The more you gloriously seek out death and don't fear it the better your chances if you're not having a place to sit when the music stops at either Valhalla or some of the other places you can go. In these early raids that famously kick off this whole era a lot of opponents that are trying to stand up to these fearsome and fearless Viking warriors are monks. The ideas of fearlessness and fierceness are kind of neutral in terms of what they imply I mean you can be fearsome and fearless defending your own family right it doesn't mean anything by itself it doesn't imply aggressiveness but there are the other elements in this culture that are so fascinating.
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.