King
Horik is now at war with Jarl Borg who is accompanied by Rollo. Rollo,
now bitter and enraged, rampages through battle killing and wounding
many of his kin but cannot fight his brother when faced and surrenders
to him. In a stalemate, Ragnar, Horik and Jarl Borg come to an
agreement and decide to raid as a single force. Rollo, now ostracized
by his kin for his betrayal awaits death by trial but is spared by a
judge bribed by Ragnar. Princess Aslaug makes her way to Ragnar's
kingdom now pregnant with Ragnar's child. Humiliated, Lagertha leaves
Ragnar, taking with her their remaining son Bjorn.
Four years
pass: Aslaug is now ruling with Ragnar and raising their sons. Rollo
has faded away into obscurity and self-destruction because of shame but
is forgiven by Ragnar although excluded from the raid. Horik has now
decided to exclude Jarl Borg from the raid for personal reasons. Ragnar
tells Jarl Borg of the decision and he leaves angry and slighted. A
storm throws the raid off course and lands the Viking horde in Wessex
which is ruled by the ruthless King Ecbert (Linus Roache). The Vikings
begin to plunder the countryside and Athelstan, who has now been
integrated into the Vikings and has joined them on the raid, finds it
hard to fully embrace Viking brutality and is deeply troubled.
Lagertha
has since remarried to a powerful but abusive Earl of whom teenage
Bjorn disapproves. Jarl Borg seeks vengeance against Ragnar for his
slight and begins an invasion of his homeland. Rollo who had been left
behind stages a defence of Kattegat but is defeated and forced to
retreat from the village. Rollo takes the survivors including Siggy
(Jessalyn Gilsig), Aslaug, and her children and flees to a remote
farming settlement. While Ragnar and King Ecbert negotiate, Jarl Borg
declares himself ruler of Ragnar's lands. Word reaches Ragnar of Jarl
Borg's treachery and he abandons the campaign. Athelstan stays behind
with King Horik and after being captured by Wessex's soldiers he is
condemned to death as an apostate, but spared by the mercy of King
Ecbert. Ragnar locates Rollo, Short on warriors to strike back at Jarl
Borg, Ragnar finds unexpected assistance from Lagertha and Bjorn, who
arrive with a detachment of warriors to aid in taking back Kattegat.
When Ragnar forces himself upon Aslaug prophecies that the child of
that union will be a monster.
Ragnar plots against Jarl Borg and
decides to destroy Kattegat's winter stock of food in order to draw
Jarl Borg out of Kattegat. Jarl Borg seeks to find who has destroyed
the stock and is led into a trap forcing him into open battle with
Ragnar and Lagertha's forces. Athelstan, now once again living among
his Saxon people is divided about his faith and is troubled. Back in
Kattegat, Jarl Borg is defeated and is forced to retreat allowing
Ragnar to reclaim his throne. Ragnar realizes he is still in love with
Lagertha although she leaves him once again but allows Bjorn to stay
behind to be with his father. Aslaug gives birth to a son that has no
legs, the promised monster.
King Horik returns to Kattegat,
driven out of Wessex by King Ecbert and has lost most of his forces.
Seeking revenge, Horik asks Ragnar for help but wants Jarl Borg to
return to the alliance. Rollo is sent as emissary to Gotaland to
negotiate with Jarl Borg. Athelstan becomes a valued confidant of King
Ecbert and is entrusted to look after scrolls and relics left behind by
the Romans. Lagertha returns home to a displeased, unpopular husband
who humiliates her until she takes her revenge resulting in her
husbands death. Lagertha is hailed as the new ruler of Hedeby. Jarl
Borg returns to Kattegat, where his forces are burnt alive in revenge
and Jarl Borg is taken prisoner to await execution by blood eagle.
Ragnar postpones the execution of Jarl Borg at request of King Horik in
order to find alternative allies first. King Ecbert forges an alliance
with an old enemy of Ragnar's, King Aelle of Northumbria. Jarl Borg
attempts to stir up rebellion against Ragnar, who is starting to become
suspicious of people around him. Ragnar receives support and ships from
an unknown earl who turns out to be Lagertha. With Ragnar having
obtained the needed assistance, Jarl Borg, tricked into believing he is
being allowed to escape, is instead brought to an altar and executed by
Ragnar by means of the "Blood Eagle"; a macabre ceremonial execution
that was prophesied by the insightful village Seerer; but not in the
way Jarl Borg had hubrisly interpreted.
Tension builds between
Ragnar and King Horik upon returning to Wessex. The Viking Horde is
drawn into open battle against a massive English army assembled by King
Ecbert and King Aelle. Rollo is badly wounded in battle, captured and
traded back to the Vikings for mercenaries in service to the kingdom of
Mercia. Athelstan decides to return with the Vikings to Kattegat at the
request of Ragnar. Floki's wife Helga gives birth to a daughter he
names Angerboda. Tensions worsen as King Horik plots to murder Ragnar
and his entire family. Horik is led to believe that Floki and Siggy are
supporting his conspiracy against Ragnar, but when he mounts his attack
upon Ragnar, he learns that his plot was known and prepared for. Ragnar
violently kills Horik and much of his family, and he (along with Bjorn)
obtains Horik's sword thereby making himself King. |
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