Needing the blood of Ragnar’s closest living relative – his sister Thyra – to send him to Valhalla, Uhtred snuck back into Wessex where he met secretly with a dying Alfred, and saw the Chronicle of Wessex the king was preparing, which wrote Uhtred out of history. On the mission, Uhtred learned that to lift his curse he must kill Skade without shedding a drop of her blood, so he lured her to a river and drowned her. In the meantime, Ragnar was killed in his sleep, cursing him to the icy realm of Niflheim, so Uhtred and Brida went on a mission to save Ragnar’s soul and allow him to enter Valhalla. Having exchanged Skade for Aethelflaed’s freedom, he re-kidnapped her from the Danish camp to lift the curse. Uhtred refused and took her hostage, so she cursed him, making him gravely ill until Brida cured his illness using ritual magic, but not lifting the curse.Īfter her rescue, Aethelflaed asked Uhtred to kiss her but he refused, still believing himself cursed. Uhtred and his men rode north, where he encountered Danish seer Skade, who offered to share her body and her power with him. Resisting arrest for the murder, Uhtred escaped Wessex by holding Alfred hostage at knifepoint and was banished from the kingdom. Finally, when Christian monk Brother Godwin insulted Gisela’s memory, Uhtred retaliated and accidentally killed him – a further insult to Alfred’s Christianity. Things worsened when, after Uhtred’s wife Gisela died in childbirth, Uhtred desecrated her grave and burned her body on a Pagan pyre, offending Alfred’s faith. The tempestuous relationship between Uhtred and King Alfred came to a head in season three, when Uhtred refused to swear a further oath to Alfred’s son Edward, preferring his freedom and considering his debt to Alfred paid. Maybe next time, Uht.Īnd here’s what happened in a bit more detail: Uhtred – oaths, curses and banishment ![]() ![]() Edward successfully defended Wessex from the Danish army with the help of the armies of Mercia and Kent.Īll that, and Uhtred still didn’t get to Bebbanburg to fight his usurping uncle Aelfric and get back his father’s fortress. Edward was married off to the daughter of wealthy Lord Aethelhelm, his secret commoner wife and children having been spirited away by his mother Aelswith and the church. Uhtred killed Aethelwold in battle with the Danes, letting Ragnar pass into Valhalla.Īlfred died of an illness, making Edward king of Wessex. Aethelwold plotted with Ragnar’s cousin Jarl Cnut (unbeknownst to Brida, who later became Cnut’s lover) and murdered Ragnar in his sleep. He stoked xenophobic unrest in Wessex, which led to Father Beocca’s wife Thyra being killed. The king’s nephew Aethelwold joined the Danes in the attack on Wessex.
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