Charlemagne famously involved in a multi generational war against a people to his east who are called the Saxons. The victory conditions that Charlemagne set up in this war were that the Saxons had to give up their traditional religion or else they were going to die. There were 4,500 Saxons beheaded in a single afternoon at the edge of a river in a town called Verdann because they were allegedly the leaders of one of the many Saxon rebellions against him. And it's hard to know where one ended and the other began.
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.