Appleston. Man, he is still alive and he killed to steal an identity to get back in the North. I just never thought that he would end in Iceland, far away from Norway and ever growing Sweden. I also liked that they named the Russian as a Christian, but they didn't know that it was the eastern sect of the old Rome. So much of the past and its wonder had been forgotten, lost because of the turmoils of the middle-ages.
It is also interesting that they hinted about invading whole Scandinavia, where usually the end stop is Norway. Beyond that it's England and Iceland. But so far it has never happened. Tried, many times. So many times in fact that we are naturally suspicious to anything related to Russia. Back then, no peace, no diplomacy, just endless waves of invasions and Sweden getting stronger.
There was huge time jumps in this episode as back then it would have taken weeks to get back to Kiev from Norway's coastline. So in terms of time, even though it was edited together, a lot of time passed. Yet, everything remained the same. King Harald is still stupid. Björn and his boys are shock troops, elite fighters, but they don't have the numbers to match thirty thousand men. We never have had that situation.
Not even in the modern times. But we have always developed tactics, strategies and technology to be better than them. Even today the only reason for invasion is technology. The history has shown us that Sweden became a major party in the arms manufacturing. And that's all related to the invasions. Oh, how things would have changed, if we had found and been able to establish a kingdom in America.
Although the England would still have caused a major problem in the logistics chain.
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