This is an extended edit of the song "Land Of The Rus" from the movie The Northman. The song is by Robin Carolan and Sebastian Gainsborough. THIS IS CREATED WITH FAIR USE.
This was a great film. Was the plot complex or revolutionary in any way? No. Did it depict the 10th century in lively, gritty, glorious detail, and did it portray its iconic European culture wonderfully? Hell yes.
I had a slight problem with how they depicted the raids. Obviously people are horrible and many raids likely went like that, but evidence also shows raids in which unarmed people weren't harmed and few slaves were taken if they even had the room. In essence a raid doesn't have to be a horrific display of human brutally, because it wasn't always.
@@cjmurphy7967 but raids also happened like this very regularly, one thing you must accept about the time period is that people and especially vikings of all people did have a nack for this.
@@DawoodJoachimGermain I am Finnish and no, russians are from Russia aka the kingdom of Rus. Rus is "ryssä" in Finnish, as the swedes are "ruotsalaiset".
@@Dominator131 , according to considerable part (E.V. Pchelov, V.Y. Petrukhin), if not almost all nowadays Russian historians of Ancient Rus, the word "Rus" comes from Finnish names of Scandinavians, that comes from Scandinavian calling of rowers. Because rowing was the main task of these ancient sailors. Moreower, in Byzantian, Arabian sources and, probably, in Annales Bertiniani Scandinavians are called rus or smth like that as well. So, I think, topic starter is right.
@@TheRusDmitry No, that is not what I was replying to. I was replying to X-ian's message about Finnish language. "Ruotsi" means "Sweden" in Finnish language, and not "russians" which are referred as "ryssät".
Fucking love this track. When it pops up on my playlist I increase the volume and blast it through my headphones. It's just me and the weights and it's going to war not expecting to come back - VALHÖLL AWAITS
This piece reminds me of Mily Balakirev's and Feodor Shalyapin's "Song of the Volga Boatmen", later performed in by Glenn Miller's Orchestra and much later -- by Heavy in TF2
You see this is one of the reasons Robert Eggers should have helmed The Witcher series! He would have perfectly captured the world of The Witcher! He would have kept the Slavic atmosphere and hold true to the source material! Funny enough that this sounds like something from The Witcher games.
I would love to see a whole movie about the varangian that slavs called "Rus" and how rurik and his tribe basically created the russia, underrated subject
There is nothing to film about in fact, it would be fictional story because we don’t know much about Rurik and what role he played at time. There were no chronicles yet.
9th to 11th century stuff. Varangian guards. 167 +VLFBERHT+ swords were found. 9th to 11th century Viking to medieval knight swords. AD895+167=2291-1229=1229-167. Devil's bible Codex Gigas Bohemia year 1229. Queen Christine took it to Sweden. Hamlet 1229 Amleth 2291. First last thing. It ends with twins anyway.
The cinematography of this scene is the best I have ever seen. The way tho ships pass your view before the camera pans out and approaches The Northman. It’s like your there yourself.
