Is Vikings Historically Accurate? What It Gets Right

As a medievalist and expert of sorts, Dr. Godlove isn't bothered too much about the time discrepancies. As a fan, however, she does have a major "no way in hell" moment of her own: "When they crucified Athelstan. I just felt like that whole scene was gratuitous."

She goes on: "For the record, Anglo-Saxons did not crucify people, and I guarantee you that they would have seen crucifying an apostate as blasphemy. It was a very heavy-handed tactic on the part of the writers and producers. I like the Athelstan character, and I like what the show is trying to do with his story of spiritual crisis, but for goodness sake, don't crucify him."