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Vikings: trailer

A trailer for Season 4 has been released at Comic-Con in San Diego.

A trailer for Season 4 of Vikings has been released by the History channel at Comic-Con in San Diego.

Even though the series doesn’t return until 2016, creator and showrunner Michael Hirst discussed the series with Hollywood Reporter:

How much time has passed when we pick back up?

Ragnar has managed to return home and it’s been a fairly long journey back, but he’s still desperately ill — he’s at death’s door. Some of the early parts of next season are about the possibility of him dying and what are the ramifications of that. Who’s going to rule and what will it mean if the great Ragnar Lothbrok dies now? It sets up all future possible conflicts about the consequences of him dying. You can see the people cueing up to claim power. Of course the other thing we left hanging from season three was what Ragnar said on the boat to Floki (Gustaf SkarsgÃ¥rd): “I know you killed Athelstan (George Blagden).” So clearly we have to deal with those consequences now that it has been revealed publicly. That is a big part of the early on drama.

What can you tease about the new characters in season four?

We have two new Viking brothers, King Harold Finehair (Peter Franzen) and his brother Halfdan the Black (Jasper Paakkonen), two Finnish actors who have actually already played brothers in three different languages; this is the first time they’re doing it in English. They come on board because they want to go raiding with Ragnar to Paris. But of course they have ambition — all Vikings worthy of their name were ambitious for fame — and so that becomes an issue. Then we have Yidu (Dianne Doan), a Chinese slave captured in the Red Sea. Who knew the world was small enough even then for people captured by pirates in the red sea might to end up in Frankia, and then in Scandinavia? But I checked with our historical consultant and he said it’s all possible, it’s all plausible, it almost certainly happened.

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