Has anyone watched the TV show Vikings? Only one season but DAMN!!

I'm one episode in and binge watching today while I clean house.
I'm intrigued, and want to kill Ragnar's brother already.

watched my first on ruok last night.

be watching some more.

didnt pay attention, is that that scarlet lady they all talking about?

So when did the Nordic people become such sissies allowing Islam to take over their countries without a fight? Where are these descendants of these brave men? Extinct?

I watched the Vikings Marathon last night. Can't wait to watch the season start tonight.

season 2 premiere tonight was awesome!

Great show.

Enjoy your sewer oil meal

I am a descendent of Ragnar and his princess wife, makes the show more interesting when you think if it is somewhat historically accurate when that is your great grandfather, about 30 something times removed:-)

Season 2 has started out just as good as last season. Awesome show.

We love this show and season 2 is just as hardcore as season 1.

Here's a gruesome account on the Vikings:

A Viking Burial Described by Arab Writer Ahmad ibn Fadlan

A 10th century Arab Muslim writer named Ahmad ibn Fadlan produced a description of a funeral of a Scandinavian, Swedish, chieftain who was on an expedition on the eastern route. The account is a unique source on the ceremonies surrounding the Viking funeral, of a chieftain.

The dead chieftain was put in a temporary grave which was covered for ten days until they had sewn new clothes for him. One of his thrall women volunteered to join him in the afterlife and she was guarded day and night, being given a great amount of intoxicating drinks while she sang happily. When the time had arrived for cremation, they pulled his longship ashore and put it on a platform of wood, and they made a bed for the dead chieftain on the ship. Thereafter, an old woman referred to as the “Angel of Death” put cushions on the bed. She was responsible for the ritual. Then they disinterred the chieftain and gave him new clothes. In his grave, he received intoxicating drinks, fruits and a stringed instrument. The chieftain was put into his bed with all his weapons and grave offerings around him. Then they had two horses run themselves sweaty, cut them to pieces, and threw the meat into the ship. Finally, they sacrificed a hen and a cock.

Meanwhile, the thrall girl went from one tent to the other and had sexual intercourse with the men. Every man told her “tell your master that I did this because of my love to him”. While in the afternoon, they moved the thrall girl to something that looked like a door frame, where she was lifted on the palms of the men three times. Every time, the girl told of what she saw. The first time, she saw her father and mother, the second time, she saw all her relatives, and the third time she saw her master in the afterworld. There, it was green and beautiful and together with him, she saw men and young boys. She saw that her master beckoned for her. By using intoxicating drinks, they thought to put the thrall girl in an ecstatic trance that made her psychic and through the symbolic action with the door frame, she would then see into the realm of the dead. The same ritual also appears in the Icelandic short story Völsa þáttr where two pagan Norwegian men lift the lady of the household over a door frame to help her look into the otherworld.

Thereafter, the thrall girl was taken away to the ship. She removed her bracelets and gave them to the old woman. Thereafter she removed her finger rings and gave them to the old woman’s daughters, who had guarded her. Then they took her aboard the ship, but they did not allow her to enter the tent where the dead chieftain lay. The girl received several vessels of intoxicating drinks and she sang and bade her friends farewell.

Then the girl was pulled into the tent and the men started to beat on the shields so her screams could not be heard. Six men entered into the tent to have intercourse with the girl, after which they put her onto her master’s bed. Two men grabbed her hands and two men her wrists. The angel of death put a rope around her neck and while two men pulled the rope, the old woman stabbed the girl between her ribs with a knife. Thereafter, the relatives of the dead chieftain arrived with a burning torch and set the ship aflame. It is said that the fire facilitates the voyage to the realm of the dead, but unfortunately, the account does not tell to which realm the deceased was to go.
[link to thornews.com]

They were not the savages but were much more civilized than the public has been led to think. Their women were respected much more than the Romans did.

Vikings' respect of women was a bit different than Roman's, indeed:

"Meanwhile, the thrall girl went from one tent to the other and had sexual intercourse with the men."
"Then the girl was pulled into the tent and the men started to beat on the shields so her screams could not be heard. Six men entered into the tent to have intercourse with the girl, after which they put her onto her master’s bed. Two men grabbed her hands and two men her wrists. The angel of death put a rope around her neck and while two men pulled the rope, the old woman stabbed the girl between her ribs with a knife."

As for Roman's, check this out:
Thread: The new Roman woman and homosexuality

Around 44 B.C., there emerged what classicists are calling the "new Roman woman." Changes in Roman law for the purpose of increasing economic justice for wives had unpredicted consequences. The property of wives was no longer automatically transferred to their husbands on marriage. Consequently, wives gained newfound independence and financial security. Women were allowed
to terminate their marriage and receive back a portion if not their whole dowry; and they could retain their own property. Therefore, women experienced financial independence and new social freedoms.

Many of these financially independent women used their new freedoms in inappropriate ways. They now sought the sexual freedoms previously reserved for men. The traits of the "new Roman woman" were immodesty, in general, and sexually provocative dress and sometimes promiscuous lifestyle, in particular.
Many older women with substantial endowments were seeking sexual liaisons with younger men. This contrasted starkly with the traditional image of the modest wife.

Sallust (c. 86-c.35 B.C.) said of wealthy Sempronia in Catilene:
There was nothing which she held so cheap as modesty and chastity. Her desires were so ardent that she sought men more often than she was sought by them . . . she was a woman of no mean endowment.

Sallust himself took up with a woman of high standing ten years his senior. Concerning her, Cicero wrote:
The daughter of one of Rome's noblest families, claiming the sexual freedom of a woman of no social standing to lose, and making no effort to conceal her behaviour—`a woman not just noble but notorious'.

Morals had so changed by the turn of the first century that Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 17) made fun of those old-fashioned husbands who felt injured by their wives' infidelities: "That man is so provincial who is hurt by an adulterous wife."

[link to vineyardcolumbus.org]

By 26 BC, when, Sextus Aurelius Propertius published the second book, the "new Roman woman" was common
place and men would turn to pederasty rather than worship these new "goddesses".

"Faithless one, I will
punish thee, and the wind shall bear me, Cynthia, to
some other haven. Though all womankind be deceitful,
yet out of so many I shall find one that will be
glad to be made famous by my song, that will not
with heart hard as thine heap insult on my head,
but will revile thy name. Alas! loved for so long,
too late will fall thy tears!"

"Let my enemies love women, my friends have
their delight in a boy. For then thou descendest
the tranquil stream in unimperilled bark. How can
the waves of such a tiny shore do thee hurt .''His
heart is oft softened by a single word ; she will scarce
be appeased even by thy blood."
[link to www.archive.org]

To save you the trouble of watching season 2, silly.

I'm not saying it was space-aliens.

But it was, space-aliens.

Vikings on tonight