On the hit show Vikings, the people of Kattegat have been wondering Floki’s (Gustaf Skarsgård) whereabouts because he left with the settlers to begin a fresh life in Iceland. After discovering a new land that he stated was a location the gods inhabited he came back. Together with other people from Kattegat, Floki set off to find the land again that could become Iceland, which they perform, but things don’t go as planned.
Floki gets the utmost faith in the settlement, a place he believes is Asgard. In this”land of the gods,” he struggles to find balance with all the people he brought there. Factions that wind up killing each other are established by the settlers. It is too much for Floki to bargain with when the payoff fails in his eyes.
Floki speaks to Kjetill Flatnose (Adam Copeland) and tells him he’s performed with everybody. He says he will not kill him if he had been the guy he was but he would.
Eyvind (Kris Holden-Ried), yet another man with a family in the settlement, and Kjetill’s household begin a blood feud that Floki can no longer stand to watch drama out. Kjetill finally kills Eyvind along with his family, which is the tipping point. Much Aud (Leah McNamara), Kjetill’s daughter kills himself when she can’t handle the out of control blood feud between her loved ones and another.
Kjetill returns to Kattegat and Bjorn is suspicious
Kjetill yields to Kattegat in Floki’s ship, making Ubbe (Jordan Patrick Smith) and his brother Bjorn (Alexander Ludwig) suspicious. Kjetill tells Ubbe that Floki simply left and up for no reason one day and they haven’t seen him. He says they hunted for him and discovered no indication of Floki.
When Bjorn can talk with Kjetill, he demands to know what happened with Floki in Iceland. “I want the whole story,” Bjorn demands to understand. “The truth.”
“You know most of it already,” Kjetill claims to him. He recounts the fact they had no meals and times were tough. He says the first harvest failed and an”evil man called Eyvind” blamed Floki for all. He informs Bjorn that this other family murdered his son and daughter. “In the end, I killed Eyvind and all of his family,” Kjetill admits. “After all, I am a Viking. It was a matter of honor.”
Why Bjorn thinks Kjetill might have murdered Floki
Bjorn admits that Floki is a dreamer and he would have been upset that his fantasy failed, especially. “Surely someone killed him and hid the body,” Bjorn states. “Perhaps you killed him Kjetill. Perhaps there was a confrontation and you struck him.”
Bjorn has known Floki for his whole life and he does not think Floki would just up and leave like this. Why would not he return home to Kattegat and the sons of Ragnar? In Bjorn’s mind, someone needs to have killed him, and it’s suspicious that Kjetill would appear in Floki’s ship with this narrative. And of course, he admits to murdering this household in a blood feud, so he capable of it.
“You better pray to the gods that one-day Floki returns to verify your story. Because up until that day, a man capable of slaughtering an entire family, will to me forever stand accused of his murder,” Bjorn tells him.
What happened to Floki?
Fans will recall what happened to Floki remains clouded in mystery. He walks away from the settlement and finds a cave that he considers to be the gate of Helheim. He travels deeper into the cave to discover across that has been carved inside the cavern. Laugh at the same time and he and starts to shout. It seems Floki is inside the body of a volcano that erupts, burying him within the cave out of nowhere. Fans haven’t heard from Floki since also it’s uncertain if he expired or somehow left it out alive.
Bjorn Ironside has his suspicions about what happened to Floki. Hopefully one day we will all learn the truth.
