Vikings season 5: floki gestures explained - secret behind the mystery

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The midseason finale saw Floki (played by Gustaf Skarsgard) make a shockping decision as his utopian vision came crashing down when a settler was found dead as part of a revenge killing.  In


turn, Floki gave himself up as a sacrifice with hopes his offering would prevent any more murders destroying his spiritual dreams.  Though, before he makes any rash decisions, fans have


been left wondering: What are those gestures Floki makes?  Thankfully, a Reddit user put the question to fellow users and gained a flurry of responses.  One user replied: “I've read


somewhere that the vikings did a forehead sign to ward off the evil spirits - I'm not sure if it's also the one Floki does.” Another followed: “He’s doing ‘Make Contact’, a gesture


to summon the Great Ones to this mortal plane.”  A third speculated: “He was just tracing over the rune tattoo on his head.” Vikings creator Michael Hirst recently spoke out on the future


of Floki as fans await the second half of season five.  “Floki's desperate now because he wanted to take a lot of godly people to a godly place, just like the puritans, because he


believes strongly that everyone has fallen into bad habits and murderous habits and they're selfish and all the bad things about humans,” he told TV Guide. “And he took them away


somewhere they could start again, they would reform themselves, they would behave well.” He continued: “But this is a big argument about whether human nature or nurture is the thing that


defines how you behave.  “It's just turning into a nightmare for Floki because people are behaving in the way they used to behave back home in Scandinavia and pursuing personal


vendettas and all the things that he was trying to get away from.  “So he makes this dramatic offer to sacrifice himself just in case that would make everyone good and it's unlikely


that that would be the result, but it does show that Floki now is in an extreme situation and the whole settlement is in an extreme situation.  Vikings season 5, episode 11 release date:


What will happen in the next episode “And what I can tell would not be a surprise, it just gets worse and worse and worse until it becomes unimaginable.” _VIKINGS SEASON 5 WILL RETURN TO


AMAZON PRIME VIDEO IN 2018._