Vikings
Baldur
TV Flash files “Baldur” as hour 67 of 89 in the TV Flash guide — Vikings (2013–2020) on History, season 5, episode 18, aired 2019-01-16, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E18: listed hour 67 of 89 in the Vikings guide, hour 18 of 20 in season 5. It aired 2019-01-16 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Most Terrible Thing” (S05E17). Next is “What Happens in the Cave” (S05E19).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Hvitserk is severely tested. Floki makes an amazing discovery. Freydis gives Ivar a surprise. Ubbe negotiates with the three Danish Kings that have massed their armies in Reading, but the negotiations may have a perilous outcome.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Baldur sit in the Vikings guide?
S05E18 is listed hour 67 of 89 — hour 18 of 20 in season 5, season 5 episode 18.
When did Vikings S05E18 air?
Baldur aired 2019-01-16 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is there a sequel I need?
Vikings: Valhalla continues in a later historical period on Netflix. The original six seasons (2013–2020) are the Ragnar-to-sons saga; the sequel is extra map, not a missing ending.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Ragnar Lothbrok and family raid, rule, and fracture — myth with mud under the nails. Michael Hirst's History Channel breakthrough made basic cable look prestige-dirty: Fimmel's Ragnar, Lagertha, Floki, ships and succession blood. Six seasons before Valhalla spun off. Long-form Viking myth for mass audiences, tactile conquest TV before every streamer had a crown war.
The group chat still hasn't recovered from Ragnar's exit. Michael Hirst's History Channel drama premiered March 3, 2013: legendary Norse figure Ragnar Lothbrok and family raid, rule, and fracture — myth with mud under the nails. Travis Fimmel's Ragnar anchors early seasons before the saga widens to sons and empires; Katheryn Winnick's Lagertha, Gustaf Skarsgård's Floki, Clive Standen's Rollo, the shield-wall bench. Ships, gods, politics, succession blood. Basic cable looking prestige-dirty. (Spoiler-free, mostly:…
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- Travis Fimmel as Ragnar Lothbrok
Travis Fimmel’s Ragnar Lothbrok raided, ruled, and fractured on Vikings — myth with mud under the nails, Michael Hirst’s History Channel breakthrough that made basic cable look prestige-dirty. Lagertha, Floki, ships and succession blood,…
- Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha
Katheryn Winnick's Lagertha made Vikings look like myth with mud under the nails — Michael Hirst's History Channel breakthrough, ships and succession blood, a shield-maiden who would not stay decorative. Six seasons of raid-and-rule…
- Gustaf Skarsgård as Floki
Gustaf Skarsgård's Floki built the ships and the trouble on Vikings — Michael Hirst's History Channel breakthrough, myth with mud under the nails, Ragnar's world fracturing across six seasons. Shipwright, seer, chaos in the faith. TV…
- Clive Standen as Rollo
Clive Standen played Rollo on Vikings — Ragnar Lothbrok and family raiding, ruling, fracturing, myth with mud under the nails. Michael Hirst's History Channel breakthrough made basic cable look prestige-dirty: Fimmel's Ragnar, Lagertha,…
- Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside
Alexander Ludwig’s Bjorn Ironside raided and inherited Vikings’ muddy myth — Ragnar Lothbrok’s family fracturing, Michael Hirst’s History Channel breakthrough, Fimmel, Lagertha, Floki, ships and succession blood. Six seasons before a…
- George Blagden as Athelstan
George Blagden's Athelstan walked Vikings as the monk in the mud — faith, raids, and a 2010s History Channel breakthrough that made basic cable look prestige-dirty. Ragnar's world needed a witness who could doubt. TV Flash files him as…