What Happens To Olaf & Kattegat After Vikings: Valhalla

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Warning: Contains spoilers forVikings: Valhalla.

The season finale of Vikings: Valhalla left viewers wondering just what was going to happen to Olaf Haraldsson (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson) and the Scandinavian stronghold of Kattegat. The final scenes of the episode included betrayal and bloodshed, not to mention a lightning-speed reshuffling of who ruled what that was enough to give the audience whiplash. Vikings: Valhalla season 2 will have its work cut out for itself as many loose ends will need tying up. Kattegat has been left smoldering, and Olaf did not get the last laugh like he had been previously planning.

After the Vikings come back from their invasion of England, Olaf decides to take advantage of the fact that King Canute is back in Denmark. Allying himself with the Christian fanatic, Jarl Kåre (Asbjørn Krogh Nissen), Olaf seeks to take control of Kattegat behind King Canute’s back. While Jarl Kåre’s forces will attack the Scandinavian stronghold by land, Olaf plans to attack by sea. However, Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett), Erik the Red’s son, realizes that the boats approaching their beaches are simply a diversion in order to break up their defensive forces. Olaf has used none of his own fighters in the battle, instead betraying the fellow Christian by sacrificing Jarl Kåre’s fighters in battle so that he may step in as the new ruler of Kattegat with an untouched battalion at his side to help him maintain control. Jarl Estrid Haakon (Caroline Henderson), the one who had most recently called herself ruler of Kattegat, was shot with arrows by Kåre’s fighters and is on her deathbed, and Jarl Kåre was decapitated by Valhalla’s fiercest shield-maiden, Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida Gustavsson), clearing the way for Olaf