The day of Ragnar Lothbrok and his family of warriors has passed; soon it will be time to embrace a whole new cadre of Vikings. Soon we’ll be following characters like Leif Erikson, his sister Freydis, Emma of Normandy, King Canute II, Harald Sigurdsson and Olaf Haraldsson on adventures of blood and glory across storm-swept seas and war-torn battlefields. If you’re excited for Netflix’s upcoming spinoff of the highly acclaimed show Vikings, you’re not alone. Vikings: Valhalla promises to take us to a whole new age of Viking conquest by throwing us into the tail end of the golden age of the Vikings. The new spinoff marks the beginning of the end for this raiding culture, and it promises to be epic.
When does Vikings: Valhalla come out?
Most exciting of all is the fact that Vikings: Valhalla is just around the corner. We know when it’s coming, and it’s hardly far enough off to bother praying to Odin for a speedy arrival. Within days we’ll be back in England and Scandinavia, raiding, pillaging, and exploring ancient cultures. Vikings: Valhalla will be coming to Netflix on February 25.
As for what we can expect, Valhalla co-creator and showrunner Jeb Stuart recently teased the religious war that is set to play a major part in the series. “This religious civil war is between the pagan Vikings, who still worshipped Odin and the old gods, and Christian Vikings, who had converted in this huge tide of Christianity that was coming up from Western Europe,” he said.
Stuart went on to describe how the series will begin with the St. Brice’s Day Massacre, a brutal extermination of a group of Danes (Vikings) living in England during the early 11th Century. This event is one of the catalysts that kicks off the conflict in Vikings: Valhalla. Couple that with a few of the other things we know about some of these historical characters, like that Leif Erikson is believed to have landed on North America centuries before Christopher Columbus, and Valhalla looks like it may be even more momentous than its predecessor.
Vikings: Valhalla debuts on Netflix on February 25. All six seasons of the original Vikings series can be streamed on Amazon Prime Video or Hulu.
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