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In fact, I think my kids will be the first Vikings who will have a hard time growing a beard when they become older.
Our story begins over 200 years earlier, when Vikings began to settle on the shores of northern France as part of a great Scandinavian exodus across northern Europe.
The Normans were Vikings who settled in France.
They had abandoned the Viking language and culture in favor of a French lifestyle, but they still fought like Vikings.
The Vikings were no different, so they had a way of smoothing away the harder parts of how English worked.
And in the case of the Viking Norse, the Vikings inadvertently caused soil erosion and deforestation, which was a particular problem for them because they required forests to make charcoal, to make iron.
The Vikings came from the rugged, inhospitable north known today as Scandinavia.
Viking longships could soon carry as many as 100 Vikings to battle.
With their steely navigational skills, advanced long-ships and fearsome tactics, the Vikings sustained their seafaring for over three hundred years.
Some of these inscriptions also bore the influence of other cultures the Vikings interacted with— the runic inscription “love conquers all,” for example, is originally a Latin phrase from the poet Virgil.
These were Migration Era Swedes and Danes, not Vikings (they came later).
And even the Vikings never wore horns on their helmets (horns make it easy for your enemy to knock your helmet off and then brain you).
Did the creators of this show realize that people who were taken from different parts of the earth, in different time frames (Attilla the Hun wasn't a contemporary of preliterate Hellenic cultures, nor were the Vikings contemporary to the Pyramid builders) speak different languages and can never develop a language so similar to modern day English(except for the inflections they "do not" use), which has been influenced by Latin, ancient Greek, Danish and French?
Brendan is a young boy in Kells, a city surrounded by enormous walls, built by his uncle to keep out Vikings.
In this fantastic retelling of that story, a prepubescent boy named Brendan, living in a monastery ruled by his uncle, a stern abbot who is worried preparing the defenses of the abbey from the impending attack by the feared vikings, must get into the forbidding surrounding forest to find the materials that a master illuminator named Aidan needs to finish the book.
The Vikings appear here as brute antagonists, the equivalent on the North Seas of the plundering Huns and Mongols further East.
Not like the rough (and often stupid) picture of vikings that Hollywood creates.
Caviezel and Miles show a lot of power play and carve two strong characters from scratch, building up the momentum to the last confrontation between vikings and aliens confused with dragons.
The rest of the movie is a fast paced action, worthy to see instead of explaining, playing the Norwegian vikings an Kainan against the rampant dragon look alike alien.
The only surviour from the crew, Kainan (James Caviezel), is soon captured by vikings, who blame him for the slaughter in a nearby village.
A historical note: Although tons of pictures of Vikings with horned helmets have been produced over the years, this is actually a myth.
My first reaction when I finished watching this movie for the first time was, "Woah, Irish ninjas versus vikings?
Robert Wagner,(Prince Valiant),"Banning",'67, had great interests with the Vikings and England's King Arthur.
I suggest that this movie should not be to closely associated with "Vikings".
(His distinctive voice would've been perfect speaking as either Gandalf or Saruman) And that herd of "studio" Vikings stampeding over each other with the horned helmets, Kirk Douglas and Ernest Borgnine's characters from the movie The Vikings,must be cringing in Valhalla.
The story is of an Outlander from a different planet who ends up in a ship crash on NORSE territory-planet earth!But the ship has brought along an alien trouble-a species called Moorven/Moorwen.Kainan(James Caviezel) is treated as an Outlander,he has to prove his worth and also tell the vikings of the alien trouble he has bought along.And henceforth the plot flows.
Seriously, folks, it's jaw-dropping misfire after misfire, as Lord David Warner chases David Warner the Taupe with an army of vikings, ay-rabs, pirates, and various castle types who thankfully have very short attention spans, because they never chase Warner and his ward for very long... or maybe Warner lost 'em at the inn/whorehouse.
Never once do you get to see the harsh and beautiful Icelandic landscape (I've been there), only the shore and the vikings' huts.
The vikings themselves use strange machete looking swords.
If you want to see something that's actually an interesting movie, though Hollywood, see 'The Vikings' or for something more lighthearted 'The Longships'.