![]() ![]() ![]() It also was not the last movie to utilize a Viking theme, with the most notable movies from recent years possibly being Outlander and Valhalla Rising. After that, every once in a while another Viking movie would surface, but it wasn’t until 1999 that Hollywood decided to go all in on the topic, and produce The 13th Warrior. ![]() The first attempt was the Kirk Douglas flick The Vikings from 1958 which already was a pretty good swashbuckling adventure. And based on those clichés, they make for perfect protagonists in action movies, of course! Yet mostly the image of Vikings as fearless and ruthless fighters with an excessive taste for sex and alcohol has manifested in our modern world. The Viking culture was just as rich and complex as any other ancient or medieval culture. Michael Crichton, John McTiernan and Antonio Banderas give us the Viking action flick for the ages with ‘ The 13th Warrior‘ (1999). ![]()
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