History Characters / TheLastKingdomDanes

* KillEmAll: Haesten makes this into a battle cry during the final battle of Season 3.
-->'''Haesten''': Kill ''every'' shit-eating Saxon bastard!

* AnAxToGrind: His favoured weapon is an axe, and he can do a great many terrible things with it. [[spoiler:Uhtred places Ubba's axe in his hands, so he may hold it as he dies.]]

* AnAxToGrind: Haesten's weapon of choice.

* AnAxeToGrind: His weapon of choice. [[spoiler: Brida ensures it's in his hand when he dies]].

* AnAxeToGrind: Skorpa's weapon of choice.

* AnAxToGrind: His WeaponOfChoice.

* AnAxToGrind: His weapon of choice.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Much like Uhtred, who is roughly the same age. Decades pass in-story, but Brida shows no signs of being much older.

* DarkMessiah: At the start of Season 5, she has come to see herself as the champion of the Old Gods, leading a band of fanatics who regularly engage in human sacrifice and calling for a vicious purge of any Danes in Eoferwic who have converted to Christianity. [[spoiler: Her daughter's death seems to break her out of these delusions.]]

* DecapitationPresentation: [[spoiler:He presents Lord Uthred with the head of his oldest son.]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: Much like Uthred, who is roughly the same age. Decades pass in-story, but Brida shows no signs of being much older.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: Sven, [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour while only a boy]] strips Thyra topless and probably would have done worse had Uthred not intervened. (This is actually ''toned down'' from the books, where he strips naked and tries to force Thyra to masturbate him before Uthred attacks him). When his father attacks and murders Ragnar, Sven takes Thyra as a captive, making clear his intentions to keep her as a SexSlave]].

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:While he kills his brother in both the show and the books, he's considerably less bothered by it in the books. As such, while in the show he dies bravely death charging into the army of Wessex, in the books Uthred knocks his weapon away before he kills him [[FateWorseThanDeath so he is denied Valhalla]], explicitly stating neither he nor Erik wish his company there.]]

* 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: [[spoiler: 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]]. Subverted again in Season 5 [[spoiler: when he refuses to betray Uhtred, Finan and Sihtric, even at the cost of his own life]].

* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:He seems to be set up as Season 3's BigBad. He's highly intimidating, with both himself and Skade believing he is destined to kill Alfred. However, he then spends the entire season being outclassed by Uthred at almost every turn. Skade abandons him fairly early on, and Bloodhair subsequently falls apart. He remains in a constant state of distress that he no longer has Skade and expends all his efforts into getting her back.]]

* UnstoppableRage: From the moment he comes to believe that [[spoiler:Uthred has killed one of his young sons]], Cnut is in unstoppable rage mode full time. Notably, this ''doesn't'' make him a better warrior, when he fights Uthred one on one, Cnut proves to be BlindedByRage and Uthred easily avoids most of his attacks. But Cnut ''does'' shrug off multiple very serious, perhaps mortal wounds during the fight so he can keep trying to kill Uthred. Only when Uthred reveals that [[spoiler:he faked the death of Cnut's son]] does Cnut's rage break. At the same time, his body suddenly realizes how seriously he's wounded, and that [[spoiler:he's dying]].

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: Brida to Skade when Skade demands to see Uthred and threatens to curse Brida if she is denied. Brida blocks Skade’s powers with a Nithstong and states that this is Freya’s land. This action angers Skade so much that she swears to kill Brida for it. To this effect, Skade's other charms prove ineffective around Brida as well. Specifically, Skade’s use of sex appeal to get her way. Skade might be able to bamboozle her male captors by showing her boobies but other women seem utterly unimpressed by these attempts to distract and are immediately able to see right through her. For example, Brida was the first to notice that Skade has no runes and questions if she is even a real seer despite calling herself one if this is the case.

* BaldOfAwesome: Not a hair on his head and one of the fiercest and most loyal Danes to be found.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Finan and Sihtric.

* BeardOfEvil: A short, scraggly one.

* PetRat: Serves as one to Brida, and later Cnut.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: Spends his last moments detailing to Aethelflaed his and his men's plans to gang-rape her]].
-->'''Jackdaw''': [[spoiler: Since you're Alfred's daughter, I'll let you choose which of us humps you first]].

* WhamLine: In-universe, when he tells Uhtred the identity [[spoiler: of Ragnar's true killer]].
-->'''Uhtred''': Say your message.
-->'''Jackdaw''': [Brida] says [[spoiler: Aethelwold]], lord. She says do not fail.

* BeardOfEvil: Has a long black beard and is a nasty piece of work.

* TheDragon: First to Erik, then to Haesten.

* TheAlcoholic: You have to be a ''really'' bad drunkard to be seen as one amongst the notoriously rowdy Danes.

* UndyingLoyalty: To Stiorra and Sigtryggr.

-->'''Uhtred''': ''(to Brida)'' You may dislike me, hate me at times, despise me if you wish. But love is immortal. It goes on.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: When he tries to rape Aethelflaed, he didn't realise she's an ActionGirl who would [[DamselOutOfDistress fight back]].

* Tempting Fate: Assure Sven that Dunholm is impregnable and Uhtred and Ragnar can never take it. In the ensuing battle, Uhtred infiltrates Dunholm with a small force and opens the gates, taking Kjartan completely by surprise.

-->'''Ragnar''': You drip poison in every ear! ''Everything'' you touch turns to shit!

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: In Season 1, he allies with Aelfric for a time because they both want Uhtred dead]].

-->'''Sigefrid''': Goodbye, Lord Aelfric, [[SarcasmMode so nice to meet you]]. [[{{Troll}} Enjoy the long walk home
to Bebbanburg!]]

* UpToEleven: For all of Uhtred's anti-Christian/anti-Saxon traits, Brida goes even further. She'd probably exterminate the lot of them if she were in charge.

* SpareAMessenger: [[spoiler: In Season 5, she non-fatally stabs Beocca after learning he lied to her about the conflict between Edward and Sigtryggr, instructing him to tell Uhtred he'll find Brida at Loidis for a final confrontation]].

* DesecratingTheDead: [[spoiler: After Winchester falls to Sigtryggr's army, Brida has her men exhume and desecrate the bodies of Saxon warriors. Surprisingly, she restrains herself from doing the same to the tomb of King Alfred]].

[[folder:Dagfinn]]
!!Dagfinn
->'''Portrayed By:''' Simon Stenspil

A Danish warrior once in service of the brothers, Sigefrid and Erik, Dagfinn remains a presence in the Danish forces threatening Wessex.

* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Brida stabs her in the back just to hurt Stiorra.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: To Stiorra and Sightryggr.

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Plummets to her death from a church spire
* MoralityPet: To her mother.

* CoolOldGuy: He was once a formidible viking himself and in retirement still gives advice and jokes to those who will listen.

* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: The death of her daughter in Season 5 reduces her to this. In their final duel, she even begs Uhtred to kill her, insisting she has nothing left to live for]].

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Her daughter by Cnut is killed falling from a church spire during the battle to retake Eoforwic]].

* PetTheDog: In Season 3, [[spoiler: after Ragnar disowns Uhtred in a fit of fury, Thyra reassures him that she will always consider Uhtred family]].
-->'''Thyra''': Uhtred? No matter what [[spoiler:Ragnar]] says, you will ''always'' be my brother.

-->'''Sigefrid''': You talk about your woman as if you don't care for her.
* ForeignCultureFetish: Sigefrid appears to gain this for the Romans after he and Erik take Lunden. He and Erik live in an old Roman structure, he executes men via crucifixion to "see how it kills them", and he is only tempted into letting Father Pyrlig fight for his life when Uhtred likens it to a gladiator match.

DueToTheDead: Sigefrid makes sure a dying Erik is holding his sword so he will go to Valhalla.

* VillainousBreakdown: With [[spoiler:Erik dead and]] the plan to 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.