Summary
Vikings: Valhallahas featured notable historical figures from the Viking Age, but there’s one I’ve been waiting to see next to Leif (Sam Corlett) and Freydis (Frida Gustavsson) after confusion created by the firstVikingsTV show. With many more stories from the Viking Age to tell,Vikings: Valhallacontinues exploring the world ofVikingsover 100 years after the events of season 6, and it focuses on the tensions between pagan and Christian Vikings, as well as their relations with the English.
LeadingVikings: Valhallaare Leif Erikson, Harald Sigurdsson, and Freydis Eirkíksdóttir, Leif’s sister. Throughout two seasons, they faced the English and made deals with them, and Freydis traveled to Jomsborg and returned to Kattegat, while Leif and Harald, after many obstacles, finally made it to Constantinople.Vikings: Valhallaseason 3is expected to see them together again, but more exciting than that is the introduction of a character related to Leif and Freydis and who has a key role in Viking history: Erik the Red (Goran Višnjić).
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Vikings: Valhalla Season 3 Will Introduce Erik The Red - Why That’s So Exciting
Erik The Red Has Already Been Mentioned In Vikings: Valhalla
Although season 3 will be the official debut of Erik the Red inVikings: Valhalla, he has been mentioned before, especially in season 1, asLeif and Freydis are his children. When Leif and Freydis arrived in Kattegat, they carried the bad reputation of their father, infamously known for being banished from Iceland along with his family. Leif mentioned to Liv that there was a darkness in his father and he once saw him brutally beat a man in front of his children.
When it comes to Erik the Red,Vikings: Valhallais on its way to being closer to what history says about him.
Vikings: Valhalla, then, has already set up Erik the Red as a mysterious and potentially dangerous figure who may or may not arrive to cause more chaos in his children’s lives in season 3. Something that has bothered me a bit aboutVikings: Valhallais how much it has changed history (for instance,Leif and Harald never met each other), though I understand that many events and situations have to be embellished for entertainment reasons – however, when it comes to Erik the Red,Vikings: Valhallais on its way to being closer to what history says about him.
According to the sagas, Erik the Red was a Norse explorer who had four children, including Leif and Freydis. Erik’s father, Thorvald Asvaldsson, was banished from Norway for committing acts of manslaughter and sailed to Iceland with his family. Years later,Erik was exiled from Icelandwhen his slaves were killed, and in retaliation, Erik killed the man who murdered them, and he was banished for that.Erik sailed to a little-known land he would go on to name Greenland, founding the first European settlement there.
Introducing Erik the Red allowsVikings: Valhallato explore more of Leif’s “darkness”.
Vikings: Valhallaseason 1 teased that Leif had the same darkness as his father in him and seemed to have seen the beginning of berserker Leif Erikson, but that stopped in season 2. Introducing Erik the Red allowsVikings: Valhallato go deeper into the backstories of Leif and Freydis, explore more of Leif’s “darkness”, and seehow bad Erik’s reputation is and how it can affect what his children have builtand planned so far.
Vikings Introduced An Erik The Red, But It’s Not The Same
Vikingsseason 6 introduced Erik Thorvaldsson, an outlaw and former mercenary.
Among the manyhistorical inaccuracies inVikingsis that it featured Erik the Red (Eric Johnson).Vikingsseason 6 introduced Erik Thorvaldsson, an outlaw and former mercenary. After Bjorn’s death, he made himself King of Kattegat alongside Queen Ingrid, but the latter asked the gods to make him blind. With the help of a slave named Nissa, Ingrid planned Erik’s death, and Nissa stabbed him with a pitchfork, killing him. However, despite having the same name,this wasn’t the real Erik the Red, butVikings: Valhalla’s Erik is the one.
Ultimately, despite sharing the same name and father (or at least their name, too),Vikings’ Erik and his story have no influence inVikings: Valhalla, allowing the latter to properly introduce the real Erik the Red. Through Erik the Red,Vikings: Valhallacan make up for its many historical inaccuracies, but the biggest problem I see is that this is the show’s final season, so no matter how good this portrayal of Erik is, it won’t be fully explored.
Vikings: Valhalla
Set over a thousand years ago in the early 11th century, Vikings: Valhalla chronicles the heroic adventures of some of the most famous Vikings ever chronicled. As tensions between the Vikings and the English royals reach a bloody breaking point and as the Vikings themselves clash over their conflicting Christian and pagan beliefs, these three Vikings begin an epic journey that will take them across oceans and through battlefields, from Kattegat to England and beyond, as they fight for survival and glory.
