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Bishop Heahmund was a Saxon Bishop of Sherborne and a holy warrior.

Contents

• 1 Biography
  • ane.1 Season 4
  • i.2 Season 5
• ii Personality
• 3 In History
• four Trivia
• v Gallery
• six Appearances
• 7 References

Biography

Season 4

Heahmund to be consoling Widow Ordlaf, whose husband Heahmund gave funeral rites to. He immediately begins having vigorous sex with her with his sword and armor in a rack side by side to the bed. In one moment, he is introduced every bit a man of God, a womanizer, and a warrior. They have sexual practice for weeks.

Season five

Bishop Heahmund and his men arrives at King Ecbert's villa, they find Ecbert'southward torso, they celebrates the late sovereign's funeral, and begins rebuilding the identify. Male monarch Æthelwulf joins forces with Bishop Heahmund'south army. The Saxons, led past King Æthelwulf and Bishop Heahmund, attack York, but are led into a trap. Æthelwulf'south son Prince Æthelred is wounded and the Saxons are forced to retreat.

Ubbe and Hvitserk get in at their camp and suggest peace. Æthelwulf seemingly accepts their offer, but Heahmund arranges to have the brothers humiliated and reveals to them he tin can speak Old Norse. The Saxons are joined by Judith's cousin Mannel and his men from Northumbria. Heahmund persuades Æthelwulf to lay siege to York, and attack only when the Vikings are starving. They massacre the Vikings' hunting parties and block the city. Eventually, Æthelwulf and Heahmund encounter the smoke from the fires equally the Vikings appear to burn the bodies of their dead, and enter the obviously deserted city.

The Saxon celebrations are cut short when Vikings appear from the sewers and engage in boxing. The Vikings have surrounded Bishop Heahmund and take out his equus caballus with arrows. Ivar interrupts the fight and commands i of his men to bring Bishop Heahmund his own horse. Heahmund is promptly given Ivar's equus caballus and the fight continues. Ivar does this considering he believes Heahmund is likewise great of a warrior to fight on human foot. In the end, the Saxons are once once again forced to retreat from the city. Heahmund is captured, merely spared by Ivar. Ivar, Hvitserk, and many of their warriors canvass for Vestfold, taking Heahmund with them.

Heahmund arrives in Vestfold, and Ivar explains the reason he wants him to fight for him is because he admires him. Heahmund is persuaded by Ivar to fight with him.

Heahmund is nowadays earlier First Battle for the Kingdom of Kattegat, and witnesses Harold attempting to make his brother Halfdan to join him. He then fights in the boxing afterwards Ivar refuses to bow down to Lagertha, where he is struck in the trunk, legs, and neck.

Following the upshot of the battle, Ubbe finds a comatose Heahmund and prepares to execute him, but Lagertha lets him live. While being tended to, Lagertha and Heahmund engage in a philosophical chat. Heahmund so visits Lagertha at night, challenge he wants some other discussion. Instead, Lagertha blows out the candles and the two passionately make beloved. The following morning, Heahmund expresses concern for Lagertha, before the Second Boxing for the Kingdom of Kattegat. During the fighting, he mocks a shocked Ivar, and is present when the forces of Kattegat are defeated. Heahmund, Lagertha, Ubbe, Torvi, and Björn travel back to Wessex to escape Ivar.

Afterwards, at Heahmund's proposition, Lagertha, Björn, and Ubbe are allowed to settle in East Anglia in render for fighting against other Viking incursions. Heahmund is informed that his bishopric has been given to Lord Cuthred, due to Heahmund being assumed dead. Heahmund begins secretly coming together Lagertha in her chambers and the two have a long periods of sexual practice. Heahmund'southward sex with Lagertha causes him to lose focus, and the now-Bishop Cuthred'due south spies discover Lagertha and Heahmund's affair. When Bishop Cuthred confronts him and threatens to tell King Alfred, Heahmund murders Cuthred. Heahmund has a vision of hell that drives him to renounce Lagertha, who accuses Heahmund of never having loved her.

During the Battle of Marton, against King Harald'due south forces, Heahmund illustrates himself brilliantly, showing off his infrequent fighting skills by killing dozens of Norse warriors. However, after a cursory moment of respite, he is struck past several arrows in the chest and in the back before being finished off by Gunnhild.

Personality

Heahmund is a complex graphic symbol. He possesses a deep organized religion and dear for Christianity, while at the same time a skilled warrior with a love for women and beverage. As a human being of the cloth Heahmund has received a classical pedagogy, and is quite intelligent. Heahmund has assisted King Æthelwulf and later Ivar with their boxing plans, showing good strategic thinking. He is extremely ruthless towards pagans. Heahmund is so slap-up a warrior an impressed Ivar decided to give him his horse afterward the bishop'southward horse died in battle. He portrays himself as an absolute zealot with no heart ground. The insanity facade cracks a fiddling when he devises a plan to starve the Vikings out of York. He attempts to brand it appear every bit a divine vision, but he'due south just a very good tactician. In fact, he gets away with a lot, including what amounts to treason, by describing it as "God's will." In his own words, he'due south a human with a inner struggle and that God is aware almost.

He'southward very proud of his position as Bishop of Sherborne, to the bespeak he believes no one else is worth plenty of that privilege. After learning by Alfred that lord Cuthred was appointed as Heahmund's replacement he couldn't accept information technology and considered this as an insult to him with the alibi that he had no truthful organized religion. He's also a clear hipocrite. He confronted Cuthred and killed him with the justification of being a threat for king Alfred and leading a conspiracy against him and also called him a hipocrite, while Heahmund is not improve than Cuthred knowing he commits sacrilege by indulging in his carnal desires and sleeping with women while he claims to exist a servant of God and executor of his will.

Heahmund'south decisions to side with certain people sometimes seems at odds with his actions or words. Beginning, he'south with the English language, and then Ivar, and then Lagertha, and and then seems to switch back to the English afterward he takes Lagertha'south forces to England. I possibility is that he'southward a consummate liar, telling whoever he'southward siding with what they want to hear to survive longer. This is not unlikely because how often he's surrounded past pagans or people who really don't seem to like him. While he clearly has his issues, information technology's hard non to sympathize with him, considering the Vikings have invaded his homeland and are going from town-to-town slaughtering innocent people.

In History

Bishop Heahmund is based on the historical figure Heahmund, the medieval Bishop of Sherborne. He died at the Battle of Meretun, also called the Battle of Merton, between the Saxon army of Wessex and the Danish Great Heathen Army in 871 AD. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.^[1]

Trivia

• Information technology is likely the case that Jonathan Rhys Meyers asked for his grapheme to exist killed or written out of the series due to some tragedies in his personal life during the start one-half of the filming of Season v, including his wife having a miscarriage and him falling off a wagon. There were no facilities available to treat him in Ireland, so he had to come back to the Us for help. Michael Hirst, the serial creator and writer, had already said there was quite a bit of backstory planned to be revealed for Heahmund, but instead the character is killed during the 2d half of Season v.
• It is subtle, just information technology becomes apparent that any side he fights for in a battle ends up losing. information technology turns ironic as the only time he always fights in a boxing where his side wins is the battle he died in.
• Heahmund frequently quotes from the Volume of Psalms.
• He sword is a such a signature weapon of his, that he is buried with information technology.

Gallery

Heahmund pointing his sword to Ivar at York.

Appearances

Season four appearances
A Adept Treason	Kill the Queen	Mercy	Yol	Promised
What Might Accept Been	The Profit and the Loss	Portage	Expiry All 'Round	The Terminal Ship
The Outsider	The Vision	Ii Journeys	In the Uncertain Hr Before the Morning	All His Angels
Crossings	The Great Ground forces	Revenge	On the Eve	The Reckoning

Season 5 appearances
The Departed Office i	The Departed Function 2	Homeland	The Plan	The Prisoner
The Message	Full Moon	The Joke	A Unproblematic Story	Moments of Vision
The Revelation	Murder Most Foul	A New God	The Lost Moment	Hell
The Buddha	The Most Terrible Thing	Baldur	What Happens in the Cave	Ragnarok

References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heahmund#Popular_culture

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Source: https://vikings.fandom.com/wiki/Heahmund

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