Bear in mind that when the epic poetry (and other old sources) mention "rings" they are certainly referring to gold arm bands, not finger rings, unless specified.

addendum: that scene was rad as hell though.

I can't speak to the medical feasability, but there is considerable debate about weather the blood eagle was even a thing. It's only mentioned a handful of times in the extant source material. Since practically all of our written source material on the Viking Age Scandanavians was written by later Christian scholars,…

Tyr was probably still kicking at that point, although pretty low in status. The show doesn't really go into the pantheon outside Odin and Thor, unfortunately. I'd wager that the execution in this episode was less of an offering and more of a "clean-up" of some remaining Borg men. I mean, you got to do something with…

Unless I'm mistaken, The League usually bases its fantasy happenings on reality, so it was kinda jarring that the show jumped forward a month in time. That being said, great episodes, and I better pick up the Titans D a few weeks from now.