10 Valhalla Rising, 2009

1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.

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9 When the Raven Flies (Hrafninn flýgur), 1983

Ireland: Vikings pillage the land, seeking silver and slaves, slaying men and women in the process. A young boy is spared when a Viking takes pity on him instead of killing him. Iceland 20 years later: The boy returns to take his revenge on the killers, the Norwegian foster brothers; Thord and Eirik, by cunning and hidden weapons.

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8 Beowulf, 2007

In 507, Geatish warrior Beowulf travels to Denmark with his band of soldiers, to slay Grendel, a creature that killed King Hrothgar’s people during a celebration in the mead hall Heorot. Beowulf becomes attracted to Hrothgar’s wife Queen Wealtheow.

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7 The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (Seven Kings Must Die), 2023

Britain, early-10th century AD. Edward, King of Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia has died, creating a power vacuum in the kingdom. Vying to be king are Aethelstan and Aelfweard, both sons of Edward but with the claim of Aethelstan, the eldest, in dispute. Aethelstan has fallen under the influence of Ingilmundr, a half-Dane, half-Saxon, who appears to have prophetic powers. The Saxons’ enemies — the Danes, Scots and some smaller kingdoms — see Edward’s death as a chance to invade. Sitting between the two forces is Northumbria, ruled by Uhtred of Bebbanburg.

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6 How to Train Your Dragon, 2010

The Viking village of Berk is frequently attacked by dragons that steal livestock and endanger the villagers. Hiccup, the 15-year-old son of the village chieftain, Stoick the Vast, is deemed too weak to fight. Instead, he creates mechanical devices under apprenticeship with Gobber, the village blacksmith. Hiccup uses a bolas launcher to shoot down a Night Fury, a rare dragon, during a dragon raid, but nobody believes him. He enters the forest and finds the creature but cannot bring himself to kill it, so he sets the dragon free. The Night Fury then suddenly pins Hiccup down, but to Hiccup’s surprise, it spares him.

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5 Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli (Útlaginn), 1981

This Icelandic Saga begins with Gisli, Thorgrim, Thorkel, and Vestein making a blood pact to protect one another. Controversy breaks out when one of the men, Thorgrim, refuses to complete the pact because he does not want any involvement with Vestein. Thorgrim claims that taking on Vestein as a brother is taking on more trouble than he can handle. The scene ends with the men storming off from one another and the blood oath incomplete. The plot begins to unfold when Thorkel hears his wife tell Aud, Gisli’s wife, that she had amorous feelings for Vestein before she married Thorkel, leading Thorkel to suspect his wife was unfaithful.

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4 The 13th Warrior, 1999

A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a quest to banish a mysterious threat in a distant Viking land.

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3 Trees Grow on the Stones Too (И на камнях растут деревья), 1985

Vikings attack Kuksja’s village, and end up bringing him along on their ship because they believe he is good luck. After proving himself in a battle against the dreaded Danes, chief Torir bestows upon him the name of Einar and takes him in as his son. Back home in Norway the men are received as heros, but new trouble arises when Kuksja falls in love with the beautiful Signy, who is already betroth to the vicious Sigurd.

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2 The Northman, 2022

The Viking Age. With a mind aflame with hate and revenge, Prince Amleth, the wronged son of King Aurvandill War-Raven, heads to cold, windswept Iceland to retrieve what was stolen from him: a father, a mother, and a kingdom. And like a war dog picking up the enemy’s scent, brutal Amleth embarks on a murderous quest to find the hateful adversary, whose life is forever woven together with his by the threads of fate. Now, in the name of Valhalla, no one can stop the Northman, not even God.

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1 The Vikings, 1958

The King of Northumbria is killed during a Viking raid led by King Ragnar Lodbrok. Because the king died childless, his cousin Aella takes the throne. The king’s widow, however, is pregnant with Ragnar’s child. To protect the infant from Aella’s ambitions, she sends him off to Italy. The ship is intercepted by the Vikings, who are unaware of the child’s kinship and enslave him.

The boy grows into a young man named Eric. His parentage is discovered by Lord Egbert, a Northumbrian nobleman opposed to Aella. When Aella accuses him of treason, Egbert finds sanctuary with Ragnar in Norway. Egbert recognises the pommel stone of the Northumbrian royal sword Requiter on an amulet around Eric’s neck, placed there by Eric’s mother when he was a child, but says nothing.

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