Early Viking era Danish king Gottafried gets shanked in the back or something like that by one of his bodyguards allegedly. There's a you know a little JFK assassination type speculation going on here but exactly who might be responsible for that is not known. Why do I have to fight you when if I just kill you your relatives will fight over the kingship and dissolve into those same Viking band of you know feuding barbarians you always were, says historian Roger Collins.
This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster.