Even without the furry earmuffs and horned hats that real Vikings didn't actually wear, this would still be a terrible film
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The Norseman (1978)
Director: Charles B Pierce
Entertainment grade: Fail
History grade: D–
Around 985, Icelander Bjarni Herjólfsson was travelling to Greenland, went the wrong way, and stumbled across America. The first European to explore and settle in America was Bjarni's associate Leif Eiríksson, a few years later.
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"This motion picture is based on fact," says a title card at the beginning. "As early as the year 793Ad a lusty horde of blond giants came out of the icy mountains of Norway to boldly sail the seas in longships." So many adjectives and a Star Trek allusion promise great things. The Norseman delivers fictional Viking Thorvald the Bold. He is played by Lee Majors, clad in Wagnerian fantasy gold armour, an inexplicable...
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The Norseman (1978)
Director: Charles B Pierce
Entertainment grade: Fail
History grade: D–
Around 985, Icelander Bjarni Herjólfsson was travelling to Greenland, went the wrong way, and stumbled across America. The first European to explore and settle in America was Bjarni's associate Leif Eiríksson, a few years later.
People
"This motion picture is based on fact," says a title card at the beginning. "As early as the year 793Ad a lusty horde of blond giants came out of the icy mountains of Norway to boldly sail the seas in longships." So many adjectives and a Star Trek allusion promise great things. The Norseman delivers fictional Viking Thorvald the Bold. He is played by Lee Majors, clad in Wagnerian fantasy gold armour, an inexplicable...
- 7/4/2013
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
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