Vikings Valhalla on Netflix: How does the series end?

Warning, spoilers. The following paragraphs reveal plot elements from the end of the Vikings: Valhalla series.

Four years after Vikings ended, it’s the turn of its spin-off to say goodbye. After six seasons of Michael Hirst’s cult series, fans were able to continue the adventures of the Norse legends with a sequel called Vikings: Valhalla, which will be broadcast on Netflix from 2022.

But this spin-off series, set more than 100 years after the original series, also draws to a close and concludes the heroic tales of Ragnar’s successors, Lagertha and company, namely new Norse legends like explorer Leif Eriksson. Her brave sister Freud’s Eriksdotter and the ambitious Prince of the North Harald Sigurdsson.

With the third and final season of Vikings: Valhalla now available on Netflix, here’s how the series and the story of these three legendary characters ends.

What is the ending of “Vikings: Valhalla”?

In “Vikings: Valhalla” season 3, which takes place seven years after the events of the second round of episodes, each of our heroes will receive their fate. On the one hand, Freud’s Eriksdotter (Frieda Gustavsson) becomes the guarantor of the faith, the leader of the pagan Vikings settled in Jomsborg.

But her peace is threatened by the trap Markus Ólafsson (Set Sjöstrand) wants to set for her, Olaf’s son, whom she killed at the end of season two. He poisons her and attacks her village in revenge. Freidis manages to save his people with the help of a foreign traveler and healer Stygri (Leander Vivei), who becomes his companion.

He then sails with his people to the Green Land, where his ancient people live under the leadership of his father Erik the Red (Goran Visnić). If he is well received at first, he is soon imprisoned by his own father, who is unwilling to pursue his ambitions, namely to spread the word of the Old Gods and search for the mythical land of gold.

Thanks to his mother, Freidis flees to find help in Kattegat, still ruled by Queen Olfgifu (Pollyanna McIntosh), with whom he has made a truce, while Stigri goes to find Harald, the son of Freidis and Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter). Eric the Red was kidnapped.

In turn, Harald Sigurdsson and Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett) traveled and fought for Emperor Romanos (Nikolai Kinski) for many years. If, after many victories, Leif returns to Kattegat, having gathered a lot of knowledge to explore again, Harald finds himself wrongly imprisoned by Georges Maniackes (Florian Munteanu), a general of Emperor Romanos who wanted to seize power. The emperor was killed. However, he breaks free and takes his revenge on Maniackes and travels to Kattegat.

As for England, the future is more uncertain. Against King Canute’s dying wishes, his son Harold Harfoot, who he had with Queen Olfgifu, Earl Godwin (David Oakes) took his father’s place on the throne, and Canute entrusted the role to his wife, Queen Emma of Normandy (Laura Berlin). Trapped and alone, the latter has no choice but to rally around his stepmother.

What happens to the three heroes of “Vikings: Valhalla”?

In the last episode, Leif and Harald find themselves in Kattegat, where Magnus has staged a coup and seized power by killing Queen Olfgifu and her heir Sweyn, the son she had with King Canute (Bradley Freegard) of England and is thought to be Freidis. He died after his village in Jomsborg was destroyed.

But when Harald returns to Kattegat with trusted men to claim the throne, the Jarls decide that Harald and Magnus, who has the support of the Church and Catholics, should rule together as kings of Norway. Just then, Freidis enters, arrested by Magnus, who denounces him as a witch to the populace.

Magnus agrees to rule with Harald if the latter agrees to renounce his old beliefs and burn Freidis. Harald agrees, but we quickly learn that the plan will work against Magnus. With the help of a priest who accompanies Magnus and who fears the latter’s misdeeds, Leif distracts the population to free Freidis when he is about to be burned at the stake.

Harald then finds Leif and Freidis and tells them that he has prepared a ship for them to sail to their destiny. Thus, Leif will be able to explore the land of ice, and Freidis will be able to continue to be a guarantor of faith and, above all, to find his son, whom Harald promises to come to see one day.

After an emotional separation, Harald returns to Kattegat to destroy Magnus and thus take his place on the throne to rule and become the ruler of Norway as he always wanted. Each of our three heroes has managed to fulfill their destiny, and the trio ends as it began, with Leif and Freidis on one side and Harald on the other. The loop is thus closed.

All three seasons of “Vikings: Valhalla” are available on Netflix.