The Northman

2022
R
2h 17m

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7.0/10

267K

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A young Viking prince is on a quest to avenge his father's murder.A young Viking prince is on a quest to avenge his father's murder.A young Viking prince is on a quest to avenge his father's murder.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

267K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

118

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See production info at IMDbPro

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- 6 wins & 65 nominations total

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Trivia
In the scene in which the Úlfhéðnar attack the Slavic town, Amleth catches a spear in midair and throws it back at the Slavs in one movement. This is taken from the medieval Icelandic story of Njáls saga in which Audolf throws a spear at the Viking hero Gunnar, but Gunnar catches it in midair and throws it straight through Audolf and his shield.

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The runic inscription of "Amleth's Saga" is written incorrectly in the movie version as opposed to the trailer of The Northman where it is correct. The title shown in the trailer written with runes can be translated to "amluthasaka" or amlóða saga, amleth's saga.

However at the end of the actual movie the title is missing the rune of "a" from its word saga, making it read akin to "Amleth's sga".

Quotes
Young Amleth: I will avenge you, Father! I will save you, Mother! I will kill you, Fjölnir!

Crazy credits
The film title and the intertitles appear in ancient Norse runes.

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Featured in The Critical Drinker: The Northman - We Need More Movies Like This (2022)

Soundtracks
Aurvandil's Silver Hoards
Written by Robin Carolan and Sebastian Gainsborough
Performed by Robin Carolan, Sebastian Gainsborough, Vicki Swan, and Jonny Dyer

If you expect a Gladiator type movie with the depth it comes with, you will be have a disappointing experience, like my wife who rated it a 1/5.

If you expect a gory viking slaughterfest with mythical elements, you will be very happy like me and rate it higher. I honestly did not know what I was in for which made me glad I watched it.

I guess it helps if you like violent gory movies. I suspect my wife only wanted to see a trimmed Alexander without his shirt on and she got that, even though he was mostly covered in guts and blood =)

Some fight scenes are exceptionally nice shot without cuts which makes me wonder if they really did shoot it in one take or used movie trickery. I don't really care as it was impressive.

Did it leave a lasting impression? No, not really. Well worth the movie ticket for me in any case.

But yeah. Not much depth to it IMO.

Turranius
Apr 14, 2022
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