How Assassin's Creed Valhalla CORRUPTED Viking History

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We explore how the writers of AC Valhalla were less than subtle in their rewriting of history and later contrast this with how Alexander Skarsgård and Robert Eggers created a true Viking epic in the film The Northman.

What ideological messages are in the writing of AC Valhalla?
What films, books, and shows do a better job of portraying the Viking age honestly?

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[Stock footage and assets licensed from Entavo Elements]

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:02 Assessment of the Game as a Whole
2:26 Story Premise & Fantasy
5:04 Modern Mind in a Medieval World
6:32 Women Warriors
11:00 Homosexuality in the Viking Age
11:57 Promiscuity in the Viking Age
13:18 Obscuring Anglo-Saxon Ancestry
16:28 Christians and Christianity
18:20 Rejecting Odinn
19:54 The Northman
22:00 Integrity and Sincerity
22:48 A Wholly Different Worldview & Cosmology
23:23 The Lost Potential of Valhalla
24:28 History on Its Own Terms
27:20 The Score
28:49 Approaching the Past with Humility

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