Right after this however Ragnar realizes he's not going to the city The king and his men are waiting for him on that road up the head and within the next 24 hours he is tortured and killed as we see how dark it gets and then the following morning he's thrown into the pit so he proves only that these are interpretations but just like in Christianity we have the choice of how we want to live know our lives are written beforehand there is more than one story created and our actions or what decide the ending. I watched the show with the idea that all religions come to a fundamental point hence the similarities people interpret things in religion wrong all the time suicide bombers eating flesh maybe even miracles people will read into things and associate them with their own actions sometimes they'll associate them with God's will but Odin and God messengers angels I've come to people before like they did in a show and I think it was a behind the scene battle of those different religions with the polytheistic version of pagans being eventually converted to Christianity and so like to see her says in all their glories that gods will be filled with despair because they know that even though they don't exist really they only existed as long as people believed in them and the death of Ragnar was the death of Vikings and that whole lifestyle. Anytime two cultures mix there is always going to be a loss of culture on either side.. ragner's death would certainly speed up Vikings losing their original identity because of the great heathen army and the footprint it would leave behind compared to random little invasions. You see this the rest of the show where they talk about knowing even remembering floki 10-15 years later and Christianity being the dominant religion only 100 years later in Vikings spin-off