I liked her hat though.

I've been wondering about that from the beginning. Apparently the tattoos on the warriors are fairly historically accurate. Also we can see that the Norse priests wear a great deal of black eye-paint.

I can't blame anyone for getting the numerous blonde women mixed up. At this point I can't even remember the name of Bjorn's first wife, who fought with him and got disfigured. She just disappeared.

Too much for me, anyway. I was cutting away to watch Gene Kelly tap dancing on roller skates (!)

Cool! And he was completely credible as an actor.

It was very affecting, considering that Aethelwulf is mostly portrayed as a frustrated powderkeg, and that sadly, Ecbert could very well have replied, "Of course I've used you. that's what sons are for."

I guess some directors think it photographs better than having the couple lying down, but getting f——d from behind while standing up is not as much fun as it looks.

Off with her head!

I'm not so sure about the chef. My interest cooled off when he disclosed familiarity with a brothel.

They do look very much alike.

The miracles of modern medicine…

The 1830s were still pretty rough-and-tumble. If scandals weren't printed in the newspapers there were plenty of National Inquirer-style pamphlets to be had.

We shall see. For one thing, his own parents' marriage having been an adulterous disaster, he insisted, in adult child fashion, that he and Victoria would have a stable, normal life together, setting the standard for the Victorian middle-class family.

Victoria was informed when she was a child that she was going to end up being queen. "I cried and cried," she wrote later. Her mother was so paranoid that Victoria would be done away with before ascending the throne that she slept in the same room with her until Victoria's marriage, and wasn't too pleased at being…

He was just acting like a stepfather.

You're not supposed to like Ivar, you're supposed to have a horrified fascination!

According to "The Real Vikings" series, an archaeologist believes his has found the grave of Ivar and other warriors. If it is indeed Ivar's body, he didn't have a good end. Boneless indeed.

They will probably re-run the episode next week just before the new one.

That was Astrid, but she was dressed and coiffed as a lady and not as a shield maiden, so she was not quite recognizable at first.

He must be pretty old since by 15 years or so have passed (judging by Bjorn's maturity, not history). When Lagertha paid him a visit he was eating, but at first I expected him to be hitting the hard stuff, like an old, disillusioned priest.