Sinn Balabanoff is not a worthy viewer of one of television's few ongoing works of art. "Vikings" only has filler for those to shallow to follow it into the depths. Like a good novel, you have learn some detail about the characters to appreciate the plot unfolding in a meaningful way.

Eh? So it's more realistic to imagine that women were allowed to fight alongside men in Saxon England? Rewriting history according to modern ideals is what's silly.

Dennis Perkins, you're correct in all you say, but only to a point. Surely you've seen enough of this tremendously powerful & unique series to have more faith in Michael Hirst. This all seems to be aimed at the future and a final confrontation amongst these three regions (or four, if you count Northumbria). I'm…