Vikings is a fan of time jumps, but season 4 won't catapult Ragnar and his Norsemen into the far-flung future.

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Bjorn (Alexander Ludwig) and his father's men left Paris triumphant in "The Dead," and the season 4 premiere will see them return to Kattegat. The seaside village will not be quite the same as they left it, however. The young inhabitants will have grown, by perhaps as much as two years.

"Some time has passed," series creator Michael Hirst teased, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "The journey home took a little longer than they supposed. It hasn't been an easy run across to Paris or a straight run back. They'll have been away for a couple of years, something like that."

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What will this mean for the conquering heroes? More importantly, what will this mean for Ragnar's (Travis Fimmel) health? The status of the King's illness remains a mystery (you'll just have to watch to find out!), as does Bjorn's reunion with a daughter he hardly knows and Queen Aslaug's (Alyssa Sutherland) reaction to having to part with her newfound power.

Find out more when Vikings returns to History on Feb. 18.