Vikings Valhalla: Season 1 Episode 1

Vikings Valhalla: Season 1 Episode 1

 Warning- Spoilers!

Disclaimer: This is just my opinion on the series. I do not mean to cause offense to anyone. I do like to look at the history behind the time period. I sincerely do not mean to cause offense or upset anyone.

Costuming: I liked the costuming so far. Nothing seemed to far fetched. The background characters had pretty plausible outfits. I really liked what they put the Greenlanders in.

Characters: I like the sibling bond between Leif and Freydis. I look forward to seeing more of it.

Harald Sigurdsson is a hottie with a body! He’s channeling that Harald Finehair energy with that top knot. I’m pretty sure King Harald would be rolling in his grave if he found out his descendants were Christians. 

King Canute: aka my new fav. I guess I am a sucker for dark haired, deep voiced kings.

Estrid Haakon- She takes me out of the show, in my opinion. I want to know how she got to this position of power.  Did she marry into it? It will be interesting how the show explains it. The Norse were heavily involved in the slave trade with the Muslims. In this time period, people from across Europe, Asia, and Africa could be slaves. They literally shows slaves in the first few minutes of the first episode. I just hope the shows gives a good back story for Jarl Haakon on how she got to power.

King Aethelred II: I hope he is not a one-dimension villain or a Ecbert copycat.

History:

 St. Brigid Massacre did occur in 1002. 

Slavery is still occurring in this time period. In the Doomsday Book, about 10% of England’s population were slaves (c. 1086).

Jarl Haakon was a real man from c. 937-995. Estrid Haakon is apparently a purely fictional character.

King Canute becomes king of England as King Cnut. I can’t wait to see him and Emma of Normandy!

I really like the conflict of Christians V. Pagans. I hope they do not make Christians the ‘bad guys’ or overly favor the the Norse religion, and leave it up to interpretation. 

Great Writing!

🔥 + Bindings for Harald? 😌

The battle was hard-fought, hard-won, just not for King Harald’s men. They bring him in chains to have an audience with the queen who laid him low. He sits on hands and knees before the wooden throne, waiting to learn what will become of him and his fighters. Yours is a face Harald has not looked upon in many years, and he cannot hide his surprise when you sit before him —a lone queen widowed many years ago and a woman he once, no still, loved. You cannot let him go without punishment. It would risk the faith your people have in you as their ruler. But not all punishments need be carried out publicly. Free of his shackles, Harald’s kiss is just how you remember, fervent and desperate. His hands are rougher though, and there are more scars on his chest and arms than had been in the past. He lets you push him back to the bed and climb atop him, but the feel of something soft wrapping around his wrists, binding them so he cannot touch you. He has traded iron for silk, but this is a punishment he will happily endure.

[send me a 🔥 and a character name and/or prompt word and I’ll write a spicy headcanon]

King Harald specializes in awkward moments and memorable lines: "And here's to a sacred agreement, which if any man breaks, he will deserve to die..."

The thorn in your side

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Warnings: NSFW. Smut. Rough-ish sex. Almost some Threesome action.

Song mood

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They did Sigurd dirty.

Character thing - Sigurd please if you don’t mind

i totally don’t! (actually thank you for giving me the oppertunity to talk about this boy)

favorite thing about them

sigurd is very different from his brothers in SO many regards. he is romantic, he plays the oud and he is apparently far more empathetic or at least capable of reading a person? like hvitserk and ubbe have stepped on ivar’s toes by accident. sigurd knew ivar’s insecurities. he didn’t step on ivar’s toes as much as he really took aim. and yeah that kind of means that you have to be able to think from the perspective of someone else. i do not believe that sigurd was right with the conclusions he drew, but that’s another story

least favorite thing about them

i do think sigurd is fairly capable of feeling situations, but he is a little too simplistic in his conclusions of them. which i think is a testament to his youth. he is also very idealistic. it’s hard for me to say that i really dislike that about him as a character because i think this actually creates tension and makes him interesting, but it would be the thing i would dislike as a person

favorite line

im fairly bad at remembering lines, but i think you know in general all he says to ivar is just very clear cut. this boy knew how to form the perfect sentences to piss ivar off and in that sense they are very beautiful.

brOTP favorite platonic relationship

this will be an unpopular opinion, but actually ivar and sigurd are very interesting because they mirror each other to some extend and then are very different in other regards. they both spoiled brats, far more so than ubbe and hvitserk, and at the same time they have really different. ivar adores his parents, sigurd resents both. they are both quite sensitive. i would not say they are good for each other, but they are interesting in regards to each other.

alternative, hvitserk and sigurd both carry the “i dislike my parents” - banner and  i think some sort of bonding must’ve happened there, even if not on screen.

OTP favorite romantic relationship

canon is pretty bleak, so let’s go to history. blaeja and sigurd is just a very good concept because it actually channels a lot of sigurd’s simplistic views, while also playing on his strengths. and i just for one would’ve loved to see that happen.

nOTP

nothing that is widly accepted or popular.

random headcanon

two things: sigurd loved his mother dearly and this is the very reason for his strong reaction and anger. he tries to tell himself that he hates her, but it doesn’t make it easier for him. he went also with the idea that his mother didn’t love him bc it was far easier to accept this than the idea that she loved him, but was just incapable of giving him the love he needed or wanted.

sigurd plays the oud because it’s something that no one else in his family does. he chose it specifically because it’s not associated with ragnar in anyway. it was his way of choosing his own path.

unpopular opinion

turning sigurd into this rage demon who hated ivar and just went against him for no reason is a very simple way of looking at a very complicated toxic family dynamic. the problem is not solved here by saying that ivar was right or that sigurd was right. aslaug should’ve separated them. it shouldn’t be normal for two brothers to just always fight each other and for one of them to get so angry as to try and attempt to kill the other. a lot of shit went down before we even got to see them as young adults and discussing who is in right or more problematic does not deal with the issue itself. sigurd should’ve gone with björn as well. he shouldn’t have been in the situation he was and this is one thing i actually blame aslaug for cause damn… why did she let it go so far?

song i associate with them

sad: The Ancestor - Darlingside

less sad: Up The Wolves - The Mountain Goats

favorite picture of them

i take “odin has just come up to me and looked me sternly in the eye as i realize that i really have to avenge my father i guess”

(source: x)