Vikings scored a renewal for 20 more episodes in Season 6, with production slated to begin in Ireland this fall.
Few details about the sixth season are currently available, but it has been confirmed that star Katheryn Winnick will direct an episode for the very first time, which we can probably take to mean that her character will survive the events of the fifth season.
Surely Winnick wouldn’t hang around set for Season 6 if Lagertha is killed in Season 5!
The episode count matches that of Season 4 and Season 5.