The seer Skade predicted that Alfred wouldn’t see another summer and was proved right. The season ended with Uhtred making peace with his duel identities, Saxon and Dane. During the battle with the Danes (won by the Saxons), Uhtred killed Aethelwold, sending Ragnar’s soul to Valhalla.
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Edward, now the king, went against his mother and Uhtred agreed to join him as a free man, not an oathman, to fight the Danish army. Alfred pardoned Uhtred, but after Alfred’s death his widow Aelswith (a devout Christian who’d always hated the Pagan) rescinded the pardon and locked Uhtred up. Needing the blood of Ragnar’s closest living relative – his sister Thyra – to send him to Valhalla, Uhtred snuck back into Wessex where he met secretly with a dying Alfred, and saw the Chronicle of Wessex the king was preparing, which wrote Uhtred out of history. On the mission, Uhtred learned that to lift his curse he must kill Skade without shedding a drop of her blood, so he lured her to a river and drowned her.
In the meantime, Ragnar was killed in his sleep, cursing him to the icy realm of Niflheim, so Uhtred and Brida went on a mission to save Ragnar’s soul and allow him to enter Valhalla. Having exchanged Skade for Aethelflaed’s freedom, he re-kidnapped her from the Danish camp to lift the curse. Uhtred refused and took her hostage, so she cursed him, making him gravely ill until Brida cured his illness using ritual magic, but not lifting the curse.Īfter her rescue, Aethelflaed asked Uhtred to kiss her but he refused, still believing himself cursed. Uhtred and his men rode north, where he encountered Danish seer Skade, who offered to share her body and her power with him. Resisting arrest for the murder, Uhtred escaped Wessex by holding Alfred hostage at knifepoint and was banished from the kingdom.
Finally, when Christian monk Brother Godwin insulted Gisela’s memory, Uhtred retaliated and accidentally killed him – a further insult to Alfred’s Christianity. Things worsened when, after Uhtred’s wife Gisela died in childbirth, Uhtred desecrated her grave and burned her body on a Pagan pyre, offending Alfred’s faith. The tempestuous relationship between Uhtred and King Alfred came to a head in season three, when Uhtred refused to swear a further oath to Alfred’s son Edward, preferring his freedom and considering his debt to Alfred paid. And here’s what happened in a bit more detail: Uhtred – oaths, curses and banishment