In English,"Countess" is used.In Nordic languages,there are suffixes…a male actor for example is a "skuespiller",a female a "skuespillerinne" or -"inde" varying with dialects.A wife is a "kone" or "kona".So if they are working with "Jarl" they might call Lagertha "Jarlinne" as in her own right or "Jarlkona" as a…

I remain extremely annoyed with the use of "Earl" to describe Lagertha.
The word is strictly male-gendered,and I have seen no evidence that it (rather than a clearly female equivalent) has ever been used for a woman in any relevant language.

Ragnar getting killed by Aelle and avenged by Aslaug's sons is about the only even semi-reliable thing known about him.To not end that way would leave nothing historical on a History Channel show.

Egbert died in 839,for whatever reference that gives.

Not if the ancestors WERE Vikings…

The blood eagle was used to avenge Ragnar so it's anticlimax if it's been shown already in the context of anyone else.

Ragnar's sons by Aslaug were adult when they avenged his death so how many more seasons does he have?

It was raining cats and dogs,right?

Cold Case had an episode where Monet Mazur played a con artist whose biological son was played by an actor only three years younger.

You're hiding from the reality that my viewpoint is the only sensible one.

The real facts and issues are so unfamiliar to you you don't know how to deal with them?

Homosexual ACTIVITY is conduct that homosexual ORIENTATION can no more excuse than alcoholism can excuse drunkenness or kleptomania excuse stealing.A rule that says "you have to do X to qualify" applies even to those who for whatever reason say "I'd rather do Y instead".

The clones were born in 1984,wouldn't they have Big Brothers?

The S2 disk-extras include something about "the four-clone scene",but per their blog that's what they call the scene with Sarah,Alison,and their reflections in the mirror.

Would Odette (Yustman) Annable or Alexis Knapp qualify?

No,standards of conduct are not "bigotry" against those who are inclined to violate them.They apply equally to everyone.

Too many people leave the celibacy into which we are all born
without sufficient reason…and any same-sex attraction can never be sufficient reason.

Better for any honest reading of the nature of life and morality.

I wouldn't say he was using irony.I was pedantically describing his enthusiasm.

Mrs. S. had a spelled-out Toronto address.