Who plays Sigurd Snake in the Eye in Vikings?
Sigurd Snake in the Eye is played by David Lindström and Elijah O'Sullivan in the original Vikings series.
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Cast references: David Lindström · Elijah O'Sullivan.
Explore Sigurd Snake in the Eye’s story
A child watching the household
He notices neglect around young Siggy and is disturbed by Harbard’s influence on Aslaug. After discovering the child’s death, he finds little comfort in the response at the hall. These scenes give his later anger a history beyond an adult exchange of insults.
Grief does not produce one response
Sigurd does not share Ivar’s attachment to Aslaug or his demand for vengeance after her killing. The disagreement makes the family’s losses emotionally uneven: being sons of the same parents does not mean the brothers have experienced the same household.
The coalition breaks inside the family
He takes part in the campaign against the Saxons. After their victory, argument over the next direction becomes intensely personal. Ivar throws an axe and kills him. His death turns a gathering formed around vengeance for a parent into a new injury among the surviving children.
Relationships & loyalties
Memorable scenes
Reporting a child’s death to the hall
Season 4, episode 9
Sigurd discovers young Siggy dead and tells Aslaug. Her response leaves him distressed. The scene gives his later account of neglect a concrete memory instead of leaving his resentment as an unexplained adult attitude.
Why this moment matters
The child’s death becomes more than information Sigurd delivers. His distress meets an answer that cannot give him the care or recognition he expects from the household. The scene grounds his later resentment in an observed failure, making the difference between the brothers’ memories of their mother something the story has shown rather than only something they assert.
A brother’s argument becomes lethal
Season 4, episode 20
After the campaign’s victory, Sigurd and Ivar exchange insults while the family argues about its future. Ivar throws an axe that kills him. The loss immediately exposes how little a shared revenge has done to secure their own bonds.
Why this moment matters
The insults bring an existing family conflict into a setting that ought to belong to collective success. Sigurd’s killing then fixes the imbalance permanently: an argument that might have continued becomes something the survivors must interpret without him. The scene also limits the story’s future by ending a son whose relation to the family was not identical to Ivar’s.
Why fans keep talking
Sigurd’s defense rests partly on recognizing an emotional position that the more dominant brothers can overshadow. Sentimentality and anger toward Ivar need not make him weak or merely obstructive; they can register injuries the family’s heroic account leaves aside. Frustration over his limited development follows from that possibility, rather than from a fully worked alternative arc. The scene with young Siggy helps explain why the anger matters. His death can feel like lost characterization as well as a violent plot turn because it ends a perspective that had not received comparable room to grow.
What resonates
Sentimentality and a willingness to challenge Ivar earn him defenders. Some viewers feel his grievances and possibilities deserve more attention.
What divides viewers
His limited development and abrupt death frustrate viewers who wanted him to become more than another point of comparison with Ivar.
Who plays Sigurd Snake in the Eye?
David Lindström portrays Sigurd Snake in the Eye.
David Lindström’s work beyond Vikings includes Olle in The Yearning Room (2013); Kenny Kylberg in Maria Wern.