In reality, the Norse expeditions to North America were led by Leif Erikson, a Christian. He had no intention of conquering native people, never took slaves, and eventually decided to head back to Greenland because of attacks by the native "Skraelings."
However, from what I've seen of the movie (I haven't watched it, but I've checked out the website, read reviews, and watched the commercials), they replaced the Christians with followers of the old religion and made them even more bloodthirsty and savage than the worst descriptions by the Christian monks.
It seems to me that the movie has thrown out what really happened back then and replaced it all with as much violence as they could image, most of which isn't even remotely plausible.
In my opinion, this movie gives people the wrong impression of Asatru and is extremely insulting to its followers and anyone who knows anything about history.
Have any of you seen the movie? What is your opinion of it?
2007-04-17
18:50:55
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scifiguy
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Religion & Spirituality