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Why do they stage viking battles, if the actors/stuntmen don't know how to fight? But except for the battles (or lack thereof) the movie give an authentic view of the viking's everyday life, even thou the costumes show that these vikings must be extremely successful.

But when the main conflict is uninteresting and the acting sparkless; I'd rather see "Den hvite viking" (1991) everyday to the end of time than see this one again.

Not bad, not good, just mediocre.

I saw this movie, in a Moscow theatre, when it was released in 1985. I was entranced, even though I could not understand the language. This is an authentic and fabulous historical movie.......

Early medieval Norway as seen through the eyes of a young Slavic man captured by vikings and taken to the north. Vikings are tough and cruel, main female character is charming, landscapes of Norway are beautiful and the story is interesting and twisted. Adventures, love, battles, intrigue... Viking longboats carefully reconstructed. One of fighting scenes shows what a berserker can do in a melee.

Recommended to viking fans!

I agree with previous comment that this movie has many weak points, poor film quality, but, this IS NOT the main idea. It has been and remains until now my favorite movie of all what i saw since i first saw this movie when i was 12 years old. First of all, it is Excellent historical reconstruction, not like all these Hollywood attempts like 1950's "Vikings". These old times were not like pages from Edda, the life of people was rather simple and this movie, as it seems for me, reconstructs it most closely than one could make it. So it is REALISTIC, and not fantasy-style like many films about Vikings. And because i have passion for Viking age, i love the film so much. As if i transfer from my time and place to the times and places, "when there was no Norway and Russia, but there were lands and people, who would later call themselves Russians and Norwegians" -- the lands and the times i would prefer to the time and land i live now. I do not know how about international versions of the film, but in original Russian version all Norwegian speech is kept in Norsk so you can clearly hear native Scandinavian speech, which, i believe, is very beautiful language. Pity that too little people know about this movie and good DVD copy is hard to obtain. However, all this are my personal thoughts, maybe i am the only one to have such strong love for this film

This is one of the most authentic Nord historic fantasies you'd ever see. It does not romanticize the period, 9th century. Shows that most people of that time are rough and respect only sword. But it also takes you on quite an adventure from Russia and all over North Europe.