Lagertha and her girlfriend doing kung-fu

They aren't doing Kung Fu.
It's supposed to be Wrestling, old style.

Now, since I once was a Swedish elite Wrestler I can tell that all grapples were correctly done, or supposedly believable after a thousand years been corrected.

But they look like when I watched young boys in the early teens doing it for their first times.
There is no way a normal person could learn several of these moves and use them continuously in a floating way, so I think they are excused. They were even better than what I've seen before.

If you or I did the same grapples and moves done as a real wrestler (woman or man) they'd have flowed like there was no interruption. Only at occasion when interruption was either needed, or ending the play.
The small hacks, waiting, starting over in their work when not correct in a match, shows flaws.

Another thing that people working with this oftentimes doesn't think of is the defense:
The woman countering isn't even close to a normally stretched body, and this has nothing to do with her in the film being lesser in the art. She does extremely little for it to look real.
There are muscles that we even not know of, when drawing a person in one way, they automatically reflex.
In the film I can see such reflexes aren't there. Instead I see two people helping each other turning over and around in that show-like style which resembles American Wrestling...

A trained person knows exactly how to counteract on every move. It just takes time... Milliseconds... Are you fast enough? It's not all in the brain. Much of it works further down like cycling or walking. Most normal people have no inkling of how fast that really is!

whats next, female mud wrestling?

I have been training kung-fu for over 10 years, i can assure you that wasnt kung fu.

Looks like Ringen with some Judo moves mixed into it.


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Like previously pointed out, it looks like wrestling. It's not really surprising, wrestling is as old as fighting itself and grappling, wrestling etc was a very useful tool at viking times, even throughout the the medieval times.

I think that season 4.2 is the 'shark jump' for Vikings. Don't even get me started on the ridiculous, ahistorical character of Astrid, with her designer gowns and Joan Jett hairdo. And yes, it was lesbian kung fu.

Vikings practiced various form of wrestling and hand to hand. That is both proven and described. Its not Kung fu. Learn before you speak!