Underneath and inside just to come around A fiery massive raid assaults a darkened coast line.' The lyrics of the title theme reflects how Ragnar's endless thirst for knowledge and mankind's greed will see to it that conflicts never will cease. He is left a shell below the waves before we learn he is not alone, but one of many sinking below the creeping surge of Viking raiders above. His fading memory flickers throughout before he is consumed by one of the Sisters.
He slips into darkness amongst ornaments of his life: weaponry, gold, and bone. Accoriding to Rama Allen, who directed the sequence: 'We follow the separation of a Viking from the living. The final image shows a stormy sea, a thunderous sky, and fires of a Viking raid on land. Figures of Norse mythology and some of the characters from Vikings flash by. The sequence shows a stormy sea and dead warriors, their weapons and spoils sinking into the sea, the nine daughters of the goddess Rán swimming around and consuming them. It is is written by Fever Ray under her stage name. If I Had a Heart is the opening to Vikings.
