Vikings
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Bjorn: I have no doubt that we will have safe passage.
Harald: How can you be so sure?
Bjorn: My father told me.
Harald: Your father? You mean Ragnar? Ragnar told you?
Bjorn: He spoke to me in a dream. Don't you ever dream?
I poisoned him. I killed one of my sons to save the other. May God forgive me.
Judith
Ivar: If I can order the death of my own brother, then no one else will dare stand against me.
Freydis: I think that would be a mistake.
Ivar: Why?
Freydis: Ivar, you are a god, and a merciful god will always be more popular among the common people than a vengeful god, like Odin. Wouldn't you rather be loved than feared?
Ivar: I don't know.
Judith: I don't believe you have ever accepted your brother as king. I don't think you ever would. You would always be a danger to him.
Aethelred: So you poisoned me?
Bjorn: You're a free woman. You can do anything you like.
Gunnhild: [slaps Bjorn].
Bjorn: What was that for?
Gunnhild: I was just exercising my freedom.
Bjorn: You killed Heahmund, one of the greatest Saxon warriors.
Gunnhild: He was already badly wounded. I just finished him off.
Aethelred: Why do you want to see me?
Judith: You know why.
Aethelred: If I knew, I would not ask.
When our father took me to England and was imprisoned by King Ecbert, I played chess with Prince Alfred. And I would like to play chess with him again, only this time, on the battlefield.
Ivar
Apart from my mother, I've never really known what it is to be loved, or truly love. My father left me outside to die when I was a baby because I was a cripple. Everyone has always treated me first as a cripple. All I ever wanted was for them to love me, but I thought it was impossible, so I was angry with everyone. I've been enraged all my life. Until now.
Ivar
I knew then, with a beautiful certainty, that the day and the battle belonged to us! But without our Viking allies, I swear to you, there could be no victory.
Alfred
You can't do this. You can't do this to me, I thought you loved me. You know something? I think you always loved your lord, your God, more than you ever loved me. I don't think you ever did love me. Your soul, whatever that is, meant more to you than I ever could.
Lagertha
Harald: Ubbe, tell me, what are you doing fighting for the Christians?
Ubbe: Ivar drove us out of Kattegat. What were we supposed to do? King Alfred offered us protection, and the lands of England my father fought for.
