Vikings, Season 1

Lagertha:
Don't sleep with lots of women in Kattegat.

Ragnar:
I can do without it for a few days.

Lagertha:
Is that another way of saying you love me?

Floki:
[to Bjorn] You have your father's eyes unfortunately.

Ragnar:
Why unfortunately?

Floki:
It means he will be like you, and therefore he will want to do better than you, and you will hate him for it.

Bjorn:
Why is he smiling, Father?

Ragnar:
[about the beheaded man] He wants to die well, without fear, to atone for his sins.

Ragnar:
Odin gave his eye to acquire knowledge, but I would give far more.

Athelstan:
It was foretold that divine punishment would fall upon God's chosen people for all our grievous sins, and so it has happened.

Ragnar:
My lord, it was easy to take all of these things. The priests in their temple, they had no weapons. They were like babies.

Athelstan:
[doesn't want to drink anymore but still smiles] Aghhh! Oh! No more.

Ragnar:
We don't like those in our house to go hungry or thirsty. [gives him something to drink anyway] I am very curious about England. Does it have one king who rules over the whole country?

Athelstan:
There are four kingdoms with four kings. You landed in the kingdom of Northumbria. The king of Northumbria is called Aelle. He is a great king. A powerful king.

Ragnar:
Then why did his men not protect your temple?

Athelstan:
Before you came, we had no need to protect our monastery. We lived in peace. Everyone respected it as a place of God.

Ragnar:
Why does your God need silver and gold, hmm? He must be greedy. Like Loki! We have greedy gods too.

Athelstan:
My God is not greedy. His kingdom is not of this world.

Ragnar:
Then why is his kingdom so full of treasure?

Athelstan:
Christian people give away their riches to the churches and monasteries in order to save their souls.

Ragnar:
What are their souls? [pause] I want to learn some of your language. Will you teach me, priest?

Lagertha:
If any harm befalls my children, I will tear the lungs out of your body, priest.

Lagertha:
Athelstan.

Ragnar:
Athelstan, we want to ask you something.

Lagertha:
Come and join us, priest.

Ragnar:
Come on. Don't you want to? You'll enjoy it.

Athelstan:
I am a monk. I have taken vows of celibacy. I cannot touch a woman. I never have.

Lagertha:
Wouldn't you like to?

Athelstan:
It would be a sin.

Lagertha:
Who would know?

Athelstan:
God would know.

Lagertha:
What if he looked the other way?

[Athelstan shakes his head]

Ragnar:
Go to sleep then with your God.

Rollo:
Up onto the overturned keel. Clamber, with a heart of steel. Cold is the ocean's spray... and your death is on its way. With maidens you have had your way...

Lagertha, Leif:
[shouting] Each must die some day.

Torstein:
I heard they burned down your farm.

Lagertha:
They also slaughtered all our livestock. We have nothing left.

Floki:
You are alive. Ragnar is alive. Your children are alive. You have everything left.

Earl Haraldson:
The killers, they dug a shallow grave. And before they buried them... they cut their heads off. And when they laid them in the ground, they... they put their faces against their asses... as a sign of disrespect. If I ever find the man who did that... I will... I took these locks of hair from their heads. See Siggy... when you have such knowledge... being married to a rich, old man isn't so bad.

Helga:
The earth was made from the Ymir's flesh and oceans from his blood, when the Titan was thawed from the ice. The gods, they made hills out of his bones, and trees from his hairs, and the sky dome is his skull. And out of his brain they shaped the welling dark clouds.

Bjorn:
It's only death.

Ragnar:
Don't be too impatient to put yourself in danger.

Ragnar:
Our fates are already decided.

Rollo:
[Hugging Ragnar] How will we ever be equal now, my brother?

Floki:
This table is very well made.

Bjorn:
So are the women.

Rollo:
How many Christians did I kill, Floki? How many? Do you think Odin is still angry with me now?

Lagertha:
Our whole lives are just stories.

King Aelle:
Contend, o lord, against those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me! Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers. Say to my soul - "I am your salvation."

King Aelle:
Who are these barbarians, these savages? Why have they come to torment us?

Ragnar:
Every piece of land has a price, just like every human.

Ragnar:
[explaining why he slept with Princess Aslaug] I could not help myself.