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I thought that was more Ragnar getting after Bjorn for not following orders to brace and stay on his feet. Not listening created a hole in the shield wall and nearly got Bjorn killed. Ragnar Jr. isn't ready to play one man army just yet. /history nerd: I do like how they "show not tell" the importance of leadership in the fighting, even if it's just a big dude screaming and wrecking poo poo. It's like in the beach battle when Ragnar and Rollo are in the shield wall giving orders and encouraging others while the Saxon commanders are sitting on horses in the backfield giving orders via golf clap. Also (going back a ways) I'd think dudes would be lining up to get pillaged by Lagertha.  Confidence is sexy.
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Degenerate Star posted:So, any speculation on what the gently caress is going on with Athelstan and his new room-mate with all the teeth? Because that was messed up. Points to Athelstan for not running away and shrieking like a littlle girl, though, because that's what I would have done. I had a long-ish post about this, but my phone ate it. I don't think Athelstan's hallucinating- if he is, it will never be spoken of in that way. The visions he's getting are meant to be spiritually significant to the character. The blood in the Gospel and the demon thing could go either way, but I think his vision of the Virgin Mary means that he's returning to Christianity. The kiss from the beaten woman is a way of communicating that Christians can be more loving and accepting than he's seen. Also, I initially thought that his spitting out the Host (which is a big deal that I expect he'll see trouble over) was a rejection, but his later prayer shows that he felt he wasn't worthy of receiving it. Finally, I think being attacked by demons during prayer is a recurring theme in religious stories. I can only think of two at the moment: Satan's tempting Christ during his 40 days in the wilderness, and (by some accounts) something going after Joseph Smith just before his First Vision. I know there's more. Either way, I am fairly confident that Athelstan's about to revert to Christianity.
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Well I'll be pretty disappointed if Athelstan reverts back to Christ. Anyhow, I have now watched two Tudors episodes and, maybe this is due to my bad flue and fever, but it is qualitywise nowhere near the Vikings. Still going to watch an episode or two before finally ditching it.
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Maksamakkara posted:Well I'll be pretty disappointed if Athelstan reverts back to Christ. Anyhow, I have now watched two Tudors episodes and, maybe this is due to my bad flue and fever, but it is qualitywise nowhere near the Vikings. Still going to watch an episode or two before finally ditching it. Tudors is pretty much a parade of awesome breasts to distract you from the dull repetitive nature of the show
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Mar 31, 2014 03:29
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How long after the current time in the show did Vikings start converting to Christianity?
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nooneofconsequence posted:How long after the current time in the show did Vikings start converting to Christianity? A few hundred years roughly which led to the end of the Viking Age and also the beginning of the middle ages. Basically the main pragmatic driving motivation for conversion was how many christian kingdoms like the Franks decided to go the buffer zone route and allow the vikings to establish kingdoms in places such as Normandy.
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I thought Harald Bluetooth was only like 60 years after the show's current date.
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Mar 31, 2014 04:00
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Thought my fellow baby goat lovers would enjoy this http://store.steampowered.com/app/265930/
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life is killing me posted:Thought my fellow baby goat lovers would enjoy this Not gonna lie the show should win a Emmy award for best supporting goat extras etalian fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Mar 31, 2014 |
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life is killing me posted:Thought my fellow baby goat lovers would enjoy this oh my god just in time for this weeks vikings
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http://www.wikihow.com/Raise-Goats
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:oh my god https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdydwbohCEA
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Maksamakkara posted:Well I'll be pretty disappointed if Athelstan reverts back to Christ. Anyhow, I have now watched two Tudors episodes and, maybe this is due to my bad flue and fever, but it is qualitywise nowhere near the Vikings. Still going to watch an episode or two before finally ditching it. I tried to like Black Sails this way too but all the GoT style sexuality killed it for me. I made it three episodes in before ditching it.
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Maksamakkara posted:Well I'll be pretty disappointed if Athelstan reverts back to Christ. Anyhow, I have now watched two Tudors episodes and, maybe this is due to my bad flue and fever, but it is qualitywise nowhere near the Vikings. Still going to watch an episode or two before finally ditching it. I really like the Tudors  But I guess I can see why it might not be everyone's cup of tea.
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Sash! posted:I thought Harald Bluetooth was only like 60 years after the show's current date. Harald Bluetooth was King from 958 AD. The show is around 800 AD.
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Maksamakkara posted:Well I'll be pretty disappointed if Athelstan reverts back to Christ. I'm more interested in seeing how his conversion back to Christianity happens, than if it does (because the signs have been pretty clear for a few episodes now, even though the crucifixion might have soured him *a bit*), and how that will influence his future dealings with pagans and Ecbert. There's a lot of potential in the character arcs they're setting up this season, but I have the feeling not all of it will be capitalized on.
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I hope that they don't limit the show to just England, since Ragnar should totally sail through Russia and hang out with Khan Krum in Bulgaria.
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 That game looks amazing. I thought Farm Simulator was hilarious, this surpasses it.
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Not sure I liked the last episode except for the continued development of Ecbert. Didn't Ragnar have Athlestan weigh in on his court too? Wish they'd focus on the historical stuff more than things like Athlestan's hallucinations. My eyes glaze over when GoT goes into the dragon/zombie stuff too. Rocksicles posted:What the gently caress has Bjorn been eating these last few years? His old dear needed to marry rich, just to keep up his supply of babay goat burgers. Same thing happened to me, was 6'1 180lbs by age 13 and have stretch marks from growing too fast. My family is Danish peninsula/alleged viking ancestry.
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leidend posted:Same thing happened to me, was 6'1 180lbs by age 13 and have stretch marks from growing too fast. My family is Danish peninsula/alleged viking ancestry. To paraphrase a goon from earlier in the thread: Puberty hits [some people] like a loving truck.
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nooneofconsequence posted:How long after the current time in the show did Vikings start converting to Christianity? Some of them already during the shows current set. If the frankish chronicles can be trusted, several Danish lords either fled to and/or was offered land in the HRE, often settleling in Flanders, near the Rhine. Ribe, one of the oldest danish towns, founded around 700 has a church from around 800. Most likely the nobility, the warrior elite, which you might call the actual vikings where the first to convert. Since it often helped them to get land, riches and a wider network. There are some humourus accounts of Vikings complaining to the Emperor, that they didn't recive the usual fine white shirt when converting, since they had gotten one all the other times they converted. by around 960 Denmark was officially Christian, though it was most likely mainly the elite who had converted.
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Equester posted:Some of them already during the shows current set. If the frankish chronicles can be trusted, several Danish lords either fled to and/or was offered land in the HRE, often settleling in Flanders, near the Rhine. Ribe, one of the oldest danish towns, founded around 700 has a church from around 800. Most likely the nobility, the warrior elite, which you might call the actual vikings where the first to convert. Since it often helped them to get land, riches and a wider network. There are some humourus accounts of Vikings complaining to the Emperor, that they didn't recive the usual fine white shirt when converting, since they had gotten one all the other times they converted. by around 960 Denmark was officially Christian, though it was most likely mainly the elite who had converted. One of the most notable Viking converts was Guthrum, whose chosen Christian name, incidentally, was thelstan. But I think he converted for real, while many Vikings seem to have "converted," mainly when it suited them so that they could stay alive, or they'd cross their fingers. It was a big joke to some.
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:Floki has daughters, right? Is Bjorn going to marry one of them? Would be both scary and awesome to have Floki as a father in law: 
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etalian posted:Would be both scary and awesome to have Floki as a father in law: Best GIF ever hahaha
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Bjorn gonna get a servant lady. Edit: Jesus Christ, King Crazypants. Hope Ragnar cut's his loving throat soon.
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Gyges posted:Bjorn gonna get a servant lady. Like father like son
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Seriously, King dude is just asking for an axe to the head. I brought my son along. A step beyond the Devil's Three way.
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..and horik just watches  e:f/b
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Drunk Earl gonna get killed here. Well, if Lagertha doesn't kill some bitches Bjorn's coming back to burn everything to the ground.
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So Ragnar wants to destroy Borg, Lagertha has 3 days to handle business before Bjorn goes Grendal on Drunk Earl's great hall, and King Horik is just sinking more and more capital into the enrage the Lothbrok boys account. Is there a Norse equivalent to Never Leave Harlan alive that should be playing? Edit: Bjorn clearly didn't inherit Ragnar's easy charm. Gyges fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Apr 4, 2014 |
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aha Bjorn you dork..."I like you. Do you like me? Throw the squiggly rune if yes" You got dudes to stomp anyway. edit: even Rollo gettin' creeped out
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