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Vikings season six is the final instalment in the epic historical-drama series from The Tudors creator Michael Hirst. Vikings tells the story of Viking legend Ragnar Lothbrok (played by Travis Fimmel) and later his four sons. In the final 10 episodes, Ubbe (Jordan Patrick Smith) sets off on a journey to the ‘Goldenland’ which today is part of North America. Did Ubbe really discover North America? Express.co.uk has everything you need to know.
Did Ubbe really discover North America?
In the final season of Vikings, Ubbe was on a mission to find his father’s long lost friend Floki (Gustaf Skarsgård).
Floki had gone missing inside a volcanic cave in Iceland and when Kjetill (Adam Copeland) returned to Kattegat solo, Ubbe was determined to locate Floki, dead or alive.
After meeting Othere (Ray Stevenson), Ubbe and his wife Torvi (Georgia Hirst), set sail, with Othere promising them they would find the ‘Goldenland’.
First, they came across land which they jokingly named Greeland as there was nothing but brown land in sight.
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Vikings season 6, part 2: Jordan Patrick Smith plays Ubbe in Vikings (Image: AMAZON PRIME)
Kjetill’s hunger for power soon drove them off of Greenland and they were forced out to sea again to find the Goldenland.
Towards the end of the final series and on the verge of death, Ubbe, Othere and Torvi finally came across the ‘Goldenland’.
The real name of the island was never revealed in the series but after Ubbe and the group discovered a tribe of indigenous people on the land, many Vikings fans believed Ubbe had landed in North America and in particular, present-day Canada.
Ubbe in Vikings is based on the real Viking military commander of the same name, Ubba, who lived during the ninth-century.
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Vikings season 6, part 2: Ubbe and Torvi ventured to North America in Vikings season 6, part 2 (Image: AMAZON PRIME)Vikings season 6 part 2 is streaming now on Amazon Prime Video (Image: AMAZON PRIME)
Ragnar had been killed by King Aelle (Ivan Blakeley Kaye) who threw him into a pile of snakes, where he died from venomous bites
The Great Heathen Army invaded Anglo-Saxon England throughout the 860s.
In 865, The Great Heathen Army overwintered in the Kingdom of East Anglia, before invading and destroying the Kingdom of Northumbria.
They then went on to conquer East Anglia, killing their ruler King Edmund in 869.
According to several Viking sagas, including medieval and Icelandic sagas, Norse explorer Erik the Red founded the first settlement in Greenland in 982.
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His son, Leif Erikson is believed to be the first known European to have set foot on continental North America, excluding Greenland.
According to the sagas of Icelanders, Leif established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which today is recognised as coastal North America.
Additionally, a Viking settlement made by Leif is believed to relate to the remains of a Norse settlement found in Newfoundland, Canada called L’Anse aux Meadows and which was occupied in 1000.
The story of Leif Erikson, played by Sam Corlett, is set to be the focus of the upcoming Vikings spin-off series on Netflix, Vikings: Valhalla.
Vikings is streaming on Amazon Prime Video now.
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