Epic!
Now, I haven't read through all of the other comments yet so please forgive me if I repeat a common theme here.
The scene where (F)Loki descends on Kattegat is now my favorite scene in the entire series. Michael Hirst really nailed it. What a scene. His boat skimming over the calm fjord waters. Dusk. Walking…

Floki. I TRULY believe Floki is a double-agent. The best example of "communication" between Ragnar and Floki is when the whole crew arrives back in England and Ragnar informs everyone he wants to talk to the English first. Horik gets all pissy, slams the axe into the stump and storms off into his tent. Ragnar…

The cat was another clever reference to Norse Mythology. The cat is associated with the goddess Freya. Goats = Thor. Ravens = Odin.

So far all of Ragnar's sons have their historically accurate names, though the sequence of their births may be incorrect. I can only assume that Bjorn is supposed to be Bjorn Ironside future king of Sweden. I do not think he will be dying anytime soon.
Someone mentioned that Ragnar might die at the end of this…

Based on the direction of the conversation, Siggy and Aslaug, the discomfort she was having, abnormal pregnancy, etc. my money is definitely on the show going with a deformed or weak baby. If he is just an impotent super viking no one is going to know that for years. Plus, like someone else mentioned, maybe it will…

That's the way they seem to be going, with the bone disease, not one of the other myths. By how "that turns out" I mean along with Ubbe, Halfdan and Sigurd, Ivar, despite any possible disability, literally reshapes English history. I'm sure Ragnar is going to see him as a curse from the gods and it will be…

The seen with Aslaug and Siggy was excellent with it's use of Norse fatalism. The seen starts with three women picking through a basket of rope/yarn. They are only backlit and look like the three Norns (fates) playing with the tangled fates of people. Then the scene pans to the right with Aslaug and Siggy…