Arlene Threfall

Interesting story about Redbad the Friesian king who tried to prevent Christianity from destroying Northern European culture. I'm not convinced that the Catholic church actually converted so barbarically They tended to do it by getting in with local leaders and then getting the leaders married off to Christian'' aristocratic'' women, thus getting the leader to do the converting of the people) read the sagas for that-besides which the culture Redbad is trying to preserve is violent, vengeful, crazy and involves human sacrifice and even he has qualms about the sacrifice of maidens to appease Freya and to improve the crops, well, at least when it's his own beloved that's getting burnt as a sacrifice. Redbad and his wife are elderly in dark age terms , total miscasting.Redbad is about 50 by the look of him and .Viking women tended to marry in their teens not their late thirties The film is far to long , i found my interest waning when Redbad ;journeys off to save his sister from the Frankish king about half way through....