Is there any historical basis for the story of Vinland Saga? Was Thorfinn Karlsefni a soldier/mercenary before he became an explorer? Did he ever meet Canute? Was there really a person named Ragnar who mentored Canute?
Is there any historical basis for the story of Vinland Saga...
Lucas Green
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Michael Mitchell
Doubtful. Many of the characters were real, but there is one fatal flaw in all of Vinland Saga: Vikings never did the Naruto run. Therefore, this show is shit and you shouldn't be watching it.
Ryan Rodriguez
>Vikings never did the Naruto run
Stop with this meme.
Luke Rogers
William Miller
It's certainly in a historically accurate setting but the characters are all original. Except Cnut.
Henry Lopez
The others are historical too.
Brody Walker
Thorkell, Leif and some other at least are registered in historical studies, existing or not.
Chase Johnson
*ahem*
FUCK CANUTE
FUCK SWEYN
FUCK FLOKI
FUCK DANES
FUCKS ANGLOS
HAIL LUCIUS ARTORIUS CASTUS
Gavin Barnes
based
David Turner
Basado
Cameron Collins
According to wikipedia, Thorfinn Karlsefni traveled to vinland around the year 1010, yet the anime takes places almost like a decade later. Also it seems we don't know when the disbanding of jomsviking took place, so the date and how it happened was pulled out of author's ass (just like Thorfinn's past as son of a jomsviking legendary warrior and young days as mercenary).
Ayden Bailey
Thorfinn is historical too
Cameron Reyes
>facebook meme
Parker Bennett
> Is there any historical basis for the story of Vinland Saga?
en.wikipedia.org
>Was Thorfinn Karlsefni a soldier/mercenary before he became an explorer? Did he ever meet Canute?
Not according to the sagas
> Was there really a person named Ragnar who mentored Canute?
en.wikipedia.org
He's probably fictional and, regardless, lived long before Cnut.
Levi Lee
Vinland Saga is a loose interpretation of both 'original' Vinland Saga and Jomsviking Saga, they have been interlinked for characters to be related to each other. Author took a trip to iceland himself with his wife to make research and learn about viking lore and the characters he will bring to life through his manga interpretation. Don't get me wrong it's still fantasy but author put a lot of work to make this quasi-fantasy world 'feel authentic' to some extent.
Juan Russell
Dylan Adams
Shitfinn cope.
Juan Williams
The story about Thorfinn's exploration was written centuries after it happened. Yukimura isn't too autistic about dates
Ayden Garcia
the characters are historical figures but 90% of the shit that happens isn't attested to or even implied by known historical sources. Stuff like Leif meeting and trading with skraelings, and King Sweyn getting murdered straight up never happened
Anthony Campbell
All this research and dedication and the end result is this.
Aiden Flores
I swear I saw one of these things while I visited Denmark. But it could have just been your average dane.
Ryan Wilson
Here's your average dane bro
Sebastian Ortiz
>the offsprings of Thorkell and Ymir are still around
Brandon Baker
kek
Brody Morris
Made for Thorfinn cock.
Carter Collins
That's a refugee.
Jason Jackson
But that's forbidden love. Thorfinn is a cute girl too
Matthew Kelly
What episode will pic related be in?
Nathaniel Ortiz
Probably like 14. Kinda hard to say when they aren't being very consistent with how much they adapt per episode
Angel Campbell
I tried guys
Pls no bully
Julian Hernandez
Kek
Jeremiah Martinez
A daring synthesis
Samuel Cruz
Just because someone is called Ragnar doesn't mean he's the Vikings guy
The Vikings guy's saga got translated first or something so a lot of fictional Norse guys are named Ragnar
Logan Russell
kek, thanks senpai
Alexander Hernandez
The thing about viking era history is that there's a lot of things we simply don't know.