This article is mainly based on Lars Brownworth's popular history book "The Legend of the Viking: The Wolf of the Sea"
The plot in the first season is relatively the most in line with the real history, and the subsequent plots have basically been brainstormed, so this article is not a spoiler.
Ragnar Rodbroke: Also translated as Langner, the year of birth and death is unknown, active in the middle of the ninth century, the last name means fluffy breeches, the legend is a Danish Viking, once organized 120 ships with 5000 people in 845 , Looted from Denmark along the Seine and successfully attacked Paris. After the occupation of Paris, the Vikings suffered a plague. Ragnar accepted nearly 6,000 pounds of gold and silver tribute and conditions for safe evacuation with looted items. The Vikings withdrew from Paris and continued to plunder along the Seine. Later he was exiled by the Danish pirate king Horlick. Legend has it that Ragnar also died in Paris from the plague, but this claim is not highly credible. Some people say that he returned to Denmark after Horlick's death (854). Some people say that he died while attacking Anglesey. Some people say that he died while fighting for territory with other Vikings in Ireland. The claim is that he was caught in a storm in the UK and was captured by the king Ella of Northumbria (the dark curly fat king in the play) and thrown into the snake pit. His offspring: Ivar the Boneless, Bjorn the Warrior, Ubi, Halfdan, Snake Eye Sigurd, and possibly Hasstein. He did not besiege Paris for the second time. He did not kill Horrick but was exiled by Horrick. The life span of the Vikings was roughly 50 years old, so from the perspective of age, the chances of his participation in the looting of Lindisfarne Abbey in 793 were very small. , It is almost impossible to plan this looting.
Horlick: Died in 954. After the Danish pirate king, Godfried’s son, Ragnar ransacked Paris, Louis, the brother of the Frankish King Bald Charlie, asked for the return of the supplies and recognized Louis as the supreme lord, otherwise he would attack Denmark. Horrick returned the property looted by Ragnar and exiled him. In 954 Horrick and the royal family were killed by his nephew.
Rollo: Norwegian Viking. Legend has it that he was the son of the most trusted partner of Harald, the first king of Norway. The blood axe King Eric took over the farm of Rollo’s family and killed Rollo’s brother after he succeeded as King of Norway. , And exiled him. ——This paragraph is derived from the statement of the historian of Charles I, the grandson of Rollo, so the credibility is limited. Rollo may have participated in the Siege of Paris in 886. Later, he signed the "Treaty of St. Claire-sur-Apt" with the foolish king Charlie. The strange Christianity of Rollo obtained a fief between Rouen and Évreux, and provided military assistance to the Christian king when needed. The Normandy region appeared, and the Normans separated from the Vikings and were completely French in the tenth century. From the perspective of active time, Rollo finished in Ragnar, even later than Ragnar's son Boneless. So he can't be Ragnar's brother.
Arakkoa Froki: Norwegian Vikings in the ninth century, the first to name Iceland and the first to colonize Iceland. There is no evidence that he knew Ragnar or Rollo.
Ivar the Boneless: Around 850 the Vikings began to change their strategy of plundering England for long-term settlement. In 865, Ivar and his brothers Halfdan, Ubi, and the Norwegian ally White Olaf made an unprecedented invasion of England. They set out from the pirate city of Ireland, headed south, and landed in East Anglian. The local people paid tribute to the first Danish gold in history. Successively captured Northumbria (where their father died in the legend), the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles claimed that the king of Northumbria died in the war. Norwegian legend says that the boneless man was sentenced to Ella's blood eagle for revenge for his father. Later invaded Mercia and East Anglian. Wessex is the only country left in England. In 871, the Boneless, known as the "King of Scandinavia in Ireland and Britain", settled in Dublin. Died two years later. In the play, Ivar is the youngest son. From time to speculation, he is more likely to be the eldest son.
Warrior Bjorn: Ragna's son, sacked Frank, and Hasten carried out a legendary looting of Islamic countries in the Mediterranean and Christian countries in Spain in 860. After returning to Scandinavia, he was proud and wealthy.
Hafdan: The son of Ragnar, the pagan army that participated in the organization of Yvar (the Anglo-Saxon's name for the 865 invasion) defeated King Alfred of Wessex in 871 with Guteren reinforcements, appointed It is a vassal state and receives Danish gold. There are multiple accounts of his life experience afterwards. The most credible is that he died in a battle with the Norwegian King of Dublin in 873.
Ubi: Participate in the army of infidels. After the death of brothers Ivar and Halfdan, he joined Gutlen's army. In 878, Ubi died in a battle with King Alfred of Essex. After Gutren and Alfred defeated in a decisive battle. Wessex and the western part of Mercia belong to Alfred and form England. The East Anglian and Eastern Messiae returned to the Vikings to form the Danish District.
Therefore, there was no situation where Wessex and Northumbria joined forces with the Vikings to interfere with Mercia. Vikings immigrated to England during the Yvar era around 850. Ragnar did not participate in the army of infidels, did not immigrate to England, and did not meet the princess of the Tang Dynasty wearing a red cotton jacket. The TV series compressed time and space, brought the famous Vikings of the 9th century in the early Viking era together, finished the most important thing the Vikings did in Western Europe in the 9th century, and did something they didn't do by the way.
View more about Vikings reviews
