Maik Jeaunz
Footballguy
so Egbert has had both Lagertha and the one-eared chick? it's good to be the king.
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Vikings - Season 3 (1 Viewer)
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General Tso
Guest
Rollo gives them all the clap.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Right.
Good episode last night except for the irrelevant S&M scene. So is Rollo really striking out on his own, or is he working another con with Ragnar?
I wonder if they do more historical revisions and try to make Rollo into a pseudo-Roland (from The Song of Roland) and mix the Saracens into the show somehow. There were actually historical episodes where Vikings fought Saracens in the Provence region of France (from 870-890 or so). I believe Vikings also met Saracens on the seas as well.
I think its more likely they have Rollo become duke of Normandy and great grandfather to William the conqueror and ancestor to the British royal family.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Unfortunately as this season began I started listening to a English history podcast which sort of spoiled where this Rollo plot was going (didn't know anything about the period previously). Regardless I thought it was a strong finish to a pretty "meh" season.
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General Tso
Guest
Rollo's gonna destroy that little French Princess.
=Smackdown=
Footballguy
Enjoyed the season finale.
Really thought Ragnar was dead.
Floki doesn't have much time left.
Really thought Ragnar was dead.
Floki doesn't have much time left.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Sort of. You've complained yourself about ways in which this show has gone different directions from how things went down historically. You never know.
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General Tso
Guest
fruity pebbles
Footballguy
Why wouldn't the French just wipe out the skeleton contingent the Vikings left behind?
Gr00vus
Footballguy
That would ruin the show. I also assume the Vikings took out most of the folks in Paris who could do some harm while they were sacking it, and they went to the trouble to emphasize that none of the King's family were willing to help him out.
jonessed
Footballguy
It was more than a skeleton force and I don't believe the Parisians had the manpower to take them in open battle.
Raising any sort of army during the winter was next to impossible back in the day. Warfare was very seasonal so its not like Paris had a standing army that could just move in to drive the vikings out.
Porkchop Express
Footballguy
Fan of the season but the finale was a bit of a letdown.
MikeIke
Footballguy
I was completely Rickrolled. I believed Ragnar was dead and we were being denied seeing his actual, historical execution . I'm glad I was wrong, and I'm looking forward to next season.
jamny
Footballguy
Found this on the wiki page for Ragnar's son Bjorn:
A powerful Viking chieftain and naval commander, Björn and his brother Hastein conducted many (mostly successful) raids in France in a continuation of the tradition initiated by their father Ragnar Lodbrok. In 860, Björn led a large Viking raid into the Mediterranean. After raiding down the Spanish coast and fighting their way through Gibraltar, Björn and Hastein pillaged the south of France, where his fleet over-wintered, before landing in Italy where they captured the coastal city of Pisa.
They proceeded inland to the town of Luna, which they believed to be Rome at the time, but Björn found himself unable to breach the town walls. To gain entry, he sent messengers to the bishop to say that he had died, had a deathbed conversion, and wished to be buried on consecrated ground within their church. He was brought into the chapel with a small honor guard, then amazed the dismayed Italian clerics by leaping from his coffin and hacking his way to the town gates, which he promptly opened, letting his army in.
Flush with this victory and others around the Mediterranean (including in Sicily and North Africa) he returned to the Straits of Gibraltar only to find the Saracen navy from Al-Andalus waiting for him. In the desperate battle that followed, Björn lost 40 ships, largely to a form of Greek fire launched from Saracen catapults. The remainder of his fleet managed to return to Scandinavia, however, where he lived out his life as a rich man.
A powerful Viking chieftain and naval commander, Björn and his brother Hastein conducted many (mostly successful) raids in France in a continuation of the tradition initiated by their father Ragnar Lodbrok. In 860, Björn led a large Viking raid into the Mediterranean. After raiding down the Spanish coast and fighting their way through Gibraltar, Björn and Hastein pillaged the south of France, where his fleet over-wintered, before landing in Italy where they captured the coastal city of Pisa.
They proceeded inland to the town of Luna, which they believed to be Rome at the time, but Björn found himself unable to breach the town walls. To gain entry, he sent messengers to the bishop to say that he had died, had a deathbed conversion, and wished to be buried on consecrated ground within their church. He was brought into the chapel with a small honor guard, then amazed the dismayed Italian clerics by leaping from his coffin and hacking his way to the town gates, which he promptly opened, letting his army in.
Flush with this victory and others around the Mediterranean (including in Sicily and North Africa) he returned to the Straits of Gibraltar only to find the Saracen navy from Al-Andalus waiting for him. In the desperate battle that followed, Björn lost 40 ships, largely to a form of Greek fire launched from Saracen catapults. The remainder of his fleet managed to return to Scandinavia, however, where he lived out his life as a rich man.
