Viking Wars - The Norse Terror [DVD]

This is the most disgusting pro-christian, anti-paganism propaganda film I have ever seen!!! It is an insult to anyone who has knowledge about the vikings and is interested in this historic period! There is not one good word about the scandinavian people, they are described as pure evil! No mentioning of the vikings influence on european cultre and their role in the founding of russia.

The whole film centres and permanently quotes the christian anglo saxon and some franconian chronicals and of course you don't find any truth in them, since the christian franks under charlemange had declared a war of annihilation against the nordic pagans! Don't forgett the franks had allready murdered about 80% of the european population at that time and the danish king had formed an alligiance with the other scandinavian kingdoms to prevent the same from happening to them. The attacks on the christian monastaries were nothing more than a guerillia warefare, since badly outnubered they could not win an all out war. So the christian monks chronicals are as valuable as american propaganda about the evil north vietnamese of which they happened to kill 2 million civilans. This film turns everything upside down and portrais the franks and charlemange as the defenders against the barbarian raiders.
Typical, like in most films about the "vikings", is the claim that the origin of the term viking is unknown, or means raiders or men from the fjords. The term viking is very well known it means marketer or trader, that's why many viking towns had the suffix vick, wik, vic, wig like Reikjavik, Schleswig, Yorvick (York), because they were trading places!!! Of course that doesn't fit into the pre-fabricated pictures of them beeing bloodthirsty heathen raiders. The truth is that while the vikings attacked their christian self created enemies at the same time they peacefully traded with the pagan slavs in the east who called them "rus" (rowers)and they merged and founded the country today known as russia.
There is a Sandhurst "historian" in this film who activly fasifies history by claiming the vikings raided Constantinople. The fact is that they played a vital part in the trading with the town and the emporer was so impressed with them that he hired them as his personal body guard... The vanerian guard!
The same historian, after a lengthy spiteful description of the norse mythology consisting out of half-truths and downright lies by Brian Blessed, goes so far to call the Viking religion as IGNORANT!!!!!!!!!!! At this point it should be absolutely clear that this is nothing but the most shoddy christian propaganda! They try to explain the "bloodlust" of the vikings by the supposed fact that their is, other than in christianity, no salvation for them since at the end of the final battle, the Ragnaroek, the world tree Yggdrasil would burn and that's the end of the universe. In all accounts, including Snorri Sturulson's Edda, the tree CAN not be destroyed and after the final battle between the forces of chaos and order (NOT good and bad, that's an alien principle to polytheists or so called pagans)there is a new beginning and a new cycle of the universe.
The most disturbing thing is the narative voice of Mr Blessed, who sounds like the propaganda news readers of world war 2!!!
Unfortunately, as it is so often, the people who were so terribly defamed by the christian monks could not defend themselfs since they had an oral, rather than a written history. It's very similar to the native americans, who despite beeing the victims of genocide,were mostly portrait by the invaders as the agressors. But while today the attitude towards them in Hollywood films has somewhat changed (dances with wolves etc.)the same thing has not yet happened to the vikings, they are still portrait as the barbarian raiders with horned helmets and double headed axes...NON OF THAT IS TRUE!!! By their trading journeys that covered thousands of miles they brought civilisation to Europe. The were the first to bring spices and unknown oriental goods to us. Their craftmanship in jeweller making, carpentry, tool making, leather work etc. was second to none. Nearly all hair combes from that period were made by them in wallrusbone, silver, birch wood... But no mentioning of that in this film which portrais them as savages barely more advanced than caveman!
AVOID THIS FILM, PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT IT!!!!

My Husband's family can date back to having relations in the Viking era, so what best way to see how they lived and fought in this very detailed dvd and also was a great stocking filler for him.( to be honest with you not must has changed, ha ha )