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- For the most part, yes, Vikings: Valhalla is indeed based on historical events that actually happened. On top of that, the characters in the series are also based on their historical counterparts that actually took part in the events that happened in real life.
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The action-paced series "Vikings: Valhalla," created by Jeb Stuart is based on real history. Who was Freydis? Did Harald really travel to Constantinople? Did Leif ever travel to North America? Find out the true stories behind the series.
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Feb 24, 2022 · In “Valhalla,” as Harald and Leif invade England, a religious war between Christians led by Olaf and pagans led by Haakon breaks out back in Scandinavia.
Feb 24, 2022 · Like Vikings before it, the new series tells a fictionalised story based on real events – this time focusing on the aftermath of the St Brice's Day Massacre, which saw King Æthelred the Unready...
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Our three main protagonists of Vikings: Valhallaare based on historical characters. But the thing is, their historical counterparts never actually met. Well, Leif and Freydís did, because they were indeed siblings, but they didn't know Harald, as they didn’t even exist as the same time. In fact, Leif was already dead when Harald was just an infant....
As we established before, Canute was a great warrior. However, he didn’t fight alongside Harald when the retaliations to St. Brice’s Day Massacre were decided (we'll get back to this event later in the article). As said in the show, Canute wasn’t the first Viking King of England, but his father, Sweyn Forkbeard, was (during one winter). When the la...
In Valhalla, the first episode introduces St. Brice’s Day Massacre, an event that occurred when King Æthelred (also called Æthelred the Unready or Ill-advised) ordered his troops to murder a large part of the population of the Danelaw regions, in which Gunhilde lived, the sister of Sweyn Forkbeard. In the show, it is said that the attack was ordere...
In Vikings: Valhalla and in Kattegat, we find a lot of women Vikings, warriors and women in a position of power, and history did prove it right. Justin Pollard, historian and screenwriter who worked on the show, stated: The character of Jarl Haakon (Caroline Henderson) didn’t exist; however, she is heavily based on a real Viking man called Haakon S...
Season 2 of Vikings: Valhalla brought many new characters and places. One of the most interesting characters introduced is Mariam (played by Hayat Kamille), based on a real historical character. In the show, Mariam is a scholar in the field of science and literature. She teaches Leif everything she knows, and he falls in love with her. Mariam is in...
Speaking of Pechenegs, the people our team of travelers are so afraid to meet on their way to Constantinople were indeed semi-nomadic people from Central Asia who spoke the now-extinct Pecheneg language. According to the historical timeline of the Pechenegs, and at the time Vikings: Valhallatakes place, the Pechenegs had settled in what we now know...
In Season 2 of Vikings: Valhalla, Freydis is separated from Leif and Harald, when she understands that they have different destinies to follow. She arrives in Jómsborg, which is meant to be the new Uppsala (destroyed in Season 1). So did Jómsborg really exist? The short answer is yes and no. Jómsborg is often referred to as a semi-legendary fortres...
Goran Visjnic plays Erik the Red, the father of Leif and Freydis, and is at the center of Freydis' storyline as she returns to Greenland in Season 3. Erik the Red was born Eric Thorvaldssn in approximately 950. Leif and Freydis are half-siblings born of two separate women and sired by Erik. In the show, Erik is conspiring and duplicitous as his peo...
In Season 3, Leif and Harald are members of Romanos III's (Nikolai Kinski) "Varangian Guard" – an elite group of Viking mercenaries that fought in the southern portions of Western Europe from the 10th to 14th centuries. After joining Jarl Olaf in an attempt to take the throne from Canute and losing, Harald Hardrada (as he is tabbed at the end of Se...
Feb 26, 2022 · Is Vikings: Valhalla Based on A True Story? Yes and no. Like Vikings creator Michael Hirst, Vikings: Valhalla creator Jeb Stuart has taken a creative license to the true story of some of...
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Jan 29, 2021 · Netflix's upcoming historical drama series Vikings: Valhalla has cast its main roles, which include a number of characters based on real-life figures from Norse history.
Jul 11, 2024 · Most of the characters in Vikings: Valhalla are based on real-life people, though with changes to their stories. Leif and Freydis were the children of Erik the Red (played in season 3 by Goran Višnjić), and Leif was the first European to set foot on continental North America, many, many years before Christopher Columbus.
