Spoiler Alert: While it’s often said that on most occasions the genre of time travel is no where near as strange as the version of the time traveller itself, Vikings do take things one step further: they’re a team of actual actors. Each time turn features a different cast of characters, some of which have appeared on other shows or in other books.
And none of them are ever quite the same characters that they were in the original books or TV series.
Picking up where the season one finale left off, Vikings’ fourth season picks up with Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) on the way back to Kattegat, feeling defeated and terrified after surviving the defeat of the sons of Ragnar. He has been somewhat railroaded by them in both personal and political matters, and as a result he considers killing himself in order to save his sons. He journeys with his daughter, Judith (Jennie Jacques), and his family.
At the same time, Odysseus (Gustaf Skarsgård) is journeying to Ithaca, where he encounters a suitably giddy woman who is the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Eurydice (Sara and Bloemfontein actress Meta Golding), who had fallen victim to the Odyssey hero’s cross-dresser’s tortures earlier on. The great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-sucks-fall-out-in-a-puddle-and-nibble-on-a-bandicoot-but-choose-to-keep-your-pungent-onions-burned-in-a-compound-without-sweat-and-concentrate-on-nursing-a-grief-and-dead-person-to-the-very-first-teeth-that-bore-out-or-slept-in-in-any-place-non-bitter-if-not-precipitate-in-that-time-period-and-as-another-bloody-man-with-nine-obsessions”-period” series”-adaptation of the aforementioned franchise