From Midgard to Valhalla

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Hail Vikings,

In France, there will be an event called: From Midgard to Valhalla this will take place at the Hyatt Regency Paris Charles De Gaulle on 16 and 17 Septembre. 

Announced (#extra) guest:

Helga (Maud Hirst)

Aslaug (Alyssa Sutherland)

Bjorn (Alexander Ludwig)#

Rollo (Clive Standen)#

Ivar (Alex Høgh Andersen)

Ubbe (Jordan Patrick Smith)

Torvi (Georgia Hirst)

Tickets start from  € 140,00 packages, extra's and other things will be announced in a further stadium.

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Vikings open casting call

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Hail Vikings,

Today I got this link http://extrasireland.com/vikings-season-4/ for the open casting call.

If you are willing to audition for our beloved series Vikings. They need a minimum of 8.000 new members of the family. All genders and nationalities are welcome. So there will be a next season and you could be in it so give it a try to find out your inner Viking.

©TamaraBakx

Vikings season 3 'Scarred' with spoilers

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This was the episode we where waiting for. A main character got killed in this episode. The speculations where high and never could we imagine what was going to happen. We all got it wrong but there is still 6 episodes to come so who knows what will happen (dead, treason, torture) next it is not yet the end of this season. Next week we are half way trough the season with a funeral coming up. With that said I will begin to say what a twist and turning is coming up this episode.

We start off in Kattegat with Aslaug who is very tired because Ivar is crying a lot because he is in pain. Aslaug gives up and want to go Siggy tried to stop here but Aslaug leave here children once again. She goes to the Wanderer. While she is away Siggy want to regain power or she want to have the memory back when she was wife of an earl.

The Wanderer tells us another myth who could be identified with Odin the Allfather. The myth he was telling is about Olaf his son High duke at that moment but will be king when he meets Odin in the myths. http://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=2027 

A strange thing happens between Aethelwolf, Rollo and Floki. Rollo and Aethelwolf speak of friendship. Rollo needs to tell Floki why this is so important and here we see a Rollo who start his political career. We saw a little last episode of his politics but now we see more politics of him.

If we take Floki in this conversation he gives the blame to the baptism of Rollo who also makes him a christian. Floki is a men of gods.  He talks to them and they are angry. After a while Rollo talks about this conversation with Ragnar. Ragnar wants to challenge the gods. Rollo made up his mind and go to search for Floki to tell him that he will never let it come to that, another political decision he makes.

Lets talk about King Eckbert and his plan to rule Wessex, Mercia and I think he will rule Northumbria as well in time. He wasn´t prepared that Lagertha would go back and didn´t fall for his plan to let her stay. Athelstan is also one of the persons who will go back with Ragnar. King Eckbert told him that this is the wrong decision. Athelstan thinks he is wise to leave because he want to give Princess Judith the space to stay with Eathelwolf. I think in the end this is a wrong decision. To be continued.

The King Eckbert and Ragnar scene is a fun to watch I like the way they get a long with each other. They both love politics. they both love the same women, they know each other too well.

When Siggy goes after the two sons of Ragnar on the ice to save them once again (King Horik) it becomes her dead. I think she didn't know what the Wanderer was capable off. She distrusted him and went to the seer last episode and he couldn't do a thing for her.

In another piece of this episode we see that the Wanderer is there for people who suffer. He sees Aslaug, Ivar and Siggy suffer. So the Wanderer (Odin) told Helga and Aslaug that Siggy is in Valhalla. Most blogs I read where talking about that Siggy needed to go to Hellheim. I will stay with my decision that the Wanderer Odin in person took the decision to let her into Valhalla. Odin is the one who decide where the died would go.

And then the surprises of this episode Princess Kwindreth become a queen herself by poisoning her own brother. Also we have a return surprise from two characters. Erlundor son of King Horik is back with his wife Torvi the ex-wife of Jarl Borg who is dead due to the Blood Eagle and they had a child of Jarl Borg with them. Born after the dead of Jarl Borg. This is the backup for his own crowned Earl Kalf to get rid off the Lothbroks.

©TamaraBakx

Extended version Vikings Trailer season 3

All I have to say is that I love this trailer so much.

I had to see it several times to see what is going on.

I am way too excited, I want to see this season 3 so bad and I need to wait longer than you guys. I cannot wait for this.

How about the music I love the music of this trailer it tells us that this is a different time a darker one then before.

What we see is the battle between father and Son. The Son who want to do something else than where his father wish for. The battle between feelings and wisdom. strategy, power play and betrayal. A seer who see the future. Lagertha who is asking about her dead.

What we see in this piece of the trailer is very important. It tells us a lot of what will be happening. A couple of phrases I would like to take out of this meeting between the seer and Lagertha.

About the mythology use in this trailer. There is more mythology coming your way. If we look closer to the phrases said in the trailer we found out that there going to mix greek mythology with Nordic mythology. I will get a few phrases out. The marble city is that Rome, the Taj Mahal or Greece we are talking about? If we take Greece it is Athens or about the Greek goddess Athena. If we talk about Rome it where the buildings of that time.

• The first phrase is I see a harvest with Blood this could go with the story of Ivar the boneless and tells us about The Vengeance for more information see http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-vengeance-of-ivarr-the-boneless-4002654/?no-ist
• The second one is city of marble This could be either Rome or Athens but also the Taj Mahal associated with this city of marble. If it is Athens it will be a mixture of Nordic and Greece Mythology. It is about Athena.
• The third is about burning brawling ocean and that is a funeral of that time. We know already that someone is going to die. 

We see Floki embodied more and more as Loki. How do you know you might wonder.

• Eckbert in the trailer tells us about truly April (Loki 's favourite day is april fools day)
• If we see Ragnar hurt by the spear thrown by someone unknown for this moment (If Floki made this spear it has to do with Baldr and Loki mythology) Is this why Floki is holding a crown (is Floki seeking for power?)
• We attack Paris, Tricks are worse (Trickster Loki)
• Floki and the trees (blood brothers Odin/Loki or both made from Yggdrasil) Or is he trying to trap or save someone with the trees
• Floki tells Ragnar how many must die for the Christian he is not amused with Athelstan

Is Loki bound in human from Floki?

Will they give answers to the questions

• Who is going to leave Ragnar?
• Who is going to Walhalla or heaven is someone going to die and at the end will this be Ragnar or Lagertha who is going to ask it to The seer? Or someone else.
• Why is Ragnar that angry with Helga?

This trailer also tell there are more confusing things. If you saw both trailers the one from comic con and the one we see now there is a lot of difference. Some of it is the same but every new character is already introduced except for one the daughter of the France King.

©TamaraBakx

Expectation I have on Vikings season 3

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There came a lot of things in my mind when I saw the trailer for season 3. After seeing it for several times I can only expect the unexpected because this trailer shows a lot but don’t explain what is going on. But for what I could find in the trailer I will explain in this post.

In the trailer we see big battles. Much bigger than last years battles.

We see a body of Bjorn or Floki into the water lying still. It could be a trick to explore how near your enemy is in the water. It could be a way to trick your enemy into a battle. A battle strategy or a death I can’t figure it out yet.

Then we get the stones and bones I have explained it before this is what I wrote about it in an earlier stage but will repeat it in this one although nothing is sure I think about this scenario:

If you take Floki who is a trickster and named after the trickster god Loki. There is a story in Loki’s history with a couple of things in it who reference to what the seer says.

When Loki was in his darker sinister form he insulted the gods and fled. He made a house with three or four doors so when the gods went out looking for him he could escape through the doors. (three sides) Loki’s children Vali turned into a wolf and Narfi is killed by Vali this was necessary for bones to bound Loki on to a rock (stones and bones). This would mean that Floki would be the one who is going to die or at least bound.(1)

If we look to this differently the stones and bones tell us dead, waken up from dead or they tell us that the stones will decide what will go on. The bones will tell us the huge victories.

Then he goes on about one river the one who is from what we know as the north sea up to the Seine. Two shores this could be England and France if you have read the articles about what he said. It could be Iceland because we see Bjorn on a rocky scenery with snow and dressed in very warm clothes with a very cold face. At the end of the trailer we see both Ragnar and Bjorn on that same scenery.

Three sides I think they mean that everyone has three sides the side we like to choose, the side we didn’t want to choose and the one chosen for us. It could be de dark side in you, but also it could be the choice of religion. Three sides could mean power, justice and law. Or England, France and Iceland.

About splitting I think Ragnar will divorce Auslaug but it could be one of her children who will die in this series. It explains a lot of the alone with her in the trailer. Everyone is going its own way.

By joining I see a romance between Lagertha and King Eckbert. I think this will be a trick to get Eckbert on his knees when Ragnar want him too. In my opinion Lagertha will trick him into his own dead.

Rollo gets a journey of his own. Because we see Rollo shouting to the others in the boat. I think more of them will go alone on journeys each for itself.

The struggling will be for each person but the more for Athelstan I think divided between two or three gods Pagan, Christian and Catholic.

1  Norse Mythology A to Z Revised edition Kathleen N. Daly, revised by Marian Rengel ISBN 0-8160-5156-9

©TamaraBakx