A volcano is associated with the underworld goddess Hel. But the Norse vision was of a cold dark place. Destructive fire was associated with Surt.
The moonlight shines vertically into the cave. In Iceland, that's impossible.
Getting stabbed in the heart with a sword is an instant death. There are no few seconds where one can talk.
A lady can be seen with her teeth braces. During the Viking period, Teeth braces didn't exist.
Those are not braces. They're ornamental carvings made into the teeth, a frequent practice among Swedish vikings of the time.
Those are not braces. They're ornamental carvings made into the teeth, a frequent practice among Swedish vikings of the time.
Despite at least 20 years having supposedly passed between the mother's abduction and her finding, the queen (played by Kidman) has not aged a bit.
The runic inscription of "Amleth's Saga" is written incorrectly in the movie version as opposed to the trailer of The Northman where it is correct. The title shown in the trailer written with runes can be translated to "amluthasaka" or amlóða saga, amleth's saga.
However at the end of the actual movie the title is missing the rune of "a" from its word saga, making it read akin to "Amleth's sga".
However at the end of the actual movie the title is missing the rune of "a" from its word saga, making it read akin to "Amleth's sga".
Despite the movie being a big-budget Hollywood production, the English subtitles for the passages in Old Norse and Old Ukrainian seen on screen in cinemas in English-speaking countries contain some glaring errors in punctuation which could have been corrected by running the text through spelling- and grammar-checking software.
"Till" is written with an apostrophe before it, likely due to the popular misconception that "till" is an abbreviation of "until" (in fact, "till" is the original word; "until" is a more formal expansion of it, and they have different numbers of "l"s at the end).
The apostrophe is also slanting in the wrong direction, perhaps due to software that converts straight apostrophes into directional ones mistaking it for an opening quotation mark (as "till" is a complete word, so the only reason it should have a ' before it is if the ' is being used as an opening quotation mark).
Elsewhere in the subtitles, the apostrophes are inconsistently sometimes directional and sometimes straight.
"Till" is written with an apostrophe before it, likely due to the popular misconception that "till" is an abbreviation of "until" (in fact, "till" is the original word; "until" is a more formal expansion of it, and they have different numbers of "l"s at the end).
The apostrophe is also slanting in the wrong direction, perhaps due to software that converts straight apostrophes into directional ones mistaking it for an opening quotation mark (as "till" is a complete word, so the only reason it should have a ' before it is if the ' is being used as an opening quotation mark).
Elsewhere in the subtitles, the apostrophes are inconsistently sometimes directional and sometimes straight.
At around 28:50 the viking is wearing modern underwear.
Beltloops were invented in 1922 with the advent of Levis.