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I think she can be pretty. She just has really defined and strong facial features. To me, it mainly depends on the angle of her face.

Source: http://www.listal.com/viewimage/2012133h

Edit: I still MUCH rather Lagertha. Katheryn Winnick is a hottie

Here you go It is alleged during the Luna siege he had a courier send word that he had a deathbed conversion to christianity and wanted to be buried on church ground. When he was laid in the church, he busted out of the coffin, and carved a path to the gates, capturing the city.

Blagden has actually talked about this and given us an answer. Spoilers for the end of the season!!!!

Here is another source talking about parts of Paris burned in 857

https://books.google.com/books?id=ZtYiBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=Paris+burned+by+vikings&source=bl&ots=NGor3Nz9Q2&sig=rsHhUF7oNZ8obeXTp7QLIs1IyS4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Tyo4VZ-rBpH3yQSj2ICwDQ&ved=0CEEQ6AEwCw#v=onep...

"Try and remember that the Blood Eagle was generally reserved for only the most heinous of crimes or betrayals." This is not true, the blood eagle has been proved to have been a myth, have a read of this if your interested. https://www.academia.edu/4020673/The_Last_European_Barbarians_The_Vikings Edit: pages 5 and 6

He's actually not far off the mark, the military tactics at that time in England were abysmal.

Source: The Art of War in the Early Middle Ages

http://thedailybeagle.net/2013/06/23/bjorn-ironside-the-viking-ideal/

The story starts in the third paragraph and here too:

https://books.google.com/books?id=y0U-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=bjorn+ironside+luna&source=bl&ots=mQApX8utqS&sig=VOOkVRFCO9NUgqQDRHFA1hK44ds&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Q5YNVfCPNMGUNs_KgsAI&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&... Start on page 79.

Think I found it:

https://smile.amazon.com/Vikings-Seasons-1-5-BD-Blu-ray/dp/B07VYT17Z4/ref=mp_s_a_1_13?crid=2OKEIYTX27BG2&keywords=vikings+blu+ray&qid=1643925594&sprefix=vikings+b%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-13

I got The Sea Wolves as a free nook book back in December and it was very good.

Okay. Let's take it like this, Ragnar was born in 765 A.D. to Sigurd Hring, the Jarl of Uppsala. Sources differ on when he died but it is regarded that he died sometime between 845 A.D. and 865 A.D. The Great Heathen Army, led by his eldest son Ivar the Boneless invaded England in 867 to enact revenge on Ælla of Northumbria, who executed his father.

So basically he was either 99 or 89 when he died. Also the show has a bit of a problem with the timing of his children. He didn't have Ivar until 794 AD, well into his late twenties. If I recall he had Sigurdr when he was in his forties or so too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Lodbrok

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sigurdsson-4

its true he did not marry Gisla, however he did recieve Normandy Through a treaty with the King Charles the Simple. He was also married to a Christian woman from Scotland before this (who is believed to have bore his successor, William Longsword).

"Rollo's name figured prominently in the treaty between King Charles the Simple of France and the Seine Vikings in 911. By that famous agreement, the Vikings received control of the territory at the mouth of the Seine in return for certain services to the King. Rollo himself was granted Upper Normandy (the territory between the Epte River and the sea), and he was converted to Christianity and baptized by the archbishop of Rouen. Rouen was the capital of the ecclesiastical province of Normandy, which Rollo's successors later added to their initial territory."

source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Rollo.aspx

(I think this is the one.)[https://www.amazon.com/IVAR-BONELESS-Legends-History-Vikings-ebook/dp/B078Z8X2CB/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2XB9OICM7RRUU&dchild=1&keywords=ivar+the+boneless&qid=1606915459&sprefix=ivar+%2Caps%2C206&sr=8-6]

I read more than one, but I know for sure I read this one. It's 99 cents on Kindle, free w/Kindle Unlimited.

OK, this is actually the second recommendation that I seen for this movie. I am going to check it out. I think its this one? https://www.amazon.com/Viking-Danila-Kozlovsky/dp/B07HYS9D82/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=danila+kozlovsky+movie+viking&qid=1576042739&sr=8-1 It's actually on prime of all places, which I am a member of so I don't have to pay a rental fee to view it. :)

Cisco Anyconnect and NordVPN - just tested with USA, Canada, France Oceania, Japan - all accessible, If you are getting the WHoops... error, you could be using an ublocker pr proxy - dont bother with those, NORD vpn works fine

EDIT : Free VPNs indeed no longer work. mind you i dont pay for my cisco connection.

I had the Usborne Norse Myths and Legends book as a kid and I loved it! (In fact, I still have it.)

It's illustrated incredibly well, and is just the right mix of fun and slightly scary for little kids.

> Like gay rulers have existed (off the top of my head there's Edward II, Richard the Lionheart is thought to be bisexual, Mad King Ludwig etc.)

Avoid to have a controversial/strong opinion about something that you don't understand.

There is not a credible evidence to support Edward II homosexuality, you must saw this shit in Braveheart, which is 99% inaccurate in every aspect. He was very unpopular and was overthrown before die.

>Edward's current popular image was also shaped by his contrasting appearance in Mel Gibson's 1995 film Braveheart, where he is portrayed as weak and implicitly homosexual, wearing silk clothes and heavy makeup, shunning the company of women and incapable of dealing militarily with the Scots.

That's another Holywood stupidity over stretching 2 rumors of a unpopular ruler.

>Richard the Lionheart

There is no credible evidence either. Some revisionists of history love to call the crusader king-warrior of gay just because would raise a lot of eyebrows and got 'em in the news. There some loose things like his weird friendship with Philip Augustus, but nothing conclusive or that he is bisexual, that's just insane.

To support a thesis like that you need far more than your wacky head buddy.

>And homosexuality in greece was pretty common

No, it wasn't pretty common. There was specific cultures that institutionalized it, come argue Sparta did this - but was dined by Xenophon a couple of times, but there was a very different context of today's being gay.

Most of greek philosophy was incredible sexist, regarding women morally weak, like Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics. Sexual relationships between men were idealized in the classical period, through poetry and culture in general.

Like I said about the sacred band, they weren't necessarily naturally gay, but kept the couple as some romaticized warrior ideal.

Thanks, i saw a couple of those, that third one is really nice, i think i have found the exact one ragnar has on amazon https://www.amazon.com/Asgard-Chunky-Pewter-Viking-Bracelet/dp/B007GADFSQ

http://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/vikings-jewelry.jpg thats a picture of him holding it.

I didn't say that the entirety of modern Russia is a heritage from the Norse. I said it was settled by them. It was settled by other tribes as well. Modern Russians can have some Viking ancestry.

Keep in mind that Rasputin was big, bearded, and outlasted multiple attempts to assassinate him. He could have had Viking ancestry.

The book The Tragic Dynasty: The History of the Romanovs gets into this.

Got here a little late, but if you're still looking I'd recommend this book. It's a childrens' book that I grew up with, and explains pretty much the whole cannon. The authors' one on Greek mythology is definitely comprehensive and ELI5 as well.