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"Back Stabbed", Way to Die #869, is the fourth death to be featured in "Putting A Smiley Face On Death", which aired on September 14, 2010, and the second death to be featured in the Death By Request: Special episode, which aired on October 24, 2011.

Plot[]

Viking king Nygard decided to go on a marauding campaign, leaving his brother Mort in charge. With Nygard away, Mort made a party celebration, having sex with a number of women. When the queen tried to shut it down, Mort told the other women to get out of here and he threw her down and raped her, thinking that he was the king she knew. Over the next few months, Mort would frequently have his way with her, until Nygard returned and caught him in the act, immediately sending him into a berserker rage. He then orders his men to seize him and promises Mort to his face he will execute him the worse way he knows how. Nygard's particularly vicious method is known as the "blood eagle"- he slices Mort's back open and pulls out his ribs (resembling bloody bird wings, hence the name), leaving the lungs to shrivel up due to the exposed air, causing Mort to suffocate to death.

Transcript[]

King Nygard: I'm gonna take your life!

Narrator: Not this time.

King Nygard: I'm gonna do it...the worst! Way! We know how!

Mort: No!

Narrator: Nygard was referring to something called the blood eagle.

Skip Wilder: The Vikings used the blood eagle to get revenge. The back was sliced down the spine, then the ribs were pried away from the spine

Mort: (screams)

Skip WIlder: ...and the lungs were pulled out from inside.

(Nygard pulls Mort's lungs out)

Dr. Khyber Zaffarkhan: If you disrupt the ribcage, and you bring the lungs on the outside, there's no force it can use in order to expand, and the lungs shrivel up and shrink, and you can't get anymore oxygen in.

Cast and Interviewees[]

  • Kieron Elliott - King Nygard (lead)
  • Seth Cassell - Mort (lead: intended victim)
  • Kat Hawkes - Viking Queen
  • Skip Wilder - Himself (Viking Expert)
  • Dr. Khyber Zaffarkhan - Himself (Physical Medicine and Rehab)

Foreign names[]

  • Puñal por la espalda (Dagger on the back) - Latin American dub
  • Puñalada por la Espalda (Back Stab) - Spanish dub
  • Apunhalado pelas Costas (Stabbed in the Back/Stabbed on the Back) - Brazilian dub
  • Escosi as punyal ma Morti (Scottish of Stab in Death) - Lazoran dub

Trivia[]

  • Also called "Blood Eagle" on the Spike TV website.
  • This death scene is awarded the "Best Historical Death" in the Death By Request: Special episode.
  • This is the earliest death to be featured in the whole of Season 3, since it takes place in the 10th Century.
  • It is said that if you don't scream at all while the Blood Eagle is being performed on you then you will get to Valhalla.
  • In general, if the rib cage has been disrupted due to the lungs being on the outside, then there wouldn’t be enough force in order for them to expand.

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