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Canute's and Aelfgifu's oldest son.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Season 1 ends with him [[spoiler: finding Leif who has awakened his berserker genes out of grief for Liv]] and quickly turns and runs away not questions asked.

[[folder:Svein Knutsson]]
->'''Played By: Ruben Lawless'''


Canute's and Aelfgifu's second son. He's named King of Norway by Swein Forkbeard in Season 2.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:After Freydis kills Olaf, Svein begs her to spare his life.]]
* ARealManIsAKiller: His mentor and protector [[spoiler:Olaf tries to teach him this behavior throughout the season, pushing him to become not just a warrior but also being capable and willing of killing a beaten foe]].

* GenderFlip: RealLife Haakon Sigurdsson was a man.
* RaceLift: Real life Haakon very wasn't of African descent, unlike the actress.

->'''Played By:Sam Corlett'''

->'''Played By: Frida Gustavsson'''

->'''Played By: Caroline Henderson'''

* ATrueManIsAKiller: His mentor and protector [[spoiler:Olaf tries to teach him this behavior throughout the season, pushing him to become not just a warrior but also being capable and willing of killing a beaten foe]].

* [[spoiler:SacrificialLion]]: [[spoiler: Her death in "The End of the Beginning" pushes Leif into his latent berserker-genes.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's implied quite heavily that despite his general coldness he still does love his son and grandsons a great deal.

-->''(To Aelfgifu) "YOU THREATENED MY SON'S KINGDOM, AND WHAT'S WORSE, YOU CROSSED ME. [...] BE GRATEFUL YOU ARE STILL ON THIS EARTH."

->'''Played By: Bradley James'''

* BitchInSheepsClothing: He appears friendly towards Freydis and the settlers of Jomsburg, but secretly [[spoiler:he exploits the refugees that have been rescued by his followers, subjecting them to forced labor and having them to live in the forest.

* RatedMForManly: Par the course for Vikings.

[[folder:HaraldHarefoot]]

A jarl who wants root of paganism of Norway.

* BadassGrandpa: Through Canute is the one who does the serious battling, Sweyn is still a warrior king at heart that leads his men from the front. Preferbly with his grandsons behind him to teach them how it's done.

King Canute's wife and queen of Denmark.

* FutureFamousPeople: The future king of England and Denmark.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:In the season 2 finale Freydis impales him vertically from armpit to armpit.]]

* CrisisOfFaith: Leif is undergoing one for the Aesir-religion. He is visibly uncomfortable with human sacrifice and very coy about claims about the gods. Which comes to season 1's big TearJerker moment when [[spoiler: due to his reluctance to subscribe to pagan belief concepts fails to reassure a dying Liv that they will [[TogetherInDeath meet again in Valhalla]] before she passes]].

'''The Vikings''' | [[Characters/VikingsValhallaSaxons The Saxons]]]]]]-]

!The Vikings

!!Pagan Vikings

[[folder: Leif Eriksson]]

[[folder: Freydis Eriksdotter]]

!!Christian Vikings

[[folder: Harald Sigurdsson]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Starts season 1 as an ActualPacifist and ends the season [[spoiler: by having what seems to be his [[StartOfDarkness]]]].

* ReligiousBruiser: Freydis is the most religious pagan character in the show and her fighting against the forceful christianization of Norway becomes central to her arc.

* SilkHidingSteel: Notable for being the only female leader in ''Vikings: Valhalla'' who is also and ActionGirl.

* FlatCharcter: Haakon has a MotiveRant about her backstory to Freydis and acts like TheMentor, but does not have that emotional depth and is more or less "main pagan leader person" and is the least rounded of the main cast, with guest star jarl Kåre being given much more development.