Warning: Full spoilers for Vikings Season 2 though episode 7 apply.
In the opening sequence of Vikings' "Blood Eagle", Ragnar Lothbrok deftly skins a rat as he discusses what is to be done with Jarl Borg with King Horik and his brother Rollo.
The frozen rats were ordered for the scene, in fact, at the instance of Travis Fimmel, who plays Ragnar. IGN had the opportunity to visit the Vikings set in Ireland, where we witnessed Fimmel - a self professed farm boy - mutilate rat after rat as they ran through the various takes.
"I just want to make it Viking," Fimmel said when we asked why it was important for him to have the rats in that scene. "I don't want it to be contemporary, you know? They did all that stuff back then. I just want to show to stay true to that. People had to eat rats; they had to eat whatever they could eat. I want the audience to cringe at that sort of stuff."
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