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I feel like she's been such an iconic character. And in Season 6, now that Lagertha is older and retired and she's gone back to her simple ways of trying to be a farmer again where she was most happy, I feel that there wasn't really much else to do. Winnick: Timing has always been a big part of when a character should go, especially because it is called Vikings and it is history, so we've lost a lot of lead actors throughout the years. Why do you think this was the right time for Lagertha's story to end? And I couldn't be happier in how it all went down. I asked Michael Hirst one thing, is to make sure it's going to be something epic and some big event and something that makes it worthwhile to die.

So we needed to find a good way to end her storyline, and I couldn't be happier than to have the kind of death that she had. I think originally supposed to stay on just for the first couple of years and now, really six seasons later, Lagertha is now a granny and still living.

It was always part of the conversation, about Lagertha can't live on forever. Katheryn Winnick: Well, it's been a long time coming. You've obviously known Lagertha was destined to die for a while, but what was your reaction like when you finally found out when and how it would happen this season?

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TV Guide spoke with Katheryn Winnick about what it was like to say goodbye to Lagertha, her thoughts on how the death went down, and what it was like returning to the show to direct Episode 8.

Hvitserk went after Ivar and stabbed him to death, only to realize when it was already too late that he wasn't killing Ivar, but Lagertha.Īlthough Vikings fans have known that Lagertha was destined to be killed by one of Ragnar's sons since she first heard the Seer's prophecy in Season 4, we never could have expected it would happen like this - or so early into the show's final season. Viewers have already seen how Hvitserk's ( Marco Ilsø) fears that Ivar ( Alex Høgh) is destined to kill him have driven him into deep drug and alcohol addiction, and it's while under the influence of these substances that a half-mad Hvitserk began to have visions of Ivar as a human-snake hybrid hunting him through the streets of Kattegatt just as Lagertha arrived. However, when Lagertha arrived at Kattegatt, her fate finally caught up to her. Lagertha wanted to go back to Kattegatt in the hopes that Bjorn ( Alexander Ludwig) had returned so that she could tell him not only about White Hair's attack on the settlement but also the death of his son Hali. After barely surviving the battle with White Hair (Kieran O'Reilly) and his bandits at her farm settlement, an injured Lagertha insisted on riding to Kattegatt alone despite Gunnhild's (Ragga Ragnars) protests.

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