Talk:Northmen: A Viking Saga

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but insulting your audience's intelligence and destroying any credibility for your plot is apparently easier. All quotes are from Wikipedia.

"The Viking chieftain Asbjörn and his crew, bear down on the coast of Britain, intent on pillaging Lindisfarne. After a violent storm, their longship crashes on the rocks off Scotland. [Caught] within enemy territory, the shipwrecked men’s only hope to stay alive is to reach the Danelag, (also known as the Danelaw or Danelagen)..."

Danelaw - "Danelaw is also used to describe the set of legal terms and definitions created in the treaties between the West-Saxon king, Alfred the Great, and the Danish warlord, Guthrum, written following Guthrum's defeat at the Battle of Edington in 878. In 886, the Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum was formalised, defining the boundaries of their kingdoms, with provisions for peaceful relations between the English and the Vikings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danelaw

Lindisfarne - "With the collapse of the Northumbrian kingdom the monks of Lindisfarne fled the island in 875 taking with them St. Cuthbert's bones (which are now buried at the cathedral in Durham)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne#Vikings

"The Viking chieftain Asbjörn and his crew, bear down on the coast of Britain, intent on pillaging Lindisfarne [abandoned in 875]. After a violent storm, their longship crashes on the rocks off Scotland. Caught within enemy territory, the shipwrecked men’s only hope to stay alive is to reach the Danelag [created no earlier than 878, more realistically 886]..."

So the protagonists head off for a sanctuary that will be created by a battle three years in their future and the realm it established some eight years later. Hope they travel really slowly or they'll get to Damelaw long before it existed. Instead of Lindisfarne the writer could have picked any monstery, church or cathedral that existed at the same time as the Danelaw, but he didn't. With this level of historical accuracy it's likely the vikings are stranded when their plane crashes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kro666 (talk • contribs) 06:07, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

The costumes are awful and historically extremely inaccurate. This is a pure fantasy movie. 91.119.33.170 (talk) 21:35, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

I liked the hilarious hair-do's, anachronistic beards and poor weaponry. It seems as if the whole plot was copied-and-pasted in an hour by one amateur who liked to please a stereotypical american audience (sorry, I know there are smart and intelligent people in north america). At least I survived 15min before fainting into an unusual laughter, which ended somewhere outside the movie-theatre...--78.51.140.63 (talk) 02:16, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * the mud pit was kinda scary tho :e — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.129.96.52 (talk) 16:43, 21 October 2018 (UTC)