Vikingos: Valhalla: (2022)

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Vikingos: Valhalla: (2022)

The series is available to stream on Netflix and follows these heroes across diverse locations, from the familiar Kattegat to the exotic reaches of Constantinople and Novgorod.

Within the Viking community, a bloody divide grows between those holding onto traditional pagan beliefs and those converting to Christianity . Vikingos: Valhalla (2022)

Tensions reach a breaking point when the English King Æthelred II orders the massacre of Danes in England, sparking a massive Viking invasion for revenge led by King Canute. The series is available to stream on Netflix

Sam Corlett (Leif), Frida Gustavsson (Freydis), Leo Suter (Harald) 3 (The series concluded in 2024) Creator Jeb Stuart Sam Corlett (Leif), Frida Gustavsson (Freydis), Leo Suter

(2022) is a historical drama and sequel to the original Vikings series, set over 100 years later during the early 11th century . The story chronicles the "beginning of the end" of the Viking Age, focusing on three legendary Norse figures: the explorer Leif Eriksson , his headstrong sister Freydis Eriksdotter , and the ambitious Nordic prince Harald Sigurdsson . The narrative is driven by three primary conflicts:

About the Author

Elaine Chiew is a fiction writer and visual arts researcher. She is a two-time winner of The Bridport Prize, amidst other prizes and shortlistings. Her debut short story collection, The Heartsick Diaspora, will be coming out with Myriad Editions (U.K.). She is also the compiler and editor of Cooked Up: Food Fiction From Around the World (New Internationalist, 2015), and has had numerous stories in anthologies and journals. She also writes flash fiction (named Wigleaf Top 50 twice, along other honours). In October 2017, she was the Writer in Residence at Singapore’s premier School of the Arts. She received an M.A. in Asian Art Histories from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2017. In addition to writing freelance on Asian visual arts for magazines like ArtReview Asia, she also blogs about contemporary Asian writers at AsianBooksBlog and the visual arts on her blog, Invisible Flâneuse.

About the Artist

Fanny Cammaert is a digital artist living in Belgium. She adopted the stage name Lizzie Stardust as a member of the electro group Velvet Underwear. Since recording and touring with that group, she began working in visual media. Drawing on the kilim weaving that is part of her Ukrainian heritage, her art explores the interplay of digital patterns and electronic glitches. Thematically, her work brings digital infinity into connection with human emotions.

This story appeared in Issue Sixty-Three of SmokeLong Quarterly.

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