It is no secret that showrunner Michael Hirst has borrowed mightily from history to tell the vivid tale of Ragnar Lothbrok and Lagertha the Shieldmaiden in History’s dramatic hit series Vikings. But a character that figures prominently in this version, Floki, was based on a real-life adventuring Norseman named Flóki Vilgerðarson. In a series of
One of the biggest agents of change for women in acting is Vikings star Katheryn Winnick. While all of Hollywood and beyond are buzzing over deposed studio boss Harvey Weinstein’s alleged serial sexual misconduct, the entertainment landscape has had a sea change where women are grabbing compelling roles and bucking the industry norms of how women
Ominous new Season 5 artwork has been released for History’s Vikings — showing the family killing each other in battle. Ragnar’s crippled son Ivar the Boneless has risen to the ranks of leadership, yet his nemesis Lagertha, Ragnar’s first wife and mother to Bjorn, is still a clear and present danger in Kattegat. The death
Vikings star Katheryn Winnick is to make her debut as a director on the show’s sixth season. The star, who plays Lagertha on the show, will direct one episode of the 20-episode run. The series has just been renewed by History for Season 6, ahead of the fifth season’s premiere later this year. The new
Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ wife Mara Lane this week revealed the star suffered a relapse into alcoholism after she suffered a miscarriage while pregnant with the couple’s second child. She spoke about her loss in an emotional post on social media after Meyers — who is set to star in Vikings on History when it returns
Prepare for civil war on History Channel’s Vikings, as Ivar the Boneless (Alex Hogh Andersen) is still out for revenge on Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick) for murdering his mother. Alliances are made and the upcoming season will surely culminate into a bloody event. Now we have our first look at what’s to come with this trailer
The Vikings finale has come and gone. As have the kings of this great series thus far: King Aelle of Mercia: Blood eagled. King Ecbert of Wessex: Suicide by bloodletting. Ragnar Lothbrok: Death by poisonous vipers at the hands of Aelle and Ecbert. We lost Queen Aslaug to the treachery of Lagertha who wanted her
Tonight we have The Reckoning we have been waiting for, as the sons of Ragnar continue their sweep of the north of England in the finale of Vikings. The episode picks up from last week with the vikings’ Great Heathen Army encircling Aethelwulf and his army. What has not changed is the uneasy alliance between the vastly
Are you ready for this week’s Season 4 finale of History’s Vikings? In last week’s penultimate episode, The Great Army (or known by the Saxons of the time as “The Great Heathen Army”) made it to Wessex and made things awfully difficult for Prince Aethelwulf and the Saxons on the battlefield. Tonight’s finale, titled The
We are winding down this season of Vikings with the interplay of the raiding sons of Ragnar, and Lagertha’s constant tests in Kattegat. Season 4, Episode 19, titled On the Eve, was a bloody (almost) coup in Kattegat that saw the shieldmaidens triumph over King Harald’s stragglers and the plant, Egil the Bastard, the minion