{"id":437474,"date":"2022-04-26T03:20:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T00:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-northman-shows-why-the-vikings-still-fascinate\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T03:20:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T00:20:04","slug":"the-northman-shows-why-the-vikings-still-fascinate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-northman-shows-why-the-vikings-still-fascinate\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;The Northman&#8217; shows why the Vikings still fascinate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c1ae16ae0a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c1ae16ae0a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-northman-shows-why-the-vikings-still-fascinate\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Northman_shows_why_the_Vikings_still_fascinate%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Northman&#8217; shows why the Vikings still fascinate&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Northman_shows_why_the_Vikings_still_fascinate%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Northman&#8217; shows why the Vikings still fascinate&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Rich Lowry\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The world clearly doesn\u2019t have enough Viking <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, so here is \u201cThe Northman\u201d to fill the gap.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have called the revenge epic based on the legend of the Viking prince Amleth \u201ctwo-plus hours of arthouse savagery\u201d (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/04\/21\/1094119509\/review-robert-eggers-the-northman-is-2-hours-of-art-house-savagery\">NPR<\/a>), \u201ca bloody, mournful, violent tale of vengeance\u201d (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/events\/film\/2022-04-22\/the-northman\/\">Austin Chronicle<\/a>), \u201c136 minutes of musclebound, shaggy-maned mayhem\u201d (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/21\/movies\/the-northman-review.html\">New York Times<\/a>) and \u201can ineffably somber meditation on our species\u2019 seemingly inexhaustible reservoir of savagery\u201d (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-northman-robert-eggers-vikings-sjon-ethan-hawke-claes-bang-alexander-skarsgard-nicole-kidman-bjork-anya-taylor-joy-11650577645\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Phew. Is that all?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Northman\u201d has actually gotten high marks from critics, and historians credit it with a detailed and subtle attempt to get the little things right about the Viking way of life and capture a world where the supernatural blended seamlessly with everyday reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That and of course lots and lots of gore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings are enduring figures of fascination. As<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arthurlherman?lang=en\"> Arthur Herman<\/a>, author of the excellent book \u201cThe Viking Heart,\u201d argues, they represent a kind of masculine virtue that is out of fashion in our culture and a questing spirit \u2014 fearlessly venturing from Scandinavia across the seas, showing up as far west as North America and as far east as Baghdad \u2014 that is naturally awe-inspiring. Erik the Red might not have been a particularly nice person, but <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing from Norway to Iceland to Greenland showed prodigious initiative and courage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589689813.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"This image released by Focus Features shows a scene from &quot;The Northman.&quot; \" class=\"wp-image-22033883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589689813.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589689813.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589689813.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589689813.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Arthur Herman argues, that Vikings represent a kind of masculine virtue that is out of fashion in our culture and a questing spirit that is naturally awe-inspiring.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Aidan Monaghan\/Focus Features via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Vikings also exist at such a remove of time that no one feels the need to contextualize them, despite their depredations including slavery, colonialism and theft on a vast scale. There isn\u2019t going to be a 793 Project focused on the infamous sacking of the monastery of Lindisfarne heralding the new Viking threat to Europe (a chronicler described how the Vikings \u201claid everything waste with grievous plundering, trampled the holy places with polluted steps, dug up the altars and seized all the treasures of the holy church\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>What popular depictions of the Vikings tend to leave out, though, is how these Northmen or Norsemen built as well as destroyed, governed as well as marauded. They had a large hand in setting the contours of medieval Europe and creating a cultural inheritance that still shapes the West today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Herman notes, the Vikings undertook a two-century campaign of mayhem before shifting into a different gear. The raids of the Vikings across Europe were powered by their signature long ships \u2014 allowing them access to any substantial waterway \u2014 and their military prowess. For a while, it seemed that they could sack or take almost any place, and that they did \u2014 London, Paris, Seville, Rouen.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589834374.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"This image released by Focus Features shows Nicole Kidman in a scene from &quot;The Northman.&quot; \" class=\"wp-image-22033916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589834374.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589834374.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589834374.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589834374.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Vikings are famous for their aggressive behavior and exploration.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Aidan Monaghan\/Focus Features via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even when Viking aggression was at its height, these were still peoples who were, first and foremost, farmers and fishermen, Herman notes. Nor did they invent brutality and violent expropriation, which were the norm at the time. Eventually, though, the emphasis of the Vikings changed from raiding to trading, and they settled proto-nations of great consequence, from Normandy to Ireland to Russia. And the Vikings, so infamous for their trashing of monasteries, turned their backs on their Norse gods and embraced Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey helped shake Europe out of its Dark Age malaise,\u201d Herman writes, \u201cfinding innovative ways to transmit ancient Greek and Arab knowledge and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> to the West, while expanding and fortifying the boundaries of Christendom, thereby laying the foundations of the medieval West.\u201d The Viking-derived Normans became conduits for scientific and medical texts into northern and Western Europe, catalyzing \u201can intellectual renaissance that would sustain European civilization for the next four centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That may not be as cinematic as Vikings smiting their enemies, but it is a foundational part of the Western story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589837779.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"This image released by Focus Features shows Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, left, and Anya Taylor-Joy in a scene from &quot;The Northman.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-22033904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589837779.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589837779.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589837779.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP22108589837779.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Historians note that \u201cThe Northman\u201d includes detailed and subtle attempts to get the little things right about the Viking way of life.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Aidan Monaghan\/Focus Features via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Regardless, there will always be another Viking movie because people instinctively feel what Winston Churchill wrote. If the Vikings were guilty of shameful deeds, he observed, \u201cwe must also remember the discipline, the fortitude, the comradeship and martial virtues which made them at this period beyond all challenge the most formidable and daring race in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>: @RichLowry<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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