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Post by spaceflower on Nov 29, 2013 0:10:11 GMT
I had to see it. Even though I find it strange to hear the vikings talk in English. Would be strange to hear them talk Swedish too, they must speak Icelandic. Like Hrafninn flýgur (When the raven flies). And how can they call the earl (jarl) just "Haraldson"? They had no real surnames then, only patronymics, so they would never call a person "Skallagrimsson" but either "Egil Skallagrimsson" or just "Egil". And where did they film "Uppsala"? Nothing like the flat scenery there, more like Norway with high mountains and fjords. The vikings seemed very cruel, I will not accept them as my forefathers. I must derive from some thrall. Has anyone seen this series?
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 29, 2013 7:52:06 GMT
I've not seen a series; I thought you were talking about the Kirk Douglas film...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2013 11:13:12 GMT
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Post by spaceflower on Nov 7, 2014 17:04:37 GMT
In the last episode I watched, the gruesome punishment of carving blood eagle was executed. The ones who could die without screaming would go to Valhalla.
But I cringe as young Björn says to the servant girl Torun: "Do you have a boy friend?" Boy friend sounds soo 20th century. He should have said beloved, betrothed, lover or perhpas "true love" like in the ballads. Even fiancé sounds too modern, i.e. French.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 7, 2014 23:01:16 GMT
I saw a few bits of the show here and there and thought it looked boring and overly dramatic and silly. I'm not really into drama tv series though. The only thing I'm watching semi regularly at the moment is Dancing with the Stars.
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Post by kingedmund on Nov 11, 2014 21:06:25 GMT
Guess I'm going to look this up.
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Post by whollygoats on Jan 16, 2020 3:39:05 GMT
Heh...Yeah, there have been points in the program where I looked at the surroundings and blurted out, "Well, that sure as shit isn't Denmark. It looks like somewhere on the Norwegian coast." Ragnar is pretty mythic, and so is 'Kattegatt'. I gave up on trying to wedge it in to something that was 'accurate', because it couldn't be done anyway. The costumes are pretty ridiculous in terms of actuality as well. Still, I think they've done a decent job of spinning a decent semi-historical fiction and convey yet another inaccurate, but entertaining, view of a historical population movement.
The timeline is tortured because they have Ragnar at Lindisfarne and Ragnar at the walls of Paris and those events are more than eighty years apart. I scoffed at the scene of what they called 'the Silk Road', which somehow ran through Kyiv. The aforementioned confusion of Denmark with Norway was continual.
And...Thanks to alvamiga for bringing up the Kirk Douglas movie. A 1958 classic that I loved as a child. That was my first comment when my friend told me that there was a new series based upon the Ragnar Lothbrok tales..."So, it'll have York and the snakepit for Ragnar scene? And the whole of the Great Heathen Army?" He assured me that it did. I secretly wondered who they might get to play the Tony Curtis role (some of the worst casting ever). As it turns out, it is the same story with a different perspective and a different storyteller.
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