Bachelor Party

Bachelor Party (Utdrikningslag) is the second episode of the third season of Vikingane and the fourteenth episode of the series overall.

Synopsis
Frøya strikes a bargain, leaving Orm to find a best man. Hildur is alarmed when Kark makes a lost family connection. Liv moves up in the Viking world.

Plot Summary
Olav decides that Orm is to marry Frøya. He has difficulties in convincing Frøya, however, given Orm’s cowardly reputation. She approaches the Norheim villagers and offers them a deal: she will marry Orm if she is allowed to become a Viking warrior. After numerous remarks that women cannot be warriors, Frøya shows them that she is just as much a warrior as the men; she is allowed to become a warrior.

Orm’s marriage is challenging, however, and he struggles to find a best man to attend the wedding with. This eventually leads to him asking numerous female Vikings to be his best man, but they too decline his offer. Orm later has no other option but to become his own best man.

Meanwhile, Liv is freed from her duty as a slave by Olvar; she joins the Vikings but misses her life as a slave on multiple occasions. Liv quickly catches the eye of Arvid, but is unable to engage in a relationship with him given her commitments to Olvar.

When Hildur notices that Kark could be Olav and Orm’s long-lost brother — and that he could potentially ruin her position as Chieftain’s wife — she whips him repeatedly to hide the “N” rune (Kark briefly lifts his shirt and shows a huge "N") on his back. When Kark reveals that he believes himself to be Olav’s brother, Olav is unable to make out the runic symbol, therefore decrees that Kark cannot be their missing brother.

Orm finds it difficult to resonate with his fellow villagers, and takes offence when none of them wish to participate in his impromptu bachelor party. He finds himself forcing Kark to sit and laugh with him whilst the remaining villagers head off to bed. Afterwards, they sneak out behind Orm’s back to continue their socialising without him.

Cast and Characters

 * Orm
 * Olav
 * Jarl Varg
 * Torstein Hund
 * Arvid
 * Reidun
 * Oddvar
 * Warrior
 * Rufus
 * Tina
 * Jarl Bjørn

Trivia

 * ᚾ is the Rune for "N" - it's called Nauthiz or Naudiz, but the massively huge letter shown in the show is really an "N". The closest rune probably would be "ᚺ" (Haglaz/Hagalaz). Olav in the show also mentions he hardly can make out if it's an "N" or "H". But Karl is from Norheim, so only "N" makes sense.