The Bear will marry a Princess

Rollo episodes 1-4

“Sometimes home has a  H E A R T B E A T”

Tell me, why does my soul breathe whenever I am with you?

Parallels

I found love where it wasn’t supposed to be

Ragnar and Rollo want to reconcile, Gisla is worried of Ragnar’s reliability and *high-key* wants to fight him.

Gisla: I don’t like him

Rollo: I don’t like him either, but it would be better for us to reconcile with him and set a peace.

Gisla: But what if this is a way to distract you so he can attack you better?

Rollo: my love, Ragnar is not… that mean.

Gisla: really? Last time I checked, he pretended to be dead fooling you and his friends just to enter in the walls of Paris, take me hostage and leave a scar on my neck.

Rollo: well… yes he is that mean, but… don’t you want an uncle for our babies?

Gisla: I mean… they have Roland.

Ragnar: yes, and Roland is a great uncle but at the same time they need someone less… weird…

Gisla: your bother is literally obsessed over a Northumbrian priest, has a weird tendency of impregnating every woman he sets eyes upon and is called Ragnar shaggy pants.

Rollo:… well, at least he has never tried to touch you in that way.

Gisla: he kissed me.

AU MOODBOARD ⇸ Gisla, princess of Livstraedir. Daughter of King Algir and Queen Frøya, Gisla is a Völva and thanks to her father’s fame she will cross paths with Ragnar Lothbrok, and his brother Rollo.

[ROLISLA IG AU]

@seersaw​ ❤ Nightfall:

Another facet of Gisla in 4A and 4B is how physical she is with Rollo. Much like how when Gisla is not close to someone she forces a physical space between them. When she is close to someone she owns the space. 

Rollo/Clive is a big guy - he’s 6′2 and on Vikings he’s pretty bulked up. Morgane Polanski is actually one of the taller women on the show at 5′8 (I think the only woman taller is Alyssa Sutherland and Amy Bailey is the same height). Still, next to Rollo Gisla tends to look small. Yet, even with a berserker husband she manages to push him around.

Rollo reacts when Gisla hits him - she has force behind her movements. She’s able to make that brick wall of a man stumble which is pretty significant. Roland had to resort to carrying her over his shoulder to get her to her wedding night - which means Gisla was putting up a fight and dragging wasn’t going to happen. Then we have the stupid scene in 4B when Rollo’s returned from his mid-life crisis. Now, Gisla isn’t the first woman to hit her husband on the show. Lagertha and Ragnar got into it in season 1, Aslaug slapped the shit out of Ragnar later on, and of course Lagertha’s killed 2 of her husbands. 

However Gisla full on lays into Rollo enough to make him step back

The man is wearing armor!

I just love her physicality, and the strength Morgane brought to Gisla. She is a princess (though never looks fragile), and prefers to keep her distance with most people. And as I rambled in the last post; space and who is allowed in Gisla’s personal space is really important and Morgane portrayed that beautifully with Gisla’s posture and change in demeanor around people as Gisla’s interest in the personal in particular changed. 

But I also love that Gisla, who has no formal training in love making or fighting, is seen to be a bit wild with both. She’s never ran into a lover’s arms so she just plows right into him. It’s pretty different from the soft motions and the deliberate stretching we see from her in the next episode when they’re in bed together; those movements are planned and she’s thought them out. The movements in the pantry are impulsive and sloppy.