Vikings: Valhalla introduced viewers to Leif Erikson, who right at the end of the season went through a major change – but what happened to him? Back in 2013, viewers met Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) and his Viking brothers in the historical drama TV series Vikings, created by Michael Hirst. Vikings was initially planned to be a miniseries, but Ragnar’s travels and raids captivated the audience instantly, and so the series lived on for six seasons, coming to an end in 2020 – but that wasn’t the end of the stories from the Viking Age.
In 2019, a sequel series to Vikings, simply titled Vikings: Valhalla, was announced, and instead of continuing the stories from the surviving characters, it makes a huge time jump to cover a different era from the Viking Age. Set over a century later, Vikings: Valhalla follows Leif Erikson (Sam Corlett), Freydís Eiríksdóttir (Frida Gustavsson), and Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter) as they go on a journey that takes them across oceans and battlefields, with the conflict between Vikings and English royals (pagans vs. Christians) as the backdrop. In just one season, these characters went through an intense personal journey, but the one who changed the most was Leif.
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Leif Erikson arrived at Kattegat with his sister Freydís and their crew as Freydís was looking for the man who raped her when she was younger and left a cross-shaped scar on her back. Freydís found and killed the man, but as he was part of Olaf Haraldsson’s (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson) crew, in order to save her life Leif had to join Harald, Olaf, and Canute’s (Bradley Freegard) mission to attack England. Leif proved to be a key element in that
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