Valhalla True Story: How Many Died At The St. Brice's Day Massacre
Vikings: Valhalla is based on historical events and real-life people, and a key event in this new series is the St. Brice’s Day massacre – but how many died at the massacre? One of the most popular historical dramas in recent years is Vikings, created by Michael Hirst (The Tudors). Vikings premiered on History Channel in 2013, and even though it was originally planned to be a miniseries, its success allowed it to continue for a total of six seasons, coming to an end in 2020. However, it wasn’t enough to tell the stories of the most notable Vikings in history, and so a sequel series was announced in 2019.
Vikings explored the first years of the Viking Age with legendary Norse figure Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) as the lead. The series initially followed Ragnar’s travels and raids alongside his Viking brothers, but as it evolved, it started shifting its focus to Ragnar’s sons (Björn, Ubbe, Hvitserk, Sigurd, and Ivar) and their own journeys. These characters took over Vikings after Ragnar’s death in season 4, and while their stories were given full closure, there are more battles, people, and legends to explore from the Viking Age, and many of them will be addressed in the sequel series Vikings: Valhalla.
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Set more than a century after the events of Vikings, Vikings: Valhalla follows Leif Erikson (Sam Corlett), Freydís Eiríksdóttir (Frida Gustavsson), and Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter), who embark on a journey that takes them across oceans and battlefields, each one of them with a personal battle to deal with in the process. As the backdrop of their stories are the tensions between the Vikings and the English royals – Christians vs Pagans –
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