Let's see the Vikings as they really were This series seems to go down incredibly well with most viewers praising it for its accuracy. I find this astonishing. Accurate?? Battles between the Vikings and Northumbrians always sees the Vikings victorious and with zero casualties. Do you seriously think this is an accurate depiction of a medieval battle? I mean, seriously??
I am a Northumbrian, born and bred, and quite frankly find this series an absolute insult. Can I just ask why most of you guys who like it put the Vikings on such a pedestal? We were one of the Viking's victims along with the Scots, Irish, French, Italians (the list is endless!). These people raped, murdered and slaughtered their way across Europe, yet this series more or less sets them up as some sort of an icon of warrior purity instead of showing them for what they really were - a set of hairy-assed Nazis, good at killing defenceless monks and unarmed villagers, stuffing their guts with stolen meat and drink and singing praises to their negative gods of destruction and murder.
Can somebody please do a film about Alfred the Great showing these fascists getting their bottoms soundly kicked? It would at least make a change.