Vikings Season 4 Episode 5
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Ragnar and Bjorn discuss whether they trust King Harald. Ragnar is addicted to Yidu’s “medicine”, and they discuss their secrets. Yidu says that her father is a Chinese Emperor, while Ragnar confesses the loss of his English settlement. King Harald’s brother Halfdan arrives in Kattegat, and lets Ragnar know he is eager to kill Christians. Meanwhile, Torvi reveals to Bjorn that the ring he is carrying, which he took from the berserker, was Erlendur’s. In Wessex, Aethelwulf and Judith argue, and Judith tells him they are married in name only. Aethelwulf agrees with Queen Kwenthrith that they need to fight to restore her power in Mercia. In Paris, Therese and Roland reveal to Charles that Odo plans to overthrow him. In Hedeby, Lagertha reveals to Kalf she is pregnant, and Kalf asks her to marry him. Just before their wedding, Lagertha stabs and kills Kalf, and reclaims her status as Earl.
Halfdan the Black arrives in Kattegat. Floki reveals a secret to Finehair. Ragnar and Yidu become closer. Meanwhile Lagertha settles a score.
King Ecbert, who feels he can’t resist eternal damnation for his earthly realm, Aethelwuf, who realizes Judith’s incestuous adultery resumed, and Kwindreth convince reluctant ally king Aella they must invade Mercia to take her throne back from an usurping loner war lord. Bjorn grows even more suspicious of ‘king’ Harold when his brother Halfdan arrives with a fleet to raid Paris and learns the usurper carried Horik’s ring. Now Rollo is Ghisla’s loving spouse, he takes charge of Paris’s defense against his own people’s next attack. The Paris count’s ambitious deputy Roland and his sister convince the weak emperor that Odo’s own ambition may turn him usurper. Earl Kalf proposes to Lagertha, but she chooses their wedding day to fatally stab him ‘as promised’. Increasingly fixated on the freed Chinese, Ragnar confides into Yidu hat age worn off his raiding spirit and is told she’s an imperial bastard by a concubine. Anslaugh’s cripple son Ivar, whom Floki minded, seizes an ax when barely…
Creators: Michael Hirst
Director: Ken Girotti
Star Cast: Katheryn Winnick, Alexander Ludwig, Gustaf Skarsgård, Jessalyn Gilsig, Travis Fimmel, Katheryn Winnick, Clive Standen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Gabriel Byrne, George Blagden, Donal Logue, Alyssa Sutherland
Producer (s): Keith Thompson, Steve Wakefield
Cinematographer: John S. Bartley
Music: Trevor Morris
Production House: World 2000 Entertainment, Take 5 Productions, Shaw Media, Corus Entertainment, MGM Television, History Channel, Screen Ireland
Original network / Official Sites: History Channel
Release Year: 17 March 2016 (USA)
Runtime: 44 min
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ireland, Canada
Language: French, Arabic, Greek, Ancient, English, Old English, Norse, Latin
