#farmland saga

[ro-bottt]

farmland special🌾

[princessofnewcorona]

Two bros, sleepin’ in a hay barn, five feet apart ‘cuz they’re not gay

(Sike)

[lostsymphoniesdotmp3]

sometimes the shit breaks you

[very-grownup]

A thing I like about the Vinland Saga anime

A lot of attention is paid to skin details. Creases and wrinkles and scars and chipped nails on hands, with the slaves and labourers and fighters having appropriately fucked up hands. Frown lines and chapped lips. Everyone looks so worn and unglamorous. Even things like the small boil (or maybe mole) on one side of Einar's nose. None of it narratively necessary but showing such attention to the atmosphere and the way small details in the art in the original manga underscore the themes.

[animefeminist]

Chatty AF 195: Vinland Saga Retrospective – Part 2

Toni, Caitlin, and special guest Annie Phan return to discuss VINLAND SAGA’s critiques of slavery, the portrayal of violence, and also some hot boys.

Episode Information

Date Recorded: September 23rd 2023 Hosts: Toni, Caitlin Guest: Annie Phan

Episode Breakdown

0:00:00 Intros 0:01:15 Hot boys 0:12:20 Lief 0:23:06 The myth of the good enslaver 0:33:53 Olmar 0:37:50 Arnheid and the experiences of enslaved women 0:44:27 Slavery rooted in hate vs love 0:48:14 Portrayal of violence 0:52:16 Ideas of empire 1:00:16 Thorkel vs Ylva 1:04:51 Outro

Further Reading

Vinland Saga Retrospective — Part 1

[i-have-no-enemies]

Thorfinn with messy hair and stubble will always be so important to me

[uwu0o0]

[princetenkoo]

Friend (2024)

[diariodeunrincondemi]

Why, in my opinion, Arnheid is the true heroine of Vinland Saga season 2

I think I never talked about Vinland Saga here in tumblr, although I've been mulling over the events of this last season (season 2). I've read complaints, from the beginning, that it's a very slow season and that it doesn't contribute anything, but I suppose that comes from people who only likes teenage Thorfinn.

From the beginning there's this idea that in war there is no honor or glory; because there can be neither honor nor glory in something that consists of shedding blood and taking the lives of other people.

Thorfinn is a boy, a male kid, and as a boy, he grows up with very defined expectations and a role in a warrior society; therefore, when it happens what happens, it is he and not his sister (even though she is older), who has to carry out revenge, even if he is only a child.

And that leads him to have to grow on the battlefield. His pride and position, as a Norseman, depend and fall on war and violence; and he is not aware of all this until he loses his only reason for living.

And that's when the second season begins and we find a different Thorfinn, depressed and without any ties to life, an empty shell. And that's when Einar and also Arnheid come in.

Until that moment we have seen war from the point of view of male warriors. And through Einar we have seen the war from a farmer's point of view. But it is with Arnheid that the story changes: because she is a woman.

We don't know what Thorfinn's evolution or life was like in those 2 years of slavery until Einar arrives; and we don't know because that doesn't matter. And it doesn't matter because this arc is about the consequences of war (and not just in the form of Thorfinn's PTSD).

There is also gender bias in war. We see it in Thorfinn, he grows up in the war, and in his sister, who stays at home with his mother. We see it, implicitly and more subtly, in Einar and his sister. And we see it in Thorfinn, Einar and Arnnheid.

The three of them are war victims: a child soldier and two people who lost their homes and families. The three of them ended up as slaves. The line between war and slavery is very thin.

But even as slaves, Thorfinn and Einar's life is much simpler than that of Arnheid: physically hard work, yes, but they are given the opportunity, when the time comes, to buy their own freedom. Arnheid has no such freedom: she is not only a servant, she is also a sex slave. Because she is a woman. And as a woman she is only good for doing domestic work and serving as a sexual object.

It is she, along with her story, the true protagonist of this season. The heroine. Who shows us what awaits women in contexts of war and slavery. And this is not just a thing of the 11th century: currently women in war conflicts are also victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation.

That is why Thorfinn's evolution in those 2 years in which he was alone doesn't matter. That's why his reunion with Leif doesn't matter. That's why, even though he hasn't interacted with Arnheid that much, he is willing to help and protect her, to get her out of there.

Thorfinn knows the tactics of war better than anyone, he spent most of his life on the battlefield. But that also implied that the context in which he grew up was especially male-dominant.

Arnheid, from my point of view, gave Thorfinn a new perspective (a perspective he may not have considered before) on the consequences of the war.

[aukrem]

LMAOAOAS

[mexicancat-girl]

Hello again Vinland Saga fandom. Thorfinn/Einar is underrated, so I've written a oneshot!

Summary: 

After a long day of work on the farm, Einar notices Thorfinn has a minor injury. He quickly tends to it, knowing that the other has too high of a pain tolerance to do so himself. Things might just become a bit emotionally charged in the process.

Rated T, 2070 words

[gh99st]

Vinland saga spoilers

I was super excited to see Vinland season two, I have all the manga too

But one timg I was shocked most by was in episode four when einar nearly killed thorfinn while thorfinn was sleeping

Becaue it was only a clenched fist in the manga then WOAH! I was shocked for the rest of the episode lmao

[noliaert]

here ya go, Thorfinn hanging out with a butterfly

[rinn-e]

After two years I finally made a (rough) animatic again! (and it’s about Vinland Saga sry)

[yuesmoonn]

bug eyes next episode we 🔛🔝

[ballarimd]

I cannot get over how beautifully executed this episode of vinland was😭😭couldn't have wished for a better adaptation