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* Thorkell is made of this. Boisterous, lovable, blood-thristy viking? Yes. Can spear a guy roughly a mile away? Yup. Throws entire logs like a human ballista? This guy. Punches horses with his bare fists? Without further ado. Kicks his grand-nephew a hundred meters into the air in a duel? Yeah, he's ''him''. '''GOES FREAKING [[Anime/DragonBallZ SUPER SAIYAN]]?''' This man is awesome-incarnate!
* On that note, Thorfinn defeating Thorkell in their third bout, in conjunction with Askeladd’s guidance, taking advantage of Thorkell’s sole weakness: a glass jaw.
* Knut’s awakening, coming out from his shell and taming Bjorn in his berserker rage and commanding Thorkell’s faction to join him. showing the beginnings of the historical king he will turn out to be.
* Thorfinn's "enlightenment" after spending most of the Farmland Saga in a funk, renouncing killing and fighting.
** But then he's forced to confront Snake to cover for Arneis and Gardar's escape, and [[HesBack he resumes his old fighting stance]] ''barehanded'' and fights defensively to a draw, still as agile as before. Though he feels guilty about it afterward [[ShaggyDogStory and it doesn't save Gardar, who is mortally wounded, and Arneis dies too not long after.]]
** After the attack on the farm, Thorfinn asks to speak with Knut. The guards laugh it off, and after Thorfinn dodges every attack they make, let him through after he takes a hundred punches to the face from a guard with the nickname of "Bear-Killer". Not only that, but he makes his point to Knut, saving the farm, and is allowed to leave alive.
* ''Everything'' about Hild. As a kid she was a TeenGenius inventor, whose innovative designs massively improved the quality of life for her village under her dad's encouragement and support. After the incident where Askeladd's band raids her home and Thorfinn personally kills her father, she survives and undergoes training with a bear hunter, becoming so badass that she regularly hunts bears with a modified crossbow she invented herself and utterly destroys ''[[BadassPacifist Thorfinn]]'' when she faces him one-on-one. Thorfinn only survives due to the pleas of his friends and Hild's own conscience getting the better of her.
* Askeladd. Equal parts RankScalesWithAsskicking and MagnificentBastard. He seems to be one of the strongest warriors depicted in the series, and whatever his sword can't get him out of, his brain will. In fact, when it came time for him to die, he did so on his own terms...after slaughtering about a dozen or so men in a (fake) blood craze.
* Three Words: ''"BOW BEFORE ME!"''
* Thorfinn finally getting angry again and punching one servant hard, all after he just told Einar to keep his calm. Followed by the Funny moment above.
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