Despite reports that "Vikings" season 4 will return to the television screens during the first week of July, History Channel has been silent about the show's midseason premiere date.
The show last aired with the episode "The Last Ship" last April 21. Since then, fans have been waiting for details as to when the show will come back on air.
However, History is keeping its cards close to its chest on that matter and is vaguely teasing a midseason premiere taking place "later this year."
When they are asked when "Vikings" season 4 will be back on air, the "Vikings" Twitter handle simply urge fans to "Watch the Vikings raid later this year!"
While this is too vague to figure out when exactly "later this year" falls, the impression is that it will take long before "Vikings" season 4 returns.
It is extra challenging to figure out since the current season has 20 episodes, double the number the previous seasons had.
Previous seasons of "Vikings" always premiered in February, but it looks like fans won't have to wait that long to be back in Kattegat with Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) once again.
When "Vikings" season 4 returns, so will the Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick), who fans feared was dead following a clash with Aslaug (Alyssa Sutherland).
Winnick's character is too significant for the show to be killed off. Otherwise the beloved series will lose its "soul," as stated by creator Michael Hirst described her in an interview with TV Guide.
Her fight for the throne will continue in "Vikings" season 4, and it is looking like the shieldmaiden's odds will be better this time so Aslaug better run while she can.
"She's also gone on this amazing female journey in which she's gone from farmer's wife [who's] happily married with kids, to being betrayed, to being in an abusive relationship, to having power, to having power taken away from her by men, to having to fight her way back, to having to lose her baby again," Hirst explained.
This rollercoaster of a journey is far from ending in "Vikings" season 4.
