I believe in blood, soil, and honour; family, homeland, and hamingja; strength, traditions, and courage.
I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.
I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.
The Vikings themselves are fascinating creatures. They're human beings, of course, but their ethos are so different from ours. The fact that they live as warriors - their willingness to die for the sake of what they believe in - is quite shocking to us, and it's fascinating to see.
I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'
Because the Vikings never documented anything - they couldn't read or write - the history is always gonna be a little up in the air.
The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.
As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film.
I've always been interested in the Vikings - that's, like, part of my own history.
One of the things that I wanted to do post-'Haven' is go after some shows I was a fan of already, and 'Vikings' was on the list.
This is where Wulf’s people would get drunk and party for a week. All hail the Vikings, forerunners to the frat boys! (Chris)
The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.
I visited the archeological site at the northern tip of Newfoundland. There is no question about it. It has been definitely determined that the Vikings were there for about 10 years - specifically, Leif Erikson and his extended family.
I bought a 1200-year-old Viking bracelet once.
Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in Scotland and in Ireland. And a lot of them didn't, but they took plenty of us with them - mostly the chicks.
The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture.
With 'Vikings,' I had the task of making these people interesting and, to a point, sympathetic.
If you're in America or Europe, walk for three blocks, and you'll pass about 14 Vikings. Their reach was immense.
When you're a Viking, you never know when you're going to get the axe.
The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.
We do have a big kind of history in literate tradition of Vikings and we have a lot of Viking blood in Scotland, I mean especially up north wherever you go you see a plastic Viking sitting outside a shop and Viking calendars and - because they - you know they came down and stole all our chicks and then some of them didn't quite get back and ended up settling down here. So there's a lot of Viking blood in Scotland.
