Ivar had Ragnar’s brain and, like Ragnar, he thought everybody else was an idiot. I think he only lost a battle for lack of strategy once or twice, every other time was bc someone betrayed him. Im still angry that he died during his fight with Alfred bc it wasn’t bc he wasn’t capable, he was just too weak health-wise. Any other time he would have won by far
1:33 Funny enough, Ivar's beothers were smart enough to recognize Ivar's genius and worked with him, allowing him to Blood Eagle Aelle instead of fighting him.
The best moment was when ivar asks hvitserk if katia was freydis. Hvitserk said that freydis was dead and ivar was like oh yeah I strangled her, but she has returned to haunt me and hvitserk be like bruh you still crazy. Ivar wasn’t even pissed he called him crazy his face was too priceless words don’t do that scene justice
Imagine being so fkn smarter then everyone amd so weird that people actually believe ur becoming a God before their very eyes. Yo. Ride that wave. Why tf not. U know,
I have one thing to complain about in vikings. All dead people like lagertha, Aslaug, Even Haraldson had great ceremonies. But no, they buried ivar in seconds. It was like, 'not for you Cripple'
“If she was a virgin, how could she be a mother” Yeah so are we not going to talk about the fact that your saying this now and you thought Freydis was going to give you a son by cutting your hand and drinking your blood
@@nickelam3864 true but I still think it was case of "choosing" not to see the bs rather than not being able to. Not sure if that makes any sense if not---> I just mean ivar knew it was impossible but felt he needed one so he accepted some bullshit and presented it as fact. I actually think he did the same thing with him being a god as it did two things: (1)make his warriors follow him without question and ignore/aid in his tyranny (2) justified anything and everything he did (3) boost his ego. My logic on this is some Cult leaders who start their "religions" don't actually believe their own bullshit in the beginning and are just looking for way to do what they want and/or give themselves a sense of power so they make up stuff and twist pre-existing text to fit themselves and their personal desires so no one can calls them out for whatever wrong they're doing. Like any tyrant they use fear to control the masses and also try to make themselves seem more "divine" than the rest of humanity. It takes a minute for cult leader to truly start believing their own BS. I've always thought ivar was in that stage of starting to believe but didn't quite yet which is why when he was with olge(?) of kiev he only ever mentioned being a god when he was trying to get olge(?) to see him as an equal but otherwise played the position as "Viking pet" quite well. He only every showed intelligence and cunning nature behind closed doors when he was plotting which he actually managed to do at the right times like the very intelligent person the show, ragnar and real history tells us he was. I'm soooo sorry for this long ass reply just wanted to try to make myself clear🤗
"If she was a virgin, how could she be a mother?" - Y'all realize that this comes from the same Dude which previous thought that somebody could be get pregnant from mixin' some blood with somebody else via a cut in the Hand?
hey!! im back 🥲 what ragnarsson should i do next? and by ragnarsson i mean the main characters ubbe and hvitserk cause i really dont care about bj*rn :D