#vs1e7

Requested by @infernalacunae

No matter how incognito the Norse gods are during these visits, someone always knows their “right” identity. Lagertha knew the young Rig was in fact Heimdal, just as Loki knows that Harbard is actually Odin. I wonder if Aslaug sleeping with Harbard will result in a child like Rig’s visit did? Both Ragnar and the husband in season 1 are told they should rejoice that the gods visited them and had sex with their wives, but neither seem especially happy. 

"We fight. That is how we win and that is how we die."

One of the things I like most about Vikings is the way they show us parallel events between Ragnar's Viking society and the Christian one of Athelstan's and how different or similar those events are managed. Some of them are evident and quite straight forward, like how a woman accused of being unfaithful is treated. Some of them are more subtle but no less interesting, like the page Athelstan is writing at king Ecbert's court in S2E6. It is a passage from the Bible, Matthew 1:18-24, describing the birth of Christ and Joseph's reaction on learning that Mary was with child. What the angel tells Joseph is more or less what Lagertha tells the Viking man about the god Heimdal in S1E7 but instead of a holy ghost, Heimdal appears in the flesh. 

King Horik should have listened to Ragnar. He knew better what to do.

Rollo volunteering to be baptized a Christian and not really understanding the ritual.

Tostig: That I am too old? Yes, I am old. But I have been a warrior all my life. Many years I sailed with lord Haraldson and fought battles against the Eastlanders, and I watched all the companions of my youth die. And though I fought with them in the shield-wall, never once was I touched by a blade. All the friends and companions of my youth are dead and feasting and drinking with the Aesir in the halls of the gods! While I... I am forsaken. Bereft. Which is why, I beg you, lord, gift me the chance to die with honor in battle, and join my friends in Valhalla.