1 00:00:01,022 --> 00:00:03,399 [U htred] I am th'red, son of th'red. 2 00:00:04,275 --> 00:00:10,114 Aethe/flaed, the lady of mere/a, has died and I am berefl'. 3 00:00:11,074 --> 00:00:13,785 Aethe/ha/m has sought to install his grandson, 4 00:00:13,868 --> 00:00:16,204 ae/fia/earo', on the mere/an throne. 5 00:00:16,287 --> 00:00:18,414 But Edward was ruthless... 6 00:00:18,998 --> 00:00:20,625 [Aethelhelm] Did you see the ealdormen? 7 00:00:20,708 --> 00:00:22,544 I did. They are dead. 8 00:00:22,627 --> 00:00:24,128 [Edward] I will do as god wills. 9 00:00:24,212 --> 00:00:28,007 I will be king of the angles and of the saxons. 10 00:00:28,550 --> 00:00:31,678 [U htred] Ae/sw/th, fear/ng for her granddaughters safety, 11 00:00:31,761 --> 00:00:34,472 tookae/fia/ynn and fled ll/lero/a. 12 00:00:35,932 --> 00:00:39,894 The distraught brida has taken father pyrlig prisoner, 13 00:00:39,978 --> 00:00:42,564 but his kindness has eased her pain. 14 00:00:42,647 --> 00:00:44,566 [Pyrlig] Your daughter is at peace now. 15 00:00:45,066 --> 00:00:48,319 Maybe in finding peace of your own, you might repent. 16 00:00:48,403 --> 00:00:52,615 [U htred] Aelflaed has become enthralled by the visionary, aalys. 17 00:00:52,699 --> 00:00:55,743 Travel with us and do not tell them. 18 00:00:56,286 --> 00:00:58,329 It is a holy tribute. 19 00:00:58,413 --> 00:01:02,458 [U htred] While her fatheraethe/helm, thwarted by Edward once again, 20 00:01:02,542 --> 00:01:06,588 must find new ways to exert his influence. 21 00:01:06,671 --> 00:01:11,426 This is not the way succession is determined! 22 00:01:11,509 --> 00:01:13,011 [U htred] Destiny is all/ 23 00:01:16,973 --> 00:01:21,561 [mildritha] You murderer! You killed my husband! 24 00:01:21,644 --> 00:01:25,690 - You killed our ealdormen! - Oi! Get back here! 25 00:01:25,773 --> 00:01:28,318 - You killed them all! - Ignore threats. Maintain your dignity. 26 00:01:28,401 --> 00:01:30,278 Do not rise to provocation. 27 00:01:31,946 --> 00:01:34,657 What news do you bring? Has eofennic located pyrlig? 28 00:01:34,741 --> 00:01:36,701 No news of father pyrlig, lord king. 29 00:01:36,784 --> 00:01:41,456 But I imagine sigtryggrwill be unsettled by the news from here. 30 00:01:44,167 --> 00:01:45,209 Yes. 31 00:01:45,793 --> 00:01:49,297 Perhaps we should make overtures to reassure them. Scotland too. 32 00:01:49,380 --> 00:01:52,884 Let king constantin know we are minded to renew the alliance. 33 00:01:52,967 --> 00:01:54,427 My lord, I do not serve you. 34 00:01:55,219 --> 00:01:57,555 I am here only to say my farewells. 35 00:01:58,306 --> 00:02:01,142 Whilst I understand your reasons, I cannot be a part of this. 36 00:02:09,567 --> 00:02:10,860 Oh, how virtuous. 37 00:02:10,943 --> 00:02:13,112 Aelfwynn would have presided over a civil war. 38 00:02:13,196 --> 00:02:15,531 I loved my sister. I do not dishonor her. 39 00:02:15,615 --> 00:02:18,201 You simply do what is best for mercia. 40 00:02:18,284 --> 00:02:19,327 [Edward sighs] 41 00:02:21,371 --> 00:02:23,039 Should I have shown more mercy? 42 00:02:23,915 --> 00:02:24,957 Was there another path? 43 00:02:27,335 --> 00:02:29,587 A kingdom is never made without bloodshed. 44 00:02:30,713 --> 00:02:33,007 But it does not need to be ruled by fear. 45 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,804 Show the world that you are just and that you live by the faith. 46 00:02:40,848 --> 00:02:42,809 As a sign of our wish to atone 47 00:02:44,227 --> 00:02:46,854 and reconcile with the sons of mercia, 48 00:02:48,606 --> 00:02:52,276 we offer our fast until the masses are completed. 49 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,196 [Edward] Accept these offerings from our table. 50 00:02:55,279 --> 00:02:58,533 Feast here as our guests, even as we refrain. 51 00:02:59,117 --> 00:03:01,703 It is my hope we put this turbulence behind us. 52 00:03:04,205 --> 00:03:05,748 [Aelfweard] Do you think he's sincere? 53 00:03:06,833 --> 00:03:08,668 I can no longer read his mood. 54 00:03:09,335 --> 00:03:11,129 [Aelfweard] I feel just sickened with it all. 55 00:03:11,963 --> 00:03:15,591 The brutality, the way he dishonors mother. 56 00:03:15,675 --> 00:03:18,678 [Aethelhelm] It's because you are a fine and true young man 57 00:03:18,761 --> 00:03:20,555 who, one day, will be a mighty king. 58 00:03:24,684 --> 00:03:26,018 If this is so, then why... 59 00:03:26,811 --> 00:03:28,604 Why does he not name me the aetheling? 60 00:03:28,688 --> 00:03:32,275 Some men cannot think of their own demise. It frightens them. 61 00:03:36,154 --> 00:03:39,949 But with your permission, I will find a way to resolve this. 62 00:03:41,909 --> 00:03:44,996 I need to be certain that nothing can be traced back to me. 63 00:03:45,079 --> 00:03:47,623 The men can bear none of my insignia. 64 00:03:47,707 --> 00:03:51,085 Yes, I understand and they will say they are from king sigtryggr. 65 00:03:51,169 --> 00:03:52,795 I know what I'm doing. 66 00:03:54,922 --> 00:03:58,301 You do realize this could start a war between Christian and Dane? 67 00:03:59,552 --> 00:04:01,137 Hopefully, yes. 68 00:04:01,846 --> 00:04:04,056 [Aethelhelm] Ideally, the king falls in battle 69 00:04:04,140 --> 00:04:08,519 and aelfweard inherits a land free of the heathen curse. 70 00:04:11,355 --> 00:04:13,858 Time is running out for my bloodline. 71 00:04:13,941 --> 00:04:15,985 [Bresal] Could you not wield influence another way? 72 00:04:17,236 --> 00:04:20,072 Build a few minsters or declare a miracle? 73 00:04:20,156 --> 00:04:22,742 How charmingly old-fashioned, bresal. 74 00:04:23,993 --> 00:04:25,995 No, like the king, 75 00:04:26,078 --> 00:04:30,500 I have learned nothing is as effective as the stench of death. 76 00:04:33,544 --> 00:04:34,921 [Aalys] Do not worry. 77 00:04:35,004 --> 00:04:39,383 When we have delivered the tapestry, you may return home from the holy isle. 78 00:04:39,467 --> 00:04:42,804 With god's speed, the king may never learn that I have been away. 79 00:04:44,931 --> 00:04:48,601 The light is fading. We shall be forced to sleep under trees. 80 00:04:49,519 --> 00:04:52,188 You must regret traveling with simple folk. 81 00:04:53,022 --> 00:04:57,151 You are not simple folk. You are a gift from the lord. 82 00:04:57,944 --> 00:05:00,863 [Aelflaed] The life of a queen can be somewhat lonely. 83 00:05:02,865 --> 00:05:03,908 [Man] Please... 84 00:05:05,034 --> 00:05:07,411 Be careful. It could be a trick for thieves. 85 00:05:07,495 --> 00:05:09,747 - Stand back until they are gone. - Lady, please. 86 00:05:10,540 --> 00:05:13,084 - [Man] Have pity. - We must help this traveler, my lady. 87 00:05:13,167 --> 00:05:15,086 Do not be softhearted. Stay. 88 00:05:15,169 --> 00:05:16,879 He is a soul in need. 89 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:20,550 What happened here with you? [Gasps] 90 00:05:24,595 --> 00:05:26,931 Which one of these is the farm girl from lewes? 91 00:05:27,014 --> 00:05:28,057 [Aalys gasps] 92 00:05:29,267 --> 00:05:30,643 I am the visionary. 93 00:05:30,726 --> 00:05:33,646 A visionary, but you did not see us coming. 94 00:05:33,729 --> 00:05:34,772 Whose men are you? 95 00:05:35,314 --> 00:05:37,316 We were sent by king sigtryggr. 96 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,578 [Sigtryggr] All of mercia's ealdormen? All of them? 97 00:05:48,661 --> 00:05:50,121 Slaughtered, yes. 98 00:05:50,204 --> 00:05:52,039 [Stiorra] With his sister not yet cold. 99 00:05:52,123 --> 00:05:54,709 She must have restrained Edward more than we knew. 100 00:05:54,792 --> 00:05:56,210 [Stiorra, sigtryggr sigh] 101 00:05:56,294 --> 00:05:59,130 I fear we could be next, that he will come to conquer. 102 00:06:00,506 --> 00:06:02,550 Take a band to the border and double the patrol. 103 00:06:02,633 --> 00:06:04,969 - Send a warning to the king himself. - Yes. 104 00:06:05,595 --> 00:06:08,014 Dispatch a warrior to speak this in my name, 105 00:06:08,890 --> 00:06:13,269 "if he chooses to come north, we will be ready." 106 00:06:24,405 --> 00:06:25,781 We are restored! 107 00:06:27,074 --> 00:06:29,201 Remove the Saxon sign! 108 00:06:54,018 --> 00:06:55,061 Burnstone. 109 00:06:56,437 --> 00:06:57,563 Very pretty. 110 00:06:58,522 --> 00:06:59,941 Someone will buy it. 111 00:07:01,817 --> 00:07:04,070 Lord haesten. Lord haesten! 112 00:07:06,447 --> 00:07:07,573 You must see this. 113 00:07:31,222 --> 00:07:32,348 [Aalys whimpers] 114 00:07:35,434 --> 00:07:36,477 [Aalys whimpers] 115 00:07:38,396 --> 00:07:40,690 [Aalys sobs] 116 00:07:41,857 --> 00:07:43,025 [Whispers] Jesus, please... 117 00:07:43,818 --> 00:07:44,860 Who did this? 118 00:07:48,322 --> 00:07:50,783 They were sent from the king of jorvik. 119 00:07:51,450 --> 00:07:53,995 They said sigtryggr wanted vengeance. 120 00:07:54,787 --> 00:07:56,872 They spared me to spread the word. 121 00:07:59,208 --> 00:08:00,251 Are you pilgrims? 122 00:08:02,086 --> 00:08:03,963 [Breathing sharply] 123 00:08:04,046 --> 00:08:06,382 Travelers with the dead queen. 124 00:08:06,465 --> 00:08:07,508 [Whimpers] 125 00:08:30,823 --> 00:08:34,577 Take the body down and clear all traces of this. 126 00:08:34,660 --> 00:08:35,703 Now! 127 00:09:26,879 --> 00:09:30,633 [Crowd shouting indistinctly] 128 00:09:31,675 --> 00:09:33,219 How many return to us? 129 00:09:33,928 --> 00:09:34,970 How many? 130 00:09:35,638 --> 00:09:39,016 - Warn the alehouse! Osferth's thirsty! - [Crowd cheering] 131 00:09:45,481 --> 00:09:48,150 Aethelstan, go straight to the boatman. 132 00:09:49,610 --> 00:09:52,029 Get something fast. We can sail at high tide. 133 00:10:02,665 --> 00:10:03,958 [Uhtred] You're still alive. 134 00:10:04,625 --> 00:10:05,668 Just 135 00:10:06,210 --> 00:10:07,628 just is enough. 136 00:10:10,923 --> 00:10:13,259 What of stiorra and her husband? 137 00:10:13,926 --> 00:10:15,094 [Uhtred] They are restored, 138 00:10:15,886 --> 00:10:16,929 just. 139 00:10:19,682 --> 00:10:23,102 But lady aethelflaed... 140 00:10:24,812 --> 00:10:26,522 She has been taken from us. 141 00:10:29,525 --> 00:10:31,819 That is a cruelty, father. 142 00:10:32,570 --> 00:10:34,029 But she's at peace. 143 00:10:35,281 --> 00:10:36,574 It is of some comfort. 144 00:10:38,367 --> 00:10:39,869 There has been much cruelty. 145 00:10:48,919 --> 00:10:50,004 Have you... 146 00:10:54,425 --> 00:10:56,844 - Have you walked at all? - A little. 147 00:10:58,012 --> 00:10:59,180 [Sighs] 148 00:10:59,263 --> 00:11:00,890 Many things are difficult, but 149 00:11:02,433 --> 00:11:04,059 my body is strong. 150 00:11:04,685 --> 00:11:06,854 - [Young uhtred] And my heart... - Will be avenged. 151 00:11:07,479 --> 00:11:11,025 Brida lives. We fear she has father pyrlig, 152 00:11:11,108 --> 00:11:13,319 at high tide, we take a boat to track her. 153 00:11:14,820 --> 00:11:18,324 - With that you could come... - The lord is not calling me to revenge. 154 00:11:24,622 --> 00:11:25,664 Of course. 155 00:11:27,666 --> 00:11:29,752 To kill her might be my destiny alone. 156 00:11:30,336 --> 00:11:32,129 [Young uhtred] Perhaps it's not your destiny. 157 00:11:33,297 --> 00:11:35,132 You have a good life here, father. 158 00:11:36,717 --> 00:11:38,844 Now that lady aethelflaed is departed, 159 00:11:40,221 --> 00:11:41,555 you could find a wife, 160 00:11:42,556 --> 00:11:43,933 have more children. 161 00:11:44,016 --> 00:11:46,018 One son lost as a babe. 162 00:11:48,229 --> 00:11:49,939 One now lying injured. 163 00:11:52,942 --> 00:11:55,319 A daughter who fought alone for her life. 164 00:11:57,279 --> 00:12:00,616 I would not curse another child with me as a father. 165 00:12:00,699 --> 00:12:03,994 What of the son who was hidden, who does not know his father? 166 00:12:04,078 --> 00:12:05,454 You do not know that. 167 00:12:06,914 --> 00:12:09,250 It is not safe for you to know that. 168 00:12:12,836 --> 00:12:13,879 His time will come. 169 00:12:16,674 --> 00:12:17,758 Besides... 170 00:12:22,263 --> 00:12:23,305 Aethelflaed... 171 00:12:25,057 --> 00:12:26,684 Is not departed. 172 00:12:26,767 --> 00:12:28,060 She, uh_. 173 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:30,688 She's with me still. 174 00:12:33,065 --> 00:12:35,901 Then we both must walk with wounds that will not heal. 175 00:12:37,361 --> 00:12:39,989 [Man] Here. This way. 176 00:12:44,076 --> 00:12:45,786 We are not here to be seen. 177 00:12:46,328 --> 00:12:47,579 Where is our boat? 178 00:12:48,289 --> 00:12:51,125 - Where is the sea? - There is no sea. 179 00:12:51,208 --> 00:12:54,586 Girl, you have no sense. I have changed the plan. 180 00:12:54,670 --> 00:12:56,672 - In here... - What is happening? 181 00:12:57,256 --> 00:13:00,676 - Is someone planning on having me killed? - No, child. 182 00:13:00,759 --> 00:13:03,929 Someone is planning on giving you life. 183 00:13:04,013 --> 00:13:05,055 What? 184 00:13:05,806 --> 00:13:09,393 I will not have you living in the shadows, waiting for some assassin. 185 00:13:09,476 --> 00:13:11,437 My mother bore that danger every day. 186 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:15,607 Yes, and living the way she did put a poison in her flesh 187 00:13:15,691 --> 00:13:17,860 and robbed me of my most cherished gift. 188 00:13:20,821 --> 00:13:22,156 What is your plan for me? 189 00:13:23,282 --> 00:13:25,159 I have chosen you a husband. 190 00:13:25,993 --> 00:13:27,036 Someone you know. 191 00:13:27,745 --> 00:13:28,912 I will explain. 192 00:13:39,757 --> 00:13:43,635 I have been asked to convey a message of great seriousness and secrecy. 193 00:13:44,845 --> 00:13:48,015 The lady aelswith has noted your affection for her granddaughter 194 00:13:48,098 --> 00:13:51,185 and asks that you convey yourself to buccstan for Sunday. 195 00:13:52,061 --> 00:13:56,148 There you will meet with lady aelfwynn and marry her. 196 00:13:58,442 --> 00:14:00,319 Why have I been selected for this alliance? 197 00:14:03,197 --> 00:14:04,615 Because you're a nobody. 198 00:14:07,076 --> 00:14:09,870 [Aethelstan] If aelfwynn marries you, no ealdorman can force her hand. 199 00:14:10,371 --> 00:14:13,040 Then I will be honored to preserve the safety of the Princess. 200 00:14:26,804 --> 00:14:28,263 [Horse whinnies] 201 00:14:36,605 --> 00:14:37,648 Osferth. 202 00:14:45,781 --> 00:14:48,033 The great warrior haesten, a man of trade. 203 00:14:48,784 --> 00:14:51,245 I had heard of this, but I did not believe it. 204 00:14:51,328 --> 00:14:54,957 A trader and owner of 30 ships. 205 00:14:55,499 --> 00:14:57,668 You should see my settlement, uhtred. 206 00:15:00,462 --> 00:15:05,509 Twice the size of this one, fertile farms and fat women. 207 00:15:06,468 --> 00:15:07,511 Not like this... 208 00:15:09,430 --> 00:15:10,556 Only fit for... 209 00:15:12,349 --> 00:15:13,392 Pigs. 210 00:15:14,810 --> 00:15:18,439 You have plenty of insults for a man who can no longer wield a sword. 211 00:15:19,940 --> 00:15:21,191 I can wield it, uhtred. 212 00:15:26,405 --> 00:15:27,614 I think you should go. 213 00:15:35,289 --> 00:15:37,416 We must speak, somewhere out of sight. 214 00:15:37,499 --> 00:15:40,377 - There's nothing I want from you. - [Haesten] Believe me, uhtred. 215 00:15:41,795 --> 00:15:43,630 We must speak. 216 00:15:57,060 --> 00:15:58,979 Where's this visionary now? 217 00:15:59,062 --> 00:16:00,689 I placed her with my kin. 218 00:16:01,148 --> 00:16:02,191 To trade her? 219 00:16:03,901 --> 00:16:05,110 To keep her safe. 220 00:16:05,694 --> 00:16:07,029 War will come from this. 221 00:16:07,112 --> 00:16:09,448 Why would sigtryggr do something so stupid? 222 00:16:09,531 --> 00:16:10,574 [Uhtred] He has not. 223 00:16:11,533 --> 00:16:12,743 This is not his command. 224 00:16:13,327 --> 00:16:15,996 His brother, then? Or brida? 225 00:16:16,622 --> 00:16:19,333 [Osferth] Perhaps mercians, seeking revenge. 226 00:16:19,416 --> 00:16:21,084 There's quite a few who hate Edward now. 227 00:16:22,628 --> 00:16:26,048 This is a bad omen, lord, for all of us. 228 00:16:27,466 --> 00:16:29,885 I fear this death will only deliver more death. 229 00:16:30,969 --> 00:16:32,346 Why did you bring me this? 230 00:16:32,429 --> 00:16:35,098 We both have interest in keeping the peace, uhtred. 231 00:16:36,183 --> 00:16:38,810 Me to trade and you, well... [sighs] 232 00:16:39,561 --> 00:16:44,191 I cannot think Edward will spare your daughter when he retaliates. 233 00:16:48,028 --> 00:16:50,489 We must make sigtryggr denounce this act. 234 00:16:50,572 --> 00:16:53,075 Finan, osferth, remain here. 235 00:16:53,158 --> 00:16:55,577 You must guard the queen's body with all honor. 236 00:16:56,119 --> 00:16:59,373 Sihtric, aethelstan, go to aegelesburg, both of you. 237 00:16:59,456 --> 00:17:01,291 If they hear of this, come north to warn me. 238 00:17:01,375 --> 00:17:04,503 No, we cannot hide news of the queen's slaughter. It's wrong. 239 00:17:05,128 --> 00:17:07,130 She has a son who should know, a father. 240 00:17:07,214 --> 00:17:10,634 Aethelhelm will want revenge. He will blame all daneland for this. 241 00:17:10,717 --> 00:17:12,344 You will not have to hide it for long. 242 00:17:12,427 --> 00:17:16,265 I will be swift and then I will bring the queen's body to aegelesburg myself. 243 00:17:16,848 --> 00:17:19,851 Haesten, come with me to eofennic. Tell them what you've heard. 244 00:17:19,935 --> 00:17:21,770 - Let me come to eofennic. - Aethelstan! 245 00:17:21,853 --> 00:17:26,024 - Let him. I will have no part in this. - You are already a part of it. We all are. 246 00:17:26,108 --> 00:17:28,402 If they hear this story of sigtryggr killing a queen, 247 00:17:28,485 --> 00:17:31,154 there will be a slaughter beyond brida at her worst. 248 00:17:40,706 --> 00:17:41,957 Does that not get heavy? 249 00:17:45,460 --> 00:17:47,671 You do not have to hold your sword. 250 00:17:47,754 --> 00:17:50,340 [Brida] You're stronger than me. The sword makes us equal. 251 00:17:55,470 --> 00:17:56,597 How far are we going? 252 00:18:05,522 --> 00:18:06,857 This is where the journey ends. 253 00:18:09,610 --> 00:18:13,030 Head south, eventually you'll reach Winchester. 254 00:18:13,989 --> 00:18:15,365 Hear me on this. 255 00:18:16,450 --> 00:18:19,411 Edward does not want battle with daneland or with Danes. 256 00:18:19,494 --> 00:18:21,455 Come with me to Winchester and seek a peace. 257 00:18:21,538 --> 00:18:23,540 They will execute me before I'm within the gates. 258 00:18:23,624 --> 00:18:26,460 I will stand for you. You will be under my protection. 259 00:18:27,961 --> 00:18:29,379 The war should end, brida. 260 00:18:31,131 --> 00:18:32,549 The war you started 261 00:18:33,425 --> 00:18:34,760 and the war within you. 262 00:18:38,013 --> 00:18:39,389 Good luck with the wolves. 263 00:18:50,984 --> 00:18:52,027 [Sighs] 264 00:18:55,989 --> 00:18:57,157 [Brida] Father pyrlig? 265 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,621 I accept your offer of safe passage and protection. 266 00:19:04,498 --> 00:19:05,791 Take me to uhtred. 267 00:19:07,501 --> 00:19:09,795 But my offer was to Edward. He is the king. 268 00:19:09,878 --> 00:19:12,339 But uhtred is the enemy with whom I must reconcile. 269 00:19:13,298 --> 00:19:15,175 If I am to come to peace, he's the one. 270 00:19:16,677 --> 00:19:19,888 What? I thought you believed I was ready for redemption. 271 00:19:22,641 --> 00:19:25,185 We've had no word of the visionary's demise. 272 00:19:25,268 --> 00:19:26,687 Word of this should be spreading! 273 00:19:26,770 --> 00:19:29,773 The bodies will be found. They were left hanging near an open road. 274 00:19:29,856 --> 00:19:30,941 If this has gone wrong... 275 00:19:31,024 --> 00:19:33,026 You'll do what? Send an assassin to kill me? 276 00:19:37,030 --> 00:19:38,573 What's aethelstan doing here? 277 00:19:40,075 --> 00:19:41,576 The king must've summoned him. 278 00:19:41,660 --> 00:19:45,205 Someone is ahead of me. They're trying to make use of this moment. 279 00:19:45,288 --> 00:19:47,016 Have you found the whereabouts of lady aelswith? 280 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:48,125 Still making inquiries. 281 00:19:48,208 --> 00:19:53,338 We must locate her and the lady aelfwynn in case there is a plot forming. 282 00:19:53,422 --> 00:19:55,048 Do not start changing the plan. 283 00:19:55,132 --> 00:19:57,718 In a fight to the death, a man must be nimble. 284 00:19:57,801 --> 00:20:00,887 I jump to escape being pushed. 285 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:09,646 We will be noticed. 286 00:20:11,606 --> 00:20:14,276 - Sihtric. We will be found. - Not if you stay quiet. 287 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:15,736 Learn to move by stealth. 288 00:20:17,571 --> 00:20:18,739 Lord king, a moment? 289 00:20:18,822 --> 00:20:20,699 We are leaving to visit some of my new estates. 290 00:20:20,782 --> 00:20:22,826 It cannot wait, lord king. 291 00:20:23,535 --> 00:20:25,871 An atrocity has occurred against the faith. 292 00:20:31,126 --> 00:20:32,961 [Bresal] Big ride for a small woman. 293 00:20:37,674 --> 00:20:39,134 It belongs to my husband. 294 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:40,802 Traveling light? 295 00:20:42,012 --> 00:20:43,096 Empty-handed... 296 00:20:47,309 --> 00:20:49,060 I do not know who you are 297 00:20:49,936 --> 00:20:52,147 and I do not need your money. 298 00:20:52,230 --> 00:20:53,899 Did the family reward you, then? 299 00:20:54,858 --> 00:20:57,569 Show gratitude for all you did? 300 00:21:01,948 --> 00:21:05,786 Where are they, ladies aelfwynn and aelswith? 301 00:21:05,869 --> 00:21:07,037 Where have they gone? 302 00:21:08,580 --> 00:21:10,707 I do not owe you an answer. 303 00:21:10,791 --> 00:21:11,833 People are 304 00:21:12,542 --> 00:21:16,463 concerned for lady aelfwynn's safety. 305 00:21:19,925 --> 00:21:21,927 So, if you remember where they are... 306 00:21:24,971 --> 00:21:26,014 Find me. 307 00:21:31,228 --> 00:21:34,022 - I want the horse I paid for. Go. - All right. 308 00:21:34,648 --> 00:21:37,543 - I need to leave aegelesburg tonight. - That man is looking for aelfwynn. 309 00:21:37,567 --> 00:21:38,652 That one. 310 00:21:39,110 --> 00:21:41,446 [Aldhelm] That is not good. Is he the king's man? 311 00:21:41,530 --> 00:21:42,614 [Eadith] I do not know. 312 00:21:45,033 --> 00:21:46,159 Do you know where they went? 313 00:21:46,243 --> 00:21:48,870 - You do not have to tell me the place... - Yes, I do. 314 00:21:51,039 --> 00:21:53,792 I will travel there to warn them that they are being tracked 315 00:21:55,168 --> 00:21:57,796 if you stay to keep one eye on the king. 316 00:22:00,257 --> 00:22:01,341 [Aldhelm sighs] 317 00:22:04,511 --> 00:22:05,720 Little aalys 318 00:22:06,805 --> 00:22:12,727 slaughtered as she carried the tapestry on its sacred journey. 319 00:22:14,020 --> 00:22:18,108 Hung from a tree like a piece of rotten meat. 320 00:22:19,693 --> 00:22:20,735 The visionary. 321 00:22:21,862 --> 00:22:25,240 A symbol of your common people, murdered. 322 00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:29,619 Let us join together now 323 00:22:29,703 --> 00:22:34,291 to confront this Dane threat before sigtryggr 324 00:22:34,374 --> 00:22:38,044 and his brother unite to slaughter us all! 325 00:22:41,423 --> 00:22:42,966 [Edward] Where did you hear this news? 326 00:22:49,055 --> 00:22:54,102 You know I have friends in every town, but I urge you, lord king, 327 00:22:54,185 --> 00:22:55,896 you cannot delay a response. 328 00:22:55,979 --> 00:22:58,648 Fury must be met with fury. 329 00:22:59,399 --> 00:23:02,819 Or the common people will act on your behalf. 330 00:23:04,696 --> 00:23:07,073 I would like to have this properly confirmed. 331 00:23:10,118 --> 00:23:14,414 You choose now to act with caution? 332 00:23:14,497 --> 00:23:17,250 When you have shown such boldness of late? 333 00:23:17,334 --> 00:23:21,254 The pilgrims may be resting peacefully in lindisfarne as we speak. 334 00:23:21,338 --> 00:23:24,799 Or killers maraud your lands without consequence... 335 00:23:24,883 --> 00:23:26,051 [Edward] Perhaps! 336 00:23:27,177 --> 00:23:30,055 But I will not be moved to retaliate until I am certain. 337 00:23:41,441 --> 00:23:42,734 Is there truth in it? 338 00:23:42,817 --> 00:23:44,110 I can make inquiries. 339 00:23:45,111 --> 00:23:47,572 If he is correct, it will indeed cause dismay. 340 00:23:48,281 --> 00:23:50,992 And great division between Christian and Dane. 341 00:23:53,495 --> 00:23:55,705 I've observed you have not yet left mercia. 342 00:23:56,998 --> 00:23:59,751 I hope I have reassured you I'm not wholly impulsive. 343 00:24:01,503 --> 00:24:03,129 I need men here I can trust. 344 00:24:07,759 --> 00:24:09,219 Stay here and watch aethelhelm. 345 00:24:09,302 --> 00:24:12,222 If he has heard this much, he's going to hear much worse. 346 00:24:24,943 --> 00:24:26,903 [Hooves beating] 347 00:24:30,281 --> 00:24:31,992 I am insulted. 348 00:24:37,998 --> 00:24:40,834 Let me assure you, if I were attacking wessex, 349 00:24:40,917 --> 00:24:43,044 I would do more than strangle a queen. 350 00:24:43,712 --> 00:24:46,214 To be fair, uhtred said this. 351 00:24:47,173 --> 00:24:48,842 Who do you think is responsible? 352 00:24:49,801 --> 00:24:51,428 - Who acts in your name? - No one. 353 00:24:52,303 --> 00:24:54,180 This is the work of Edward himself. 354 00:24:55,140 --> 00:24:57,308 He hated the queen, and he hates us. 355 00:24:57,392 --> 00:24:59,394 He has killed her to justify a war. 356 00:24:59,477 --> 00:25:00,979 [Uhtred] He does not want a battle. 357 00:25:01,062 --> 00:25:04,107 But when he hears of this, he will have to retaliate. 358 00:25:04,190 --> 00:25:06,484 Which is why we have sent men to our border. 359 00:25:06,568 --> 00:25:08,361 I will go to him with your denial. 360 00:25:09,863 --> 00:25:13,408 Though were you to journey with me, this matter could be settled easily. 361 00:25:13,491 --> 00:25:15,702 And leave eofennic undefended once again? 362 00:25:18,079 --> 00:25:19,789 I have given my word. 363 00:25:19,873 --> 00:25:20,999 That is enough. 364 00:25:21,082 --> 00:25:24,002 [Footsteps departing] 365 00:25:26,671 --> 00:25:29,132 He suffers from his allies deserting him. 366 00:25:30,091 --> 00:25:31,551 I did not desert you. 367 00:25:32,635 --> 00:25:35,263 I have men this moment preparing to track brida... 368 00:25:35,346 --> 00:25:36,890 Yet we sit alone in eofennic. 369 00:25:36,973 --> 00:25:39,726 I'm trying to save you from a battle you will not win! 370 00:25:39,809 --> 00:25:40,894 [Sighs] 371 00:25:40,977 --> 00:25:43,897 Edward has twice the sliver, twice the armies. 372 00:25:44,397 --> 00:25:45,440 Now he has mercia... 373 00:25:45,523 --> 00:25:48,818 I am not afraid of a man who cannot even protect his own wife. 374 00:25:55,658 --> 00:25:56,993 Take me to the visionary. 375 00:25:57,827 --> 00:25:59,621 I must find out who spread these lies. 376 00:26:07,670 --> 00:26:10,131 [Crowd shouting indistinctly] 377 00:26:10,215 --> 00:26:11,633 [Man] There's a rider! 378 00:26:13,134 --> 00:26:14,719 [Soldier] Out of the way, men! 379 00:26:14,803 --> 00:26:15,845 What approaches? 380 00:26:15,929 --> 00:26:18,306 [Eadgifu] They say a messenger from the Danes. 381 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,773 - What is the word of sigtryggr? - [Messenger] A declaration. 382 00:26:26,856 --> 00:26:32,237 "If king Edward chooses to come north, we will be ready." 383 00:26:37,283 --> 00:26:40,370 Sigtryggr has, in essence, called for war. 384 00:26:40,453 --> 00:26:43,289 No, he has warned us not to approach. 385 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,585 - It is different. - I do not understand this reluctance. 386 00:26:47,669 --> 00:26:48,711 Aethelstan? 387 00:26:49,629 --> 00:26:50,672 Is uhtred with you? 388 00:26:51,172 --> 00:26:53,299 No, he is visiting his daughter. 389 00:26:54,217 --> 00:26:59,389 Now your greatest warrior has abandoned his post at rumcofa to join sigtryggr! 390 00:26:59,472 --> 00:27:01,516 [Aethelstan] Lord uhtred is a man of honor. 391 00:27:01,599 --> 00:27:04,686 He goes only to see his child, so do not inflame the matter. 392 00:27:05,895 --> 00:27:07,272 Be wiser. 393 00:27:13,903 --> 00:27:15,905 Please, lord aethelhelm. 394 00:27:17,031 --> 00:27:21,452 Rather than press for battle, I would ask you take a gift to the Scots. 395 00:27:22,495 --> 00:27:24,789 They will be nervous of trouble on their border. 396 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,090 Then, if that is your order, 397 00:27:35,508 --> 00:27:38,094 I shall gladly leave aegelesburg. 398 00:27:48,438 --> 00:27:49,647 You speak your mind. 399 00:27:51,608 --> 00:27:53,151 I heard you were quite the fighter. 400 00:27:53,651 --> 00:27:56,237 I need a loyal man to lead the mercian guard. 401 00:27:57,655 --> 00:28:00,617 Live here alongside them and be my presence here in aegelesburg. 402 00:28:02,452 --> 00:28:06,414 Perhaps that man could be you in recompense for... 403 00:28:06,497 --> 00:28:07,582 My banishment? 404 00:28:08,791 --> 00:28:11,753 There are worse fates than to be raised by uhtred. 405 00:28:13,087 --> 00:28:16,382 It'll be a better use of your talent than spying on your father. 406 00:28:27,310 --> 00:28:28,686 I should like to accept. 407 00:28:33,566 --> 00:28:34,817 Do you want my oath? 408 00:28:35,485 --> 00:28:36,945 [Edward] Do I need it? 409 00:28:37,779 --> 00:28:41,532 If I cannot trust my son, who can I trust? 410 00:28:43,618 --> 00:28:45,328 [Bresal] I'm not sure this is wise, lord. 411 00:28:46,079 --> 00:28:49,749 If Edward cannot be provoked, perhaps sigtryggr can. 412 00:28:50,333 --> 00:28:54,504 He's clearly anticipating an attack, so let's give the heathen what he wants. 413 00:28:55,338 --> 00:28:56,631 Come and meet my men. 414 00:28:57,465 --> 00:28:58,758 They are common folk. 415 00:29:00,009 --> 00:29:01,052 You'll like them. 416 00:29:04,472 --> 00:29:06,933 [Crowd chattering] 417 00:29:08,977 --> 00:29:11,813 Ignore it. Go to sleep. 418 00:29:11,896 --> 00:29:12,939 Icannot 419 00:29:13,606 --> 00:29:15,441 I have too much to consider. 420 00:29:17,026 --> 00:29:18,569 What day will he come for us? 421 00:29:19,988 --> 00:29:25,326 I have said Sunday. So, now we must be patient. 422 00:29:27,578 --> 00:29:29,539 What is it like to be married? 423 00:29:33,835 --> 00:29:38,298 When one is married to the right person, 424 00:29:39,465 --> 00:29:42,510 it is the greatest gift the lord can bestow. 425 00:29:44,429 --> 00:29:46,472 The passions of the flesh 426 00:29:47,181 --> 00:29:52,020 when enacted within loving matrimony are transporting. 427 00:29:54,522 --> 00:29:58,609 When one feels the tremors of male affection... 428 00:29:58,693 --> 00:30:01,988 - Grandmother. - It is but an honest answer. 429 00:30:03,990 --> 00:30:08,369 It is why Alfred and I had such beautiful children. 430 00:30:10,163 --> 00:30:12,790 What if one is married to the wrong person? 431 00:30:12,874 --> 00:30:14,167 I hardly know cynlaef. 432 00:30:15,585 --> 00:30:17,086 I hardly knew Alfred. 433 00:30:18,004 --> 00:30:19,630 It is the way of things. 434 00:30:22,550 --> 00:30:23,968 With the wrong person 435 00:30:24,677 --> 00:30:27,555 I'm told marriage is a living hell. 436 00:30:30,308 --> 00:30:33,811 Nonetheless, the bond holds fast. 437 00:30:39,734 --> 00:30:44,030 [Aethelhelm] It grieves me to be the bearer of such news. 438 00:30:46,699 --> 00:30:51,371 I know how much the visionary meant to you all. 439 00:30:54,499 --> 00:30:58,169 And to think of that child strangled, 440 00:30:59,545 --> 00:31:02,673 defiled, her body hung from a tree! 441 00:31:04,592 --> 00:31:05,760 It's unbearable. 442 00:31:06,928 --> 00:31:08,471 My man bresal here... 443 00:31:10,556 --> 00:31:14,811 Informs me that the Dane assassins who killed her 444 00:31:14,894 --> 00:31:20,191 now disguise themselves in godless rumcofa 445 00:31:20,274 --> 00:31:22,944 among the heathen settlers there. 446 00:31:25,571 --> 00:31:27,448 I cannot be seen 447 00:31:28,908 --> 00:31:31,869 to go against my king's command. 448 00:31:32,912 --> 00:31:39,252 But if any of you wishes to avenge this, 449 00:31:41,003 --> 00:31:47,218 there will be warm fires to welcome you in my camp. 450 00:31:49,470 --> 00:31:55,309 For too long we have let the Dane threat live alongside us, 451 00:31:55,893 --> 00:32:02,733 welcomed them into our homes, our food in their mouths 452 00:32:04,152 --> 00:32:07,113 while they plot bloody outrage! 453 00:32:07,196 --> 00:32:13,703 Any man who wishes to avenge themselves is free to go 454 00:32:13,786 --> 00:32:19,167 to seek the justice your king should seek! 455 00:32:20,251 --> 00:32:22,837 - Whose men are you? - We come from the king. 456 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,049 Dane murderers are hiding here and you must hand them over. 457 00:32:33,264 --> 00:32:36,309 Of course, my men will attend to it. 458 00:32:42,982 --> 00:32:47,195 Bresal, no Dane here would kill queen aelflaed. They are good people. 459 00:32:48,821 --> 00:32:50,573 Why do you speak of queen aelflaed? 460 00:32:52,617 --> 00:32:53,784 [Finan] Cynlaef! 461 00:32:53,868 --> 00:32:55,453 Get your arse out here! 462 00:32:57,497 --> 00:32:59,040 - No cynlaef? - No, why? 463 00:32:59,123 --> 00:33:00,625 What's wrong? 464 00:33:00,708 --> 00:33:03,211 I need someone to alert the men downriver. 465 00:33:03,294 --> 00:33:07,131 But quietly, so it doesn't look like we want a fight. Soldiers have arrived. 466 00:33:07,215 --> 00:33:10,051 They say they're from Edward, but I'm not sure I believe it. 467 00:33:10,134 --> 00:33:11,928 - I'll go. - No! 468 00:33:12,011 --> 00:33:13,846 I can raise the men of rumcofa. 469 00:33:13,930 --> 00:33:16,432 They know me, and no one will notice me leave. 470 00:33:16,516 --> 00:33:17,558 [Finan sighs] 471 00:33:19,018 --> 00:33:20,394 Do that. 472 00:33:20,478 --> 00:33:24,732 Send them up and wait downriver until I say it's safe to return here. 473 00:33:25,441 --> 00:33:26,484 Swear it. 474 00:33:26,567 --> 00:33:29,028 I swear. Go. 475 00:33:31,239 --> 00:33:34,450 [Crowd shouting] 476 00:33:48,339 --> 00:33:50,800 What are you doing? These are innocent folk! 477 00:33:50,883 --> 00:33:52,051 Get your hands off her! 478 00:33:54,262 --> 00:33:55,805 [Osferth] Tell your men to stand down! 479 00:33:57,890 --> 00:33:58,975 [Osferth] Who are you? 480 00:34:01,143 --> 00:34:03,437 Finan! These men have been here before! 481 00:34:03,521 --> 00:34:06,732 Danes of rumcofa have murdered our queen! 482 00:34:06,816 --> 00:34:09,610 [Volunteers] Queen killers! Dane-loving scum! 483 00:34:09,694 --> 00:34:13,155 Do your duty and rid the cockles from the wheat! 484 00:34:19,161 --> 00:34:20,204 Stop it! 485 00:34:20,746 --> 00:34:22,873 Danes here! Christian there! 486 00:34:23,791 --> 00:34:25,042 Separate them. 487 00:34:27,670 --> 00:34:29,964 [Bresal] Dane! Saxon! 488 00:34:52,612 --> 00:34:55,406 Danes in here, go! Come on! 489 00:34:55,489 --> 00:34:57,408 Father, declare a sanctuary! Go! 490 00:35:01,287 --> 00:35:02,496 You'll be safe in here. 491 00:35:06,959 --> 00:35:08,836 Bresal, they are good people... 492 00:35:11,756 --> 00:35:14,383 [Young uhtred screaming] 493 00:35:15,843 --> 00:35:16,886 [Young uhtred] Get off me! 494 00:35:22,808 --> 00:35:24,435 [Crowd screaming] 495 00:35:24,518 --> 00:35:27,480 [Swords piercing flesh] 496 00:35:27,563 --> 00:35:30,608 [Screaming continues] 497 00:35:39,825 --> 00:35:44,580 [Children screaming] 498 00:35:56,676 --> 00:35:59,929 Osferth, cynlaef! This way! We must get ingrith! 499 00:36:02,682 --> 00:36:05,017 Check the docks! Check the docks! 500 00:36:07,019 --> 00:36:08,104 Come with me! 501 00:36:12,191 --> 00:36:13,693 [Finan] Ingrith! 502 00:36:19,448 --> 00:36:21,158 [Ingrith] Get out of my way! 503 00:36:23,953 --> 00:36:25,204 Ingrith! 504 00:36:28,249 --> 00:36:29,792 - Ingrith, go! - Come on! 505 00:36:30,501 --> 00:36:31,544 [Bresal] Fight me, boy! 506 00:36:34,296 --> 00:36:37,174 - [Barking] - [Ingrith shouting] 507 00:36:44,724 --> 00:36:45,724 [Shouts] 508 00:36:46,517 --> 00:36:47,601 [Finan] Ingrith! 509 00:36:53,232 --> 00:36:54,358 {gasps} 510 00:36:55,443 --> 00:36:56,861 ingrith! 511 00:36:56,944 --> 00:36:57,944 [Bresal grunts] 512 00:36:59,780 --> 00:37:01,907 - [Osferth groans] - [Bresal grunts] 513 00:37:03,367 --> 00:37:04,410 {gasps} 514 00:37:06,203 --> 00:37:07,455 [pants] 515 00:37:08,414 --> 00:37:10,416 - [Cynlaef] No! - [Finan] No! 516 00:37:11,625 --> 00:37:12,626 [Osferth groans] 517 00:37:12,710 --> 00:37:15,087 You're all right! You're all right. Hey, hey! 518 00:37:15,171 --> 00:37:16,213 [Osferth panting] 519 00:37:16,297 --> 00:37:17,339 It's all right. 520 00:37:18,632 --> 00:37:20,468 - Help! - [Osferth] Where's the wound? 521 00:37:20,551 --> 00:37:22,845 - Where is it? - [Finan groans] 522 00:37:26,307 --> 00:37:29,810 Oh, my god, oh, my god, I'm going to die! I'm going to die! 523 00:37:29,894 --> 00:37:31,228 [Cries] 524 00:37:32,855 --> 00:37:36,567 - It's all right. - [Osferth gasping] 525 00:37:36,650 --> 00:37:38,903 Don't let me die, finan! 526 00:37:38,986 --> 00:37:45,743 - [Softly] Shh, I'm here with you. - [Osferth gasping] 527 00:37:45,826 --> 00:37:50,331 [Osferth breathing heavily] 528 00:37:50,414 --> 00:37:52,500 [Gasps, then breathing stops] 529 00:38:21,821 --> 00:38:24,281 [Haesten] Do not be afraid, aalys. 530 00:38:24,365 --> 00:38:25,616 Uhtred is no danger. 531 00:38:26,367 --> 00:38:28,244 He seeks only to make this right. 532 00:38:29,495 --> 00:38:33,666 I swear I mean you no harm. I come only to hear your story. 533 00:38:47,888 --> 00:38:49,765 The men that attacked the queen... 534 00:38:51,767 --> 00:38:54,228 They claimed to come from sigtryggr, yes? 535 00:38:59,191 --> 00:39:01,235 How did they know where to find her? 536 00:39:04,446 --> 00:39:06,740 We told no one the queen rode with us. 537 00:39:07,491 --> 00:39:09,618 Her menfolk would have forbidden it. 538 00:39:12,454 --> 00:39:14,582 Did they say why they wanted the queen? 539 00:39:20,671 --> 00:39:22,172 They did not want her. 540 00:39:25,092 --> 00:39:26,260 They came for me. 541 00:39:27,803 --> 00:39:29,513 They did. They spoke my name. 542 00:39:30,431 --> 00:39:31,807 But the lord guided her. 543 00:39:32,766 --> 00:39:35,811 She stood for me, claimed my place in the slaughter. 544 00:39:37,021 --> 00:39:39,023 I wanted only to see the holy isle. 545 00:39:39,523 --> 00:39:41,483 Why did St. cuthbert lead me... 546 00:39:43,986 --> 00:39:45,446 Then let this happen? 547 00:40:17,227 --> 00:40:18,270 I've got him. 548 00:40:31,325 --> 00:40:32,576 I'm sorry. 549 00:40:33,327 --> 00:40:34,453 [Sobs] 550 00:40:35,996 --> 00:40:37,289 It's my fault! 551 00:40:38,207 --> 00:40:39,500 It's all my fault. 552 00:40:39,583 --> 00:40:42,294 [Finan crying] 553 00:40:42,378 --> 00:40:45,589 Pater noster qui es in oaelis... 554 00:40:45,673 --> 00:40:46,715 Do not do that. 555 00:40:48,217 --> 00:40:50,594 Danes, they have other customs. 556 00:40:54,723 --> 00:40:56,392 Take the survivors to danelaw. 557 00:40:57,685 --> 00:40:59,311 Mercia is no place for us. 558 00:41:01,981 --> 00:41:04,316 [Finan sobbing] 559 00:41:07,444 --> 00:41:10,197 We will take osferth back to the place of his birth. 560 00:41:10,990 --> 00:41:12,533 Let him rest in wessex. 561 00:41:13,283 --> 00:41:15,452 Take finan with you to meet uhtred. 562 00:41:20,916 --> 00:41:23,877 [Villagers sobbing] 563 00:41:35,764 --> 00:41:38,267 I will meet sihtric on the road to aegelesburg. 564 00:41:41,437 --> 00:41:44,982 Take aalys to lindisfarne. I have a friend there who will hide her. 565 00:41:45,482 --> 00:41:48,736 Killing a queen, I follow. But who would want to kill a farm girl? 566 00:41:48,819 --> 00:41:50,821 Someone who wishes to stir the people. 567 00:41:51,655 --> 00:41:52,698 Bnda? 568 00:41:53,824 --> 00:41:55,075 It is too sly for her. 569 00:41:57,703 --> 00:41:59,997 Whichever, I ride to tell the king. 570 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,375 He can perhaps be restrained if he knows his wife was not the prey. 571 00:42:04,752 --> 00:42:07,337 This is slightly on the light side, uhtred. 572 00:42:08,172 --> 00:42:12,051 I should be properly compensated for the hospitality I have shown the girl. 573 00:42:12,134 --> 00:42:13,385 You were compensated 574 00:42:14,261 --> 00:42:16,472 by whatever you stole from the dead queen. 575 00:42:19,266 --> 00:42:20,392 [Haesten chuckles] 576 00:42:20,476 --> 00:42:22,519 People do not entirely change, haesten. 577 00:42:27,566 --> 00:42:28,859 [Man 1] Let them through! 578 00:42:28,942 --> 00:42:30,402 [Man 2] News from rumcofa! 579 00:42:32,863 --> 00:42:35,199 - [Man 3] Fetch the guard! - This way? 580 00:42:35,282 --> 00:42:36,408 [Aethelstan] Lord aelfweard. 581 00:42:37,618 --> 00:42:39,495 - I'm aethelstan... - I know who you are. 582 00:42:40,245 --> 00:42:42,790 I cannot forget the boy held hostage with me in Winchester 583 00:42:43,832 --> 00:42:45,459 who offered the Danes his life for mine. 584 00:42:46,627 --> 00:42:48,754 There is talk of an uprising in rumcofa. 585 00:42:50,005 --> 00:42:52,466 People there found the men that slew the visionary. 586 00:42:52,549 --> 00:42:54,384 You need to go inside immediately. 587 00:42:55,594 --> 00:42:58,263 And you need to fetch the king... now. 588 00:43:00,182 --> 00:43:01,225 [Sighs] 589 00:43:19,993 --> 00:43:21,745 We were close in spirit once. 590 00:43:23,580 --> 00:43:26,708 When she was first brought to the palace, I felt... 591 00:43:27,793 --> 00:43:28,836 [Sighs] 592 00:43:28,919 --> 00:43:31,004 I had found... 593 00:43:32,548 --> 00:43:34,633 Not a beloved but at least a friend. 594 00:43:37,678 --> 00:43:40,055 Someone should tell her father. 595 00:43:41,014 --> 00:43:46,520 That falls to me, as penance for ignoring his warnings about the Danes. 596 00:43:47,729 --> 00:43:48,772 [Breathes shakily] 597 00:43:48,856 --> 00:43:51,066 Have him brought from the road to Scotland. 598 00:43:52,442 --> 00:43:55,529 She was dishonored in life, so she will be honored in death. 599 00:43:57,865 --> 00:44:01,368 We must ready both armies to extract justice from sigtryggr. 600 00:44:03,495 --> 00:44:06,206 His wife... for mine. 601 00:44:13,046 --> 00:44:15,090 - [Footsteps departing] - [Grunts] 602 00:44:27,311 --> 00:44:29,354 [Eadgifu] I have been told the news. 603 00:44:33,275 --> 00:44:34,318 It is... 604 00:44:36,945 --> 00:44:38,697 Beyond words. 605 00:44:41,491 --> 00:44:43,535 I did not know her well... 606 00:44:45,204 --> 00:44:48,498 But you humped her husband nonetheless... 607 00:44:50,459 --> 00:44:52,127 Ignored the bonds of matrimony, 608 00:44:52,211 --> 00:44:54,963 gave your flesh freely and brought the wrath of god. 609 00:44:56,048 --> 00:44:57,090 [Eadgifu] Lord... 610 00:44:58,675 --> 00:45:00,636 That is your own guilt speaking. 611 00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,388 Do not seek to place this on me for I am blameless... 612 00:45:03,472 --> 00:45:04,723 We are not blameless! 613 00:45:06,767 --> 00:45:09,228 How can this be anything other than judgment? 614 00:45:10,562 --> 00:45:13,565 My god is not vengeful and neither should you be. 615 00:45:14,107 --> 00:45:17,402 This is the work of men, not god. 616 00:45:17,486 --> 00:45:20,656 Find the men that wronged her and have them feel your wrath. 617 00:45:25,702 --> 00:45:26,745 Forgive me. 618 00:45:28,247 --> 00:45:29,539 [Groans] 619 00:45:29,623 --> 00:45:31,166 I'm not myself. 620 00:45:33,669 --> 00:45:38,298 In truth, I feel a burning shame. I did not love her as I vowed to. 621 00:45:38,382 --> 00:45:40,092 I am not... I am not a good man. 622 00:45:40,175 --> 00:45:41,468 [Sobs] 623 00:45:43,470 --> 00:45:44,930 You are a good man. 624 00:45:45,889 --> 00:45:48,183 It matters not you did not love her. 625 00:45:49,559 --> 00:45:52,521 Others did. That is enough. 626 00:45:59,111 --> 00:46:00,988 Tell the boy the dreadful news. 627 00:46:03,031 --> 00:46:04,157 [Sobbing] 628 00:46:06,285 --> 00:46:07,327 [Eadgifu] Pity him. 629 00:46:09,162 --> 00:46:10,789 Do not pity yourself. 630 00:46:29,975 --> 00:46:32,102 [Edward breathes deeply] 631 00:46:32,185 --> 00:46:33,520 Think of no one but me. 632 00:46:39,818 --> 00:46:41,862 Look at nothing but my eyes. 633 00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,329 Feel nothing but my body. 634 00:47:40,253 --> 00:47:41,421 [Edward breathes deeply] 635 00:47:42,839 --> 00:47:43,882 [Eadgifu sighs] 636 00:47:46,426 --> 00:47:48,720 Swear to me this will not destroy you. 637 00:47:49,721 --> 00:47:53,058 Be a good king, not a good man. 638 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:04,277 [Benedict] Men, women and children herded into my church and slaughtered. 639 00:48:05,237 --> 00:48:07,572 Farm boys wrenched from their loving mothers. 640 00:48:09,241 --> 00:48:13,912 All unprovoked, all taken when they had no sword. 641 00:48:13,995 --> 00:48:16,456 What reason did they give for the king's wrath? 642 00:48:17,416 --> 00:48:19,709 They claimed it was revenge for the death of the queen. 643 00:48:19,793 --> 00:48:24,089 Their reason is to cleanse all Danes from Saxon lands. 644 00:48:24,714 --> 00:48:27,008 Although they have lived alongside them for many years, 645 00:48:27,092 --> 00:48:28,593 they do not want them there. 646 00:48:30,053 --> 00:48:31,930 Your new king and queen will protect you. 647 00:48:32,013 --> 00:48:35,600 You are no longer people of mercia but live under the shield of eoferwic. 648 00:48:36,726 --> 00:48:39,896 Christians will not harm you here. 649 00:48:39,980 --> 00:48:41,690 Ordinary christians do not hate Danes. 650 00:48:41,773 --> 00:48:44,359 And yet Edward will no longer let us thrive here! 651 00:48:47,237 --> 00:48:48,405 We will avenge you. 652 00:48:51,908 --> 00:48:52,951 We will avenge you. 653 00:48:57,289 --> 00:48:58,707 We have to go to war. 654 00:49:10,385 --> 00:49:13,889 We will go north and confront sigtryggr. 655 00:49:15,348 --> 00:49:19,144 Send word he will pay in blood for this affront to us all. 656 00:49:21,813 --> 00:49:24,107 You fight under one king for the first time. 657 00:49:25,609 --> 00:49:27,777 No longer men of wessex or mercia... 658 00:49:29,654 --> 00:49:31,698 But saxons all. 659 00:49:32,866 --> 00:49:35,035 [Crowd murmurs] 660 00:49:35,118 --> 00:49:36,161 Come. 661 00:49:36,912 --> 00:49:40,665 Take some guards to find lord aethelhelm. Bring him home to us, child. 662 00:49:50,842 --> 00:49:53,053 [Hooves beating] 663 00:49:56,806 --> 00:49:59,559 Sihtric... tell me. 664 00:49:59,643 --> 00:50:01,269 News is being spread in aegelesburg 665 00:50:01,353 --> 00:50:03,688 with talk of confronting the Danes in battle. 666 00:50:05,357 --> 00:50:07,400 - How did the news come? - Lord aethelhelm. 667 00:50:08,151 --> 00:50:10,445 He spoke of the dead visionary and pressed for vengeance 668 00:50:10,529 --> 00:50:12,572 - but did not speak of the queen. - [Uhtred sighs] 669 00:50:12,656 --> 00:50:15,617 He did not know. She journeyed in secret. 670 00:50:20,330 --> 00:50:21,790 What if he planned it? 671 00:50:24,584 --> 00:50:26,270 - The killing... - What? Of his own daughter? 672 00:50:26,294 --> 00:50:27,379 No, of aalys. 673 00:50:28,421 --> 00:50:31,716 Aethelhelm was unaware his daughter traveled with the pilgrims. 674 00:50:33,218 --> 00:50:38,098 So he arranged to kill the visionary to poison the people against the Danes. 675 00:50:40,016 --> 00:50:41,601 Then I almost pity him. 676 00:50:42,561 --> 00:50:43,895 Do not pity him. 677 00:50:45,105 --> 00:50:48,858 What he has unleashed will throw my daughter against the saxons. 678 00:50:48,942 --> 00:50:51,861 - We must alert Edward to the enemy within. - [Cynlaef] Lord! 679 00:50:56,157 --> 00:50:57,492 [Uhtred] What are you doing here? 680 00:50:58,910 --> 00:51:00,287 Aelfwynn is in buccstan. 681 00:51:05,709 --> 00:51:06,835 What news of rumcofa? 682 00:51:11,047 --> 00:51:12,591 - What of my son? - My family? 683 00:51:12,674 --> 00:51:13,883 Your son lives, lord. 684 00:51:14,467 --> 00:51:16,303 Your wife and children too, but... 685 00:51:17,637 --> 00:51:19,139 Many in rumcofa... 686 00:51:21,725 --> 00:51:22,767 Where is osferth? 687 00:51:24,185 --> 00:51:27,230 - Finan, where is osferth? - [Uhtred] Finan! 688 00:51:28,732 --> 00:51:31,651 Tell us. Where is osferth? 689 00:51:38,074 --> 00:51:39,367 Make way for the king! 690 00:51:42,245 --> 00:51:45,332 Sigtryggr, let me lead a warrior band. 691 00:51:46,207 --> 00:51:48,501 Let me do more than buttress a shield wall. 692 00:51:49,753 --> 00:51:52,464 Let him join the vanguard. Walk out front. 693 00:51:55,550 --> 00:51:57,510 [Footsteps departing] 694 00:52:02,557 --> 00:52:05,226 If you ask me to, I will turn back now. 695 00:52:05,310 --> 00:52:06,686 I will not ask. 696 00:52:07,812 --> 00:52:11,566 If the king seeks to threaten us, we retaliate... 697 00:52:13,026 --> 00:52:15,695 Even if it means fighting against those that I love. 698 00:52:16,655 --> 00:52:18,990 I never wanted to rend you from your family. 699 00:52:19,616 --> 00:52:22,369 I held the peace so I may hold you, unfractured. 700 00:52:23,745 --> 00:52:25,622 I am not fractured. 701 00:52:26,206 --> 00:52:27,457 And we are united. 702 00:52:29,250 --> 00:52:30,293 [Exhales sharply] 703 00:52:46,643 --> 00:52:49,396 We leave to join our men on the border without delay. 704 00:52:50,146 --> 00:52:52,524 We summon the Saxon king! 705 00:52:53,441 --> 00:52:54,734 And in three days... 706 00:52:55,485 --> 00:52:57,153 [Shouts] In three days... 707 00:52:57,237 --> 00:53:00,699 [Normal] Our army will destroy Edward's army upon the high hills. 708 00:53:00,782 --> 00:53:01,825 [Man] Yes. 709 00:53:01,908 --> 00:53:07,747 In three days, we slaughter him, his offspring 710 00:53:07,831 --> 00:53:09,708 and those who fight in his name. 711 00:53:13,628 --> 00:53:15,588 Tell the coward boy the battle place. 712 00:53:16,297 --> 00:53:17,841 Tell him sigtryggr will be waiting. 713 00:53:18,508 --> 00:53:25,807 [Men chanting] Sigtryggr! 714 00:53:43,908 --> 00:53:45,201 [Aethelstan] Lord aethelhelm. 715 00:53:46,745 --> 00:53:49,038 We have scattered many men in search of you. 716 00:53:49,831 --> 00:53:51,666 And you're the one to find gold. 717 00:53:53,209 --> 00:53:55,295 I've been asked to bring you back to aegelesburg. 718 00:53:57,422 --> 00:53:58,465 Why? 719 00:54:00,133 --> 00:54:02,135 I do not know the reason, lord. 720 00:54:03,553 --> 00:54:05,013 Please just return with me. 721 00:54:06,181 --> 00:54:07,307 Not today. 722 00:54:08,433 --> 00:54:09,559 Feed him. 723 00:54:11,770 --> 00:54:12,812 Make him welcome. 724 00:54:12,896 --> 00:54:14,689 This way, lord aethelstan. 725 00:54:21,029 --> 00:54:24,115 The little bastard knows something he will not tell me. 726 00:54:25,325 --> 00:54:27,160 Perhaps you'd like to get it out of him. 727 00:54:28,077 --> 00:54:33,041 Come, see the men we have gathered for this adventure. 728 00:54:33,124 --> 00:54:35,335 - The king will need... - Lord, I must speak. 729 00:54:39,380 --> 00:54:43,092 The bastard may be concealing that which I myself learned in rumcofa. 730 00:54:49,098 --> 00:54:51,434 Your daughter was traveling with the pilgrims 731 00:54:51,518 --> 00:54:52,894 and was also slaughtered. 732 00:54:55,980 --> 00:54:57,023 {gasps} 733 00:55:06,908 --> 00:55:07,951 [Bresal] Lord. 734 00:55:08,827 --> 00:55:09,911 Did you hear that? 735 00:55:12,539 --> 00:55:14,332 I saw her body in rumcofa, lord. 736 00:55:16,125 --> 00:55:17,585 It's been taken to her husband. 737 00:55:20,213 --> 00:55:22,298 Forgive me. Had we any idea... 738 00:55:24,133 --> 00:55:25,510 Lord, it's not my fault. 739 00:55:26,261 --> 00:55:27,303 Had you have said... 740 00:55:31,975 --> 00:55:34,686 I think it is quite clear where the blame lies. 741 00:55:41,943 --> 00:55:42,986 [Grunts] 742 00:56:10,013 --> 00:56:11,389 [Bresal] Lord, put down the knife. 743 00:56:16,394 --> 00:56:18,396 It is the honorable way. 744 00:56:18,479 --> 00:56:21,232 Since when have we done the honorable thing, lord? 745 00:56:21,941 --> 00:56:24,068 Your grandson needs you alive. 746 00:56:25,445 --> 00:56:29,574 My grandson's fortunes are ruined. 747 00:56:31,868 --> 00:56:33,328 Without the queen... 748 00:56:33,411 --> 00:56:34,913 [Whimpering] 749 00:56:34,996 --> 00:56:37,040 Our influence dies. 750 00:56:38,625 --> 00:56:40,501 [Bresal] Then make them rise again. 751 00:56:41,461 --> 00:56:43,129 Finish what you've started. 752 00:56:43,212 --> 00:56:45,089 [Whimpering] 753 00:56:46,633 --> 00:56:48,760 I know you can do this, lord. I know it. 754 00:56:50,762 --> 00:56:51,804 Find yourself. 755 00:56:53,932 --> 00:56:54,974 Find it. 756 00:56:56,517 --> 00:56:57,602 Fight. 757 00:57:01,356 --> 00:57:02,398 [Inhales sharply] 758 00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:09,781 [Whimpering] 759 00:57:21,042 --> 00:57:22,126 [Whimpers] 760 00:57:29,842 --> 00:57:31,135 [Grunts] 761 00:57:31,135 --> 00:57:36,135 DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.AWAFIM.TV 762 00:57:31,135 --> 00:57:41,135 For latest movies and series with subtitles Visit WWW.AWAFIM.TV Today