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If Netflix\u2019s new historical drama Vikings: Valhalla<\/em> looks and feels familiar, that\u2019s because it is. It\u2019s the successor to the History Channel\u2019s hugely popular Vikings<\/em>, the six-season epic that told the story of the semi-mythical Ragnar Lothbrok<\/a> and his sons.<\/p>\n Read on for the real history of Vikings: Valhalla<\/em> \u2013 from the true stories of the historical characters depicted on screen to the liberties taken by the show in the name of creative licence\u2026<\/p>\n ** This section contains no major spoilers for Vikings: Valhalla season 1**<\/em><\/p>\n Vikings: Valhalla<\/em> is set approximately a hundred years after the final season of Vikings<\/em> concludes<\/a> bringing us a new generation of Norse warriors and rulers, dreamers and schemers. At the centre of the action are three historical figures for whom we have records in varying degrees: Nordic prince Harald Sigurdsson (played by Leo Suter), whom we know better today as Harald Hardrada<\/a>; legendary explorer Leif Eriksson<\/a> (Sam Corlett), and his sister Freyd\u00eds Eir\u00edksd\u00f3ttir<\/a> (Frida Gustavsson).<\/p>\n But while the show feels and looks familiar, the Viking world we see this time around is not the same. If Vikings<\/em> showed us the glory days of Norse expansion<\/a> from Scandinavia, the raid on Lindisfarne<\/a> and the Great Heathen Army<\/a>, Vikings: Valhalla<\/em> brings with it a sense of lingering finality.<\/p>\n This is the Viking Age at the beginning of the end, where the Viking world is riven by religious tension within \u2013 pitting Christian Vikings against \u2018pagan\u2019 Vikings<\/a> \u2013 as well as more traditional enemies without.<\/p>\n The lynchpin moment that kicks off the plot is the St Brice\u2019s Day Massacre<\/a> of 1002, in which king \u00c6thelred II of England orders the extermination of all Vikings<\/a> in his realm, many of whom live within the Danelaw<\/a> [a region under Danish law in Anglo-Saxon England].<\/p>\n It\u2019s in the aftermath of this slaughter that Harald, Leif and Freyd\u00eds are brought together, bound up in a quest for revenge that introduces us to new pantheon of historical characters, including warrior king Edmund Ironside<\/a>, politically savvy queen Emma of Normandy<\/a>, Danish empire builder Cnut the Great<\/a> and his father, the no-nonsense Sweyn Forkbeard<\/a>.<\/p>\n Vikings: Valhalla<\/em> arrives on Netflix on\u00a025 February 2022 in US and the UK, with all 8 episodes\u00a0released at the same time.<\/p>\n Two trailers for Vikings: Valhalla<\/em> have been released \u2013 watch them both below:<\/p>\nVikings: Valhalla<\/em> plot \u2013 what should we expect?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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