Who plays Thorunn of Iceland in Vikings?
Thorunn of Iceland is played by Mei Bignall in the original Vikings series.
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Cast references: Mei Bignall.
Explore Thorunn Kjetillsdottir’s story
A child expected between two households
Her pregnancy gives Floki a reason to ask the feuding settlers to make peace. Thorunn and Helgi try to distance their relationship from the conflict dividing their families.
A disappearance exposed
She vanishes from the settlement. Floki experiences a vision that directs him toward her burial place, where the group finds her body; Asbjorn is identified as her killer.
Name and viewpoint matter
The vision is presented through Floki’s experience and should be described that way. The discovery supplies the story’s material consequence. Do not merge Thorunn with Gaia Weiss’s Porunn because a link or search engine redirects between similar spellings; their spouses, families, performers and seasons establish separate identities.
Relationships & loyalties
Memorable scenes
A disappearance during a fragile peace
Season 5, episode 13
Thorunn’s pregnancy has offered a reason to end the feud, but she vanishes from the settlement. The hoped-for connection between households becomes another point of vulnerability.
Why this moment matters
The pregnancy has been used as a reason for the families to imagine continuity together. Thorunn’s disappearance reverses that possibility before the child can exist outside other people’s arguments. The scene shows how a marriage meant to connect households becomes especially exposed when members of those households treat reconciliation as an injury to their allegiance.
The burial place is found
Season 5, episode 14
Floki experiences a vision directing him to Thorunn’s grave, where the settlers find her body. Her murder destroys the possibility that the unborn child might bring the divided families together.
Why this moment matters
Finding the body gives material reality to a loss first approached through Floki’s vision. The discovery matters beyond identifying a culprit: it destroys the future the settlers had invoked when asking one another to stop. Thorunn and the unborn child cannot be restored by choosing a new explanation of the feud or changing who is blamed.
Who plays Thorunn Kjetillsdottir?
Mei Bignall portrays Thorunn Kjetillsdottir.
Mei Bignall’s work beyond Vikings includes Spice in The Hook (2025); Florence Ferizi in Hitmen (2023); Arianne in Butterfly, Lost (2021); Kate Vaughn in Little Women (2017); Laura in Clear the Air (2018).