[Movies] Anyone seen any good movies about vikings?

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Originally Posted by hobbes

A modern interpretation of Beowolf.

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Is that a cover of an abba song then :blink:

I want to be a Viking!

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Originally Posted by hobbes

13th Warrior was an excellent movie about Arabs and Vikings.

A modern interpretation of Beowolf.

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The book by Michael Crichton was good too - though a little hard to follow as it was an interpretation of Ahmed's (Banderas character) journals.

I remember reading Beowulf in high school.

yep :)

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Originally Posted by hobbes

13th Warrior was an excellent movie about Arabs and Vikings.

A modern interpretation of Beowolf.

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Apparently the spoken norwegian in the movie is complete jibberish,

So much for Hollywood and cultural accuracy eh? :lol:

A modern viking:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042650/

(Disclaimer: A film about a raft of bambus crossing the pacific ocean may or may not pass as a viking ship :whistling )

Thor
Odin

what happened to these Gods?

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Originally Posted by zedaxax

Thor
Odin

what happened to these Gods?

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they died. :P

Allah
Buddha
Yaweh

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Originally Posted by zedaxax

Allah
Buddha
Yaweh

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yup.
tijih
ghandju
tyujup


alright i made those last few up. :ermm:

Oh this is a good Viking movie !

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...649261-7372629