- Athelstan: [doesn't want to drink anymore but still smiles] Aghhh! Oh! No more.
- Ragnar Lothbrok: We don't like those in our house to go hungry or thirsty.
- [gives him something to drink anyways]
- Ragnar Lothbrok: I am very curious about England. Does it have one king who rules over the whole country?
- Athelstan: There are four kingdoms with four kings. You landed in the kingdom of Northumbria. The king of Northumbria is called Aelle. He is a great king. A powerful king.
- Ragnar Lothbrok: Then why did his men not protect your temple?
- Athelstan: Before you came, we had no need to protect our monastery. We lived in peace. Everyone respected it as a place of God.
- Ragnar Lothbrok: Why does your God need silver and gold, hmm? He must be greedy. Like Loki! We have greedy gods too.
- Athelstan: My God is not greedy. His kingdom is not of this world.
- Ragnar Lothbrok: Then why is his kingdom so full of treasure?
- Athelstan: Christian people give away their riches to the churches and monasteries in order to save their souls.
- Ragnar Lothbrok: What are their souls?
- Athelstan: [doesn't know how to explain]
- Ragnar Lothbrok: I want to learn some of your language. Will you teach me, priest?
- Athelstan: It was foretold that divine punishment would fall upon God's chosen people for all our grievous sins, and so it has happened.
- Ragnar Lothbrok: My lord, it was easy to take all of these things. The priests in their temple, they had no weapons. They were like babies.
- Ragnar Lothbrok: This is a priest from the temple to prove it. Priest! This is my family. His name is Athelstan. Although he's a foreigner, he speaks our language, don't you?
- Athelstan: A little, yes.
- Bjorn: What is wrong with your head?
- Athelstan: When we become monks, they cut our hair. It marks us out.
- Gyda: If you're a priest, which God do you like best?
- Athelstan: There is only one God.
- Ragnar Lothbrok: Here, you can touch him.
- Bjorn: Are we keeping him?
- Gyda: Hello.
- Ragnar Lothbrok: [to Lagertha] I've missed your smell and your body.
- Gyda: Why do you wear this?
- Athelstan: All monks do.
- Bjorn: Look at his feet.
- Lagertha: Athelstan.
- Ragnar Lothbrok: Athelstan, we want to ask you something.
- Lagertha: Come and join us, priest.
- Ragnar Lothbrok: Come on. Don't you want to? You'll enjoy it.
- Athelstan: I am a monk. I have taken vows of celibacy. I cannot touch a woman. I never have.
- Lagertha: Wouldn't you like to?
- Athelstan: It would be a sin.
- Lagertha: Who would know?
- Athelstan: God would know.
- Lagertha: What if he looked the other way?
- Athelstan: [shakes his head]
- Ragnar Lothbrok: Go to sleep then with your God.