All language subtitles for S03E07 - Paris - Ehhhh

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Tell me about paris.

It has these walls all around.

This city is impregnable.

Give us the name of the father
of your child?

Athelstan.

Athelstan.

Then you're
a christian again?

With all my heart.

It is better that
I leave kattegat now.

What do you mean?
You cannot leave!

You're the only one I can
trust so you must stay.

Blood must be spilled.

A sacrifice be made.

My purpose is clear.

Lord, receive my soul.

There is nothing that can
console me now.

Forgive me, my friend,
not for what I have done.

But for what I am about to do.

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Lord ragnar.

It is all very well to
criticize others.

The progress of the northmen
would have been frustrated

At every reach of the river.

But while others
have neglected
their responsibilities,

I have not been idle.

Paris has been prepared
for this attack.

We are well-provisioned with
food and water,

Enough to last
the whole summer.

I am relieved to hear it.

To some extent,

We are at your mercy,
count odo,

For you must protect us
against these pagans.

Your highness,
it is still not too late
for you to leave the city.

Many here would urge you
to save yourself.

Surely,

They would blame me
for abandoning

Our capital at such a time?

Perhaps they would think
it is a sensible precaution.

Allow me a moment
to reflect, count odo.

Father?

Count odo thinks it might be
a good idea for me to leave.

You must tell count odo
that you have no intention
of abandoning your people.

That whatever happens,

You will stay with them,

Be with them,

Protect them.

I am sure, father, that that
was always your intention.

Count odo,

I am determined
not to quit the city.

Not in its most
urgent hour of need.

These next few days and weeks

Will test the faith
of all of us.

I pray to god almighty that
not one of us

Is found wanting

In either courage

Or belief.

Yours is a heavy burden,

Count odo.

You have many christian
souls in your care.

I carry this burden
with a light heart,

Knowing I share it
with our lord,
and with your highness.

But I must ask your highness
if you have appealed to

Your brother, the
eastern emperor, for help?

He could surely provide
an army for our relief.

I will not ask either of
my brothers for help.

I must prove myself better
than my brothers, count odo,

And these northmen have
provided the opportunity.

Defeat them,

And I will be seen as a worthy
successor

To my grandfather,

To the great charlemagne.

So you see, count odo,

That your burden is...

Really much heavier
than you imagined.

Raise shields!

Climb! Climb aboard!

Row! Row!

Mmm.

Forgive me

For asking, my son,
but how is your marriage?

It's a marriage.

It is hard to forget
what happened, and...

I try hard to forgive,

As our lord requires us to do.

"even those who
trespass against us."

I'm glad to hear it.

There is something
I wanted to ask you.

Judith is king aelle's
daughter.

What does she think
of her father?

And...

What would she think if
we decided to overthrow him?

You would really do that?

Of course.

How else would I become
bretwalda, king of kings?

King of all England. Of course
I must overthrow him.

I just wondered how upset
your wife would be.

From what judith has told me,
there is no love lost
between them.

That is what I thought.

Do you plan to invade?

Not initially.
I have certain plans in place.

Various suggestions
to invite chaos.

Including, perhaps,
assassination.

My god! Father, aelle is
your ally and your friend.

Oh, no.

Not my friend.

I don't have any friends.

It's better that way.

Come here, alfred.

Come to your grandfather.

A magnificent boy!

I wonder how he is?

Who?

Athelstan.

It's that name again.

Why must you forever
bring him to mind?

For when I think of that
filthy apostate,

It reminds me of how my
wife whored with him.

-And how much more she should have suffered for it.
-Aethelwulf!

This is not to do with you,
father!

This is between me and
this jezebel!

This harlot!

Leave. Now.

Here.

You wanted to talk
to me, ragnar?

I miss him.

Athelstan.

I wish he was here with us.

Since you carry his cross,
he still is here with us.

He would have been useful.

We will manage without him.

Well.

We have no choice now.

Father, forgive me.

Holy father, forgive me.

For behold,
I am a miserable sinner.

I must speak with the prince.

Prince aethelwulf!

Prince aethelwulf!

You have interrupted the
sacred.

There is no excuse.

There is one, my lord.

Death waits for no man!

You sent nobles with
queen kwenthrith, to look
after our interests in mercia.

What happened to you?

Repudiated the contract
she signed with us.

She wants to rule alone.

She tried to kill all of us
that were sent to safeguard
the interests of wessex.

She is quite mad.

Speak no more.

Rest, my lord.

I know we have had
our differences of late.

Perhaps it is my fault,
I have not been myself.

I want you to know, floki,

That I need you.

Now more than ever.

I've always

Believed in you.

That is why

I want you to be in command
of this raid.

Me?

Sit, sit.

It's okay, sit.

King ragnar,
we have reached paris.

-Now, we all want to know...
-Puh, puh, puh, puh...

The king...

My oldest friend has asked me
to take command.

So...

How do we best
attack the city?

Have taken a closer look
at the city from further up
the bank.

And we suggest a plan.

To mount simultaneous
attacks both from the water
and from the land.

I will lead an assault on the tower
and the gates of the city.

We will attack the
gates together.

I said I would lead
the assault.

I will make that decision,
if and when we need
to make it.

I trust earl kalf to make it.

I don't think you
were listening.

At the same time as the attack
at the gates,

There will also be

A river-borne attack.

The ships will be filled with
warriors and means of scaling,

We will climb up
and gain entry to the city
that way as well.

In which case, floki,
you will be responsible
for constructing

Whatever it is we need
to scale these walls.

Oh, don't you
worry about me, rollo.

I will make something
truly astonishing.

Just wait and see.

All those who agree
with the plan, say aye.

Aye!

Aye.

Let's hope the gods
bless your efforts.

Please take her.

Take my baby.

What are you talking about?

I cannot care for her.

Of course you can.

I can't.

I want her to be
like your sons.

I want her to be viking.

What does it matter what you
call someone?

Whether she's viking or
not viking is not important.

What is important is that you
love and nurture her.

For if you are fortunate,
she will grow up healthy.

And give you grandchildren
to be proud of.

Think of bjorn.

I am...

This is why I want you
to raise his daughter.

Bjorn loves you.

Bjorn will be much happier

And better off without me.

That is not true.

It is a very selfish thing to
believe.

I cannot help it.

Your daughter needs you.

She needs her mother.

You must not talk this way.

Pray to freya.

Freya will comfort you
as she comforts me.

We women bear heavy burdens.

But it is not to be helped.

And even when we are dealt
with harshly,

Remember, it is the gods who
have woven our destinies.

Not ourselves.

My son.

I have another mission for you
on our behalf.

You must go to mercia and
persuade queen kwenthrith

That her interests and ours
are one and the same.

She has killed six
of our nobles.

Yes.

That is certainly...

Unfortunate.

And she ought to be punished.

So much for gratitude.

What kind of a world
do we live in,

When the friends of
our friends, kill our friends?

But still, there is a way for
this deluded queen
to find some redemption.

There is?

My son,

Mercia has been weakened
by years of civil wars.

She is no longer what she was,
and must acknowledge
the power of wessex.

Without wessex,
mercia is now more than ever

At the mercy of the northmen.

As well as other
saxon neighbors.

Like northumbria?

Precisely. Like northumbria.

Yes.

Those closest, but unexpected,
can sow a terrible harvest.

I charge you to go to mercia.

And tell the queen
that she may be forgiven
for slaughtering our nobles

But only if she begs mercy
and reconfirms her subjugation
to wessex.

If not,

We will show her
the iron fist.

We will invade and we will
destroy her,

And her limbs being fastened
to four horses,
her body will be torn apart.

Or something of that sort.

But also tell her
that we have a repugnance
for such measures,

Being christians.

Torvi...

Torvi, I should have
spoken before.

Why?

You know why.

It doesn't matter.

I am not with child,
neither am I a child.

I took advantage.

So did I.

Uh...

This is for you.

What's that?

Nothing.

-Let me see!
-No.

You are hurting me.

It's far too good for you.

Whore.

The northmen have been scouting the countryside,
and our defenses.

We must expect an attack
any day now.

I regret not sending you
to safety in time.

It is much on my mind.

I did not want to be
sent away.

I wanted to stay here
with you.

There is nowhere I would
rather be than here in paris,

Beside you,
in your hour of need.

But I must tell you both,

I have been much
about the city.

The people of paris are
frightened to death
by this pagan army.

So far, only their firm belief
in god's grace and protection,

Prevents them from becoming
hysterical and violent.

I am aware of the need
to pacify and control
the population.

Thank you, princess gisla.

Perhaps you yourself might
help to reassure them

That we are well-protected,
and have enough supplies
to withstand a long siege.

Though, god willing,
it will not come to that.

You may rely upon me to
do everything possible to

Persuade the people of our
ultimate victory.

Even your presence
in the city, princess,

Helps them to believe in that.

Yet it is for my father
to lead us to that victory.

Is it not, father?

I must to bed.

I am tired.

But I am glad we have had this
conversation,

And I am also very glad that
I have placed my faith in you,
count odo,

As well as in god almighty,

For the successful outcome
of this matter.

I must too go to bed.

Of course.

And yet I beg you to stay
a moment and listen to me.

You once refused
my offer of marriage.

What had I achieved?
What could I offer you?

But then I heard how many
other offers of marriage
you had declined,

From men far richer,
far grander than me, and...

So, it gave me hope.

And my hope is that once
I have successfully managed
the defense of paris,

And the defeat of the
northmen, and...

Gained a new and high
reputation,

You will look again at
my proposal?

If you save paris,

I will forever
be in your debt.

But your first duty,
count odo,

Is to concentrate on the
defeat of the northmen.

On that, I am sure
we both agree.

Higher up.

Pull again, pull again.
It needs to be more at an angle.

You must be hungry.
I have brought
you something to eat.

I'm not hungry.

My work nourishes me.

I have so many
responsibilities now, helga.

Everyone is depending on me.

My inventions will allow us
to enter paris.

You will see, helga.

Our warriors will storm
the walls

And we will all win
the greatest renown.

Especially me.

Floki, the boat builder.

Floki, the tower maker.

But, of course...

It's not me making
these towers.

It's the gods

Using my poor hands.

Do you know why they are
helping me, helga?

Do you know why?

It's because I gave them
a great sacrifice.

I appeased them.

I delighted them.

I filled them with joy.

Do you know what I did, helga?

Do you know what I did?

I killed athelstan!

Whoa! Whoa.

Who are you?

You know who I am.

Not until you tell me the
purpose of your visit,
the queen will need to know.

Queen kwenthrith knows
perfectly well, that the son

Of king ecbert of wessex
wishes to speak to her.

She would certainly
be ill-advised if she refused
to meet me.

Look! You...

Do as you're told.

If you want to spare
your life.

Judith...

You spoke before in the
baths of the romans.

I was surprised.

Most of our people know
nothing about them.

I still know very little,
but I was always curious.

I have some words, here...

From the romans themselves.

Athelstan helped me
to translate them.

Athelstan?

"don't ask, we may never know,
leuconoe, what the gods plan
for you and me.

"leave the chaldees to parse

"the sentence of the stars."

So strange.

As though he is here,
talking to us now.

"of expectation. Life's short.

"even while we talk,
time, hateful, runs a mile.

"don't trust tomorrow's bough
for fruit,

"pluck this, here, now."

Well, whoever wrote those
words must be very wise.

Judith.

As long as there is breath
in my body, I will protect you

And your son, alfred.
Believe me.

Hm.

Prince athelwulf.

Do forgive me for keeping
you waiting.

Queen kwenthrith, I bring
a message from my father.

He condemns the murder of our
nobles, who accompanied
you here in good faith.

He insists that you reaffirm
the status of mercia
as a client state of wessex.

Ah, so much talk of business.

Come, now.

May I offer you a cup of wine?

To our alliance.

There.

Now, come.

Sit.

So...

I'm quite happy to discuss
these matters further.

What is there to discuss?

My father insists that...

My father, my father!

How old are you, aethelwulf?

Do you always do what your
father tells you?

Don't you have
your own thoughts
and your own feelings?

I have feelings of duty.

I try to do what is right.

For my country and for my god.

Oh.

Do you know what I wonder?

I wonder what your father
threatened to do to me.

Hm... Let's see.

Did he want to tear me apart?

Violate me?

Whip me?

Oh, whip?

Would you like to whip me?

Would it excite you?

Oh...

Come to my bed.

After all, why not enjoy
what your father enjoyed?

Lead me not into temptation,

But deliver me from evil.

Goodnight.

Sweet dreams.

Come.

Prince aethelwulf?

May I present to you, my son,

Prince magnus.

Hello darling.

That is a northern name,
that is not one of ours.

Oh, clever you.

Yes, he's named
after his father.

His father?

I think you may know him.

Ragnar lothbrok.

Our nobles...

Before you killed them...

Never reported that
you were with child,

Still less that the father
was ragnar lothbrok.

Nevertheless,
he is ragnar's son.

And nothing will stop him from
returning to these shores

Both for magnus
and for his settlement.

We have destroyed
his settlement.

Then he will return

With vengeance upon you.

In which case, it will
inconvenience us a great deal

If he were to find a ready
ally here in mercia.

So whether or not this poor
child is ragnar's son,

Makes no difference.

He cannot help you.

And you can't threaten us
with him.

Guards!

Queen kwenthrith,

You would
be unwise to kill us.

It would give my father
the very pretext he needs.

A pretext to invade mercia

And become its king.

He may even have been
prepared to sacrifice me

To attain his ends.

So, if you value your life,

Then I suggest you sign
the documents we have
brought with us,

Reaffirming the fact that
mercia is a vassal state
of wessex,

And must, in future,
pay not only homage,
but also taxes to wessex

For the privilege.

Everything ready, floki?

Yes.

Everything is ready.

Tomorrow we attack paris.

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