With Vikings having finished its epic voyage, the challenge show-runner Michael Hirst faced was how to close out his great saga. What began as a story of bloody conquest concluded almost thirty years later on the shores of tranquillity. This essay charts his characters’ great journies and how director, Steve St. Leger visualises the emotional transitions to deliver on the series’ great themes.

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