![]() Ivar meets the same end as his father on the same Saxon soil. He perpetuated the cycle of violence, even when he and King Ecbert (Linus Roache) might have found an accord born of an obvious mutual respect. He never got to be a farmer, and he ultimately sacrificed himself as a means to inspire his sons to take up arms in Wessex. He was always a better raider than king, and gained most of his fame by pillaging Wessex and Frankia. Like Ivar, Ragnar could also be wild, vengeful, and cruel. The eldest son of Aslaug is the cerebral leader to Ivar's pure Viking id. He was fascinated by the Christian God, even though he never completely embraced a conversion. ![]() ![]() Like Ubbe, Ragnar was a thinker and explorer who wanted to expand the edges of the map, and liked to think of himself as a farmer. In the space of ten episodes we learned the fate of Bjorn Ironside (Alexander Ludwig), who was run through by his brother Ivar (Alex Høgh Andersen) in the finale of season 6, part 1 (he dies, but only after inspiring his people to repel the Rus) We reached a reasonable resolution to the entire Rus storyline, with the young prince returned to his kind uncle Dir (Lenn Kudrjawizki), and the maniacal Oleg of Kiev (Danila Kozlovsky) killed by his own nephew's hand We also saw the short-lived triumph of King Harald Finehair (Peter Franzén), who fulfills a lifelong ambition to rule Kattegat (though he remains the only Viking who just cannot seem to get a date) Ubbe (Jordan Patrick Smith) discovers the promised Golden Land Floki (Gustaf Skarsgård) emerges from an isolated treehouse Ivar and Hvitserk (Marco Ilsø) return home from their extended side-quest and - of course - King Alfred's (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) Wessex fields another vicious raid. The dangling storylines were all resolved with enough finality to leave fans satisfied, yet enough ambiguity to keep the Reddit boards firing until the planned sequel series arrives. Vikings' best days may be behind it, but the final set of episodes, released simultaneously on Amazon Prime Video on December 30, 2020, gave us a fitting resolution to a tale nominally carved from medieval sagas.
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