Valhalla Rising (film)
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Valhalla Rising is a 2009 English-language Danish period adventure film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, co-written by Refn and Roy Jacobsen, and starring Mads Mikkelsen. The film takes place "most c
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Scene with Mads Mikkelsen and Maarten Stevenson
Nicolas Winding Refn and Mads Mikkelsen at the Venice Film Festival for the premiere of the film
Skræling
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Skræling is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America. In surviving sources, it is first applied to the Thule people, the proto-Inuit group with whom the N
Valhalla Rising (film)
…thick fog and gets lost in the North Atlantic. After many days, with supplies dwindling, land is sighted. Sailing up a river, they are attacked by Skrælings armed with stone arrowheads. The party realises they are nowhere near the Holy Land. Their leader, a Christian zealot, nevertheless advocates conquering…
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