Fans of the *Vikings* television series will likely find this show equally captivating. It’s just as engaging, though there was one detail that stood out as inaccurate: the presence of black yarls. I don’t believe Scandinavia or any European nation historically featured those kinds of cheeses. It feels like an element of modern ideology was inserted, but apart from that, everything else about this series is excellent…

This show falls short when compared to History’s previous Vikings program. I considered several elements to be completely ridiculous. The ruler of Kattegat is portrayed as Black, set in the eleventh century, which felt odd for a Norse society. One of the characters, during an initial encounter, manipulates the axe handle to avoid injuring another character—a detail that seems out of sync with Viking-era practices…