
- Ignore them. They are harmless.
- Am I welcome?
- I will warn the serving women.
- You're welcome.
[Missionary 2] Jesus loves you!

[Men] Yes!
- We have swords in hand and the battle ahead of us!
- Land to be won, silver to be shared and saxons to kill!
- We are Danes, together!
- Together!
- Together!
Cnut: Together!

- She hangs where every man can see her.
- Lord, I enjoy a fight as much as the next idiot, but this is beyond us.
- She's inside the hall?
- Inside the hall, inside a cage, surrounded by men.
- Warriors.
- We must first get rid of the men.
- We do it now.

- Earl ragnar. I have a task for you.
- And you alone.
- Guard: Move it!
- Move!
- You are no longer a warrior.
- You belong to me now.

- Lord, are you certain you will not use the carriage?
- I'm certain. We ride to aescengum.
- Steapa.

Aldhelm: Many more lives will be lost if we do not act now.
- Those men, your men, they are
- Christian souls, the future of england.
- That is what aethelhelm wishes to destroy.
- Yes.
- Aethelhelm cannot be allowed to succeed.
- They must be saved.

- Hear me now. Wareham has fallen.
- We march at once.
- Every man is to be ready to do as the king asks.
- The Danes have taken the fortress.
- Wareham has fallen.
- We march at once.
- We could be slipping in blood and entrails before the day is out.

- Not mine. Hers.
Rognvaldr: All Danes, all pure.
- Do not be afraid, brother.
- She's here to save us.
- Where are my men?
[Shouting] Where are my men?
[Shouting] Valhalla!

- Well, it would certainly bind him to the land, and indirectly to the church, to god.
- It would test him.
- It would.
- You would be in favour still?
- Of course.
- Anything for wessex.

- I say again, Edward is not Alfred, he is not a man to follow.
- The Danes know this.
- You're still with them, admit it.
- I am for wessex.
- Lord, you did not answer my question.
- Where does uhtred stand?

- Once the last of bloodhair's men have sailed up the ouse, we will march on mercia and then wessex.

- Push!
- Hold them!
[Cynlaet] Push back!
- Push back!
Constantin: Keep up the pressure!
- Push them over the cliff!

- If it is agreeable with you,
- I would like to take charge of the boy and take him to bedwyn and raise him there, as I raised you.
- To follow your footsteps and those of Alfred's.
- Make the arrangements.
- I will ask uhtred to accompany you.

- Winter will be on land.
- Iceland.
- Where there's work to be done.
- Be ready.
- Hear that, halig, land.
- I love land.

- I've never seen men like this before.
- I do not want this news to reach my brother whilst he's on holy pilgrimage.
- You will tell no one of these defeats.
- They are terrifying.
- What was that?
- Huh? Uh...
- Are you thirsty?

- I did not say it was a good choice.
- Send men out to speak with them.
- If they return with heads on their shoulders, we know that the Scots might negotiate.
- I shall go myself.
- I am sick of sending men to slaughter.
- Which is why you will never lead, Aidan.

- I have loved you.
- Don't pray for me.
- Did you hump her goodbye, arseling?
- I want to have left wessex by tonight.
Leofric: You're gonna have to ride faster than that, arseling.
- Hyathyah!

Aelswith: Who is it?
- It is me, father beocca.

Burgred: I will.
- I will fight for mercia.
- You forget I am king and wield power like a king.
- Lord burgred...
- We have taken your son to wessex for religious instruction.
[Edward] He w17/ be cared for until his father finds better judgment.

- I know that I have not always treated you kindly.
- For that, I am sorry.
- I was younger and more foolish.
- And, as for you,
- I hope that you can find some comfort.
- To live without being loved is a torture.
- Which is why you acted with so much cruelty?

- King Edward sends you this message of intent!
- Leave the town, or on his command, these flames will...
- I knew what he was going to say.
- They're getting desperate.

- I must kill the man who killed ragnar, with a blade marked with ragnar's blood.
- Thyra's blood.
- It is the same.
- Who is this man you will kill?
- I do not know.

- Ready my men. Raise the fyrd!
- Raise the mercian guard!
- Raise the dead for all I care!
- Winchester will be retaken!

- All right.
- Do you have the strength to lift a wee cup, lord?
- Even if it is to... wet your lips.

- It's a Christian graveyard.
Haesten: Yes, lord.
- Perhaps that is why bjorn cannot rest, nor pass.

- Perhaps I plan to do both, father.
- I think I know what you plan. Uhtred, revenge will not bring you peace.
- Only death.
- Father beocca, you will have me kill for
- Alfred but not for myself, why is that?
- And what business does Alfred have with northumbria?
- God's business.

- It has been seen.
- It has been seen!
- The death of Alfred and the glory of Odin's warriors has been seen!
- Our path will not be simple.
- The gods will demand that we earn our reward.
- But I make you this promise...

- Get up! Get up!
- You Saxon shit!

- Aethelhelm shall be found and tried before saxons and Danes.
- We can forge a new union with daneland.
- For that, I am glad.
- I am sorry for osferth, even though I did not know him well.
- He was still your blood.
- You were his true brother.
- Yes. And I will avenge him.

- Let them wag if it please them.
- You asked me some days ago if I agree with the payment of a ransom.
- I do not.
- If I had an army to call upon, a fyrd to raise,
- I would prove it.
- But I have not.

- Ragnar rides with them, lord?
Odda: A Dane?
- You have doubts, odda?
Alfred: Then we shall air them.

- Skade! He must remain cursed!
- It's your duty!
- He has defeated you twice over!
- I belong to uhtred now!
- Never! I've tasted your blood!
- What you see is mine!
- Ragnar, he cannot be allowed to leave.
- Didn't mean to miss! Next time, I won't!
- The gates. Now. Let us be rid of them.

Aelfwynn: I must...
- I have no polite word for it.
- Take a piss?
- That oak needs watering.
- Where she can be witnessed?
- It wouldn't do well to deliver your cargo soiled, would it?

Earl: Wasp has lost its sting.
Ragnar the Younger: Yeah.
- Argh!
Earl: Ow!
Uhtred: Unh!
Ragnar the Younger: Are you sure he's a Saxon?
- He fights like a Dane.
Earl: Yeah.

- Stop! No more slaughter!
Uhtred: No more slaughter!
- Put down your swords!
- Sigtryggr must not be harmed!
Edward's Rider: Look around!
- Look at what his anger has wrought!
Uhtred: Aethelhelm is to blame!
- Put down your swords!
- It is over!

- There.
- Now she and I are both doomed.
- Aelfwynn?

- You people will fight anyone for money, even yourselves.
- You lied to me.
- Think of the silver.
- The queen has seen your victory, so fight!
- He's a sword-Dane. A lord of war.
- If the lord of war wants to talk, may I suggest we listen.

- We're running out of time, lord king.
- Tempers are fraying.
- Father pyrlig, how do the preparations proceed?
- Forgive me, but we should delay all ceremonies.
- They say the sickness is coming.
- People are abandoning their villages.
- It ravages worse than any Dane invader.
- We have to protect aegelesburg.

- If you want to make a longer peace...
- I will tell you my terms.
- Edward.
- The victory was ours.
- You could say that, lord king.

- Who will protect you, uhtred of bebbanburg?
- I do not need protection.
- You do.
- You do.
- You are carrying so much pain.
- I would have told you...

- I can't go back empty-handed.
- Give me something.
- I have nothing to give.
- Other than things I have seen...
- Words I have heard.
- And what have you heard?
- Lady aethelflaed is dying and will not see the spring.

- Who was it who attacked your village?
- Danes?
[Hywel] Don't worry.
- We will right this wrong.
- The witan is gathered.

- It is Alfred.
- It is Alfred and the men of wessex!
- Steapa.
- Shield walls!
- Form a line!
- Advance!
- Advance!

- This one.
Uhtred: This repair looks weakest.
- Try it.
- Too fast and too loud.
- I cannot hear anyone.
- I think haesten has got them to the shore.

- Amen.
Guthred: Amen.
- And now, lord, we shall enter the church for the royal oath, which shall be sworn upon the corpse of the blessed Saint cuthbert himself.
- Cuth Bert?
- He is here?
- In his entirety.

- Is this true?
- I thought we had agreed to leave all alehouse gossip at the alehouse, lord?
- Lord, perhaps you could direct the lady aelflaed to her room.
- Of course.
- Do not dwell, lord.

- Guards!
- Cenric, stand down your men.
- Lady, I cannot. The king forbids it.
- I am told this is where my daughter's body is.
- This is where your king has led us.
- Cenric, please, in the name of Alfred, open the gates and stand down your men.

- in the charge of Earl ragnar, who was under my orders and whom I hold responsible for the killing of Abbot eadred.
- No. No, lord, it was me and me alone.
- Why did he not stop you?
- You cannot blame ragnar for the Abbot's death.
- Yes, I can and I do.
- That is unfair.
- He will stand trial.
- No.

- I agree. It is unlikely he will arrive south by sea.
- Constantin is strategic. He will know how changeable the tides are, the risk of summer storms.
- All right, we stay with the plan.
- With luck, his full army will take days to gather.
- Onward.

- For all your mistakes in mercia, gathering his bones was not one of them.
- They're in the treasury.
- Ask for them to be brought to me.
- I will fetch them.
- Perhaps they will bring you to yourself.
- Or just a scrap of luck.
- I fear that I have much to account for.

- Can you say the same?
- Er, uhtred, I am tired of listening to this squirrel's arse.
- Let me offer you a cup of ale.
- Come inside and sit with me.
- Let me convince you, I am for wessex.
- Hear me.
- Please.

- It is odda, lord.
- Prior to leaving Winchester, he sent a man, some man, with word to raise the fighting men of Devonshire.
- He has now met them on the road, lord.
- With the intention of doing what?
- He is marching against beamfleot.
- Yes, lord. He is.

- not betray him.
- They know nothing of Alfred's weakness.
- But, uhtred, lord...
- Did he not ask you to do nothing?
- You will get down from your horse and you will return to Winchester.
- And if I refuse?
- Now, father pyrlig.

- Give up uhtred, and the rest of you will live!
- All I want is the Dane-slayer!
- What you will get, haesten, is my sword up your hairy arse!
[Laughs] As you wish.
- You will die on your knees!
- Lord, where is Alfred's army?
- Why are they waiting?
- I want the head of uhtred ragnarson!

Uhtred: Peace was secured with hostages, brida and ragnar, and by the Danish Earl's baptism and acceptance of the Christian god.
- As for uhtred the godless, my path led north, to blood feuds, to revenge, and to bebbanburg.
- Destiny is all...

Aldhelm: Who did this to you?
[Panting] Bridal
[u htred] And now she has invaded eoferwic, spreading pain and terror through the city.
- Find stiorra!
[U htred] Destiny is all./
- Find stiorra! Find uhtred's daughter!

- I have one more thing to ask.
- I will pay.
- Ask.
- How do you kill a curse?
- I knew it.
- I saw the darkness on your shoulder.
- It's yours.

- Lord, that is not advisable.
- I've made up my mind.
- If there is treachery, it is something I must witness.
- I'll go with you.
- I do not require a nursemaid.
- I am a priest.
- And I a king.
- You will wait here with iseult.
- I am aware of the care I need to take.

- Sihtric says we'll arrive at dunholm tomorrow.
- They've been watching us for most of the day.
- At least, I hope it's them.

- May I sit?
- Or will I spoil the gift of a last night of freedom?

- We cannot face the brothers alone.
- Why not?
- Finan, there is bravery and then there is stupidity.
- The northmen have a camp, do they not?
- Not a fortress but an open camp.
- If it is sigefrid and Erik we must kill, then let us do just that.
- We kill them while they're sleeping.
- Shadow-walkers.

- A woman who knows the scripture.
- Mmm.
- Alfred's learning is strong in cent.
- Then you will do the clever thing and accept my offer.
- And if I do not?
[Laughs] I don't know.
- They always tend to comply.

- Take his eye.
Kjartan: Yes.
- You can take his eye, but I want him here and I want him alive.
- I will take him piece by piece.
- I will make him suffer.
- Uhtred ragnarson is mine.

- Lady aelswith.
- Lord aethelhelm.

- I assure you, your descendants will thrive.
- When I got word you were under attack,
- I seized the moment.
- I've brought warriors...
- Men I've collected from every corner of the known world.
- Strong men, loyal men.
- Bebbanburg is saved.

Haesten: Do not be afraid, aalys.
- Uhtred is no danger.
- He seeks only to make this right.
- I swear I mean you no harm.
- I come only to hear your story.

- My sword is heavy.
- I must sit.
- There is wine in the jug, if you would pour it.

- Fight on for bebbanburg.
- You've earned this, uhtred.
- God is not cruel.
- Fight...
- As you need to fight.
Constantin: Well, your grandfather may have friends anywhere...

- Can he be trusted?
- Lord, are we sure of uhtred's position?
- Lord uhtred's position is that of an ealdorman of wessex.
- Lord, it is my own view he should be admitted.
Odda: And mine.
- Man: Allow him in.
Aelswith: Lord king.

- Let us wait until you are a little better.
- Aelfwynn must be named as my successor.
- If she is on the throne, she will be protected.
- I will fetch lady aelfwynn.
Aelfwynn: He's here.
- He's here. Come look! Come!

- During which time you will help my warriors understand that the heathens are but men, and in return, and in time, you shall have your own reward.
- Uhtred of bebbanburg.
- One year.

- That is what he wants you to believe,
- I'm sure.
- It seems a rather grand strategy lord aethelred, and for what?
- He is here, among us!
- And under guard.
- Then let us get to the truth of the matter!
- Let us hear exactly why uhtred is here.

- Yes, lord.
- But no silver was paid?
Fiske: No, lord.
- Still, they took their man.
- We find the slave, we find the lepers and we find the priest.
- Together they will tell us all we need to know about this horseman.
- Dead or otherwise.

- One month is not enough.
- That is my limit.
- You cannot take back the fortress.
- You know this.
- Food and ale for one month, no more.
- By which time, the sea storms will have arrived.
- God's storms.
- We will be gone within a month, beginning upon the delivery of food and ale.

- To the settlements until the winter.
- We must hide you away, while the men go to war.
- Any of you caught humping a Saxon will be executed on our return.

Haesten: Good morning, nun!
- I am an abbess.
[Chuckling] I don't care.
- We will wait... for aethelflaed!
- To the hall, all of you, quickly, now!
- That's it.

- Excellent, lord.
- To permanency.
- Quick! Hide yourself!
Jonis: How may I serve you, sven kjartenssen?
- You will not waste my time, we will not speak of silver.
- We will talk of a man you know as osbert.

- These are cnut's sons...
- You can go.
- You will leave cnut's bastards behind.
- I'm tired of the red-headed runts.
[Inhales] You can take them.

- Alfred used us to hurt father.
- Yes, but at least he led us to a Christian path.
- You perhaps.
- What heathen gave you that?
- None, I made it myself.
- As I say, I taught myself many things.
- My blood on this rune is to protect us on our journey.

- What news of our troops in lindcylne?
- The settlements that surround it are resisting, lord, but we will prevail.
- I should hope so.
- I want all of east anglia or our bargain does not hold.
- It would be a shame for your family to go unrewarded.
- After so much effort!

- Uhtred.
- Well, my request to marry, lord.
- I would like to have a family.
- Lord, you will answer the man.
- I will speak with her at Winchester and give you my decision.
- Thank you, lord.
- But you're to give her no more of your Ann-rings nor silver!

[Hoarse and softly] Guards, help!
[Softly] Help...
- Hel...

- It will bring them all and the end will begin!
- What?
- I thought you welcomed the fire.
- Put the queen and the others back where they keep their dead king.
- She comes with me.
- [Gasps}

Aethelflaed: Uhtred!
- Clapa, sihtric, the cage.
- Come on!
Sihtric: This is one bastard lock to break!
- Get it done before we burn!
- So we've cleared the hall of men, lord.
- Now how do we clear the yard?

- Be wiser.
- Please, lord aethelhelm.
- Rather than press for battle,
- I would ask you take a gift to the Scots.
- They will be nervous of trouble on their border.
- Then, if that is your order,
- I shall gladly leave aegelesburg.

- Aethelstan!
- Bastard?
- Aethelstan!
[Man] He's here!
Uhtred: Aethelstan!
Aethelstan: Uhtred!

- There is a plant that flowers in the courtyard.
- The purple blooms, when dissolved in water, are tasteless...
- And effective...
- Especially in children.
- Why would such a plant grow in the courtyard?
- It was planted there, should this situation ever arise.

- This one schemes against us, father.
- He is a spy.

- We will continue the search, lord.
Uhtred: They've taken her, they must have.
- Why else abandon the city, why raid the camp?
- She is the daughter of the king.
- They wouldn't dare.
Aldhelm: We will scour the camp and beyond!
- We are looking for the lady aethelflaed!

- whereas you will travel from peasant to lord.
- I do not understand.
- Of course you don't, you're stupid.
- As I have been stupid.
- However, complete this next task, and your reward will be land and title, ealdorman offa.

- Fate had made me a Dane.
- And then fate brought betrayal.
- I will not stand by and have everything taken from me.
- Bebbanburg's mine!
- Destiny is all.
- Horses.

- If you wish to sit with me, you will respect me.
- Oh, I respect you very much.
- Though I do not wish to sit with you, brida. I wish to lie with you.
[Laughs] You should go while you still have a tongue in your head.
- I like that you are proud and strong and loyal...
- And I will go now.

Uhtred: Tell them that you'll die for them, that's good.
- Tell them that we'll make the Danes pay in blood and that they'll be rewarded in plunder.
- I am to talk of revenge and greed?
- They are men, lord, not angels.
Alfred: We shall stop for a moment.
Leofric: Hold!

- Make him fall, why don't you?
Uhtred: Thank you! Pyrlig next.
Finan: Is he?
Uhtred: Wake up, sihtric!
Pyrlig: You're safe.
Finan: Kill him, sihtric!
Finan: Kill the bastard!

- It did not have to be this way.
- Funny.
- That's what your son said when he begged to keep his balls.

- I say we go to young ragnar.
- He's in Ireland.
- Then we go to Ireland.
- How? In what? We sail in what?
- And with whom? Danes?
- Then we wait for him.
- What if he doesn't return, what then?
- Accept it, we lost.
- We're alive and breathing for a reason.
- Brida, we are no longer Danes.

- Who travels with you, nun?
- A trader bringing relics to lindisfarne.
- Name yourself.
- Haesten. Allow us to wait for the tide and you can have some spoils.
[Sighs] Wait here.

[Guard] Horsemen!
- Wake the lady aethelflaed now.
- Lord.

- Let them dream of the seer, let them turn on each other.
- A split may be to our advantage.
- And so I ask...
- When?
- Tonight.
- Now.

- I would like to know.
- Steapa, my sword.
- One day, father...
- I hope that my path will eventually lead north, to bebbanburg...
- But now, I believe I am needed here.
- I will follow Edward Rex!

- into your heart again really so abhorrent that you are willing to give up...
- No.
- The opportunity to be ruler of mercia.
- Fine!
- Resolve all of this?
- I will get baptized... again!
- For the third time.
- Good.

Pyrlig: Lord king!
- Our scouts send good news!
- The lady of mercia has come.
- She brings an army!

- I thought you were not interested in her plan.
- I am not. I've played my part.
- The Dane-slayer is now a man of peace.
- It is a great pity Alfred is not here to witness it.
- My husband saw things in uhtred none of us understood.
- Lady, we all understood it.
- I think it was just you that didn't.

- You have just sworn you will not fight for northumbria.
- There are ways to take lands without fighting for them.
- Sigtryggr has shown us this.
- Northumbria is the last kingdom.
- Without it under one king and under Christ, there will be no england.

- Some of guthrum's ships will have made it to shore and I cannot let him simply walk through wessex.
- He must be faced.
- Odda, should either of us have luck and defeat our enemy quickly, we will march to the other's aid.
- Yes, lord, of course.
- Prepare.

- and is coveted by haesten.
- This haesten has seemingly allied himself to Alfred.
- He can never be trusted.
- Now that Alfred's health is failing, these are dark and dangerous times for all the peoples of this land.
- Destiny is all.

- How is the weasel?
- Still a man of wisdom and honor.
- Who promotes an ambitious soldier...
- Brave.
- Who rewards loyalty.
- I hear he takes your sister as his whore.
- Then you heard wrong, Dane.
- She's not a whore and he does not take her.

- If this child is to live, then another, somewhere, must die.
- I will be taking a life, a stranger, an innocent.
- Iseult...
- This must be done.

- Oh!
- You were worth the fight, my dearest girl.
- Your mother would be proud.
- I have a gift for you.

Ragnar the Younger: Then kill him.
- You're welcome to kill him.
- But you have to kill me first.
- I could happily manage without this.
- He's a Saxon. He's a traitor.
- He's an enemy.
- Well, to get to him, you have to kill me.
- My men, they will not follow you.

- Now, I haven't quite worked out the theology of luck.
- Can there be luck if god disposes?
- If your god is with you, you're a lucky man.
- Yes. You're right.
- Simply put, but you are right.
- With me.
- We shall talk inside briefly.

- Who are you, you piece of shit?
- You want me to spill your guts?
- Here I am, I am waiting.
- We'll send each of you to corpse hall!
- Hit the big bastard!
- Come and fight. Are you afraid?
- We stand our ground.
- We stand our ground.

Eilaf: Bjorn...
- You have blood.
- I have given you life.
- I have sent you a message.
- If it's peace that you want, you shall not have it until we hear you speak.

Sigefrid: Princess!
- I see you, Princess!
- And I will kill you!
- I will have your head and your tits!
- Sigefrid!
- Sigefrid!

- Stay back!
- Lord, stay back! It's the sickness.
- They're dying of the sickness!

- I see nothing on the river.
- It will soon be first light.
- Can you not speak.
- Very well.
- Ships afire!
- Ships afire!
- Fetch buckets and barrels!

- Sigurd is blind. There can be no battle.
- Lord, you are both right and wrong.
- We wait, uhtred.
- Now...
- I wish to look at her.
- Skade.

- Is that the king of the Scots?
[Whispers] Lord! Lord!
[Whispers] Lord!
[Whispers] Lord!

- But she seemed herself.
- That is taking all her strength.
- No, no, no. You cannot tell him.
- He must not be distracted from this fight.
- I have never lied to him.
- I know.
- But sadly, it is not a burden you will have to bear for long.

- You sent aethelwold to kill ragnar?
- Because“.
- Because we're destined to be together.
- You know this.
- Please, my love.

- in wanting to spare aethelflaed?
- Lord, you were a father before you were a king.
- But your reasons stand.
- She is wessex.
- She is the blood, the heart and the spirit of wessex.
- She cannot be humiliated.

- I suspect he believes his army gives him the right.
- Let us not forget that mercia and wessex are allies.
- I would like to speak with my brother.
- The king is at prayer and says he does not wish to be disturbed.
- Please tell him I wish to see him.
- I will relay your message.

- It is a battle that no man can ignore, no man can stand by and watch.
- Every man must find a weapon and every man must fight!
- Wessex will always be the light.
- And no matter how heavy our swords become, we must fight, fight, fight, and keep on fighting until the victory is ours!

- After everything I have done for mercia...
- To have risked my life for this reward, my child thrown to a man who will mistreat her?
- Perhaps it will teach her more deference than her mother has.
- Ride to saltwic. Fetch the lady aelfwynn.
- King Edward would like you to ensure no force is used.

- Do not forget your wife...
- Of strong, Dane stock.
- Why am I not surprised to hear you threaten a woman?
- Father beocca, please forgive me my sins.
- I shall leave you to your prayers.
- If indeed that is what you are here for.
- I shall watch out for you, father beocca... with my good eye.

Beocca: God in heaven,
- I never thought I would see the day.
- Is it him, father?
- It is.
- 200 years after his death, he remains whole, a sign of the depth of his holiness.

Earl: Leave her.
- She is to live.
- Some of these young ones can come in useful.
- Father, here's the boy I spoke of.
- The one who almost killed you?
- You're leaving him with me?
- I've never seen a man get the better of you yet.

- Perhaps we have gone the wrong way.
- The farmer said this was east, but now I think it is west.
- I was told many havejoined her, here amongst the trees.

- no more games, no more fighting over women!
- But that is tomorrow.
- Tonight... we drink as if there were no tomorrow!
- Woman: Lady.
- Have faith.
- It is tonight.

Alfred: He will go to guthrum?
- I believe he will, lord.
- Then the battle is one step nearer.
- Beocca, you should wash out your mouth.
- Yes, lord, I will. With ale.

- Here, piggy! Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Woo, woo!
- Ow!
Finan: Aethelstan, you madman, you!
- [Cynlaeti piggy, piggy, piggy!
- Aethelstan!
[Cynlaet] Aethelstan!

- Then this will be the last time we speak together.
- We go north, past bebbanburg, on to the next cove.
- We will seek the help of someone I know.
- What if help is not forthcoming?
- Then finan will have to think of something.
- What?

- We must tell sigtryggr.
- He has seen reason before.
- Stay here.
- Get aethelstan to safety and cut a path to sigtryggr.
- It's the only way to stop this.
- And aethelhelm is to be taken alive!

- Come nightfall, we'll be rid of this plague and counting our share of the plunder!
[Aella] My shield.

- Which he will.
- He will want to know the truth.
- In the time between, we stay alive.
- We pass the time.
- Doing what?
Brida: Hm?
- Ow! [Yells]

- Leave us.
- Be careful, lady.
- Like you...
- I'm tired of caution.

- Welcome to coccham.
- Finan.
- Lord uhtred is at the fortress, the burh.
- If you fetch him, finan, we'll be waiting in the hall.
- I will, lord.
- The man must have a priest for each day of the year.
- Man: God be with you.

Smith: [re: Uhtred's sword] It'll take some time to make her right, which means she'll be expensive.
Uhtred: If she's right, I'll pay in silver. How much?
Smith: Ten pieces, half now.
Uhtred: [laughs] Six, no more.
Smith: Eight, and I'll make her my finest.
Uhtred: Eight, and if she's not your finest, you'll be her first.

- The doors are open to the elements, brother trew, nothing more.
- It can be done, lord, it can be arranged, with your help and guidance.
- And you shall have it, brother trew,
- I'm sure.
- Father beocca, I will send for you when I have read the letter, which I shall do immediately.
- Do not wander.
- No, lord.

- second half to follow once we have the measure of them.
- They have conceded higher ground.
King: King aella, yours and lord uhtred's armies will attack in the first wave.
[Aella] Prepare! Prepare!
- Shield!
- No. No, not without me.

- And yet we survived.
- I will not honor him.
- And nor should you, burgred, not after all that you've suffered.
- Suffice to say that I did all I could to persuade him to return sooner...
- But I failed.
- Trust me, the mercian guard feel your loss deeply.

- Forgive my sins, so that my soul can be saved, lord god.
Eadith: Have mercy!
- Who weeps for you?
- Who has this faith?
- She's a whore I once knew.
- She is nothing. Discard her.

- We should like you to meet the lady aelflaed.
- It is time.
- It is a match that will strengthen wessex and the crown.
- Your crown.
- I will do my utmost, lord, for wessex and for my king.

- Your husband's a fortunate man.
- He is not the man
- I would choose to be with.
- I cannot let her go.
- I will leave this place with Erik or I will not leave at all.
- Will you help me, please?
Uhtred: Destiny is all.

- They have the higher ground.
- But I do not want to wait.
- So when do I attack?
- I'll cast the runes.
- Storri.
- I'll need a clear answer.
- I will get one.

- A toast. To the warriors of mercia.
- Where we go,
- Alfred and wessex shall follow.
- And we shall rise.
- We shall rise!
- To mercia!
- To mercia!

- I gave him my word.
- He will die and you can call him a hero.
- The others are here.
- You must decide what you will tell them.

- I must go to her.
- If mercia finds itself without a leader once more, you must be careful.
- You could come with us.
- It could help heal the rift between your lands.
- No. My place is here with sigtryggr.
- Yes, it is.

- Brochfael of gwent has not smiled once.
- Envy. Your victory is his loss, brother.
- Hm, perhaps.
- Perhaps the spoils are a little galling to him.

Osferth: Sihtric, no!
- Not one man is to live!
- Turn the field red with Saxon blood and flesh!
- Lord?
- We hold our position.
- They're being slaughtered.
- Lord king, I gave him my word.
- We hold our position!

- They are gone.
- We need to be gone ourselves.
- Put on a helmet. We are Danes.
- Again?
- You will not leave me.
- No, we will not.
- You are prisoners.

- Who should I send?
- Out into the country with the news I am here.
- It would be your priests, all of them, each in a separate direction.
- Their prayers are needed here.
- Your son grows weaker despite their prayers.
- For that I am sorry.

- They forfeit your allegiance.
- Swear your loyalty to me.
- Stand beside your kin.
Sigtryggr: Hmm?
- My place is in rumcofa.
Sigtryggr: Mmm.

- but first, there is a bargain to be made and a battle to be won.
- If the battle is not won, the children shall become slaves and their mother a viking's whore.
- The crown is all-important.
- Do you understand?
- I do.

[Whispers] What?
[Whispers] Outside.
- No one knows I'm here.
- The people that know will not betray us.
[Whispers] Wait.

Finan: Lord.
- Tie them up!
Esgar: Let go!
- Come on.
[Groans] Jesus!
- No, no, no! Where are you going?
- Where are you going?
- Cnut's sons?
- I thought you did not want to be a part of this war.

- What his daughter said is true.
- We cannot conquer this place while he lives.
- Edward can make other heirs.
- He cannot make another uhtred.
- Then perhaps we should tear him to pieces.
- Make the exchange.

- You dare speak against the greatest warriors who ever walked this land?
- Huh?
- If they were the greatest...
- Then where are they now?

- Well, what did you see?
- What did they show you?
- What I saw is my business. Unh!
- I feel unwell.
- Here.

- I will help you.
- Trust me.

- I wish to serve you as a warrior.
- Uhtred.
- Uhtred, you are wanted.
- The king!
- Enjoy the wedding feast.
- You. Find me again, bring a sword and lose your cross.
- Thank you, my lord. I will.

Priest: In nomine pat/7's, et f/iil, et spiritus sancti...
- In nomine patris, et fi/il, et spiritus sancti...
- In nomine patris...

- We stand with uhtred.
Aelswith: It is not that you are wrong, my son.
- It is that you are simply mistaken on this occasion.
- Whilst your arguments are considered,
- I would urge you to follow the counsel of lord uhtred.
- Your father trusted his judgment, as should you.

- Surely I would not have been hard to find.
- We have found each other now, it seems.
- There are matters to be attended to. We...
- I should like to talk further with you.
Edward's Soldier: Much has changed in both of our lives, but now is not the time.
- It is good to see you, aethelstan.

- I will assume that was a warning!
- They do not wish to comply.
- Did you see my father?
- I will get the girl, parade her from the ramparts.
- Will king constantin agree to that?
- If we do not ask, he cannot refuse.

- but the man who can unify this country must be a figure behind which the people can stand together as one.
- You have shown that you are not that man.
- You have sown discord between Saxon and Dane.
- The future will come.
- Wait for it.

- What did the king say?
- You have been spared.
- But Edward is to be overlord of eofenrvic.
- And sigtryggr is sentenced to death.
- {gasps}

- Lord odda, I say this to you as your friend.
- Do nothing.
- If I do not see you again, uhtred of bebbanburg,
- I wish you good luck.
- Wherever fate may take you.
- Thank you, lord.

- Is that your question?
- A village can be rebuilt, a warrior can die only once.
- The Danes may be heading south to eofennic, but they will kill whoever they can on the way.
- Now, go and find the priest.
[Osbert] Yes, father.

- you will remain inside your fortress...
- Songs will be sung about your cowardice.
- I shall pay for them to be written!
- I am no coward, Dane-slayer!
- If death is what you want, then you shall have it!
Finan: Lord, the job is done.

- God wants us to right the wrongs done to mercia.
- Nevertheless,
- I will be betrothed to the child, and I will succeed the throne.
- If it is so certain, why is it not yet done?
- I think the king conceals something and lies to us.
- So, we will wait for our moment.

Uhtred: But you are right,
- I have unleashed a storm.
- Cnut will find us. This is now our fight.
Finan: It was our fight from the moment you took those boys from haesten, lord.
- The men would be forgiven for abandoning me.
- They like an adventure and they're loyal to a good leader.
- As are you.

- Come on!
- It is to the death.
- Valhalla awaits one man.
- Are you ready?
- Then...
- Begin.

- You served Alfred well today.
- Thank you, lord.

- To remind me of Earl ragnar.
- Why do you not attend church with your wife? Why do you not pray to god?
- God created everything that surrounds me.
- The fields, rivers, the forests.
- The land is my church.
- And I pray each day, lord...
- In silence.

- I gave him my word!
- Then what will you do, boy?
- You can either bleat or you can make a decision!
- What will you do?
Uhtred: Destiny is all!
- Lord king, we cannot wait any longer.
- Lord king!

- I shouldn't sleep until father Benedict has visited.
- My mother was never going to let me travel home without a priest.
- Benedict is here, my dearest.
- The lady should rest tonight.
- She is weakened from the journey.
- She will be healed by god's grace, not your potions.
[Sighs] Will you help me with my robe, eadith?

- Wihtgar's gone to the walls!
- They'll try to sink the ship!
- Lord!
- No, lord! No!
- You cannot take him!
- All the men will die if you do not go now.
- Uhtred, please!
- Watch out!

- Lord! What are your orders?
- Lord?
- Did you see that?
- It came as the priest said.
- What, lord?
- Their god is with them.
- What are your orders?
- No, lord.

- Who fights alongside aethelflaed?
- The mercian fyrds, her husband, even the Welsh.
- Christians united.
- And without wessex to lead them fonnard.

Uhtred: ...And gave birth to cnut's child.
[U htred] But / fear that her anger towards me still haunts her.
- Blood has been shed. More will flow.
- I will take revenge on all those who have betrayed me and I will not rest until they suffer at my hand.
Uhtred: Destiny is all.

- I've given her some beauty.
- But she is a tool, no more, no less.

- If that is what you want, then yes!
- Fight me! We shall make the square!
- Haesten! No more!
- I will cut your heart from your chest!
- Prepare!
- I'm ready!
- I'm ready!
- We'll make the square then.

- Your boys live.
- The body your man saw was a mercian, killed by Danish hands.
Cnut: Both... both survive?
Uhtred: Both.
- But you will not live to see them grow old.
- You should not have trusted him.

Leofric: Thank you, lord.
Alfred: But, our lesser men, if they can know what a Dane knows, fear can be expelled with knowledge, regardless how sharp their teeth.

- Give me your strength, your heart and your wisdom.
- Give me your love, brother.
[Exhales] You shall always have mine.

Cenric: Open the gates!
- Oh, my dearest girl, you've come home.
[Crying] Aelfwynn is dead.
- No, child.
- A miracle has occurred and you are mistaken in your heartbreak.
- Mama?

- Osbert, he will not stop bailing.
Sverri: Rest.
- You will need your strength.
[Pants] I am happy enough to bail.

- With word of your capture, there will be more.
- All waiting for war.
- You have my thanks, lady.
- There will be many men inside.
- They will want to get close to you, look you in the eye.
- They'll want to frighten me.
[Chuckles] They will.

- You've barely washed, woman.
- You have been living with saxons for too long.
- How can I wash in dirty waters?
- The water is good.
- We are a long way from the city.

- Warriors.
- How many?
- Forty or 50. I don't recognise them.
- Spears and arrows to the walls until we know who they are and what they want.
- Hold your aim until I command it.
- Finan.
- Bar the gates!

- You and I can be everything together.
- I want you to believe in me, uhtred.
- I do.
- Like I believe in you, the warrior above all men.
- You're a king.
- Then you are my queen.

- Take her with you to Valhalla.
- Yes. I will meet you there.
- Argh!
- No. Oh, no.

- She's in there, lord, inside the church.
- Am I still needed?
- Go find your family.

- It was not his idea that we should go to Alfred for silver.
- It was you?
- It was.
- That all said, without you, lord, my brother would not be free.
- It's my fate.
- You should call me uhtred.

- And great division between Christian and Dane.
- I've observed you have not yet left mercia.
- I hope I have reassured you
- I'm not wholly impulsive.
- I need men here I can trust.
- Stay here and watch aethelhelm.
- If he has heard this much, he's going to hear much worse.

Aethelstan: We should not have left rumcofa.
- Perhaps then osferth may still be with us.
- I wish to go back to my old life, uhtred.
- That time is over.
- Men look to you now as a leader.
- | wish they did not.

- It will give them sleepless nights, and when they do sleep,
- I want them to dream of a cold, cold hell.
Osferth: Hell is a place of fire, lord.
- Er, what are you doing?
- Did you believe you were leaving without me?
- Not a chance.

- For aethelwold for taking his crown.
- Aethelwold is a fool, he could never be king.
- Your god is testing you.
- Lord, give Edward to iseult.
- If god will not cure Edward, what makes you think that he would allow a pagan to succeed?

- Am I mistaken, or is that eadith?
Eadith: We are travelers and traders!
- Happy to pay the toll!

- Men of wessex!
- Men of mercia!
- Now we take northumbria for england!
- Advance!

[Quietly] We cannot go against the men of wessex.
- Be quiet now.
- They are our people, finan, are our friends.
- Osferth; Be quiet.
- Come on!

- Travel with us and do not tell them.
- It is not provocation.
- It is a holy tribute.
- Nothing is more pure.
Aelflaed: I should like to witness its glory myself.
Aalys: As I am certain, the king would also witness yours.

Wulfhere: I shall ready my men and by tomorrow have horses waiting.
- You believe the Danes can be defeated?
- I'll see you across the water, ealdorman wulfhere.
- You will.

- Tomorrow we ride.
- I would like you to travel with me.
- To battle?
- Part of the way.
- Or would you rather not?
- No. No, lord. I would like to go.
- Then eat, for strength.
- Out.
- All of you, out.

- May he bless their union with love, and children, and wealth.
- And may they, in turn, be sure to give thanks and praise, and live each day according to his holy word. Amen.
- Amen.
- Amen.
- You are now joined as man and wife in the eyes of god.
- Tears of joy.

- Show them that you also know mercy.
- Our people must be assured of your leadership.
Uhtred: They are not the only ones, lord.
- The Danes are also your people now.
- You must unite them all, ensure that this does not happen again.
- Do not despair.
- There is still much for our kin to sing of.

- {gasps}
[soldier] Kill them all!

- Unlike saxons and Danes, the romans were clever.
- There, you have your answer.
- Now take his head off.
Pyrlig: Agreed, lord.
- And if you please, when it comes to me, with your sharpest axe and strongest man.
- You talk too much.
- I do. You should kill me swiftly.

- May it bring a time of healing for mercia.
- I fear my sister will not mourn him.
- With respect, lord king, your sister should follow the custom.
- She loves mercia, but she never loved its leader.
- Have aethelflaed confined until all this is settled.
- If only to save her offending the ealdormen by her lack of grief.

Aethelstan: How much longer?
Stiorra: Again and I will not reply.
Uhtred: It is right at the end of this field.
- We should be able to see the cross any moment.

Earl: That's enough whispering in his ear, priest.
- Uhtred.
- One more word,
- I'll have your ball bag for a purse.
- I'll meet you there.
- That will not be necessary.
- What did he say?
- He... he asked if you were treating me well.

- Then free me from this bargain.
- No.
- Because I have given my word.
- I am being traded.
- That's just the way of things.
- You will be rich and well-cared for.
- It is not a terrible curse...
- You have no idea! None!

- You're sven kjartanson?
- You will answer me!
- What do you want with sven kjartanson?
- I've been sent to take the souls of both kjartan and his son.
- Attack.
- Attack!

- Thyra.
- Thyra, please. Please.
- Please.
Sven: Thyra.
Thyra: Kill...
- Thyra!

Aethelwold: What have I been saying?
- Wessex is splintered.
- I will have no more of it.

Edward's Rider: I wish that this had not come to pass.
- Yet there is hope, even in all this despair.
- Eofennic is yours, lord king.
- The dream of england has never been closer.

- Uhtred!
- Uhtred, do not fight alone!

- There! There! There he is!
- Did I not say?
- What position is he taking?

- Why not?
- It is Alfred we want dead and for that to happen sooner, we will require war.
- How do we look?
- As royalty.
- Aethelflaed is a fortunate young woman.

- He was amongst us.
- Aethelflaed, with me, before you hurt him.
- Yes, mother.
- The witan is full to brimming.
- Every ealdorman and his brother is here to bask.
- Not all of them deserving.

- Why are you telling me this?
- It is of no concern to me.
- They will make it your concern, uhtred.
- They will find a way and Edward shall become your charge.
- You are a king-maker, my friend and Alfred knows it.

Finan: Which one?
Sihtric: It's not him.
Finan: It's him. Go!
- Hey! Get off! Who are you!
- He's a sinner, father!
Young: Where are we going?

- He is here, lord!
- Uhtred is here!
- With me! Now!
Finan: Uhtred, run!
Sihtric: There are ships on the river!
Uhtred: To the river. Sihtric, you lead.

- Stiorra.
[Wolland, yelling] Stiorra, don't do this!
Uhtred: You know what to do, move quickly.
- Don't fight, stiorra!
Uhtred: We go on your signal.

- Once or twice.
- That is true.
- The abbess has me shackled, lady!
- I'm her prisoner!
- Abbess hild, be sure to wash your hands.
- Winchester is a better place when you are here.
- Know that much.

- I would like to hear those reasons.
- I did not forget what guthred did to me.
- But if it means we have a greater chance of killing kjartan, if it means we find our sister, then I will do what Alfred asks.
- Kjartan falls, by my sword.
- He will, brother. He will.

- my commitment to his prosperity has not waned.
- Eoferwic must remain Christian.
- You do me a great honor.
- You shall be my eyes, ears and voice, aethelwold.
- Hmm, a bold response.
- Yes, father, I thought so.

- I am not your lackey.
- You may be an ally of king constantin, but you are a guest in my fortress...
- I am ready.
- Who is here for me?
- Your grandson.
- Aelfweard?
- Why did you not say?

Ravn: It is not.
- I will give 120 pieces of silver for the boy.
Ravn: Heh, heh, heh. Not enough.
- Very well.
- Two hundred pieces.
- I agree to your terms.

- any remaining loyalty to your family...
- It is not I who has been disloyal.
- It's my family who has been disloyal to me.
- I will throw myself from the walls sooner than marry this man.
Aethelhelm: Then do it!
- It will just be one less thing for me to be concerned with.
Aethelhelm: I thought so.
- Do not make promises you cannot keep.

Sihtric: Shut that door!
- My balls are freezing to nothing!
- Something's wrong.
[Osferth groans] Just go back to bed.
Osferth: Get some sleep. Lord uhtred might need us in the morning.
Aethelstan: There, did you see that?
- Wake up.
Sihtric: No, no, it's the ale. Your eyes are playing tricks on you. Just...

Sverri: Jonis!
Sverri: I'm looking for jonis, the slaver. Is he here?
Sverri: Who has seen him?
Sven: You will deal with me today.
- You know who I am?
- I do, lord.
- You have something that I want, master sverri.
- Yes, lord.

- Haesten claims to be a friend to Alfred.
- He is not.
- Let the outlaw pass.
- No weapons.
- None at all.
- Lord aethelred, like you, we stand against the Danes.
- No weapons is the command, irishman, none at all.

- Do not turn away from all of your family.
- I know your son would like to see you.
- He often speaks fondly of you.
- A child without its father's guidance will grow weak.
- Which is why
- I endeavor to seek the lord's help.
- So if you would leave me in peace.

- Forgive me, lord, but I do believe he is your only choice.
- Lord?
- Uhtred, you will accompany aethelred.
- I will do all I can, lord.
- Lady.

- If that is the path it sees for us.
- I wonder if destiny lost its hold on me when I left these lands.
- I have been free of pain for a while now and better for it.
- Perhaps pain is our choice, not destiny's.
- So tell me, uhtred.
- What would finally allow you to be free of your pain?

[Man] We are trapped, lord!
- Lord, do we fight?

- We are simply making plans should the worst happen.
- You agreed aelfwynn should not be used as a bargaining piece.
- That was before king Edward struck a bargain.
- Ludeca, you cannot be joined to aelfwynn.
- She's a child.
- I'm not the suitor. I'm merely someone trying to prevent chaos.
- So, who have you betrothed my daughter to?

- Just quiet rumors that she had died.
- That she was reborn.
- /hoped the silence meant that she had found peace.
- Most forgot her.
- I did not.
- And / knew, in time, she would return.

- It's open.
- Do you see a guard?
- None. I see a trap.
- Yes, of course if it is a trap, we should walk towards it.
- Hey, shush your mouth.

- and peasants alike.
- They cry in the streets of Winchester.
- Then it begins.
- It begins.
- Sharpen your blades!
- It begins!

Finan: Lord.
- Lord.

- Kill them! To the gate!
- We must get to the gate! Kill them!
- It is to the end!
- Next group, go! Glory or Valhalla!

- You chose her.
- You chose Alfred, and you left him.
- No, sihtric.
- I should kill you, but I want you to live with the pain of his death.
- He was your brother.

- They're getting closer!
- Keep moving!
- Run! Come on!

- You're too ready with anger.
- There's a bad spirit within you that needs to be exorcized.
- You should look to god.
- I'll pray for you.
- Humility is what you need.
- What I need, woman, is justice.

- You are certain of this?
- He is here, trust me.
- And beocca, what do we do with him.
- He is protecting an outlaw.
- Alfred can decide.
- Go. Go!

- I think you've been fooled, lord wihtgar.
- How did you get past my men?
- Are you shipwrecked Danes also?
Wihtgar: Torture them for answers.
- Show them what any sea raider would face.

- Are you afraid of me?
- Man on man!
- I will make the square!
- Will you fight me?
- Are you the son of ragnar the fearless or are you a coward?

- Get up.
- He took me by surprise.
- Otherwise, I would have made a contest.
- You were right to speak out.
- He should never have been allowed to leave.
- That was...
- Weak of my cousin.

- Haesten, what are you doing?
- Shut your mouth, dagfinn.
- You saw nothing.

- No. Uhtred led, you followed.
- He's the ealdorman, he is to blame.
- I share the blame, lord.
- No, he is responsible.
- Irresponsible.
- He will pay with his life.
- For the last time, beg.
- No, I will not beg.
- I will fall to my knees for no man, no king and no Christian god.

[Kjartan] Yeah. [Man] Over here!
Kjartan: Hey, come on.
- Yeah. You know who I am?
- It's me you're looking for.
- It's me you're looking for.
- You remember me?
- You remember me?

- Then we must go where he will not find us.
Aelswith: In truth, it should comfort aelfwynn to see you.
Aelswith: Where is lady aelfwynn?
- How could you let her leave?
- I did not know.
Eadith: She has fled.
[Aelswith sighs] She has taken her horse.

- Where is uhtred?
- We expect him with the men from rumcofa.
- I am the vanguard, but the king is sending his sister reinforcements.
- And yet I have heard nothing and seen less.
- The saxons will fight for you.
- You're no longer alone.
- Good.
- We meet these armies, take my homestead, kill the bitch.

- Quickly! Get back!
- One formation!
- Pull back! Protect your men! Keep tight!

- If you were wise, you'd strike a bargain for a longer peace.
- Your men have been defeated.
- You have no power to bargain.
- I can bring more men.
- Lost battles do not mean lost wars.
- I'm not afraid to fight you.

- We won the war.
- Now we must help bring about the peace.
- Mercia does not need any more instability.
- And what about the people of Winchester?
- 4ndeed.
- Have my mother publicly rebuked for raising king hywel's army.
- She must learn her interference brings a cost.

Sihtric: Go, lord.
- Where is she?

- For the reason they risked their lives and crossed the seas.
- To make a homeland.
- Follow me and this I swear.
- You have my word...
- As a Saxon and as a Dane!

- You have land and wealth, all you can eat and drink.
- And I have earned it.
- Make your choice, boy!
- Accept your punishment.
- Or allow your friends to kill each other, all to spare you the hardship of life as a lord.

- What did you do to tame her?
- I treated her with respect and gave her love.
- After you slaughtered the man she cared for.
- I pity the bitch.
- Do not give me a reason to kill you.
- My friend.

- So answer me this. Where might this lord come from? Do I know of him?
- Should I fear him?
- You can be sure he will not be called uhtred, lord, if that is your meaning.
- My advice, lord, is to send ships and men to beamfleot.
- We shall maintain the peace.

- Are you lost, father?
- Not lost, but abandoned, lord.
- I'm returning to Winchester with an important message for Alfred.
- We're going to see Alfred.
- Climb onto the cart.
- You can help guard mercia's ransom.
- God bless you, lord, saviour of my blistered feet.

Sihtric: Oh, thank you.
- You're an angel.
Osferth: Coming, lord.

- Leave me.
- Son of uhtred.

- Uhtred!
- Lady aethelflaed is arriving.

- It is you who are the great warrior, brother.
- What will you do now the fight is over?
- I'm going on a pilgrimage...
- And you can rule from the fortress in my absence.
- Play king for a while. You deserve it.
- You fought valiantly.
- Come on!

- In return,
- I shall require the head of osbert.
- Osbert, lord?
- My nephew's name is osbert.
- There shall be no more talk of uhtred. He's not the heir.
- He's nothing.
- The head of osbert.
- Thank you, lord.

- There is nothing more useless than a dead spy.
- Finan?

- Your king could not choose between his sons.
- And so...
- Guards, bring in the prisoner!
- He has given us his greatest warrior in their place!
- Bring him to me.

- Protect the gate!
Uhtred: Full force!
Uhtred: Full force, ragnar!
- Pull back! Pull back!
- Pull back!

- All I have done has been to protect him.
- He knows this.
- If he knew all, he would not stand by you.
- Tell him the worst of it.
- Tell him or I shall!
- Confess your sins and live, or die disgraced.

- He will not say another word.
- He will not. No.
- Best not.
- I will not say another word.
- Talking is over.
- You piece of weasel shit.
- Storri.

- Where are you taking me?
- You have found your voice.
- We're headed to beamfleot.
- And then?
- A ship? A cage?
- I'm still to decide.
- I have given up lundene for you.
- Erik, how does she feel?
- As she should.
- She is our pathway to glory.

- There is no cause for more bloodshed, brida.
- Hella is a good servant, she can be useful to you.
- Mmm.
- What do you say, girl, hmm?
- Will you make yourself useful?
[Chuckles] Good.

- Sable, the letters. You know what to do.
- I do, lady.
- God will be with you.
- See no one but father beocca.
- Yes, lady.
- You have the will of a queen.

- You will take this to lindisfarne?
- With your approval, lord king.
- You see, when I heard aalys was making the pilgrimage to the holy isle,
- I knew you'd like to make a king's blessing to their offering.
- It means so much to your people.
- Of course.
- God be with you on your journey.

- Why is she not dead?
- She has beauty and power, osferth, over men who believe in their own reputation.
- But she is evil.
- He has promised her death!
- Pray for him.
- He'll need it.

- May it strengthen our new union.
- As we are united in faith...
- Let us be united in prosperity and security!
- I promise you, we shall feast tonight!
- There will be no alliance and no more favors.
- The people of wealas do not need Saxon help.

- Alfred wants his daughter, that is plain.
- But is that best for mercia?
- Is that best for aethelred, lord of mercia and lundene and more perhaps?
- My advice to you, lord, is rescue her, by all means, but not at a price that will cut our throats.

- Dear god, no.
- Shield!
- Dear god of infinite mercy, not this.

- to aid eofennic.
- In any case, there are reports that sigtryggr has recaptured his city.
- A small mercy.
- Thank you, lord aethelhelm.
- You will travel to mercia?
- Forgive me.
- I will intrude on your grief no longer.

- But to keep safe the people that you love.
- She said that is why you will always have the strength to stand up when others fall and to go on when those around you say it is hopeless.
- It is why these men love you...
- And will follow you wherever you go.
- As will I.

- You do not understand.
- She's not a woman to own.
- It is she that must own a part of you.
- Her blood becomes your blood.
- We will speak again, I'm certain.
- Thank you, lord.

- Aethelstan, my boy, what do you say?
- I will follow lord uhtred.
- Not sure things are going your way, lord king.
[Edward] I will brook no more defiance.
- No one will leave on penalty of execution!
[U htred] Destiny is all./

- Woman.
- Warrior.
- I need to go into the woods there.
- I need to shit.
- I do not wish to fill my breeches!
- Halig. Our prisoner requires attention.

- But...
- I'd be wary of a ploy.
- Danes send men to observe in the weeks before they attack.
- Once we have departed south, you may be at the mercy of sea raiders.
- Then you'll seek to welcome us.

[Screams] No! No! Father!
- Lord!
- Go back! Stay back! The road is closed!
[Beggar] Let go!
- Move!
- Stop there!

- Where are you taking us?
- Sit down.
- To whom are we to be delivered?
Eadith: Answer me.
- Sit down.
- Or I will make you sit down. Huh?

- Ride to coccham with us. In time, we will find you a proper horse.
- Why would I go to coccham?
- To collect the ship that will take us north...
- To reclaim your birthright and mine.
- To seize back what was lost and unite our family.
- I'm taking you to bebbanburg.
- Never heard of it.

Beocca: "One may be overpowered, two can defend themselves.
- A cord of three is not so quickly broken."
- Now that you are bound together, uhtred and gisela,
- I can declare you man and wife.

- Then she shall have it.
- For all that you have done, for all that you have shown me, thank you.
- You have given everything.
- You are the man I always hoped you would become.

- Good luck, little brother.
- See you all in dunholm.
- We move quickly, we must be in place before dawn.
Sihtric: This path is fit for goats only.
- Be quiet and watch where you're placing your feet. [Grunts]
- Bless you.

- Vibeke. Jump to me. The gods are with us.
- Bnda, no!
- Give me your hand.
Brida: Trust me, we can do this.
- You can do this, trust me.
- I will catch you!
- No!
Brida: Vibeke!
- Vibeke!

- He has my protection.
- And who will protect the rest of us?
- I've never seen him so angry.
- You'll clean mail, tend to the horses.
- Anything.
- You'll wipe our arses if I say so.
- Of course.
- And I'm gathering the moss and dock leaves as you speak, lord.

- that I acted in the name of god.
- But god put love in your heart, for your first wife and this child.
- And I should not have ignored that.
- So, I ask for your forgiveness...
- And his.
- He needs your protection.

- You are more than that.
- I know.
- And, hopefully, in time, things will change for us.
- I will go to Winchester to comfort my mother and come back here as soon as I can.
- Your men will return from the north soon.

- Where's storri?
Brida: What did he say?
- He's naked.
- It was necessary.
- He has a branch up his arse.
- Which is why he's naked.
Brida: Uhtred.

- Bebbanburg was my reward from god for my constant and unwavering piety.
- Yes, indeed.
- Send out to whatever hovels the common people live in.
- Round up the farmers' sons.
- Will that work, lord?
- The farmers are not well-disposed to us.
- It will work if you hold a knife to the mothers' throats.

- Come with me.
- My father will forgive you.
- And you will lead his men against beamfleot.
- I do not want his forgiveness.
- Then use his army! Use his men!
- And recover skade.
- I offer you a way to end this curse.

Leofric: Good to see you again, Brida.
Brida: Leofric... How did you manage to get such a big head into such a small helmet?
Leofric: It was necessary.

- We move!
Beocca: Can you smell the northern sea, boy, the northumbrian air?
Uhtred: I smell it and I feel it, father.
- It feels like home.
Beocca: That it does.

- Then I would hate for you to meet that which you dread.
- I should like to pray, alone.
- I have verses I must study.
- Perhaps there are some wise words in the book about the sort of man I am.
- Perhaps you do not know me as you think.

- That is where you belong...
- In a hole...
- In the ground. [Laughs]

- Influence beyond wessex, odda.
- Heaven sent.
- Boy: Come!
- Move on, move on. Come on.

- Come, I've alerted the man that protects you.
- He's outside the window.
- And I have pledged to protectae/fi/I/ynn on the dangerous road that lies ahead.
- Stiorra, get the children on the cart.
- We head north towards ceaster!
- Destiny is all!

- Pull and give him the peace of death!
Sverri: Pull!
- Pull!
Sverri: Pull!
Sverri: Pull!
- Pull!

- You cannot do what you have promised without the approval from the king.
- I will speak to him.
- Do not leave it too late.
- If he denies you, leave time to ask him again and again.
- To beg?
- If needed, yes.

- Wickedness must be repaid.
- Perhaps, it is better for god to judge his servant aethelwold.
- He cannot live, lord!
- Men will think you weak.
- So I must take my brother's son's life to prove otherwise?
- And to step from the Christian path of mercy this close to the end.

- Danes in here, go! Come on!
- Father, declare a sanctuary! Go!
- You'll be safe in here.
- Bresal, they are good people...
Young: Get off me!

[Laughs] Six. No more.
- Eight, and I'll make her my finest.
- Eight, if she is not your finest, you'll be her first.
- I want this stone set into the handle.
- That can be done.
- Don't sell it nor lose it.

- Walk.
[Softly] Now.

- Nose, face, teeth, the chin...
- Beard, eyebrows, ears, cheeks.
[Woman] Make way! Move!
- Stand back!
[Man] Who is it?
[Woman] Who is it? Children, stay back.
[Man] What have they done to him?

- Then we must prevail now.
Cnut: Farmers and their families die in war. It's just the way of things.
- Danish settlers, Saxon children...
- They pay the price.
- Besides, if aethelred has left his people undefended, they will be easier to slaughter, and slaughter will bring Edward sooner.

Odda: The purpose of marriage is not to be happy...

- I've known how to kill a curse since before you arrived at dunholm.
- I chose not to tell you, because I knew you wouldn't stay.
- So I wanted to see you suffer.
- I did love you, uhtred, but that has passed.
- I do not believe you.
- We are one, you and I.

- to raise the greatest army these shores have ever seen.
- Lord, it's a signal that can be seen from a mile or more.
- Thyra.
- Death is coming!
- The forest! The forest!
Uhtred: It's a trick, I know it.
- And I fear terrible consequences.
- Destiny is all.

- Who may live in these lands in peace.
[Edward] Lord uhtred of northumbria.
- I congratulate you on restoring your birthright.
- You honor your children and bring them solace and healing.
- May these lands be held by your descendants for all eternity.
- Let the sons of your sons profit for generations!

- I must go to her.
- Uhtred, no.
- No, I must go to her!
- Uhtred she has gone!
- She's in the ground.
- It was days ago.
- She is gone.

- We've heard from uhtred and the lady aethelflaed.
- Where are they?
- They're waiting for you at a place called tettenhall.
- It mocks the gods to give away the advantage!
- I will have my revenge.

Brida: So uhtred lives...
- Now rides with Edward?
- Yes.
- You were supposed to kill him.
- And I did not.
- Could you not find him sleeping?

- They will execute me before I'm within the gates.
- I will stand for you.
- You will be under my protection.
- The war should end, brida.
- The war you started and the war within you.
- Good luck with the wolves.

[Leader] Finish him!
- Come on.

- Storri is a piece of shit.
- He is.
- But he was ubba's seer, a sword Dane's seer.
- If any man will know how to reach a lost warrior, it is him.
- They have gone.
- We can be at the village in two days.
- Yeah.

- Eat with myself and with my father, and I will tell you all about my land, the range of my influence.
- I am sure an agreement can be reached.
- Neither of us need lose any men.
- Neither of us need be weakened.
- Eat?
- And drink. At my hall.
- I assure you this is no trap.

- But her hand with mine will unite the two kingdoms and I will be the peacemaker who saves mercia.
- I promised my wife
- I would not act without her.
- Without a plan, king Edward will take your throne and mercia will be subsumed.
- Please, lord, just trust that I have mercia's best interests at heart.
- I'm begging you.
- Have I not always served you well?

- Danes. I can smell their stench from here.
- Shall we attack or retreat?
- We are men of wealas. We attack!
- Form a line!
- Form a line!
- Slaughter them! Slaughter them all!

- I must be acknowledged as the true overlord of eofen/vic.
- And in return, she has your protection?
- Yes.
Uhtred: Then I will tell her to comply.
- Thank you, lord king.
- It is an honor
- I know my daughter will not be expecting.
- If we cannot honor our greatest warriors, we cannot be great kings.

[Rognvaldr sighs] She says she has fled with her women.
Brida: Is this true?
Brida: Come on, you can trust me.
- It would be foolish to lie, girl.
- -[Gasps} -[Gasps}
- {gasps}

- Calm down, sihtric.
- You will need your energy.

- Nonetheless, it is what is planned for you.
[Aethelflaed sighs] I know you are young, but look beyond yourself.
- To be a queen is an honor.
- There is no greater destiny.
- Destiny is for arselings.
- I do not want it!

- Sigtryggr! Stand down your men!
- Order the shield wall! Do it now!
- Did you get what you came for?
- Sigtryggr! Stand down your men!
- You can get what you came for!
- Shield wall!

- The very day I'm told that my home is my own is the day I decide I must leave.

- Heavens forbid...
- But should something final befall his daughter,
- I imagine that would weaken the pretend king further.
- I would guess you would imagine this weakening quite often, lord aethelwold.
- Nightly.

- Spead uhtred! Don't do it.
- Uhtred!
- You two, come with me.
- The rest of you, go round.

- Edward and aethelred will need us now.
- I owe them nothing.
- And aethelflaed?
- It is true, I fear for her.
Haesten: Uhtred.
- Join me.

- Keep them quiet!
- Elgin!
- Are you drunk?
- Now!
Finan: We kill 'em!
- Every bastard one of them!
- Man: To arms!
- Defend yourselves!
- Run!

- You are a good man.
- It matters not you did not love her.
- Others did. That is enough.
- Tell the boy the dreadful news.
Eadgifu: Pity him.
- Do not pity yourself.

- they would've remained in lundene.
- It's you who's Alfred's spy.
- Next step is to kill for him. Will you?
- Answer me this, if we were to cross and find guthrum, what would happen?
- We owe them nothing.
- Alfred needs to know about the Danes,
- I need his trust.
Brida: You'd think he'd deliver you bebbanburg, what if you're wrong?

- Wessex.
- It must be wessex or steapa will have instruction to kill me, I'm sure.
- I need peace for a time.
- I need my woman.
- And what of thyra?
- Whatever else, she's safe.

- Which I regret.
- But if you were not a disappointment, aethelwold, I may have had you killed.
- For the good of wessex.
- Never doubt it.
- Every decision I make is for my country.
- Yes, lord.
- I understand completely.

- A few days more, lord.
- It's your cart that's slowing us down.

- I do not know.
Uhtred: They're coming.
- Get into position!
Rhodri: Follow me!
- Mercians to the woods!
- To the woods!

- Haesten...
- Only you may enter the palace.
- You must give up your weapons.

[Man] My lord king.
[Man] My lord.
[Man] Sire.
- My lord...
- He dares to walk amongst the fallen?
- Do not.
- There has been enough fighting.
- Your men need you.

- Do you care? You belong to neither.
- I did once fear you, uhtred, but now I see you are nothing but a sword, a lump of metal.
- Yes, you have reputation, but that will fade.
- And you will die forgotten and unwritten.
- You will go neither to heaven nor to Valhalla.

- giving you a very small and frankly slightly reckless opportunity to get in by the guards' room before they return.
- You're forgetting the bit where you sit on your ass.
- Yeah, I... I sit on my ass in the boat.
- Hmm.
- Get them out when the signal comes.
- Excellent, we're all agreed.

Uhtred: Destiny is all.

- So do we fight?
- The signs are good.
- Only this morning, I saw a raven fly towards the Saxon camp, and it was asking me to follow.
- I'm sure of it.
- Mm.
- Then we fight.
[Man] We fight!

- His purse is full, his fyrd number is
- 1,000 men or more and fortunately, his daughter is both fair and in good health.
- The king will approve.
- He will?
- Send for aethelhelm.
- Visit him if you must, but do not dwell on the matter.

[Iseult] Lord, I have prepared a tonic.
- For the pain.
- For the pain you suffer here.
- You pass blood? From your arse?
- It is nothing more than what grows from the earth, lord, drink it.

- You will see a priest and we shall find the truth of this.
- This is not love, that is the truth of it.
- You will see a priest!

- It's a signal that can be seen from a mile or more.
- Aethelred! Aethelred!
- Move! Move!
- Aethelred! The camp!
- Thyra.

- He is?
- Then he will join us, when?
- He will join us in battle.
- My plan is that he will arrive to attack the saxons from the rear, once battle has begun.
- Good.

- Yes, I suppose I did.
- Just as I asked my son to be married to that vain, silly girl.
- Why the lord guided me this way,
- I cannot fathom.
- Maybe the lord didn't.
- Any path I chose was to secure the country my husband loved.
- And how well did that work, lady?

- Lord?
- Osferth?

- Hild?
- Lord, she is a woman.
- I'm as good a horseman as anyone here.
- If it means more Danes will die, then I'll do it.
- Yes, hild.
- You will.

Alfred: Odda is not a danger.
Uhtred: But who sits with odda?
Alfred: I will not hide.
Beocca: Lord. Hear the advice.
- You are a symbol of wessex, the standard around which our army will gather.
- You can't be put at risk.
- Very well.

- Uhtred.
- Uhtred! Uhtred, kill me. Come on!
- Come on. You must kill me.
- I have nothing left to live for!
- I won't stop. I won't stop, uhtred.

- You are foolish.
- This could soon be over.
- Cowards.
- Liars and cowards all of you!
- Go in the north. You need good weather to go through there.
- Why don't you go up to eofen/vic?

- I know you.
- I know you are just.
- You're merciful.
- You will not condemn me.
- Choose!

- I have everything I need and young ragnar will share in that good luck.
- We need to kill a chicken.
- But not the small one, she has a name.
- What is she called?
- I wouldn't be surprised if he humps it.
- Storri?

- Thank you, father.
- Goodbye, pure and holy abbess.
- Goodbye, you bloodthirsty heathen.
- Take this.
- Turn it into hack-silver and pay for bribes along the way.
- Keep each other out of trouble.

- Lord, you must eat and you must drink.
- You are not thinking right.
- Bnda.
- She'll be at dunholm.
Sihtric: Finan, look.
Brida: I'm here.
Finan: Brida?

- Throughout all my victories, defeats, loves and losses,
- I ha ve stayed true to my con viction thatl will one day return to bebbanburg and overthrow the man who will stop at nothing to have me killed...
- My uncle aelfric.
- Destiny is all.

Finan: Danes! The Danes are here, lord!
- They're heading towards the gates!
- How many?
- Too many, lord!
- Stay back, aethelflaed.
- Seeing you will inflame them.
- Go! Upstairs now!
Finan: They got past the entrance!
- Go. We will hold them off.

- Come, see the men we have gathered for this adventure.
- The king will need...
- Lord, I must speak.
- The bastard may be concealing that which I myself learned in rumcofa.
- Your daughter was traveling with the pilgrims and was also slaughtered.
- {gasps}

- Might I find the gates of heaven closed to me?
- Never, lord.
- Aethelwold is a man who believes himself to be king.
- He is a danger to Edward...
- To your own son.

- Thyra.
- I forbid it.
Beocca: Please.
- Please...
- Let me help you.
- I am a friend.

[Woman] That's what you get.
Man: Take it like a man.

- Make sure the grain stores are emptied and no food remains.
- Gut this palace before the other saxons retaliate!
Cnut: Did you see the ealdormen?
- I did.
- You're inventive in your cruelty.
- Have you found aethelred?
- Not yet. I'm just enjoying his bed.
- Would you like to join me?

- I'm trying to save you from a battle you will not win!
- Edward has twice the sliver, twice the armies.
- Now he has mercia...
- I am not afraid of a man who cannot even protect his own wife.
- Take me to the visionary.
- I must find out who spread these lies.

- We are oarsmen!
- Uhtred, pull for me. Aah!
- I need to piss. I'll return.
[Man] He'll return.
- Ragnar? Ragnar?

- Please go to her. Speak with her.
- She will not listen to me.
- Her heart is broken, as is her spirit.
- I will pray for her instead.
- Why is she doing this?
- What made her so headstrong?
- Do you really not know?
- Lord, it's brida.

Brida: It's done.
- She gave me peace.
- When I was with her, I felt it.
- I'm sure she would want you to find that feeling again.
- I can think of no better tribute.

- Well, perhaps.
- But I know when I'm hearing half-truths.
- I do not like him.
- Ugh, I like her even less.
- Nor I you, hag.
- She reminds me of my mother, and that woman was never wrong either.

- Sigurd, my love.
- Drink me and make my vision real.
- Let me give you all the strength that you will need.

- If you do not, I will become stronger.
- Blood has been shed. More will flow.
- I will take revenge on all of those who have betrayed me and I will not rest until they suffer at my hand.
[Pants] Do it!
- Or I will be your undoing.

- That is what I wish, but I can say it only to you.
- It cannot become a command.
- My wife is sure to oppose any bond between Edward and uhtred.
- But Edward must make his own decision, with your counsel, father beocca.
- Yes, lord.

- So why do you allow him to... shame you?
- Cnut, you know nothing, so you will say nothing.
- Allow them to continue in peace.
- All the way to dunholm?
- That is where they're headed.

- Who did this?
- They were sent from the king of jorvik.
- They said sigtryggr wanted vengeance.
- They spared me to spread the word.
- Are you pilgrims?
- Travelers with the dead queen.

- She's traveled a great distance.
- Take me to her.
- Did the king ask you to do this?
- Do not speak.
- Were you sworn to Alfred?
- Where will we have met?
- We have fought at beamfleot.

[Man] Clear the way.
- Stand clear! It is the king!
Odda the Younger: I have to speak, lord.
- The axe cut deep.
- Even a king couldn't survive.
- We shall pray and we shall see.

- You did.
- Then news came of the invasion and we returned to protect our people.
- After hundreds had already been slaughtered.
- I remember arriving at the battle...
- But I...
- Am I to recover?
Eardwulf: I'm assured that you will.

- I fear he had been taken, or lost forever.
- Did uhtred bring him here?
- Apparently, even aegelesburg is better than the road.
- Had quite the adventure by all accounts.
- Then I thank him for it.
- I know you dislike him, but maybe Edward is right this time.
- Father pyrlig, what have I not been told?

- Here it is.
- Leave us. My wife will help me.
- My lord.
- My privilege.
- Ensure it is repaired, and well.
- I'd be a lost fool without you.
- Heh. Fingers and thumbs.

- How long do we give him?
- As long as he needs.
- We'll know when the time comes.

- Eofewvic is the great city of the north.
- To make it Saxon once again would bring hope.
- It would be a beacon.
- Yes.
- A fortress from which all Danes of the north could be challenged and england grows.

- She is married.
- Uhtred!
- Is she married?
[Muffled] Yes!
- He is a man of god!
- Say it one more time, priest, and I swear the devil will take you.
- You're nothing but a heathen and the bitch is married!

- Stiorra!
[Shouting] We're coming for you!
- Stiorra!
Rognvaldr: Stiorra? Stiorra, come out!
Rognvaldr: Show brida you're sorry for letting your people stray.

Hild: Lord.
- Where is hild the nun? Has she left us?
- She is here still.
- The body of Saint cuthbert is coming with us, lord?
- He is to lead on the shoulders of the monks.

[Dane] Stay back.
Uhtred: Finan!
- She's all right. Come on.
[U htred] Move!
Finan: Get back! Get back!
Uhtred: Move!
- Hold the line! Hold the lines!
[Dane] You heard him!

- The chronicle will grow, pages will be added, but uhtred of bebbanburg will not be mentioned.
- Although I too was victorious.
- My name is uhtred, son of uhtred.
- My name is uhtred ragnarson.
- Destiny is all.

- Who is there?
- It is aldhelm.
- Lady aethelflaed's absence has been noted by her husband.
- She should leave here before she is discovered.

- We need get no closer at this point.
- Lord!
- Drop the sail!
- Row inland and keep under the shadow of the cliff.
- How long do we wait for your son to send a sign?
- Until it comes.
- It is all the will of the gods now.

- Weland!
- Wh-where is weland?
- I do not see him. Weland!
- Weland!
- Ah. Weland.
- This... man here.
- Hit him.

- We make this sacrifice to bring good fortune.
- Show us the moment is ripe for our voyage.
- The waves...
- To the waves!

- She knows that to return to eofennic means certain death.
- She's ruthless, but she's not foolish.
- Rest the horses. We will ride out again.
- Uhtred, you are summoned to the king.
- There is no news. That is the news.
- Nonetheless, his word stands. Come.

- No doubt.
- You...
- You have made this possible.
- By abandoning Alfred, by leaving wessex, you have made this possible.
- It is fate, no doubt.

- How? By doing what?
- By travelling to the nunnery myself?
Sable: There is a second letter.
- I am to give it to you only if you agree with my lady's reasoning for not telling the king.
- It is a solution.

- Drive them!
- They're tiring, can't fight back.
- We're winning, look.
[Man] We're winning.
- Follow!
- Drive on!
- Not yet! Not yet!

- Spies north of here say the Scots have left a camp and march in this direction.
- How long until they reach bebbanburg?
Cynlaef: Unclear.
- It will depend on whether they stop to meet reinforcements or if that is the full force.
- And what of uhtred?
[Sighs] No word, no sighting.
- We cannot track him.

- Marry her.
- Marry her?
- You should marry her, father, and bed her.
- And then give thanks to god for giving us such a joy.
- Praise him, father.
- Praise him!
- But what if she refuses?

- Five days and nothing.
- There is time yet.
- We're not the first Danes they've seen.
- I need silver.
- We keep looking.
- What if the whole of cornwalum has been sacked already?
- We keep looking.
- We keep heading west.

- Do as I say!
- Do not threaten your own men!
- Enough talk.
- If she lies...
- Let us see what you bear around your neck.
- Now.

- She is angry with me still, for sending away the priests.
Uhtred: Sending out the priests was the right thing, lord.
- Let us pray you are correct.
- If you will excuse me.
- If the child dies, it will take the fight from Alfred's bones...
- And we will never save ourselves.

- Aelfweard, return.
- I command you come back here!
- Allow him to grieve his mother.
- Find him. Comfort him.
- But remind him of his duty.
- I shall not stomach a disobedient child.

- to join either sigefrid or uhtred.
- Yes.
- May I suggest, lord, that you summon Christian men?
- Christian men, yes, of course.
- And from where?
- Allow me to think on it, lord, hmm?
- Let us both think on it.

- No mercy!
- No mercy!

- Hear me now!
- A silver coin to any man who will untie me!
- Two coins!
- And... and my father's thanks!
- Who is there? Name yourself.
- If you are on this land, you will know who I am.
- You will know not to harm me.

- Go take a piss.
- Who is he?
- A thief, lord.

- What she loves is your silver.
- Is that the name of his cock?
- I wish to marry her.
- I wish you to kill Danes and survive the night.
- We're the only chance the villagers have.
- They have begun.

- Wait! Please!
- I fought with you!
- No, you saw the tide turn and sought only to save yourself.
- I saved your life.
- We're brothers.
- We're blood.

- Good morning, Hubert.
- I believe you now, there is no silver.
- So what else can you give me?

- It is lord aethelred's. It has his seal!
- You cannot deny it.
- Save yourself before these men kill you.
- Flee to francia, brother!
- You're safe now.

- as well as eardwulf's sister.
- The feelings thataethe/flaed and I have always held can no longer be contained.
- But for now, my duty draws me to the north once again.
- To bebbanburg!
- Destiny is all!

- Mother, what happened to your plan to spirit aelfwynn away from mercia?
- It went awry, and so I bring grave news.
- Aelfwynn was captured on the road.
- By who?
- We are not certain, but one, at least, did not survive my wrath.
- We believe them to be hired men.
- We suspect an association with lord aethelhelm.

- We are not the same and never shall be.
- There is no backward step, my friend, for either of us.
- Birds have flown, horses have bolted.
- Kings will be made and kings will die.
- Because of you.

- What are you thinking?
- I have a way in. Follow me.
[U htred] Move.

- Our faith teaches us to speak the truth.
- It teaches us to seek peace.
- And that all christians must unite.

- Why go by river and not horseback?
- If we go with the tides it'll be faster, and to escape we row across river.
- They will follow you.
- They will follow aethelflaed.
- She's the silver.

- They are not to approach the palace!
[Asser] Father, they will hack the likes of us to pieces.
Beocca: The king! Where is the king?
[Younger] The king will have to make his own arrangements.
- And what of me? Odda! Odda!
Uhtred: Leofric, this way!

- I cannot agree.
Sigtryggr: It is unclear what your choices are.
- Perhaps we should consider it.
Aethelflaed: He would be on my border!
- Edward, do not let him divide us.
- I will leave you to trade between yourselves.
- I'll find my daughter.

- You should eat.
- I should eat.
- But I don't want to eat alone.
- God has made me your wife.
- There must be a reason.
- God is good.