Vinland Saga Season 2 Episode 22 Reaction | The King of Rebellion

After thorfinn attacked canute, he was sold into slavery as punishment instead of being killed. So canute was directly responsible for thorfinn becoming a slave, but as a lighter punishment than we would have otherwise gotten.

I didn’t know people weren’t aware of it but yeah Canute IS exactly why Thorfinn is a slave at the beginning of the season, for striking Canute at the end of the first season

King Canute pointing at the waves and telling them to stop, just to point out that God is moving them, not him is actually a real, possibly historically accurate story from the 12th century. It's generally understood as a display of humility not frustration though. When the author planned the rough outline for the series he probably knew that this would be a major scene. It's kind of funny, because it feels like one of the most classically "anime" dramatic scenes.

Karlsefni is a nickname like Thorkells nickname was "the tall" but karlsefni doesn't translate as well. Karlsefni would roughly translate to "the makings of a man" or "what men are made of" or something in that direction.

I have no enemies 🥹🤍

The part about Canute trying to stop the wavs was actually done by the real King Canute, albeit in a different context. But still a little fun fact.

Canute literally says "sorry for making you a slave" and you say "I dont know if he was involved in making him a slave" lol. Yes, he was the one sentencing Thorfinn to a life in slavery. Which was nice of him, because he had every right to just execute him on the spot for attacking him.

I know it's kinda hard to see where Canute is coming from because he speaks more about values and goals than practical terms of what he's doing this for. If you take the dialogue at face value, you just think he speaks in ideals but when we think of what he does, it's very pragmatic. He's making sure the Vikings as a whole don't act like wild animals, left to their own devices to spread across the world and bring chaos, more violence than ever. Both sides have their merits, and of course we want Thorfinn's first method to be the solution to everything. This is where we're speaking ideals, more so than what Canute is speaking about. Alas, the real world we know has taught us that first method isn't always what's been known to work.

The clash between Thorfinn and Canute comes down to how to build a better word, through violence or peace.

I love how canute approaches this. Its fun when people think he bonkers with the waves, when he makes the point he is no more powerful than any other man in the face of God. Where he stands though from his position, he doesnt have any belief that people can find that Gods love he saw without his guidance. Thats why he needs to save the vikings first, they are so far from that love, they didnt even know what the word meant when the priest was speaking with them in season one. Canute sees he needs to coral them all under his control, so he can slowly lead them there. The whole season was him giving them orders to not be barbarian monsters, and them constantly disobeying him. He knows they wont respond unless his strength is truly unmatched, and once he has that respect and control, he can try and lead them to something different. If he can change the vikings, the most fearsome monsters in the world, then he can save everyone. Its such a powerful thought, its a clash between Thorfinns short view of the moment and Canute's long view of the future. I dont think i've ever seen such an amazing clash of two truly great men in a story. Thorfinns idealism vs canutes practical knowledge of how the world is. We all want to be Thorfinn, but really most of us are Canute in this moment.

Canute: Yo Thorfinn, watch this! Water Breathing - Eleventh Form: Dead Calm! Thorfinn: But there's nothing happening... Canute: That's because Ufotable aren't here! Thorfinn: What's Ufotable? I'm starting to think much of this is just in your head. Sweyn: Don't listen to him, son! It's happening, all of this is real, you can do it!

The waves scene is basically Canute saying he can’t challenge the natural order of things (which he calls a god, but that’s what he means. Wars, Viking culture and etc), so he’ll at least be in charge of it and direct it to something better than where they are now.

man i love this show, loved the ending, cant wait!

honestly so proud of you for not bawling your eyes out fully when he says he has no enemy. My and my friend watched Vinland saga season 1&2 only a few weeks apart after we were sure there'd be enough content to go throught (since it was our picked anime for the watch stuff together night) and when he says it man, everything popped back so hard him sighing away emotions after the lady from the english village gets taken away his first time remeeting leif and saying it's never over and Mom&Sis don't matter His insane displays in France & against Thorkell His shame and despair realizing what he did but deciding he'll climb out of who he was. It's so fucking beautiful even rn i can't NOT cry about it !!

So excited for your reaction to the next one PS love your reactions btw 😅

There's a story called "King Canute and the Tide" about what Canute is doing in this conversation.

When he says that he will fight god, is by creating a paradise on earth on par with heavens, so that people do not need to endure god's trials. That's canute's goal. He wants to unify the vikings towards the creation of this civilization.

no canute is the one who directly made thorfinn a slave

They really toned down thorfinn's messed up face from those punches in the anime, if you can believe it

truly speaking of Canute this real what happened in history of viking tbh