page_title: Vikings (season 6)
section_title: Casting
hierarchical_section_title: Vikings (season 6) / Production / Casting
caption_attribution_description: English: Set of Kattegat, Vikings TV series, Lough Tay, Wicklow
context_page_description: The sixth and final season of the historical drama television series Vikings premiered on December 4, 2019, on History in Canada. The series broadly follows the exploits of the legendary Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok and his crew, and later those of his sons. The first season of the series begins at the start of the Viking Age, marked by the Lindisfarne raid in 793 AD.
  The sixth season consists of a double order of twenty episodes, split into two parts of ten episodes; the second half will premiere in 2020. The season mainly focuses on King Bjorn's reign over Kattegat, Ivar's adventures in Rus', and Ubbe's expedition to Iceland.
context_section_description: In September 2017 it was announced that Russian actor Danila Kozlovsky would join the cast for the sixth season as Oleg of Novgorod, the 10th century Varangian ruler of the Kievan Rus people.
caption: The set for Kattegat at Lough Tay, County Wicklow
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