1 00:00:01,268 --> 00:00:03,828 I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred. 2 00:00:04,371 --> 00:00:07,205 Sigefrid and Erik's army raided our camp 3 00:00:07,341 --> 00:00:09,810 and kidnapped the Lady Aethelflaed. 4 00:00:09,943 --> 00:00:13,004 You took my daughter into battle. 5 00:00:13,146 --> 00:00:17,641 To learn her fate, I sent my loyal men, Rypere and Sihtric, 6 00:00:17,784 --> 00:00:19,753 to Beamfleot as spies. 7 00:00:19,853 --> 00:00:23,790 I swear that this prize will not be sold cheaply. 8 00:00:25,058 --> 00:00:28,825 Wessex shall pay its share of silver and if necessary its share of blood. 9 00:00:28,962 --> 00:00:30,396 I will do what needs to be done. 10 00:00:30,497 --> 00:00:33,399 What's your opinion on paying a ransom for Aethelflaed? 11 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:35,469 Not one I am prepared to say aloud. 12 00:00:35,636 --> 00:00:37,070 I may need you. 13 00:00:37,404 --> 00:00:40,169 Alfred sent us to negotiate the ransom, 14 00:00:40,274 --> 00:00:44,109 but secretly Aethelflaed and Erik had fallen in love. 15 00:00:44,244 --> 00:00:45,906 Your husband's a fortunate man. 16 00:00:48,448 --> 00:00:50,974 He is not the man I would choose to be with. 17 00:00:51,885 --> 00:00:53,513 I cannot let her go. 18 00:00:54,321 --> 00:00:57,519 I will leave this place with Erik or I will not leave at all. 19 00:00:57,691 --> 00:01:00,388 Will you help me, please? 20 00:01:01,094 --> 00:01:03,029 Destiny is all. 21 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:11,074 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 22 00:01:47,674 --> 00:01:50,508 What binds a man to a land? 23 00:01:50,677 --> 00:01:53,237 You have a poor wretch, toiling in the fields. 24 00:01:53,847 --> 00:01:57,340 Burning in summer, shivering in winter. 25 00:01:57,484 --> 00:01:59,476 He works all day every day 26 00:01:59,586 --> 00:02:02,886 for nothing more than a loaf of bread and a pot to piss in. 27 00:02:04,091 --> 00:02:07,926 His children die of disease, his wife dies giving him children. 28 00:02:08,395 --> 00:02:13,595 Yet when that land is threatened, something stirs. Why? 29 00:02:13,767 --> 00:02:16,601 It is the land that feeds him. 30 00:02:16,770 --> 00:02:18,102 More than that. 31 00:02:19,172 --> 00:02:22,973 That the trees off the land are used for shelter, fire. 32 00:02:23,110 --> 00:02:24,373 More than that. 33 00:02:25,379 --> 00:02:27,280 Is it love, Father? 34 00:02:27,381 --> 00:02:31,751 Oh, for the Lord's sake, can you not remain quiet? 35 00:02:31,885 --> 00:02:35,083 But, yes, the bastard has it. 36 00:02:35,188 --> 00:02:36,918 It can only be love. 37 00:02:38,225 --> 00:02:41,889 It is a powerful thing. Would you not agree, Lord Uhtred? 38 00:02:44,297 --> 00:02:45,731 From wretch to warrior, 39 00:02:45,832 --> 00:02:51,032 love gives a man strength, often at the cost of his mind. 40 00:02:59,446 --> 00:03:00,505 How much? 41 00:03:02,049 --> 00:03:04,143 It's not a small amount, Lord. 42 00:03:05,652 --> 00:03:09,180 Three thousand pounds' weight of silver and 500 pounds' weight of gold. 43 00:03:10,323 --> 00:03:12,952 The first of the metal is to be delivered by the next full moon, 44 00:03:13,060 --> 00:03:14,790 the remaining amount one month later. 45 00:03:14,928 --> 00:03:17,659 - That is an impossible amount. - An absurd amount. 46 00:03:17,831 --> 00:03:20,198 - That is the best price? - It is, lord. 47 00:03:20,333 --> 00:03:22,598 It is less than half their first demand, lord. 48 00:03:22,769 --> 00:03:24,829 What it is is the entire wealth of Wessex. 49 00:03:24,971 --> 00:03:29,136 What it would buy is an army to ensure the end of Wessex and Mercia. 50 00:03:29,242 --> 00:03:30,369 Without the money... 51 00:03:33,013 --> 00:03:35,005 what will happen to my daughter? 52 00:03:36,983 --> 00:03:39,350 She's too valuable to simply kill, lord. 53 00:03:39,453 --> 00:03:41,820 It would be humiliation. 54 00:03:41,955 --> 00:03:45,084 She will be taken to every town where Danes rule. 55 00:03:45,225 --> 00:03:48,161 She will be paraded before mocking crowds. 56 00:03:49,596 --> 00:03:51,997 And men would pay to take their turn. 57 00:04:12,085 --> 00:04:16,614 It is not just the life and reputation of my daughter at stake here. 58 00:04:18,592 --> 00:04:20,618 It is the dignity of Wessex. 59 00:04:20,727 --> 00:04:25,597 So many thousands of men must die, lord, for the dignity of Wessex? 60 00:04:25,699 --> 00:04:27,190 Yes, Odda. 61 00:04:28,301 --> 00:04:30,793 A country is its history, the sum of all its stories. 62 00:04:30,937 --> 00:04:32,929 We are what our fathers made us. 63 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,542 Would you have me leave my descendants the shameful tale 64 00:04:36,676 --> 00:04:41,614 of how a princess of Wessex was whored to the highest bidder? 65 00:04:41,715 --> 00:04:44,480 That is a tale that would overshadow all others. 66 00:04:45,485 --> 00:04:48,250 The battle of Ethandun would become insignificant. 67 00:04:48,355 --> 00:04:53,419 But, lord, if we pay this ransom, I do not see how there will be a Wessex. 68 00:04:53,527 --> 00:04:55,519 The tale they tell will be of the king 69 00:04:55,662 --> 00:04:57,654 who paid for the very army that destroyed him. 70 00:04:57,764 --> 00:05:01,223 - God would not allow that to happen. - It's not God we are dealing with. 71 00:05:01,468 --> 00:05:03,096 It is the Northmen, the Danes! 72 00:05:03,236 --> 00:05:06,172 Non-believers, over whom we will triumph. 73 00:05:06,306 --> 00:05:09,504 Should a great battle come of this, we shall have men enough to face them. 74 00:05:09,643 --> 00:05:11,942 I expect the fyrd of Mercia to be at our side. 75 00:05:12,078 --> 00:05:13,910 Shall be there, lord. 76 00:05:14,047 --> 00:05:15,777 The metal will be paid in full. 77 00:05:15,949 --> 00:05:19,750 My daughter will be spared and Wessex shall avoid indignity. 78 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:21,548 But not the slaughter. 79 00:05:22,522 --> 00:05:26,653 Odda, I hear your doubts and I ask you to renew your faith. 80 00:05:30,063 --> 00:05:31,292 Yes, lord. 81 00:05:32,365 --> 00:05:36,097 Aethelred, you will join Father Beocca and I before returning to Mercia. 82 00:05:36,203 --> 00:05:39,139 We must decide how best to gather the ransom. 83 00:05:39,272 --> 00:05:40,934 Yes, lord. 84 00:05:46,413 --> 00:05:48,575 This cannot be how it ends. 85 00:05:48,715 --> 00:05:51,480 Lord, you have said all you can say. 86 00:05:51,585 --> 00:05:52,609 And bravely. 87 00:05:52,752 --> 00:05:57,622 There's nothing more for you to do, so I beg you... do nothing. 88 00:06:21,248 --> 00:06:22,307 Lord. 89 00:06:31,224 --> 00:06:32,248 Lord. 90 00:06:33,793 --> 00:06:35,591 Dagfinn, you can go. 91 00:06:37,797 --> 00:06:40,392 - All of you. - Yes, lord. 92 00:06:41,635 --> 00:06:42,659 Do you have it? 93 00:06:46,473 --> 00:06:49,466 - Is that enough? - Yes. 94 00:06:52,746 --> 00:06:53,770 Uhtred can read? 95 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,408 All of my father's ealdormen can read and write. 96 00:06:57,550 --> 00:07:00,850 Although the letters Uhtred has written you could count with one finger. 97 00:07:01,021 --> 00:07:02,887 Hm. 98 00:07:04,591 --> 00:07:06,025 I will teach you. 99 00:07:08,461 --> 00:07:10,794 What is to prevent him from doing nothing? 100 00:07:10,897 --> 00:07:16,234 We are asking him to risk everything for no reward. Why should he come? 101 00:07:16,369 --> 00:07:18,497 It is Uhtred. 102 00:07:18,638 --> 00:07:21,665 He will come. I swear. 103 00:07:31,785 --> 00:07:33,686 He is with her? Again? 104 00:07:33,820 --> 00:07:36,517 - He is. - He cannot keep away from her. 105 00:07:37,123 --> 00:07:39,615 Let us hope he does not take her for his wife. 106 00:07:41,261 --> 00:07:43,492 Or else our fortune is lost. 107 00:07:43,630 --> 00:07:45,622 Is this true, huh? 108 00:07:55,008 --> 00:07:57,307 Sigefrid! 109 00:07:57,911 --> 00:07:59,004 Which woman is mine? 110 00:07:59,145 --> 00:08:01,808 The ugly one. 111 00:08:02,482 --> 00:08:04,075 We walked them for miles. 112 00:08:04,217 --> 00:08:08,154 See they are fed and watered, horses and slaves. 113 00:08:16,629 --> 00:08:18,427 You are called Sihtric? 114 00:08:20,266 --> 00:08:22,735 Yes, lord. Good evening to you, lord. 115 00:08:24,471 --> 00:08:26,269 Uhtred says you can be trusted. 116 00:08:27,507 --> 00:08:29,976 So you will take him this letter. 117 00:08:37,951 --> 00:08:40,182 This is a great responsibility. 118 00:08:50,930 --> 00:08:53,263 They will have no peace. 119 00:08:54,334 --> 00:08:55,563 None. 120 00:08:57,971 --> 00:09:00,497 I have told them the same. 121 00:09:01,374 --> 00:09:03,002 But you will still help them? 122 00:09:03,176 --> 00:09:05,975 I must. I have no choice. 123 00:09:06,112 --> 00:09:09,549 If they escape, then there will be no ransom paid. 124 00:09:09,682 --> 00:09:10,706 No great army. 125 00:09:10,817 --> 00:09:15,312 The men of Wessex are saved, yes. 126 00:09:15,422 --> 00:09:19,359 But what becomes of you? Of us? 127 00:09:19,492 --> 00:09:22,394 Alfred will see it as a betrayal. 128 00:09:22,529 --> 00:09:24,828 You will have broken your oath. 129 00:09:26,433 --> 00:09:27,696 We leave. 130 00:09:30,103 --> 00:09:35,132 Tomorrow I will make a sacrifice, to keep you safe. 131 00:09:36,976 --> 00:09:38,569 All of us. 132 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,651 You give your name to the scribe. 133 00:09:49,789 --> 00:09:53,556 The sum of your contribution will be written beside your name. 134 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,625 We're helping to free the Lady Aethelflaed. 135 00:09:56,763 --> 00:09:58,425 We've got nothing to give! 136 00:09:58,965 --> 00:10:02,231 Any man or woman found to be hiding the value of their wealth 137 00:10:02,368 --> 00:10:03,961 shall be punished! 138 00:10:04,871 --> 00:10:07,272 All must pay their share. 139 00:10:08,975 --> 00:10:13,572 You have the gratitude of the king, of God. 140 00:10:23,790 --> 00:10:25,816 Lord. 141 00:10:25,959 --> 00:10:27,621 News, lord. 142 00:10:28,495 --> 00:10:30,293 Speak. 143 00:10:30,430 --> 00:10:33,798 Say to the king exactly what you said to me. Exactly. 144 00:10:40,006 --> 00:10:41,770 Lord, this man is from Canterbury. 145 00:10:42,575 --> 00:10:45,272 The Northmen at Beamfleot are now crossing the river 146 00:10:45,411 --> 00:10:47,073 and raiding directly into Wessex. 147 00:10:47,213 --> 00:10:52,652 They have taken my wife and daughters, lord, the youngest just eight years. 148 00:10:52,785 --> 00:10:57,450 While we do nothing, lord, but gather halfpennies from the poor. 149 00:10:59,626 --> 00:11:01,857 Father, you will take this man away. 150 00:11:01,995 --> 00:11:04,089 Feed him and give him rest at an inn. 151 00:11:09,435 --> 00:11:12,030 Odda, what is it you want? 152 00:11:12,138 --> 00:11:14,004 Lord, he is just one man, 153 00:11:14,107 --> 00:11:16,838 but he has lost two brothers at Ethandun, 154 00:11:16,943 --> 00:11:19,606 two daughters and a wife to the Northmen, 155 00:11:19,712 --> 00:11:21,476 and yet guards will knock at his door 156 00:11:21,614 --> 00:11:23,446 and demand one third of the little he has, 157 00:11:23,550 --> 00:11:26,349 all to help preserve the dignity of Wessex. 158 00:11:26,486 --> 00:11:28,819 This insolence is too much. 159 00:11:28,922 --> 00:11:32,689 Then in six months' time we shall ask for his life. 160 00:11:34,227 --> 00:11:37,629 What I want, Lord, is for good sense to prevail. 161 00:11:37,730 --> 00:11:42,498 By good sense I presume you mean the death or humiliation of my daughter 162 00:11:42,635 --> 00:11:44,069 and of the reputation of Wessex. 163 00:11:44,170 --> 00:11:46,469 Or we march, lord, and we fight. 164 00:11:46,573 --> 00:11:48,838 If we march, they will kill her. 165 00:11:48,942 --> 00:11:53,710 And she will be considered a martyr, for Wessex, lord, her dignity preserved! 166 00:11:53,846 --> 00:11:56,907 And you would still have the Prince Edward. Your line is intact. 167 00:12:03,723 --> 00:12:06,921 Odda, what has saved you from outright banishment 168 00:12:07,060 --> 00:12:09,188 is that you chose your king over your own son. 169 00:12:09,362 --> 00:12:12,696 - Lord, I chose Wessex over my son. - A traitor! 170 00:12:12,799 --> 00:12:15,894 You should at least consider doing the same. 171 00:12:22,675 --> 00:12:24,610 What am I to do with you? 172 00:12:29,415 --> 00:12:35,480 Your injury and your appetite for wine have robbed us both of your worth. 173 00:12:39,959 --> 00:12:42,190 You no longer serve a purpose. 174 00:12:46,099 --> 00:12:48,398 Then with your permission, lord, 175 00:12:48,534 --> 00:12:52,596 I shall return to my estate and my wife at Devonshire, 176 00:12:52,739 --> 00:12:56,232 whilst it is still a Saxon estate. 177 00:12:58,011 --> 00:12:59,809 That would be for the best. 178 00:13:01,914 --> 00:13:04,782 Should you be needed you will be sent for. 179 00:14:00,273 --> 00:14:03,107 They buy the very swords that will slay them. 180 00:14:09,048 --> 00:14:10,243 Lord, good evening. 181 00:14:15,822 --> 00:14:18,018 I am a moth to the flame. 182 00:14:19,826 --> 00:14:22,091 Yes, it is becoming a significant amount. 183 00:14:22,228 --> 00:14:25,995 Significant is the word, lord, in its size and its effect. 184 00:14:28,534 --> 00:14:30,400 - Your father... - The king? 185 00:14:34,073 --> 00:14:35,405 He would have done the same. 186 00:14:36,909 --> 00:14:39,845 Pay such a ransom for his offspring, lord? I doubt it. 187 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:42,672 I was a great disappointment to him... 188 00:14:44,083 --> 00:14:45,676 which I regret. 189 00:14:46,686 --> 00:14:50,953 But if you were not a disappointment, Aethelwold, I may have had you killed. 190 00:14:52,291 --> 00:14:54,260 For the good of Wessex. 191 00:14:55,461 --> 00:15:00,092 Never doubt it. Every decision I make is for my country. 192 00:15:01,901 --> 00:15:03,369 Yes, lord. 193 00:15:05,171 --> 00:15:07,663 I understand completely. 194 00:15:31,731 --> 00:15:33,063 Lord Odda. 195 00:15:34,734 --> 00:15:37,260 You will set tongues wagging, drinking with the peasants. 196 00:15:37,370 --> 00:15:39,930 Let them wag if it please them. 197 00:15:41,674 --> 00:15:44,803 You asked me some days ago if I agree with the payment of a ransom. 198 00:15:49,415 --> 00:15:50,906 I do not. 199 00:15:53,953 --> 00:15:58,516 If I had an army to call upon, a fyrd to raise, 200 00:15:58,691 --> 00:16:00,182 I would prove it. 201 00:16:03,196 --> 00:16:05,324 But I have not. 202 00:16:19,812 --> 00:16:21,713 I appear to have joined you, lord. 203 00:16:32,425 --> 00:16:34,985 He's been there for part of the day and all of the night. 204 00:16:35,127 --> 00:16:37,722 He's a good man and I worry that it will damage his reputation. 205 00:16:37,830 --> 00:16:40,732 If he can stand it can only enhance his reputation. 206 00:16:41,968 --> 00:16:43,061 Lord. 207 00:16:43,936 --> 00:16:45,268 May we join you? 208 00:16:47,573 --> 00:16:49,940 Is he here still or has he already left? 209 00:16:50,943 --> 00:16:52,411 Aethelwold. 210 00:16:52,545 --> 00:16:54,844 Um... No, he is long gone, lord. 211 00:16:59,552 --> 00:17:04,217 - Perhaps you have drunk enough, lord. - It is entirely possible. 212 00:17:04,357 --> 00:17:08,988 Though the ale they brew here is weak, upon the orders of Alfred. 213 00:17:09,095 --> 00:17:10,893 You're joking, lord. 214 00:17:11,964 --> 00:17:14,763 - What, that's true? - It is, yes. 215 00:17:15,701 --> 00:17:19,604 It is so a man can work the next day 216 00:17:19,772 --> 00:17:23,174 and swords remain in scabbards. 217 00:17:27,113 --> 00:17:29,412 But they must not. 218 00:17:35,922 --> 00:17:38,084 Somebody needs a bed. 219 00:17:41,260 --> 00:17:43,820 - You will stay with him. - And do what? 220 00:17:43,930 --> 00:17:46,297 If he needs to piss or spew, you'll fetch him a bucket. 221 00:17:46,432 --> 00:17:50,665 I have a plan, though it is likely I will die. 222 00:17:52,505 --> 00:17:54,872 What is this plan, lord? Tell me. 223 00:17:57,510 --> 00:18:00,207 I will raise the Devonshire fyrd. 224 00:18:00,813 --> 00:18:02,509 Against the king's wishes, lord? 225 00:18:04,116 --> 00:18:06,642 That is not something he would forgive. 226 00:18:07,153 --> 00:18:08,621 Lord! 227 00:18:14,226 --> 00:18:15,819 He will go nowhere. 228 00:18:16,829 --> 00:18:20,231 And you will go nowhere and you will say nothing about what you've just heard. 229 00:18:20,333 --> 00:18:22,666 - Yes, lord. - You mean, "No, lord." 230 00:18:24,937 --> 00:18:26,462 - I'll... - Do as I say. 231 00:19:21,494 --> 00:19:24,225 So... what does it say? 232 00:19:24,363 --> 00:19:26,491 Erik has enough oath-men to crew a ship. 233 00:19:27,099 --> 00:19:29,539 Three nights before the first of the metal is to be delivered, 234 00:19:29,635 --> 00:19:32,127 we make our way downriver to Beamfleot. 235 00:19:32,238 --> 00:19:34,707 We kill the men who stand guard over the ships. 236 00:19:34,807 --> 00:19:37,174 Erik and Aethelflaed sail away. 237 00:19:37,309 --> 00:19:38,402 And Wessex is saved. 238 00:19:38,544 --> 00:19:41,446 - How many guards? - Eight or ten, on the shore. 239 00:19:41,580 --> 00:19:43,014 - That is all? - Yes. 240 00:19:43,149 --> 00:19:45,209 - It's as simple as that? - Erik is in command. 241 00:19:45,351 --> 00:19:48,412 His men guard Aethelflaed, his ship is ready and waiting. 242 00:19:49,555 --> 00:19:52,115 It begins as simple. What happens is fate. 243 00:19:52,224 --> 00:19:54,523 Why go by river and not horseback? 244 00:19:55,394 --> 00:19:57,625 If we go with the tides it'll be faster, 245 00:19:57,763 --> 00:19:59,391 and to escape we row across river. 246 00:19:59,532 --> 00:20:01,228 They will follow you. 247 00:20:01,934 --> 00:20:04,529 They will follow Aethelflaed. 248 00:20:04,637 --> 00:20:06,833 She's the silver. 249 00:20:24,423 --> 00:20:25,686 Father Pyrlig. 250 00:20:25,825 --> 00:20:29,626 Lord, you came from nowhere, like the devil himself. 251 00:20:29,762 --> 00:20:31,458 You are leaving us? 252 00:20:31,597 --> 00:20:35,193 I am. I've invited myself to Devonshire with the Lord Odda. 253 00:20:36,202 --> 00:20:39,400 I'm looking forward to cooling my feet in the blue waters of the sea. 254 00:20:39,505 --> 00:20:41,030 You're spying for Alfred. 255 00:20:41,173 --> 00:20:44,405 Of course I'm spying for Alfred. I despise the sea. 256 00:20:46,645 --> 00:20:52,380 Should Odda decide to do anything rash, you will tell him to hold fast? 257 00:20:52,485 --> 00:20:54,852 And why should he listen to me? 258 00:20:55,020 --> 00:20:57,046 Do you have a reason you would like to share? 259 00:20:59,792 --> 00:21:01,090 And he's behind you. 260 00:21:03,329 --> 00:21:04,388 Lord. 261 00:21:04,497 --> 00:21:06,090 Did you sleep well? 262 00:21:06,232 --> 00:21:09,999 Uhtred. I did, soundly. 263 00:21:10,102 --> 00:21:12,537 Though I'm not sure how I found my bed. 264 00:21:12,671 --> 00:21:16,836 You were a little worse for ale, lord, but no bother. 265 00:21:17,009 --> 00:21:19,478 I'm glad to hear it. 266 00:21:19,612 --> 00:21:20,807 You spoke of a plan. 267 00:21:23,849 --> 00:21:25,511 - I did? - Mm-hm. 268 00:21:26,519 --> 00:21:28,044 Am I to be reminded? 269 00:21:29,622 --> 00:21:31,284 The men of Devonshire. 270 00:21:32,224 --> 00:21:34,159 They should remain in the fields. 271 00:21:36,095 --> 00:21:37,723 I must have been very drunk. 272 00:21:38,330 --> 00:21:40,822 - It can be the only explanation, lord. - Yes. 273 00:21:41,867 --> 00:21:43,028 You swear? 274 00:21:44,236 --> 00:21:45,829 On my life. 275 00:21:45,938 --> 00:21:48,066 I have no memory of it whatsoever. 276 00:21:49,441 --> 00:21:51,910 Lord Odda, I say this to you as your friend. 277 00:21:53,546 --> 00:21:54,946 Do nothing. 278 00:21:56,949 --> 00:22:00,511 If I do not see you again, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, 279 00:22:00,653 --> 00:22:02,588 I wish you good luck. 280 00:22:03,489 --> 00:22:05,651 Wherever fate may take you. 281 00:22:06,792 --> 00:22:08,124 Thank you, lord. 282 00:22:29,815 --> 00:22:33,183 Should we pray, lord? Together? 283 00:22:36,121 --> 00:22:38,522 Am I being selfish 284 00:22:38,624 --> 00:22:40,593 in wanting to spare Aethelflaed? 285 00:22:42,428 --> 00:22:47,366 Lord, you were a father before you were a king. 286 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:51,026 But your reasons stand. 287 00:22:51,203 --> 00:22:53,331 She is Wessex. 288 00:22:54,373 --> 00:22:58,367 She is the blood, the heart and the spirit of Wessex. 289 00:22:59,945 --> 00:23:02,278 She cannot be humiliated. 290 00:23:30,809 --> 00:23:31,833 Dagfinn! 291 00:23:33,545 --> 00:23:35,741 Dagfinn. Where is she? 292 00:23:35,848 --> 00:23:36,941 Lord? 293 00:23:37,049 --> 00:23:38,984 Where is she? 294 00:23:51,196 --> 00:23:52,960 Now it is clear. 295 00:23:53,799 --> 00:23:56,462 Each man has a right to see her. 296 00:23:57,403 --> 00:24:01,238 And every man will guard her with his life! 297 00:24:04,610 --> 00:24:06,579 She is our wealth. 298 00:24:06,679 --> 00:24:08,773 She belongs to us all! 299 00:24:25,631 --> 00:24:28,624 Dear God! Who might they be? 300 00:24:28,901 --> 00:24:32,338 They are the Devonshire fyrd, Father Pyrlig. 301 00:24:36,275 --> 00:24:39,871 You are here as Alfred's spy and will go no further. 302 00:24:40,012 --> 00:24:43,744 You will get down from your horse and walk back to Winchester with your news. 303 00:24:44,717 --> 00:24:46,686 What news is that, lord? What do you mean? 304 00:24:46,819 --> 00:24:51,416 You will tell the king that Odda is marching against the enemies of Wessex. 305 00:24:51,523 --> 00:24:55,824 He can either march to halt me or march to join me. It does not matter which. 306 00:24:55,928 --> 00:25:00,059 Once the Northmen at Beamfleot see an army, a battle will follow. 307 00:25:00,165 --> 00:25:03,499 Please, lord. Think what you are doing. You are making traitors of your men. 308 00:25:03,635 --> 00:25:06,571 The men you see are here to die for their king, 309 00:25:06,705 --> 00:25:08,765 not betray him. 310 00:25:08,907 --> 00:25:10,933 They know nothing of Alfred's weakness. 311 00:25:11,076 --> 00:25:14,478 But, Uhtred, lord... Did he not ask you to do nothing? 312 00:25:14,580 --> 00:25:17,880 You will get down from your horse and you will return to Winchester. 313 00:25:17,983 --> 00:25:19,508 And if I refuse? 314 00:25:20,486 --> 00:25:22,955 Now, Father Pyrlig. 315 00:25:36,168 --> 00:25:37,932 Lord, I beg you... 316 00:25:38,537 --> 00:25:39,971 Think again! 317 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,024 Thank you. 318 00:26:12,771 --> 00:26:14,205 What's your name? 319 00:26:39,665 --> 00:26:41,725 I asked for ten, Dagfinn. 320 00:26:43,068 --> 00:26:46,163 How are we supposed to scrub down a ship with three men? 321 00:26:46,271 --> 00:26:49,036 The men refuse to leave the hall, lord. 322 00:26:49,875 --> 00:26:51,639 Refuse? 323 00:26:51,777 --> 00:26:56,147 They say they are protecting their wealth, under the orders of Sigefrid. 324 00:26:57,349 --> 00:26:59,181 Who said this? Name them. 325 00:27:04,490 --> 00:27:08,586 Your brother has called for more guards, lord, until the metal comes. 326 00:27:10,796 --> 00:27:12,025 Erik. 327 00:27:13,665 --> 00:27:15,759 You have been sleeping at the river. 328 00:27:17,236 --> 00:27:18,260 Why? 329 00:27:19,004 --> 00:27:21,235 You have made a fool of me. 330 00:27:24,443 --> 00:27:26,503 You have humped her enough. 331 00:27:27,045 --> 00:27:31,005 You have fed and washed her enough. 332 00:27:31,116 --> 00:27:34,052 Do not allow the men to see what I know for certain. 333 00:27:34,186 --> 00:27:36,678 You have grown too fond of her. 334 00:27:36,822 --> 00:27:41,487 It is not her arse you want. It is herself. It will pass. 335 00:27:43,595 --> 00:27:44,893 You have shamed me. 336 00:27:47,232 --> 00:27:51,693 What I have done... is protect you. 337 00:27:53,872 --> 00:27:57,502 Erik, my brother, what is happening around us is your plan. 338 00:27:57,643 --> 00:28:01,637 And it is a fine plan, to give up Lundene and take the princess, 339 00:28:01,747 --> 00:28:04,307 to ransom her for ships full of gold and silver, 340 00:28:04,483 --> 00:28:09,046 on which we will build an army that no man will want to face 341 00:28:09,154 --> 00:28:12,056 and every man will want to join. 342 00:28:14,092 --> 00:28:17,119 This... will be our land. 343 00:28:18,497 --> 00:28:20,295 All of it. 344 00:28:22,734 --> 00:28:26,136 I will not allow us to fail. 345 00:28:29,308 --> 00:28:31,504 Haesten! A guard every ten paces. 346 00:28:31,643 --> 00:28:33,043 Yes, lord. 347 00:28:34,112 --> 00:28:36,513 Forgive me, lord. 348 00:28:36,648 --> 00:28:39,584 It's not that the men do not want to serve you. 349 00:28:39,718 --> 00:28:43,883 It's that they do not know where your loyalties lie. 350 00:29:02,908 --> 00:29:05,139 Oh, sweet Jesus, I cannot run. 351 00:29:05,277 --> 00:29:07,303 Please let them be Saxon. 352 00:29:09,548 --> 00:29:10,709 Father Pyrlig! 353 00:29:11,683 --> 00:29:15,120 Lord! Thank the heavens! A friendly face. 354 00:29:15,220 --> 00:29:16,916 Are you lost, Father? 355 00:29:17,022 --> 00:29:18,991 Not lost, but abandoned, lord. 356 00:29:19,124 --> 00:29:22,094 I'm returning to Winchester with an important message for Alfred. 357 00:29:22,894 --> 00:29:24,487 We're going to see Alfred. 358 00:29:24,630 --> 00:29:27,327 Climb onto the cart. You can help guard Mercia's ransom. 359 00:29:27,432 --> 00:29:31,028 God bless you, lord, saviour of my blistered feet. 360 00:29:48,754 --> 00:29:49,778 Lord? 361 00:29:50,589 --> 00:29:51,784 Osferth? 362 00:30:01,933 --> 00:30:04,334 Can I say to you that I'm afraid? 363 00:30:06,672 --> 00:30:09,005 I wear a sword but barely know how to use it. 364 00:30:10,742 --> 00:30:15,407 I pray that when battle comes... I will not fail you. 365 00:30:15,547 --> 00:30:17,539 Osferth, at times we're all afraid. 366 00:30:18,550 --> 00:30:22,282 Courage is finding the will to overcome your fear. Nothing more. 367 00:30:23,155 --> 00:30:26,216 Perhaps we'll find you an axe. It requires less skill than a sword. 368 00:30:27,259 --> 00:30:29,387 But you must find the courage. 369 00:30:30,462 --> 00:30:31,987 Yes, lord. 370 00:30:33,298 --> 00:30:35,199 Thank you, lord. 371 00:30:58,023 --> 00:30:59,321 - Lord. - Lord King. 372 00:30:59,458 --> 00:31:02,724 Father Pyrlig. Aethelred and Aldhelm I was expecting. 373 00:31:02,928 --> 00:31:05,022 It is Odda, lord. 374 00:31:05,130 --> 00:31:07,622 Prior to leaving Winchester, he sent a man, some man, 375 00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:10,200 with word to raise the fighting men of Devonshire. 376 00:31:10,302 --> 00:31:12,203 He has now met them on the road, lord. 377 00:31:12,304 --> 00:31:16,742 - With the intention of doing what? - He is marching against Beamfleot. 378 00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:18,400 Yes, lord. He is. 379 00:31:35,961 --> 00:31:37,429 Damn him. 380 00:31:40,065 --> 00:31:41,829 I say damn him. 381 00:31:46,505 --> 00:31:47,529 Lord, are we to stop him? 382 00:31:47,672 --> 00:31:49,868 We have no choice but to stop him. We must stop him. 383 00:31:49,975 --> 00:31:52,035 Lord, may I ask, where is Uhtred? 384 00:31:52,144 --> 00:31:54,170 He was not beside Odda, if that is your meaning 385 00:31:54,312 --> 00:31:57,180 and it cannot have been Uhtred who carried the message to Devonshire. 386 00:31:57,315 --> 00:31:58,526 Aethelred, you have how many men? 387 00:31:58,550 --> 00:32:01,315 Over 50, lord, household guard. I can send for many more. 388 00:32:01,453 --> 00:32:03,445 You will do that. Rest your men and horses, 389 00:32:03,555 --> 00:32:06,081 but you will join me and my own guard before first light. 390 00:32:06,191 --> 00:32:07,750 If we are to halt Odda, 391 00:32:07,893 --> 00:32:10,522 we must march day and night 392 00:32:10,662 --> 00:32:12,130 and we must pray. 393 00:32:13,131 --> 00:32:15,362 Dear Lord God in heaven. 394 00:32:16,535 --> 00:32:20,973 Grant me the strength to survive this ordeal. 395 00:32:23,375 --> 00:32:27,210 Give me the courage to overcome these hardships. 396 00:32:29,181 --> 00:32:31,207 And instil within me... 397 00:32:32,384 --> 00:32:34,148 faith. 398 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,287 Faith in those I love... 399 00:32:38,890 --> 00:32:41,621 for they will not abandon me. 400 00:32:44,496 --> 00:32:46,431 Lord, I beg of you. 401 00:32:48,166 --> 00:32:50,158 - Amen. - Amen. 402 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,532 You! With me! 403 00:33:02,914 --> 00:33:03,938 Now! 404 00:33:27,405 --> 00:33:28,839 Twenty guards. 405 00:33:28,974 --> 00:33:31,842 Sihtric, you said there'd be no more than eight or ten. 406 00:33:31,977 --> 00:33:33,001 He cannot count. 407 00:33:33,144 --> 00:33:35,375 No, lord. It has never been more than ten men. 408 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,006 Rypere's group will strike first from the water. 409 00:33:38,149 --> 00:33:40,448 They look to the river and then... 410 00:33:41,553 --> 00:33:42,782 we kill them. 411 00:33:42,954 --> 00:33:44,286 But, lord, we are just 11. 412 00:33:44,422 --> 00:33:45,422 Rypere. 413 00:33:45,490 --> 00:33:48,358 - Two each. - We attack as soon as it's dark. 414 00:33:57,269 --> 00:33:58,703 Brother. 415 00:34:00,105 --> 00:34:01,698 May I speak? 416 00:34:07,445 --> 00:34:09,311 I've something to say! 417 00:34:11,049 --> 00:34:14,110 I've something to say to each of you. 418 00:34:14,986 --> 00:34:21,483 You will be disappointed to know that this woman here is now mine! 419 00:34:21,626 --> 00:34:23,891 No man is to touch her. 420 00:34:24,029 --> 00:34:27,830 Not with his hands and most certainly not with his cock! 421 00:34:30,068 --> 00:34:32,060 She belongs to me! 422 00:34:36,308 --> 00:34:37,799 You weakened me, brother. 423 00:34:39,010 --> 00:34:43,038 It should have been me who took the princess and put her in the cage. 424 00:34:45,550 --> 00:34:47,883 Yes. You are right. 425 00:34:49,454 --> 00:34:52,253 I... did not think. 426 00:34:53,258 --> 00:34:54,749 You never think. 427 00:34:54,893 --> 00:34:56,521 No. 428 00:34:56,661 --> 00:34:59,290 Because I have you to think for me. 429 00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:11,737 It is three nights before the first of the silver will arrive. 430 00:35:11,876 --> 00:35:15,244 We must be ready. Tomorrow there will be no more ale, 431 00:35:15,347 --> 00:35:19,546 no more games, no more fighting over women! 432 00:35:21,119 --> 00:35:23,384 But that is tomorrow. 433 00:35:23,521 --> 00:35:29,051 Tonight... we drink as if there were no tomorrow! 434 00:35:36,668 --> 00:35:37,897 Lady. 435 00:35:41,306 --> 00:35:43,332 Have faith. 436 00:35:43,475 --> 00:35:45,273 It is tonight. 437 00:36:21,980 --> 00:36:23,020 What's happening? 438 00:36:23,615 --> 00:36:24,810 Get the shields! 439 00:36:39,230 --> 00:36:40,664 Watch your backs! 440 00:36:52,343 --> 00:36:53,436 Rypere! 441 00:37:00,351 --> 00:37:01,580 Finan! 442 00:37:21,806 --> 00:37:23,968 You! That's enough! 443 00:37:24,109 --> 00:37:25,975 He's not your kill! 444 00:37:32,417 --> 00:37:34,579 That is not how you wet your sword! 445 00:37:35,220 --> 00:37:36,779 Find your courage! 446 00:37:38,223 --> 00:37:42,456 Or find your cross and go back to the monastery as Alfred would wish. 447 00:38:00,545 --> 00:38:03,481 We shall rest, for a short time only. 448 00:38:04,716 --> 00:38:09,154 Take rest! Stay alert! I want watchmen front and rear. 449 00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:12,416 Feed the horses and yourselves. 450 00:38:12,891 --> 00:38:14,917 Odda is out there. He is near. 451 00:38:16,494 --> 00:38:18,360 As is Aethelflaed, lord. 452 00:38:19,430 --> 00:38:20,955 We are here for Odda. 453 00:38:27,238 --> 00:38:29,537 Erik should have been here by now. 454 00:38:30,575 --> 00:38:34,068 Something's wrong. Why increase the number of guards? For what reason? 455 00:38:34,245 --> 00:38:36,111 - Do we care? - They are dead. 456 00:38:41,452 --> 00:38:43,512 We go to the fortress. 457 00:38:43,655 --> 00:38:45,988 - We do? - We came to free Aethelflaed. 458 00:38:46,124 --> 00:38:49,561 - We came to kill the guards. - Bastard, you will say nothing. 459 00:38:50,862 --> 00:38:52,763 The guards will soon be discovered missing. 460 00:38:52,897 --> 00:38:55,890 And when they are, it's over. We cannot wait. 461 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,992 But, lord, we have lost half our men. 462 00:38:59,671 --> 00:39:02,573 And there are hundreds of them, both inside and outside the fortress. 463 00:39:02,707 --> 00:39:05,802 And a few more men will not be noticed. 464 00:39:09,314 --> 00:39:11,010 We go to the fortress. 465 00:39:48,620 --> 00:39:51,715 Uhtred. She said that you would come. 466 00:39:51,823 --> 00:39:53,587 I dared not believe her, but you are here. 467 00:39:53,725 --> 00:39:55,023 Tell me what has changed. 468 00:39:56,127 --> 00:39:57,720 In truth? 469 00:39:58,963 --> 00:39:59,987 It is hopeless. 470 00:40:02,433 --> 00:40:04,629 I have no crew for my ship. 471 00:40:04,769 --> 00:40:07,534 But the first task is not how we escape Beamfleot, 472 00:40:07,639 --> 00:40:09,574 it is how we free Aethelflaed. 473 00:40:10,008 --> 00:40:13,001 She hangs where every man can see her. 474 00:40:13,144 --> 00:40:17,377 Lord, I enjoy a fight as much as the next idiot, but this is beyond us. 475 00:40:17,482 --> 00:40:18,643 She's inside the hall? 476 00:40:18,783 --> 00:40:22,447 Inside the hall, inside a cage, surrounded by men. 477 00:40:22,587 --> 00:40:23,953 Warriors. 478 00:40:24,622 --> 00:40:28,024 We must first get rid of the men. We do it now. 479 00:40:40,471 --> 00:40:43,566 Fire. Fire! Fire! 480 00:40:43,675 --> 00:40:49,171 Outside, now! Quickly! Put the fire out! 481 00:40:57,021 --> 00:40:59,217 Find something to carry water! 482 00:40:59,424 --> 00:41:02,394 Six men stay with the princess! 483 00:41:12,036 --> 00:41:13,402 Lock the doors! 484 00:41:13,905 --> 00:41:15,203 Uhtred! 485 00:41:21,112 --> 00:41:23,308 Clapa, Sihtric, the cage. 486 00:41:25,083 --> 00:41:27,052 Come on! 487 00:41:28,019 --> 00:41:29,851 This is one bastard lock to break! 488 00:41:29,954 --> 00:41:31,752 Get it done before we burn! 489 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,497 So we've cleared the hall of men, lord. Now how do we clear the yard? 490 00:41:48,139 --> 00:41:50,574 They will follow the silver. 491 00:41:51,142 --> 00:41:53,111 Up to the ramparts! 492 00:41:53,244 --> 00:41:55,338 Go! Move! 493 00:41:57,482 --> 00:41:59,508 Where did this begin? 494 00:42:00,451 --> 00:42:03,444 Lady, quickly. Run for the rear gate. 495 00:42:04,355 --> 00:42:06,324 Do not stop! 496 00:42:08,059 --> 00:42:09,755 Princess! Stop her! 497 00:42:09,894 --> 00:42:11,192 After her! 498 00:42:17,201 --> 00:42:20,262 Stop her! After her! 499 00:42:25,510 --> 00:42:26,876 Where is he? 500 00:42:26,978 --> 00:42:30,210 - Erik! Where is he? - Lord, I do not know. 501 00:42:30,348 --> 00:42:32,010 I have not seen him outside of the hall! 502 00:43:04,148 --> 00:43:05,411 No. 503 00:43:11,222 --> 00:43:14,124 Erik! 504 00:43:19,797 --> 00:43:23,131 Erik. Do not do this. 505 00:43:23,234 --> 00:43:24,827 Do not dare to do this! 506 00:43:24,969 --> 00:43:28,462 Brother, please let me have this one chance. 507 00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:29,766 I cannot let her go. 508 00:43:29,874 --> 00:43:33,777 She is our fortune! She is our reputation! 509 00:43:33,878 --> 00:43:36,746 If it's reputation you want, you can begin with killing me. 510 00:43:36,848 --> 00:43:38,578 Uhtred, no! 511 00:43:38,683 --> 00:43:42,950 If you want your fortune, you must kill me. 512 00:43:45,089 --> 00:43:46,148 No. 513 00:43:51,429 --> 00:43:52,692 Clapa, the cage! 514 00:44:29,534 --> 00:44:31,901 Uhtred! Get her out of here! 515 00:44:34,438 --> 00:44:35,804 Erik, no! 516 00:44:49,353 --> 00:44:50,480 We need to go. 517 00:44:51,122 --> 00:44:52,715 Aethelflaed! 518 00:45:12,677 --> 00:45:14,873 You... 519 00:45:14,979 --> 00:45:17,744 You did this. 520 00:45:25,289 --> 00:45:27,849 You have killed us both. 521 00:46:12,136 --> 00:46:13,627 With me! 522 00:46:43,267 --> 00:46:44,997 Clapa! With us! 523 00:46:51,375 --> 00:46:52,775 Clapa! 524 00:46:59,183 --> 00:47:01,243 We go! 525 00:47:23,641 --> 00:47:25,837 She's escaping with Uhtred! 526 00:47:29,246 --> 00:47:33,240 I want them dead! Everyone after them! 527 00:47:40,925 --> 00:47:44,225 Lord, I'm grateful to see you, as are my men. 528 00:47:44,995 --> 00:47:48,397 I've told each one of them we are here on the orders of Alfred. 529 00:47:53,137 --> 00:47:55,902 Lord, as you appear to have marched an army to their door, 530 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,238 I doubt the Northmen will believe you are not here to fight. 531 00:48:03,013 --> 00:48:04,743 Why, Odda? 532 00:48:06,417 --> 00:48:07,441 Why? 533 00:48:08,352 --> 00:48:10,753 For Wessex, lord. 534 00:48:10,921 --> 00:48:12,287 Only for Wessex. 535 00:48:17,428 --> 00:48:18,452 Lord, the sky! 536 00:48:20,297 --> 00:48:21,890 It must be Beamfleot. 537 00:48:23,667 --> 00:48:24,828 It is an army, lord! 538 00:48:25,369 --> 00:48:27,565 It's Odda. It's Odda's army! 539 00:48:32,109 --> 00:48:34,510 - Stand ready! - Stand ready! 540 00:48:34,645 --> 00:48:36,944 Good God. I think it is Uhtred. 541 00:48:37,848 --> 00:48:39,146 It is her. 542 00:48:39,283 --> 00:48:41,445 It is Aethelflaed. They have her. 543 00:48:47,525 --> 00:48:48,993 Lord! 544 00:48:49,126 --> 00:48:50,754 We are being pursued by Sigefrid. 545 00:48:50,928 --> 00:48:52,920 The Danes are low in number and disorganized. 546 00:48:53,063 --> 00:48:54,463 My advice is that we kill them all. 547 00:48:54,565 --> 00:48:56,659 Steapa, put a guard around my daughter. 548 00:48:56,767 --> 00:48:59,202 - Father, I want to fight them! - You will do as I say! 549 00:49:09,947 --> 00:49:14,715 Erik is dead, lord. Sigefrid will have no mind to negotiate nor wait. 550 00:49:14,819 --> 00:49:17,789 He wants Saxon blood. We have to fight. 551 00:49:19,990 --> 00:49:22,755 Shield wall, lord. Only you can give the order. 552 00:49:26,230 --> 00:49:29,496 Lord, we only have a fraction of their number. 553 00:49:30,835 --> 00:49:32,235 We cannot win. 554 00:49:34,905 --> 00:49:36,339 I am ready. 555 00:49:40,744 --> 00:49:41,905 Lord? 556 00:49:44,515 --> 00:49:46,143 To die. 557 00:49:51,388 --> 00:49:53,323 It will be today. 558 00:49:59,196 --> 00:50:01,324 Who is with me? 559 00:50:02,833 --> 00:50:06,133 Who is ready for glory? 560 00:50:06,237 --> 00:50:08,206 Or Valhalla! 561 00:50:16,947 --> 00:50:19,815 - Shield wall! - Shield wall! 562 00:50:19,950 --> 00:50:21,851 Shield wall! 563 00:50:23,220 --> 00:50:26,452 Faster! Move! 564 00:50:47,177 --> 00:50:49,408 Faster! 565 00:50:55,619 --> 00:50:57,850 Shield! Shield! 566 00:51:19,209 --> 00:51:20,643 Fill the breach! 567 00:51:29,453 --> 00:51:30,648 Close the wall! 568 00:51:55,512 --> 00:51:57,140 Princess! 569 00:52:00,117 --> 00:52:01,983 I see you, Princess! 570 00:52:02,186 --> 00:52:04,155 And I will kill you! 571 00:52:05,522 --> 00:52:08,492 I will have your head and your tits! 572 00:52:10,260 --> 00:52:12,695 Sigefrid! 573 00:52:17,301 --> 00:52:18,530 Sigefrid! 574 00:52:29,813 --> 00:52:31,304 Princess! 575 00:52:33,784 --> 00:52:35,548 Princess! 576 00:52:42,426 --> 00:52:43,951 Sigefrid! 577 00:52:44,094 --> 00:52:45,722 I'm here! 578 00:52:46,697 --> 00:52:48,632 Face me! 579 00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,074 Leave us. 580 00:54:50,487 --> 00:54:52,922 Uhtred, there are no words. 581 00:54:53,056 --> 00:54:54,422 Then say nothing. 582 00:54:54,525 --> 00:54:57,654 You answered my call at the risk of everything. 583 00:54:58,896 --> 00:55:01,365 I only wish he did survive, lady. 584 00:55:04,368 --> 00:55:06,166 Erik is still with me. 585 00:55:11,341 --> 00:55:13,572 And perhaps within me. 586 00:55:17,781 --> 00:55:19,773 And if, over the coming months, 587 00:55:19,917 --> 00:55:23,649 my husband should think what you are thinking, 588 00:55:23,754 --> 00:55:27,122 it would be a great comfort, Uhtred, 589 00:55:27,257 --> 00:55:30,785 to know that I could call upon you again, 590 00:55:30,928 --> 00:55:33,159 should I ever need to. 591 00:55:33,297 --> 00:55:35,664 Of course. 592 00:55:36,967 --> 00:55:39,664 Do you swear? 593 00:55:39,770 --> 00:55:43,366 You are the man I trust most, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. 594 00:55:48,579 --> 00:55:49,945 I swear. 595 00:55:55,385 --> 00:55:57,013 I swear, lady. 596 00:55:59,590 --> 00:56:01,525 Then I shall dare to kiss you. 597 00:56:24,214 --> 00:56:27,776 It seems you have made a habit of rescuing Wessex. 598 00:56:34,958 --> 00:56:38,986 Odda claims that you believed you were acting upon my orders, Uhtred. 599 00:56:41,965 --> 00:56:43,399 What will happen to him? 600 00:56:46,470 --> 00:56:48,530 There will be a trial. 601 00:56:48,639 --> 00:56:50,835 And then you will kill him. 602 00:56:54,611 --> 00:56:56,807 Treachery cannot be ignored. 603 00:56:59,583 --> 00:57:01,609 He's a good man. 604 00:57:03,420 --> 00:57:05,150 He is my friend... 605 00:57:08,692 --> 00:57:10,217 and a traitor. 606 00:57:14,564 --> 00:57:16,624 May I go, lord? 607 00:57:19,002 --> 00:57:21,062 You are free to go. 608 00:57:22,906 --> 00:57:25,034 As my oath-man. 609 00:58:06,817 --> 00:58:10,879 I would have liked to have seen my land of Devonshire once more. 610 00:58:15,559 --> 00:58:17,289 How did it look? 611 00:58:24,301 --> 00:58:26,429 Devonshire was beautiful, lord. 612 00:58:33,777 --> 00:58:35,439 God be with you. 613 00:59:36,540 --> 00:59:39,942 What binds a man to his land? 614 00:59:40,043 --> 00:59:43,411 What power within allows him to give his life 615 00:59:43,547 --> 00:59:47,951 to preserve his land and the lives of the families who work it? 616 00:59:50,387 --> 00:59:52,822 It can only be love. 617 00:59:55,125 --> 00:59:59,529 It will not be written that the Lord Odda saved Wessex, 618 00:59:59,663 --> 01:00:03,156 but that is the story I will tell. 619 01:00:03,266 --> 01:00:07,328 That he gave his life to save the lives of many 620 01:00:07,437 --> 01:00:14,037 and ensured King Alfred of Wessex became more powerful than ever. 621 01:00:15,378 --> 01:00:17,870 Sigefrid had been defeated. 622 01:00:18,014 --> 01:00:24,443 But Alfred knew as well as I that the Danes were sure to return. 623 01:00:25,255 --> 01:00:28,589 Shackled by oaths to both Wessex and Mercia, 624 01:00:28,758 --> 01:00:32,388 it seems fate has made my sword Saxon, 625 01:00:33,063 --> 01:00:36,898 even though in my heart I remain a Dane. 626 01:00:38,835 --> 01:00:40,701 I, Uhtred, son of Uhtred, 627 01:00:40,837 --> 01:00:44,239 shall be the warrior to bind kingdom to kingdom. 628 01:00:44,841 --> 01:00:49,108 Honour-bound to forge Alfred's dream of an England. 629 01:00:51,114 --> 01:00:55,814 But one day my sword will belong to Bebbanburg. 630 01:00:56,853 --> 01:00:59,379 Destiny is all. 631 01:01:00,657 --> 01:01:03,821 Subtitles: BTI Studios 632 01:01:32,088 --> 01:01:33,420 ENGLISH SDH 632 01:01:34,305 --> 01:02:34,425 Please rate this subtitle at www.osdb.link/73qst Help other users to choose the best subtitles