History Awesome / Vikings

* A Mercian footsoldier, really no different from the ones we've seen slaughtered by the score so far, is tasked with killing Kwenthrith and makes a mad dash to the tower, only to be shot in the leg by a Wessex archer. Well, that's that taken care of... nope, he pulls the arrow out and then damn near beats [[BadassInCharge Prince Aethelwulf]], who comes after him with murder in his eyes, in a knockdown-dragout brawl which has to be seen to be believed. He's only stopped by a stone thrown from the battlements; [[FriendlyFire by his own side, no less]]. Okay, his goal wasn't all that noble, but Mr Random Mercian Mook had some serious balls on him.

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* What do you get when you mix Sabaton and Amon Amarth with Vikings? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM0oVKi3Uug Awesomeness]]. Pure Death Metal Viking [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGHPCuqjuWY awesomeness]].
* The Series Premiere for ''Vikings'' managed to beat the Season 3 Premiere of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' by a sizable margin. Pretty impressive for a new show.

*** ''"[[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Twilight of the Gods will happen like this]]: [[SignsOfTheEndTimes There will be]] [[EndlessWinter three years of terrible winters]] [[TheNightThatNeverEnds and summers of black sunlight]]. [[JustBeforeTheEnd People will loose all hope]] [[HumansAreBastards and surrender to]] [[{{Greed}} greed]], [[VillainousIncest incest]] and [[WarIsHell civil war]]. [[KrakenAndLeviathan Midgarthormen]], [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment the world serpent]], [[EldritchAbomination will come lunging from the ocean]] [[TheGreatFlood dragging the tides in an flooding the earth]]. [[CanisMajor The Wolf]], [[AnimalisticAbomination giant Fenrir]], [[SealedEvilInACan will break his invisible chains]]! [[FromBadToWorse The skies will open]] [[UltimateEvil and Surtr]] [[ElementalEmbodiment the fire giant]], [[{{Gotterdammerung}} will come flaming across the bridge to destroy the Gods]]. [[LastStand Odin will ride out of the gates of Valhalla]] [[HopelessWar to do battle for a last time against the wolf]]. [[MutualKill Thor will kill the serpent but die from it's venom]]. [[PyroManiac Surtr will spread fire across the earth]]. [[TheStarsAreGoingOut And at last Fenrir shall swallow the sun]]!"''

* Earl Siegfrid's execution doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}. He ask for someone to hold his hair so the axeman can make a clean cut, but then pulls back at the last second... pulling the hands of the soldier holding his hair into the path of the axe.

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