The King and the Sword

Last week we got a major focus on Canute and it was great. This week's episode does it again and it works aswell. It seems like they do not know how to make faults, they are just perfect.

In this episode we get to see how Canute expands his new empire and how Ketil is involved in it. This not only connects the two major storylines of the season it also shows us how intelligent Canute is working to increase his power. Even Olmar the useless son Ketil's can be used to achieve Canute's goals. He acts like in the sword fight against the master. He is not the strongest but by far the smartest. If he manages to continue this way who could possibly stop him?

I am really looking forward to see more from him. It did not matter that Thorfinn had no appearance in this episode because unlike other shows all of Vinland Saga's characters are interesting and can carry an episode.