#Northmen: A Viking Saga

[medievalandfantasymelee]

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FIRST ROUND: 12th Tilt

Asbjörn, Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014) VS. Thranduil, the Elvenking, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014)

Propaganda

Asbjörn, Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014) Portrayed by: Tom Hopper Defeated Opponents: - Connor MacLeod [Christopher Lambert], Highlander (1986)

Asbjörn looks like he could kill you, but he's actually a cinnamon roll (but he will still kill you if he has to). He spends a whole movie protecting a princess from mercenaries, and I think that's very sexy of him. Also, have you seen those arms? *swoon*

Thranduil, the Elvenking, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) Portrayed by: Lee Pace Defeated Opponents: - Vaisey, Sheriff of Nottingham [Keith Allan], BBC’s Robin Hood (2006-2009)

“He's such a bitch and I like him so much. THE blond bitch, old as hell and annoyed about everything. Willing to leave the dwarves in the dungeons to rot claiming he's patient but is not at all patient for an immortal. Also really pretty.”

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Jorund threatening Asbjorn

Leo Gregory as Jorund in Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014)

[maurawrites]

Tom Hopper as Asbjorn in ‘Northmen: A Viking Saga’

[sheigarche]

There's a movie called "Northmen: A Viking Saga" from 2014 that I'm 99% sure was used as some inspiration for Hellblade 2.

I mean, I'm not saying it's that level of good, or well written, well acted, or well directed. BUT it's impossible to watch it and not see one thing or another that reminds you of Senua's Saga.

[broomsick]

List of interesting ressources pertaining to norse paganism, scandinavian folklore and history, and nordic religions in general

These are sources I have personally used in the context of my research, and which I've enjoyed and found useful. Please don’t mind if I missed this or that ressource, as for this post, I focused solely on my own preferences when it comes to research. I may add on to this list via reblog if other interesting sources come to my mind after this has been posted. Good luck on your research! And as always, my question box is open if you have any questions pertaining to my experiences and thoughts on paganism.

Mythology

The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion

Dictionnary of Northern Mythology

The Prose and Poetic Eddas (online)

Grottasöngr: The Song of Grotti (online)

The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

The Wanderer's Hávamál

The Song of Beowulf

Rauðúlfs Þáttr

The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings (Kevin Crossley-Holland's are my favorite retellings)

Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and the Sagas (online) A source that's as old as the world, but still very complete and an interesting read.

The Elder Eddas of Saemung Sigfusson

Pocket Hávamál

Myths of the Pagan North: Gods of the Norsemen

Lore of the Vanir: A Brief Overview of the Vanir Gods

Anglo-Saxon and Norse Poems

Gods of the Ancient Northmen

Gods of the Ancient Northmen (online)

Two Icelandic Stories: Hreiðars Þáttr and Orms Þáttr

Two Icelandic Stories: Hreiðars Þáttr and Orms Þáttr (online)

Sagas

Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes: Hervor and Heidrek & Hrólf Kraki and His Champions (compiling the Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks and the Hrólfs saga kraka)

Icelandic Saga Database (website)

The Saga of the Jómsvíkings

The Heimskringla or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway (online)

Stories and Ballads of the Far Past: Icelandic and Faroese

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway

The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok

The Saga of the Volsungs (online) Interesting analysis, but this is another pretty old source.

The Story of the Volsungs (online) Morris and Magnusson translation

The Vinland Sagas

Hákon the Good's Saga (online)

History of religious practices

The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

Nordic Religions in the Viking Age

Agricola and Germania Tacitus' account of religion in nordic countries

Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions

Tacitus on Germany (online)

Scandinavia and the Viking Age

Viking Age Iceland

Landnámabók: Book of the Settlement of Iceland (online)

The Age of the Vikings

Gesta Danorum: The Danish History (Books I-IX)

The Sea Wolves: a History of the Vikings

The Viking World

Guta Lag: The Law of the Gotlanders (online)

The Pre-Christian Religions of the North This is a four-volume series I haven't read yet, but that I wish to acquire soon! It's the next research read I have planned.

Old Norse Folklore: Tradition, Innovation, and Performance in Medieval Scandinavia

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings by John Haywood

Landnámabók: Viking Settlers and Their Customs in Iceland

Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark For a little literary break from all the serious research! The stories are told in a way that can sometimes get repetitive, but it makes it easier to notice recurring patterns and themes within Scandinavian oral tradition.

Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction

Saga Form, Oral Prehistory, and the Icelandic Social Context

An Early Meal: A Viking Age Cookbook and Culinary Oddyssey

Runes & Old Norse language

Uppland region runestones and their translations

Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas and Viking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader

Catalogue of the Manks Crosses with Runic Inscriptions

Old Norse - Old Icelandic: Concise Introduction to the Language of the Sagas

A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture

Nordic Runes: Understanding, Casting, and Interpreting the Ancient Viking Oracle 

YouTube channels

Ocean Keltoi

Arith Härger

Old Halfdan

Jackson Crawford

Wolf the Red

Sigurboði Grétarsson

Grimfrost

(Reminder! The channel "The Wisdom of Odin", aka Jacob Toddson, is a known supporter of pseudo scientific theories and of the AFA, a folkist and white-supremacist organization, and he's been known to hold cult-like, dangerous rituals, as well as to use his UPG as truth and to ask for his followers to provide money for his building some kind of "real life viking hall", as supposedly asked to him by Óðinn himself. A source to avoid. But more on that here.)

Websites

The Troth

Norse Mythology for Smart People

Voluspa.org

Icelandic Saga Database

Skaldic Project

Life in Norway This is more of a tourist's ressources, but I find they publish loads of fascinating articles pertaining to Norway's history and its traditions.

[amadenchart]

Meads On Me!

AU inspired by Vikings/northmen, but with dragons, one of my favorite themes. xD

Vygo's name here is Sigmund while Indrys' name is Signý (based on the names of the characters from the Saga of the Völsungs). They are Viking lords. ;)

Sigmund is celebrating something here, what could it be?

[Original Character: Sigmund]

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[racefortheironthrone]

Re: Viking propaganda in fiction, do you think The Northman should count as propaganda? It's extremely open and graphic about the mass enslaving and raiding that the northmen had going on, down to the fact that Amleth's quest to save his mother was ultimately hollow given she was 100% onboard with the plan to murder her rapist slave owning husband. Arguably none of the Norse characters come out looking as anything other than anti-villains (or outright villains) at best.

Yes, but it's also the case that Amleth looks really cool and ripped and the fight scenes are really cool, and sometimes that can trump the intended message and contribute to propaganda. Pace to Martin Scorsese's intended messages about gangsters and Wall St. crooks being really bad people, but if you go to great lengths to make the crimes look really fucking cool and the comeuppance is drab and washed-out, it's not a very effective communication of said message.

I'm reminded of a time when a liberal tv news show (Donohue? Ted Koppel? 60 Minutes? Don't remember) did this segment criticizing Reagan's "Morning in America" commercial by reading statistics about unemployment and poverty over footage of the commercial. Reagan's communications director calls them up and says "thank you." Baffled, they say, "what do you mean thank you? We just savaged you." And he replies, "yeah, but you played the commercial over and over again, and it's the visuals that people are going to remember."

Sorry, back to The Northman. I dunno, maybe we could call this a revisionist Viking movie, in the same way that (according to the huge number of messages I got about Vinland Saga - yes, I hear you people, I'll give it another try, I'm just saying that the show's opening doesn't exactly fit with its message) Once Upon a Time in the West was a revisionist Western movie.

[daenerys-stormborn]

Your "great bastards" gifset is so pretty!!! Who are your fancasts?

Thank you so much!

Bloodraven is Jarred Blakiston from The New Legends of Monkey.

Shiera is Natalia Vodianova from this video

Bittersteel is Manu Bennett from Spartacus

Daemon is Tom Hopper in Northmen A Viking Saga

[dear-indies]

Hello Cat 🐱 & Mouse 🐭!! Could you please suggest female fcs with a cottage core vibe please?between around 20 to 30 that would fit into a medieval fantasy setting, please? Thank you!

Kim Ji-won (The Arthdal Chronicles) Korean.

Morgan Holmstrom (Outlander) Metis of Cree descent, Ilocano Filipino, Sambal Filipino, and possibly Tagalog Filipino.

Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword)

Niamh Walsh (Jamestown)

Dianne Doan (Vikings) Vietnamese, as well as one eighth Chinese.

Stefanie Martini (The Last Kingdom)

Zoë Robins (The Wheel of Time) Nigerian.

Madeleine Madden (The Wheel of Time) Gadigal, Eastern Arrernte, Kalkadoon and White.

Tanaya Beatty (Murder at Yellowstone City) Da’naxda’xw / Himalayan.

Charlie Murphy (Northmen: A Viking Saga)

Antonia Fotaras (Luna Nera)

Antonia Thomas (The Musketeers) Afro Jamaican / English, possibly Welsh.

Amy Wren (The Last Kingdom)

Millie Brady (The Last Kingdom)

Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark)

Madeleine Mantock (Into the Badlands) Afro Jamaican / English.

I'm not great at period and fantasy faeclaims but these all have the vibe!

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QUALIFYING ROUND: 18th Tilt

Asbjörn, Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014) VS. Connor MacLeod, Highlander (1986)

Propaganda

Asbjörn, Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014) Portrayed by: Tom Hopper

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Connor MacLeod, Highlander (1986) Portrayed by: Christopher Lambert

“Those brooding eyes, the arms swinging the sword. I could watch him all day.”

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For Connor MacLeod:

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Jorund Fight Scenes

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Northmen A Viking Saga

Fully enjoyed that, even with it's little flows. Just happy to watch a Viking movie I've missed, accepting recommendations here. Very surprised to see Ryan Kwanten :D Lovely :D While the end credits you listen to Amon Amarth :D

[ancestorsalive]

Halfdan was one of the leaders of the Viking Great Army of the 9th-Century; one of his brothers was Ivar (usually identified with the “Ivar the Boneless” of the sagas).

The 'Great Heathen Army' arrived in England in autumn 865, and killed the kings of Northumbria and of East Anglia in the next four years.

In the autumn or early winter of 870, Halfdan and his warband left East Anglia and invaded the kingdom of Wessex, establishing their base at Reading.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - which for this period is a near contemporary source - gives a detailed narrative of the campaign that followed: the vikings fought nine general engagements against the West Saxons who were led by their king, Æthelred I and his brother - and successor - Alfred.

The most important of these battles took place on the Berkshire Downs, at the place called Ashdown, in January 871.

The viking army was drawn up in two divisions: one, opposed by Alfred, was led by various jarls; the other, which King Æthelred engaged, was under the command of 'the heathen kings Bagsecg and Halfdan'.

Ashdown was a West Saxon victory, but it was only one in a series of battles that winter. The two sides were at stalemate, despite the arrival of a 'great summer army’ to reinforce Halfdan’s host.

In the autumn of 871, the combined viking army left Reading and wintered in London. By now, Alfred was king of Wessex. The Army went on to campaign again in Northumbria - drawn there by a revolt against its puppet king - before it settled for the winter in Mercia at Torksey (on the River Trent; this winter camp has yielded a lot of archaeological finds).

The vikings remained there for a year; late in 873 they moved on Repton (which has also yielded archeological finds) and drove the Mercian king, Burgred from his kingdom.

The following year the viking army divided into two. While Guthrum occupied Cambridge - from where he invaded Wessex once more - Halfdan took his contingent north to a base on the Tyne. They attacked the Picts and Strathclyde Britons and then returned south to settle Northumbria where they “proceeded to plough and to support themselves” (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 876).

Halfdan’s men occupied the area centred on York; the northern part of Northumbria remained in the hands of the English lords of Bamburgh.

Halfdan himself does not seem to have joined his followers in settling what eventually became Yorkshire. He may have gone to Ireland instead. His brother Ivar had died there in 873, and Halfdan may have attempted to take his brother’s place as ‘king of the Northmen in Ireland and Britain’.

Certainly, the Annals of Ulster record a bout of Viking bloodletting in 875, when ‘Albann’ (i.e., Halfdan) killed a rival’s son.

Halfdan was certainly in Ireland in 877, when the Annals of Ulster record another skirmish at Strangford Lough between rival Scandinavian leaders; only this time, it’s Halfdan, “the king of the Danes” who died on the day.

Image by Michael Rosskothen.

[goryhorroor]

In regards to one of your horror movie plot polls: there's a movie called Northmen: A Viking Saga that (to ~10 y/o me) felt like a slasher movie with Vikings.

i feel like all viking tales feel like slashers but i mean like stereotypical slasher set in that time period