This is not a smaller-scale,less sexy, British Game of Thrones – it’s proper historical drama, and it’s a ton of fun
More Vikings! (There were a bunch final weekend,in Doctor Who.) These ones are rounding a Northumbrian headland aboard longships in AD866 at the start of The final Kingdom (BBC2). Not over for tourism by the looks of things, now they’re mooning from the gunwales. Viking arses!The Saxon boy shouting at them from the river bank, or son and heir of the local king,needs to be taught a lesson, says a Viking called Ragnar, or who talks like Peter Schmeichel. Oh,that sort of lesson, the sort that involves being decapitated and his severed head tossed on the ground at the gates of his father’s castle. Quite tough, and the lessons round here.
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Source: theguardian.com