It's always "I love her" but never "MY WIFE WILL NOT DIE TRAPPED LIKE A RAT! I DID NOT CONQUER ALL I HAVE CONQUERED TO LET HER SUFFER THIS!"
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let’s talk about Sigtryggr’s death.
as much as it pained me to see him die, I have to admire the way it happened. not only from Stiorra and Sigtryggr’s end, but honestly? from Edward’s.
no other ruler or noble would have allowed Sigtryggr such dignity. not Aethelflaed, not Aelswith, not Alfred. Sigtryggr would have died a spectacle, humiliated and scorned, and would not have been allowed to have a proper ceremony to send his soul off to Valhalla.
but Edward allows the Danes to be present. Edward allows Sigtryggr to say goodbye to Stiorra, to choose his executioner and how he’s executed, and to hold a sword as he dies so he can enter Valhalla. Then he relinquishes Sigtryggr’s body to Stiorra and the Danes and allows them to have a proper ceremony for him. Sigtryggr is the only casualty despite dozens of Saxons being killed.
It’s tragic that he had to die at all (and I loved Sigtryggr’s character, please don’t get me wrong), but if anyone else were in charge, if anyone but Edward had been conducting that, Sigtryggr would have been humiliated. There is no doubt in my mind he would have died on his knees, swordless, unable to say goodbye, after being locked in a dungeon for days on end. There wouldn’t have been a single friendly face allowed in the crowd.
But instead, Sigtryggr was killed by a man he admired, looking at the woman he loved, looking at the Danes who were his people, among everyone most important to him. and that’s all due to Edward.
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When my time comes around
Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth
No grave can hold my body down
I'll crawl home to her
Work Song, Hozier | @gemini-mama @thalygremlinsson
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How many times do I have to tell you? You cannot do that! Who are you anyway. I am no one. He's Aethelstan, Edward's firstborn son. Hidden child of Edward? How did he survive this long? He's driven by a mission to annoy me, aren't you, Aethelstan? Better keep him safe, Finan. That's royal blood your carrying. Welcome to the bastard life, boy.
Aethelstan, Finan, Uhtred, Stiorra, Osferth & Sihtric
Caspar Griffiths, Mark Rowley, Alexander Dreymon, Ruby Hartley, Ewan Mitchell & Arnas Fedaravicius
The Last Kingdom
Season 4, Episode 7
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“I had been seeking a husband for her, for a man who could match her intelligence and fierce passion, but she had taken the choice from me. She married my enemy and now he was my ally” - Uhtred
Warriors of the storm
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You know what I love about the TLK fandom? We don’t bother with useless moral debate. No one cares HOW Stiorra and Sigtryggr met. We all know there will never exist a man who treats his wife better than how Sigtryggr treats Stiorra. The Sigtryggr Standard is just a universal principle, and anything else doesn’t matter because his wife will not die trapped like a rat because he did not conquer all he has conquered to let her suffer that.
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