The movie was also Eggers' first collaboration with A24, with whom he would work again onThe Lighthouse.
Last year, Eggers made his most successful work withNosferatu.
Now, the accuracy of another one of Eggers' movies gets reviewed by an expert.
Despite strong reviews,The Northmanfaltered at the box office.
Speaking withInsider, historian William Short reviewsThe Northman’s accuracy.
Overall, he gave the film a9 out of 10 for accuracy.
At the end of the video, he referred toThe Northmanas his favorite Viking movie.
And that is mentioned numerous times in the literary sources as being a very effective battle technique.
And we’ve tested it and it works great.
It’s really not so difficult to catch the spear in flight and throw it back.
The nature of beserkers are still a little bit mysterious.
They bit their shields.
And iron and fire cannot harm them.
So Vikings didn’t use stone castles or anything like that.
A typical enclosure would be a wood palisade fence.
And climbing it with an ax seems very doable, using the ax to pull yourself up.
And we’ve done a lot of research on the phsyics of these weapons.
Doing motion capture and measuring historic weapons.
And that how Vikings used it.
So the weapon that Amleth is using in this clip once he enters the village is a seax.
And before he enters, you’re able to see that it’s slung horizontally from his belt.
A seax was a short sword.
And destroying things with fire was just a way to emphasize the terror of these kinds of raids.
We’ve done some tests where we actually built Viking houses, instrumented them, burned them down.
It’s only a matter of a few minutes before everyone inside is dead.
The game, knattleikr, a little bit off.
We play it almost every year.
Our research suggests its something quite different than what you see on the screen.
People were carefully matched to be about the same strength.
You see a lot of running in this clip.
The sources suggests running was not a part of the game at all.
The game was really about power.
It wasn’t about speed.
It is always this particular individual is stronger than his opponent.
This one was stronger than than this one.
I would rate this as a 9.
