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Skaldic verse, a common medium of Norse poets, was meant to be cryptic and allusive, and the idiomatic nature of Sighvatr's poem as a description of what has become known as the blood eagle is a matter of historical contention, particularly since in Norse imagery the eagle was strongly associated with blood and death.
Jarl Borg returns to Kattegat to join forces with Ragnar, but during the night his men are burned alive and he is taken captive. Horik persuades Ragnar to delay killing Jarl Borg, in case his execution scares off potential allies. Ragnar visits the Seer who reveals that Athelstan is alive but spiritually torn.
Meanwhile, Jarl Borg remarries and decides to seize Ragnar's lands in retaliation for Ragnar breaking their truce. With all the able warriors gone, Rollo rallies the village's women, children and elderly, but Borg massacres them and seizes control of Kattegat. Rollo is forced to flee with Aslaug, her sons and Siggy.
Ragnar's embassy to Jarl Borg in Götaland fails, as King Horik rejects a compromise settlement about the contested land. Driven by ambition and jealousy, Rollo agrees to support Borg against Ragnar. In Kattegat, a disease kills many inhabitants, including Lagertha's daughter, Gyda, and Siggy's daughter, Thyri.
In the History Channel's historical drama television series Vikings, actor Thorbjørn Harr plays the character of Jarl Borg, a Jarl of Götaland. In the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the rulers of the various cities and their respective regions, called within the game as the nine holds, are known as Jarls.
Fredrik Hiller as Jarl Thorkell the Tall, one the jarls of Norway and a rival to Bjorn; Amy De Bruhn as Jarl Hrolf, one the jarls of Norway; Brent Burns as Skane, one of Harald's ambitious followers; Ivo Alexandre as Bishop Leon, who visits Kiev for Easter; Russell Balogh as Bishop Aldulf, a warrior priest in King Alfred's army
[citation needed] Jómsvíkinga saga tells that in 986, they attacked Haakon Jarl in Norway and were defeated in the Battle of Hjörungavágr. The saga recounts that Jomsvikings captured by the Norwegians and about to be executed exhibited courage and defiance, some being eventually spared by their captors.
Georgia Hirst as Torvi, the widow of Jarl Borg and the new wife of Erlendur; Greg Orvis as Earl Siegfried, one of the Viking commanders in the siege of Paris [3] Frankie McCafferty as Sinric, a polyglot drifter [3] Owen Roe as Count Odo of Paris [3] Morgane Polanski as Princess Gisla of West Francia, the daughter of Emperor Charles [2]