Episodes

Askeladd haggles up his fee to hunt down the retired warrior Thors, then springs an ambush in the Faroe Islands. Thors sets sail with the village youths and a stowaway Thorfinn, unaware his old past is closing in on him.

The twenty-first WIT Studio installment drops Canute's party into York, where a staged crossbow shot tests the town's loyalties. Thorfinn cuts down the shooter and stumbles into a tearful meeting with Leif, while a dying Bjorn asks…

Thorfinn charges Askeladd once more and is easily crushed. In the aftermath, Askeladd lays bare the brutal story of his youth: a slave mother, a cruel Jutland father named Olaf, and the patient murder that finally freed him.

The imperial council convenes at last, and Sweyn blindsides Askeladd by announcing a spring campaign against Wales, his ancestral home. Meanwhile Thorfinn, jailed for a street brawl, receives a second visit from a determined Leif.

The Season 1 finale. To spare both Canute and Wales, Askeladd feigns madness, beheads King Sweyn, and takes his death from Canute's blade. Thorfinn watches his lifelong target fall in a way no revenge could satisfy.

Thors carves through Askeladd's crew without killing them, then bests the pirate leader in single combat, only to lay down his life to spare his son and the village boys. Robbed of his father, a grieving Thorfinn stows away and swears he…

Stowed away aboard his dead father's ship, a starving Thorfinn trails Askeladd's raiders across the sea, waiting for a chance at vengeance. When he finally corners the sleeping captain, he cannot bring himself to strike, and instead…

Riding with Askeladd's mercenaries into England's wars, Thorfinn takes his first life and slowly grows into a killer chasing the duel he was promised. Years later, wounded and hunted, he is sheltered by a grieving mother whose kindness he…

With the English campaign paused for winter, Askeladd turns his band toward Frankish spoils and sends Thorfinn to broker an alliance with a stalled siege army. The boy's cold nerve and the band's overland gambit win the fortress, though…

Wintering at the village of Askeladd's greedy uncle, Thorfinn earns another humiliating loss in their duel. Brooding aboard his father's ship, he meets a proud slave girl and speaks for the first time of a warm land past the western sea…

Sent by Askeladd to claim the head of the giant defender Thorkell, Thorfinn hurls himself at the fortified bridge and is battered into the river. Broken but alive, he crawls back to the marching band, still puzzling over why anyone finds…

Season 2 opens by following Einar, a young English farmer whose village is razed in a Viking raid that costs him his mother and sister. Sold into bondage, he is bought by the landowner Ketil and set to work beside a hollowed-out Thorfinn.

Ketil sets Einar and Thorfinn to clearing a forest into farmland, dangling freedom if their harvest ever outpaces their price as slaves. Einar throws himself into the promise while Thorfinn labors on in silence, and both feel the sting of…

The farm guards decide to blood Ketil's son Olmar by having him kill a slave, and they drag Thorfinn and Einar out as targets. When Fox starts carving pieces off an unflinching Thorfinn, the guards' unnerving captain Snake finally steps in.

Snake tests Thorfinn with a sudden blade, and the young man's body reacts on pure instinct, betraying the warrior he once was. As Einar wrestles with the truth of Thorfinn's past, a first fragile understanding forms between the two slaves.

The story turns to Canute's ruthless rise. With Sweyn dead and England at war again, the once gentle prince walks a bloody road, enforcing harsh discipline, outmaneuvering Earl Eadric, and clearing rivals until the crown of England is his.

Desperate for a workhorse to clear their forest faster, Einar and Thorfinn are turned away by the farmhands until an odd old man named Sverkel offers a deal. The chores he demands introduce them to a strange household and a lesson in the…

Ketil's fierce elder son Thorgil returns from war just as two child thieves are caught on the farm. As the household debates their punishment, Ketil is forced to play the fearsome legend Iron Fist, a role that hides the timid man beneath.

The eighth installment of the second season follows a hollowed Thorfinn who no longer knows how to live without hatred. As Einar and Sverkel insist that a person can be remade, a wrecked wheat field pushes him back toward the violence he…

A runaway slave butchers his cruel master and sets off across the countryside hunting for someone he calls his. As Sverkel's health collapses and Arnheid brings the household together, the stranger's path converges on the farm and on the…

The nineteenth chapter of Vinland Saga's second season throws Ketil's hastily gathered farmhands against Canute's seasoned raiders. Outmatched from the first volley, the defenders fall in droves while Thorfinn scrambles to carry the…

As Canute's warriors overrun Ketil's collapsing militia, Thorgil gambles everything on a lone strike at the king. Elsewhere Arnheid briefly wakes to thank her rescuers before quietly slipping away, forcing Einar into a grief that Thorfinn…

A second surrender offer splits Ketil's household between those ready to yield and those hungry to keep fighting. With Ketil unconscious, the decision falls to Olmar, while Thorfinn walks unarmed into the royal camp and bargains his own…

Thorfinn absorbs a hundred blows from the king's champion to win his audience, refusing to strike back even once. When he finally faces Canute, the two clash not with swords but with rival visions of paradise, and the ruler reveals a…

Rather than kill Canute or bargain, Thorfinn chooses simply to run beyond the reach of empire and build his own refuge. Moved by the unarmed man's stubborn refusal to fight, the king unexpectedly abandons the farm, and the two set off down…

After a decade away, Thorfinn returns to Iceland with Einar and is slowly recognized by the family he barely remembers. Reunited with his mother and sister, he lays out his sins and his resolve to sail for Vinland, ending the season with…

A rigged insult goads Olmar into a lethal duel, and the trap set to incriminate Ketil detonates when Thorgil slaughters the king's men. As the family flees by sea with Leif's help, Canute mobilizes for war, undeterred by the phantom…

Gardar tries to carry Arnheid away, but Snake subdues him and takes him captive as Einar's rage is checked by Thorfinn. Arnheid unfolds the sorrow of her stolen family and her new pregnancy, while Sverkel confesses an old failure that…

With Gardar hidden and dying, Arnheid confesses she freed him herself, and Einar and Thorfinn commit to helping the couple flee. When Snake circles back and blocks the cart, Thorfinn faces a wrenching choice between his vow of peace and…

Short of funds for his English army, Canute settles on seizing a wealthy farm rather than raising taxes. When Ketil and his sons reach Jelling, a chance meeting brings Leif Ericson onto their trail, still hunting the enslaved Thorfinn he…

Knocked senseless by the retainers, Thorfinn sinks into a dream where his slain father and his dead rival confront the man he has become. Guided through a hell of the people he killed, he climbs out and swears a new vow while Ketil quietly…

Reunited in the prison lodge, Arnheid and the wounded Gardar bare their hearts before a bloody breakout under the rain. As dawn breaks, Thorfinn shares with Einar a growing dream of a land beyond the sea where no one needs a sword.

After three years of labor the slaves fell the final tree and glimpse freedom, while far away Canute travels to Jelling to sit beside his dying brother. Haunted by his poisoned father's severed head, the young king reckons with the cost of…

Ketil's family reaches home ahead of Canute's advancing fleet, and Thorgil rallies the farm for war. Broken by the news that Arnheid tried to flee with Gardar, a shattered Ketil beats her nearly to death before turning his blade toward the…

Thorfinn fights Snake barehanded to shield the dying Gardar, but Snake ends the fugitive's life to answer for his own fallen men. Carried away by Arnheid, Gardar drifts through memories of his son as he journeys, in his final vision, back…

The second chapter of WIT Studio's adaptation drags a retired killer back toward war. Jomsviking envoys arrive in Iceland to reclaim Thors, holding his village as leverage, while a young Thorfinn dreams only of battle and a mercenary in…

The tenth entry pairs a stalled siege of London with a boyhood memory that still torments Thorfinn. When a courier brings word that Thorkell has seized Prince Canute, Askeladd silences the man and points his weary hundred toward a rescue…

The eleventh installment turns an autumn march into a smoke-choked trap. Askeladd sets a forest ablaze to snatch Prince Canute from between two armies, and a reunited Thorfinn learns from Thorkell that his own father once counted as the…

The twelfth episode ferries Askeladd's band across the Severn into Wales, where a Welsh general answers a secret summons and shepherds them inland. As the exhausted column threads the mountains toward Brycheiniog, arrows from an unseen…

The thirteenth episode reveals the secret buried in Askeladd's blood. Facing a Welsh ambush meant to force negotiation, he unveils his descent from the hero Artorius to win passage, while the timid Canute at last finds the courage to speak.

The fourteenth episode watches a Welsh village die through the eyes of a guilt-ridden girl. Snowed toward starvation, Askeladd's band raids a poor household and murders its people, leaving young Anne to witness a cruelty that shakes her…

The fifteenth episode brings Thorkell onto Askeladd's trail and delivers a quiet tragedy. To harden a coddled prince, Askeladd orders Ragnar killed, and the dying guardian spends his last breath warning that Canute's deadliest enemy is his…

The sixteenth episode tightens the noose as Thorkell bears down and Askeladd's own men turn on him. Between a brutal interrogation and a history lesson on conquest, a mutiny takes shape over whether to sell the prince and survive.

The seventeenth episode turns rebellion into slaughter as Askeladd fights his former men while shielding the prince. Thorkell's arrival ends the mutiny, and Thorfinn stakes a claim on Askeladd's life that forces a duel between mouse and…

The eighteenth episode braids Thorfinn's duel with Thorkell against Canute's spiritual awakening. Bidding farewell to Ragnar in a dream and probing the meaning of love with Willibald, the prince steps out of his fragile shell to calm a…

The nineteenth episode closes the duel and rewrites the balance of power. Thorkell unveils his kinship to Thors, Askeladd's trickery hands Thorfinn a broken-armed victory, and a transformed Canute binds his enemies into a single band aimed…

The twentieth episode carries the newly forged band into Gainsborough and a tense audience with King Sweyn. The father who wished his son dead probes a changed Canute, while a slave-born insult pushes Askeladd to the edge of his fury.

The opening chapter of the Vinland Saga anime plants two seeds at once: a boy on Iceland dreaming of a distant paradise, and the buried past of the father who wants nothing more to do with war. When Thors takes in a dying runaway slave,…