History Characters / TheLastKingdomDanes

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: When Brida learns [[WouldHitAGirl Stiorra is Uhtred's daughter]], she demands that they [[DecapitationPresentation send the girl's head to her father]] as a message]].However, Sigtryggr overrules her]].

* KilledOffscreen: WordOfGod has it Dagfinn is killed in the final battle of Season 3.

* DirtyCoward: Uthred mocks him for his tendency to lose battles and then run away. When challenged to single combat to prove he isn't a coward, Haesten instead marches his whole army out to kill Uthred's small band and then stays at a distance to watch him die. [[spoiler:And, true to form, when the soldiers of Wessex arrive to turn the tide of his one-sided slaughter, he runs away again.]] Subverted in the final battle in Series 3, where he fights ferociously, and claims quite a few kills. He's back to his usual form in Season 4: [[after he makes the mistake of [[RelativeButton provoking Uhtred a bit too much by taunting him about Aethelflaed]], Uthred [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats Haesten to a pulp]] and is on the verge of killing him when Haesten effectively [[AintTooProudToBeg begs for his life]] by telling Uhtred Cnut goaded Aethelwold into murdering Ragnar and offering him Cnut's sons as hostages without a fight]].

* DirtyCoward: Uthred mocks him for his tendency to lose battles and then run away. When challenged to single combat to prove he isn't a coward, Haesten instead marches his whole army out to kill Uthred's small band and then stays at a distance to watch him die. [[spoiler:And, true to form, when the soldiers of Wessex arrive to turn the tide of his one-sided slaughter, he runs away again.]] Subverted in the final battle in Series 3, where he fights ferociously, and claims quite a few kills.

* AffablyEvil He is always cooly polite, even to enemies and people he disdains. His manners are sometimes a cover for ruthless, bloody scheming, but they're always there. And when he's around people he genuinely respects or can learn from, he shows respect and kindness.

* BigBad: Becomes this in the second half of season four, when his forces take Winchester and are able to hold off Edward's forces for a month. In the end, Edward and Aethelflaed have to give him Northumbria in exchange for leaving Winchester and promising to stay out of Wessex and. Mercia.

* IHaveYourWife: Captures Winchester and takes Edward's mother, wife, father in-law and sons hostage.

-->'''Sigefrid:''' PRINCESS! I SEE YOU, PRINCESS! I WILL HAVE YOUR HEAD AND YOUR TITS!

* VillainousBreakdown: With [[spoiler:Eric dead and their plan ransom Aethelflaed to Alfred in ruins, Sigefrid decides to lead a suicide charge against a Saxon army and kill anyone standing between him and Aethelflaed, screaming death threats all the while]].

* BladeBelowTheShoulder; After losing his hand to Uhtred, Sigefried replaces it with a dagger blade.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Become this in the second half of season 2 when they kidnap Aetheflaed, planning to ransom her to Alfred, gaining enough silver to pay for an army that will take Wessex and Mercia. [[spoiler:Erik ultimately betrays Sigefrid when he falls in love with Aethelflaed, leaving Sigefrid as the BigBad.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: Brida was always a bit of a jerk, but she becomes outright vile after Uhtred throws his lot in with Alfred. As Leofric remarks, "she was always angry, but now she's nasty." From there on, she only gets worse, and by the end of season 4 [[spoiler:she has explicitly dedicated her life (and her [[TykeBomb newborn son's life]]) to destroying the Saxons.]]

* PutOnABus: The brothers are ordered to leave Northumbria in return for Uhtred sparing the life of Sigefrid whilst holding him hostage. They return later.

* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: [[spoiler: On Kjartan.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: Brida was always a bit of a jerk, but she becomes outright vile after Uhtred throws his lot in with Alfred. As Leofric remarks, "she was always angry, but now she's nasty." From there on, she only gets worse, perhaps reaching the peak in Season 3: [[spoiler:she's the loudest and most rabid voice in calling for Uhtred's death.]]

The most senior ranking Dane, Ubba is a mountain of a man — loud, brash, violent, playful and a little unhinged. A ferocious warrior, Uhtred is warned as a boy never to fight Ubba, but fate may dictate that he must. Ubba's weakness is his superstition and his reliance on his sorcerer Storri.

!!!Other Danes

[[folder:Skade]]
!!Skade
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Thea Sofie Loch Næss

A ruthless and ambitious seeress first seen as the consort of Bloodhair.

* AmbitionIsEvil: She wants to be the seer and lover of whichever Danish raider can complete the conquest of England.
* AxCrazy: Her idea of a good time is torturing a bunch of monks to death in very imaginative ways.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Or rather, Can't Kill You, You've Put a Curse On Me. Many characters tell Uthred to cut her throat and be done with it, but he can't risk her dying without the curse being lifted. [[spoiler:He eventually learns how to kill her and get rid of the curse, all at once, and promptly drowns her.]]
* DarkActionGirl: Downplayed. She gets in a few kills, but usually only when her victim is either helpless or when they're otherwise at a disadvantage.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her introduction has her gouging out the eyes and cutting out the tongue of one of Bloodhair's own men for failing to avert his eyes quickly enough.
* HotWitch: She's a gorgeous, pouty blonde who uses her sexuality as a weapon.
* [[spoiler:KillItWithWater]]: [[spoiler: After [[FalseReassurance lulling Skade into a false sense of security by pretending to be seduced by her]], Uhtred drowns her in the waters of a lake outside his Coccham estate]].
* TheVamp: She goes through a series of men, using them and discarding them when she deems them too weak to fulfill her visions, and is completely beyond redemption.
-->'''Sihtric''': She is poison to ''all'' men.
* TooDumbToLive: Apart from [[spoiler: repeatedly killing off or allowing to be killed off any man she attaches herself to, proving she can ''never'' be trusted]], perhaps her biggest mistake was [[spoiler: telling a man who had literally been enslaved before "I own you." Uthred evidently already wanted to kill her to free himself from her curse, but that line probably didn't help.]]

[[folder:Skorpa]]
!!Skorpa of the White Horse
->'''Portrayed By:''' Jonas Malmsjö

A sociopathic Danish warrior whom Uhtred encounters raiding Cornwallum, Uhtred's initial alliance of convenience with Skorpa turns them into mortal enemies.

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[[folder:Sigtryggr]]
!!Sigtryggr
->'''Portrayed By:''' Eysteinn Sigurðarson

A Norse-Gaelic warlord who arrives from Ireland, claiming kinship to Ivar the Boneless and by extension Ubba.
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* AffablyEvil He is always cooly polite, even to enemies and people he disdains. His manners are sometimes a cover for ruthless, bloody scheming, but they're always there. And when he's around people he genuinely respects or can learn from, he shows respect and kindness.
* TheChessmaster: Sigtryggr is often eerily calm even in the midst of bloody chaos, usually because he's several steps ahead of his enemies. He all but wipes out the Welsh army of King Hywel by tricking them into walking straight into a trap, then he effortlessly captures Winchester itself and holds off Edward's army for a month, always ready with the right response to everything Edward does.
* DividedWeFall: Defied. Sigtryggr has seen this happen to the previous generation of Danish warlords too many times, [[TaughtByExperience and he knows not to repeat those mistakes]]. As soon as he hears of any hints of dissension or turmoil among the ranks, or realizes that [[spoiler:Eardwulf's]] ambitions might cause these sorts of problems, he deals with it and keeps his forces united.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: As of the start of Season 4, nobody knew anything about him besides that he was a relative of Cnut and was on the edge of being driven out of Ireland by the Irish. Uthred outright mocked Haesten and other Danes for following a boy with no battle reputation. By the end of the season he's brought both Wales and Wessex to their knees, captured Winchester, [[CurbStompBattle brutally defeated]] King Hywel, humiliated King Edward on multiple occasions, and forced Uthred, Edward, and Aethelflaed to [[BegoneBribe basically bribe him into leaving Wessex alone]] by giving hm his own kingdom in Northern England.
* IHaveYourWife: Captures Winchester and takes Edward's mother, wife, father in-law and sons hostage.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: [[spoiler: He and Stiorra bond after he captures her due to their similar outlooks. She ultimately decides to willingly go with him to Northumbria in search of a life more suited to her.]]
* OutsideContextProblem: For both the Welsh and Wessex.
** The Welsh had been content to sit back behind their borders, letting the English and the Danes kill each other in the east, knowing they had a fortified eastern border that they could use to bleed the Danes dry if they tried to invade. Sigtryggr sails from the ''west'' in Ireland, lands on the open Welsh coast, and begins ravaging the country.
** The biggest advantage that the English have against the Danes is that the Danes are more or less completely incapable of siege warfare. The Danish warlords are mostly sailors and raiders, they don't have much experience at long-term warfare that consists of more than luring your enemy into a battle where the terrain and conditions favor them. The construction of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burh burhs]], fortified towns made to resist attack by the Danes, has frustrated them and stopped them from being able to overrun Wessex. Sigtryggr, however, understands siege warfare, so not only he able to utilize surprise to take Winchester, but he knows how to defend it afterward instead of simply looting it and running. Every time Edward tries to retake the city, Sigtryggr is ahead of him and defeats him, causing Edward bloody and humiliating losses.
* TheUnfettered: Most Danish warriors hope to gain glory and a chance to enter Valhalla. Even defeat isn't so bad if it means you'll live on in songs or earn your way into Odin's hall. Sigtryggr fights to ''win'', and as a result he will take actions that no other Dane would. (This includes both ruthless, bloody schemes ''and'' pragmatic compromises with the Saxons.)
* YoungAndInCharge: At first Uthred mocks him as a young boy with no reputation. Sigtryggr might be young, but it turns out he is ''plenty'' capable.