I have watched a few of the "Viking" movies, and watching this one gives me the same impression. The authors or rather the movie producers must be ignorants in history. If they were better readers of the Norse Sagas for instance, they would have found many marvelous plots for movies, that would make classic epic movies with great attraction to the public. There is every ingredient, such as lust for power and fame but also high spirited men. On the exterior side, there are many great adventures such as the life of Harald Hardrada (i.e. hard rule.) After a raid into the Mediterranean, he became a general in the most advanced state in the Western world, the East-Roman Empire. Later, in 1066, he invaded England to take the throne which he legally inherited. Later on, in 1108, King Sigurd let Bergen with 10.000 men and visited their Norman allies's in Londisfarne. London, Normandie, sunk Moorish fleets outside Portugal, took the Balearic islands for the Moors, visited the Norman king in Sicily, beat the Moors in Syria, left his fleet and men with Emperor Alexis in Constantinople and went home to Konghelle and further by horseback. On the 'interior side' he came home, disillusioned with the practice of the Christain faith in Constantinople. Now that is a story to be told!
Review of The Long Ships
