"I have something that will change everything" Ragnar tells his bigger, less intelligent brother Rollo early in Season One of The Vikings -- a multinational co-production that included money from that public-private-partnership known as the Canadian Media Fund, an agency founded by the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canadian cable industry in 2010.
Ragnar's "something" is a piece of stone or glass that can locate the sun on a cloudy day and channel its beam onto something else, a sun board, which Viking boaters were known to use. Ragnar's request to travel west has been denied repeatedly by Haraldsson, the local chieftain, but he, Rollo and a dozen others eventually defy him, sacking a monastery (Lindisfarne) and bringing home with them gold and silver crosses, along with a few young priests, one of whom speaks "Scandinavian". Ragnar takes this priest as a slave and, with his wife, asks him if he would join them in the bedroom, which the young priest, despite the temptation, declines.
Last night marked the end of Episode Three, with Ragnar's gang returning west, where they are met this time by an armed patrol. The patrol attempts to negotiate (presumably Ragnar had learned enough "English" from the priest by then), but Rollo is impatient and soon enough the axes start swinging, leaving the English to bleed out in the surf. Nine more episodes to go.
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