Why Ragnar Is So Important To Valhalla (Despite His Vikings Death)
Vikings: Valhalla is the sequel series to Vikings, and even though Ragnar Lothbrok died in the main series, he is still important to Valhalla. In 2013, people met Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) and company in Vikings, created by Michael Hirst, which aired on History Channel before moving to Amazon Prime Video for its final episodes. Vikings began as a miniseries but was quickly renewed for a second season, and so it lived on for six seasons, coming to an end in December 2020. The spinoff series, Vikings: Valhalla, is set 100 years on from the original and premiered on Netflix.
Vikings initially followed the travels and raids of Ragnar Lothbrok, a legendary Norse figure whose existence is still debated among historians. Still, Ragnar led Vikings during its first seasons. But as the characters’ stories progressed, Vikings shifted its focus to Ragnar’s sons and their own travels. Once Ragnar died in season 4, his sons took over the series, with Björn Ironside (Alexander Ludwig) and Ivar the Boneless (Alex Høgh Andersen) leading it until the very end. Vikings brought the arcs of its main characters to a close and left very few loose ends. But this isn’t the end of this world, as it's explored further in the spinoff series Vikings: Valhalla.
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When the final season of Vikings was announced in January 2019, so was the sequel series Vikings: Valhalla. Set a century after the events of the main series, Valhalla covers the final years of the Viking Age and the most important events during that time, such as the rivalries for the English throne after the death of King Edward the Confessor, Leif Erikson’s (Sam Corlett) travels across the North Atlantic,
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