Adult Content Warning

This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.

• Yes, Continue
• No, Go Back

If you accept cookies from our site and you choose "Yes, Continue", you will not be asked again during this session (that is, until you close your browser). If you log in you can store your preference and never be asked again.

1. So Deep the Water by themus

   Fandoms: Vikings (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   29 Nov 2020

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Athelstan (Vikings)
   • Bjorn (Vikings)
   • Gyda (Vikings)
   • Ragnar Lothbrok
   • Lagertha (Vikings)
   • Floki (Vikings)
   • Rollo (Vikings)
   • Original Characters
   • Friendship
   • Slavery
   • Food Issues
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Graphic Description
   • Illnesses
   • Character Death Fix
   • Trauma
   • Abuse
   • Animal Death
   • Religion
   • Family
   • Minor Character Death
   • Vikings
   • Alternate Universe
   • Anxiety
   • Developing Friendships
   • Enemies to Friends
   • Violence
   • Blood and Violence
   • Threats of Violence
   • Aftermath of Violence
   • Graphic Description of Corpses
   • Graphic Depictions of Illness
   • Blood and Gore
   • Major Illness
   • Death
   • Original Character Death(s)
   • Near Death
   • Past Character Death
   • Psychological Trauma
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Past Abuse
   • Past Child Abuse
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • Physical Abuse
   • Animal Attack
   • References to Norse Religion & Lore
   • Biblical Scripture References (Abrahamic Religions)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
   • Anxiety Attacks
   • Anxiety Disorder
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Fix-It
   • Angst
   • Heavy Angst
   • Natural Disasters
   • Crisis of Faith
   • Injury
   • Major Character Injury
   • Season/Series 01
   • Implied/Referenced Sex
   • Explicit Language

   Summary

   Laws they made there, and life allotted
   To the sons of men, and set their fates.
   ~ Voluspa stanza 20 ~

   Six weeks after Ragnar Lothbrok’s bloody raid on Lindisfarne, the monk Athelstan is struggling to adjust to a life of bondage in the hostile Norwegian wilderness. Plagued by the terrors of his own mind, the looming threat of Ragnar’s return, and Bjorn’s unrelenting hostility, everyday life is hard enough. But when a new danger arises, Athelstan’s already precarious position becomes perilous and as the risks grow greater, he finds himself entangled ever deeper by an oath that he never wanted to make.

   Season 1 AU, diverging part way through 1.04 - Trial.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Wayworn

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   112,072

   Chapters:

   28/28

   Comments:

   123

   Kudos:

   93

   Bookmarks:

   19

   Hits:

   3,422