#21

glad more people here are seeing through the frankly paper thin veneer of friendliness on witches’ part tbh.

#22

I mean, there’s supernatural god things in the first series.

#23

oh right, so not like unbelievable-plot stupid just have-to-buy-into-the-rules-of-the-universe stupid?

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#24

only started watching this recently

only up to the end of S1

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#25

yeah. they try to intertwine a lot of stuff from the sagas alongside the historically accurate shit (there’s not a great deal of that tbh anyway), but its still really enjoyable.

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#26

Love studying the Irish Annals in college. From about 800AD the Vikings start cropping up as “the heathens”, travelling around the country and fucking shit up.

https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T100001A/index.html

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#27

I have not seen ‘Vikings’ but a Swedish actor friend of mine auditioned for a role in it and asked me to help coach him with the script he’d been sent. They wanted him to shoot some test scenes so did a little 5 man crew shoot in an old massive cellar under the Swedish castle which was where they kept the lions under the old castle before it burned down and they built the new one

Anyway, he sent of his ‘tape’ and went over to the US for his final audition & never got the part. Then his agent found out that some Russian company was planning a mega-blockbuster Viking movie so he sent the tape to Russia & got the part in ‘Viking’ instead.

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It is a very stupid film

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#28

Celtic lore >>>> Viking lore obviously though

#29

I’ve never looked much into the mythology of either, given that both descriptors are essentially incorrect and there isn’t a homogeneous belief system for each culture. With archaeology I focused mostly on what we could find in the ground, not on the mythological aspects.

Sorry, I just vomited words out there.

#30

the region of Spain where my dad is from have been trying to join the celtic league of nations or something for ages, its hilarious.

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#31

Nah it makes sense, there was a large diaspora of customs and folklore, even languages, there was a fair amount of movement later on which I guess gave it more sense to group them together but yeah I was just being all boo vikings for lols.

#32

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#33

Oh he’s anyone’s

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#34

I found that it improved significantly after a major character left the storyline (I couldn’t fucking stand Gabriel Byrne in this) and that it held my attention till the start of the third season until it all seemed a little unnecessary.

You asked for my opinion, right?

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#35

yeah, he sucked.

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#36

Acknowledgement of complicated cultural histories YEAH!

#38

Her name’s Lagertha though.

And @Ruffers what are you even on about.

Everyone also needs to check out Norsemen please, it’s the comedy veesion of this (and actually a Norwegian production)

#40

Yeah didn’t really have anything to do with you, sorry

#41

Re-watching before the new season starts. Just got to the bit where they cut off Judith’s ear cause she had Athelstan’s baby

It’s absolutely brutal.

This show though, so bloody watchable. Although could really be called “Everybody Loves Lagertha”, and rightly so. She’s a total badass.

#42

Yeah sorry. She’s mint tho

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