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Vikings Season 4: Episode 13, Two Journeys

16 December 2016 By Patricia Bracewell

In this episode Lagertha starts a war, Rollo goes swimming, and Ragnar takes Ivar on a road trip. In Hedeby Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick) is plotting with her girlfriends to take back Kattegat, but Ubbe (Jordan Patrick Smith) and Sigurd (David Lindström), unlike their brothers, have opted to hang out at home and protect the town […]

Vikings Season 4: Episode 12, The Vision

9 December 2016 By Patricia Bracewell

The title of this episode, The Vision, refers to something that happened near the end of the hour, but I’m going to ignore that event because of spoilers. I’ll only note that my favorite part was the waterspout and the breathtaking final scene. Much of the rest of the episode, similar to last week, was […]

Vikings Season 4: Episode 11, The Outsider

2 December 2016 By Patricia Bracewell

The second half of Vikings Season 4 begins right where we left off last spring, with Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) returning to Kattegat after an 8-year absence, and challenging each of his sons: “Who wants to be king?” As it turns out, nobody does. Well, maybe Ivar. But none of them really wants to challenge Ragnar. […]

Vikings: The Story So Far

21 November 2016 By Patricia Bracewell

As Vikings returns to our screens, Patricia Bracewell recaps the first four seasons. The very first episode of the television drama Vikings began in the year 793 A.D. on a corpse-strewn battlefield somewhere in the Eastern Baltic. Two warriors, filthy and bloody, slaughtered the last of their enemies before our eyes while, on a distant hill, […]

On the Trail of the Vikings

11 August 2016 By Patricia Bracewell

On a recent visit to County Wicklow, Ireland, I checked into a B&B just a few miles from where the History Channel’s Vikings series is filming at Lough Tay. I was hoping that I might catch a glimpse of Ragnar and Co. Or better yet, I might have a jolly sit-down with series creator/writer Michael […]

England’s Twice-Crowned Queen

1 July 2015 By Patricia Bracewell

Winchester Cathedral is currently hosting an archaeological team from the University of Bristol. Under study are the contents of six mortuary chests containing the remains of some of England’s early royals. Scattered among the bones of ancient kings are those of a single queen, the 11th century Emma of Normandy. Emma was queen consort to […]

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