Vinland Saga 1x01
Added 2024-02-15 00:13:38 +0000 UTCHere it is! If you have not seen it, consider watching the show together with me, of course. =)
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This is a really good anime and ofc its a big pluss that Im Norwegian :D This is somewhat historically correct with events etc and the main cast are people who actually lived in the Viking age :D
Aegean
2024-02-16 00:58:39 +0000 UTCNice Vinland Saga 😁. For those who are interested the voice actress of little Thorfinn (Shizuka Ishigami) is the same as Laufen from Frieren. The voice actor of Leif Erikson (Youji Ueda) is the same as Eisen. Perhaps better known as Speedwagon from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
Nameless
2024-02-15 17:55:44 +0000 UTCI'm going to watch today ☺️, and then your reaction
puremetalcore
2024-02-15 07:54:07 +0000 UTComg ITS HERE. Im so excited. Regarding slavery in norse culture: the slaves (thralls) came from conquered villages and/or people who broke the law. They were property of their owner. They couldn't own things, inherit things, or leave things to inherit. The owners could make them free at any time if they chose to (a rare thing to happen). In rare instances slaves would be allowed to purchase their own freedom via some amount of work or profit related to that work. If you were a child of a slave you were also a slave. In general slaves were used as workers for any amount of manual labor or as concubines. Owning slaves would be considered pretty normal at the time.
FullHeart
2024-02-15 01:51:34 +0000 UTCSome points I want to comment on: 1. Thorfin is at the moment 6 years old, not twelve, 2. Slaves in this era are effectivly Property and their Master can decide about their life and death. Yes quite a lot people might treat their slaves somewhat decent, but one can easily imagine how evil and abusive such a system is. And how slaves most feel robbed of their dignity as human beings. 3. Slaves are basicly prisoners of war and viking raids at this time. They got defeated and through that their Captors got the power over their live and death. Also it didn't matter if they were Norse, Slavs, Franks or from any other tribe. 4. But to get a slave you didn't have to capture them yourself, you only had to buy them at the slavemarkets from Viking Raiders. 5. The Norse are part of the Germanic Tribes. You can part the Germanic tribes more or less in North and South Germanic Tribes. The North Gemanic Tribes were the Ancestors of the Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders and Greenlanders. The South Germanic Tribes more or less of the Germans, Dutch, Anglosaxons ectr. That's also the reason we share a lot of Mythology with each other(Thor=Donar, Odin=Wodan) 6. The time period here is also interesting as many Norse are still Pagans believing in the old Gods, Valhalla and the Valkyries but Christianity also found already a foothold in Norse Society. 7. While the series is quite "realistic" for Anime, many of the Heros are able of feets of superhuman strength, which is on the other hand very common in the old Norse Sagas. So we can view the series as a whole more like a legendary saga of old then an depiction of history
Nago
2024-02-15 01:37:34 +0000 UTC
