New Beginnings is the first episode in the sixth season of Vikings, and seventieth episode overall. It aired on December 4, 2019. It is directed by Steve Saint Leger.
Synopsis
Bjorn struggles with the responsibilities of kingship and he finds he can't rely on his mother, Lagertha; Ivar falls into the hands of the Kievan Rus, and in their ruthless and unpredictable ruler, Prince Oleg, he may finally have met his match.
Plot
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Cast
Main Cast
- Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha
- Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn
- Alex Høgh Andersen as Ivar
- Jordan Patrick Smith as Ubbe
- Marco Ilsø as Hvitserk
- Danila Kozlovsky as Oleg
Guest Starring
- Georgia Hirst as Torvi
- Ragga Ragnars as Gunnhild
- Lucy Martin as Ingrid
Additional Cast
- Martin Maloney as Vigrid
- Bryan Quinn as One-Eyed Man
- Kieran O'Reilly as White Hair
- Kristy Dawn Dinsmore as Amma
- Andrei Claude as Ganbaatar
- Marko Leht as Torturer
- Elodie Curry as Asa
- Ryan Henson as Hali
- Danny O'Connor as Messenger 1
- Michael Johnston as Messenger 2
Uncredited
- David Byrne as Bandit 1
- Katie Castle as Shield-maiden
- Stav Dvorkin as Collaborator
- Ruby O'Leary as Gyda (archive footage)
- Nathan O'Toole as Bjorn (archive footage)
- Mark Quigley as Kiev Noble
- Martin White as Bandit 2
Episode Deaths
Trivia
- When Ivar is brought before Oleg, he is refered to as a "varjag" in dialoge (subtitled as viking). "Varjag" was the name given to Vikings in by Slavs, taken from the Norse væringr which means "mercenary." In modern Russian, "varjag" also means outsider.
- This is the 70th episode of Vikings.
- "Buddhist" monks are depicted in the opening scene. Buddhist monks were almost certainly present in even the Western-most regions of the Silk Road in the 9th-10th centuries. In particular, one Sufi saint, Shaqiq al-Balkhi (c. 810 CE), talks about meeting "shaven-headed mendicants" on the Silk Road that seem to have been Buddhist. To be clear, those folks are not Himalayan, and the robes are not what Himalayan Buddhist monastics wear.
- In real life, Ivar the Boneless died in 873 AD. Oleg came to the throne of Kiev only in 882 AD. They could not have met under the circumstances depicted in the show.
- A South American macaw parrot is shown on the Silk Road.
