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While we still don’t have a release date, the drought of Vikings content is officially over. The series finale of History’s Vikings streamed at the end of 2020 on Amazon Prime Video. However, the first footage of a prequel series, Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla, has been revealed during Geeked Week.
The behind-the-scenes footage shows the epic scale of the upcoming series, with massive Viking boats, castles, armies marching to war, battle scenes, and plenty of farm animals to get fans primed. What we don’t get, however, is an in-depth look at the show’s plot.
However, we do know quite a bit about the series thus far. It’s actually set around a couple hundred years before Vikings. While the original series primarily followed Ragnar Lothbrok and his family, Vikings: Valhalla stars Sam Corlett (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as Leif Eriksson, who is thought to have been the first European to set foot in the Americas.
Corlett is joined by Frida Gustavsson, who plays his sibling Freydis Eriksdotter. The two are the children of the legendary Viking Eric the Red. Rounding out the cast is Leo Suter (Sanditon) as Harald Sigurdsson, Bradley Freegard (Doctors) as King Canute, Jóhannes Jóhannesson (Game of Thrones) as Olaf Haraldson, Laura Berlin (Einstein) as Emma of Normandy, David Oakes (The Borgias) as Earl Godwin, and Caroline Henderson (Max Embarrassing) as Jarl Haakon.
While he will not be serving as a showrunner on Valhalla, Vikings creator Michael Hirst is signed on as an executive producer on the series, alongside Jeb Stuart, Morgan O’Sullivan, James Flynn, Sherry Marsh, Alan Gasmer, Sheila Hockin, and John Weber. Sturart will serve as showrunner on the series.
While Vikings: Valhalla still doesn’t have a premiere date, it will stream exclusively on Netflix.
