The Northman Depicts Vikings With Brutal Accuracy

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TheNorthman depicts Viking culture and history with brutal accuracy.

✖ As The Northman raids movie theaters this weekend, it is doing so with brutal accuracy of Viking history, as far as that history is known. As archeologist Neil Price explains it, the complete picture of Viking history is a massive canvas for which only a small percentage of threads have been uncovered and laid out. Price served as one of several advisors for historical accuracy on The Northman, offering insights about Viking rituals, weapons, armor, and more.

While Price is quick to credit Eggers for drumming up a fairly accurate script before his expert input, Egger promises he learned"tons and tons" of new details from the advisors."Neil's just a humble person," Eggers said."One of the lines in the film, Willem Dafoe and Ethan Hawke like are initiating the child, Alexander Skarsgård, into what it is to be a man.

 

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