Talk:Vikings (TV series)

Broadcast

The broadcast information is out of date. It says currently it has premièred in Ireland which is not true, I also believe it hasn't been broadcast in the UK either, but I can't find any up to date information about planned Irish(/UK) broadcasts. Can anyone? 79.97.231.44 (talk) 19:08, 5 April 2013 (UTC)Cleefa

No Mention of Sigurd

When it come to the mention of Aslaug from the Volsunga Saga in the characters list, there is no mention of Sigurd, her father.

Anonymous173.74.57.205 (talk) 21:42, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

NPOV Edit-Warring Over Christian Bias

No serious scholar actually believes that the Christian accounts of the Vikings are in any way "objective", particularly since they were mostly written by Christian clergymen who had never been within a hundred miles of a Viking raid. I can't even imagine someone taking the Christian accounts at face value. It's like accepting the Christian accounts of the Crusades without any criticism. And finally, if the people who keep deleting that line from the article would actually READ the citation, you'd see that the sentence is backed up by the article. Now stop bringing your NPOV historical ignorance to this article. -- Bryon Morrigan -- Talk 00:29, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

The main argument here is that they were written by groups of people that where in conflict with the Norsemen. While religion does play a part, it is not THE sole basis of complete lack of objectiveness, right? You can still be a Viking and a christian. The guys that served in the Valgarian guard, many of whom were Christians were still Vikings, or....? Did Harald Blåtand stop being a so-called Viking when he converted, and became something else but a Viking? (If we can use that therm since they did not call themselfs that)I am not saying the accounts by Christian clergymen are what so ever reliable, but this was not a religious conflict. As for my historical ignorance, I am not so sure, but I have been to Gamla Uppsala more times than I can count, so I hope I picked up something. VsanoJ (talk) 00:38, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

This series is about the early Viking raids and Ragnar Lodbrok. It has nothing to do with 11th century Vikings who converted to Christianity, and you are just being ridiculous. -- Bryon Morrigan -- Talk 00:50, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Ridiculous, no need for name calling.

What i am TRYING (but failing) to say is that the conflict at hand was not mainly a religious one. You obviously have read up on the topic, I grew up in Uppsala so it is kind of hard to NOT pick up a thing or two. The main "problem" here is that the people of Scandinavia raided, the folks that got raided wrote about it...and they were not too happy. The main issue is not religon, right? I do not say that because I go to church 8 times a week or not (I don't.) I stress this because this was not a religious conflict, and it sounds as if yoya are trying to stress such a point. (If that is not the case, I am sorry)VsanoJ (talk) 02:07, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Wow, a "Yank" dissing a Swede because he "does not know about Vikings". I never saw that happening....... :-)64.203.182.109 (talk) 16:45, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Connect the dots the right way, please

While this is a series about historical characters, I think people need reminding that you need to cite within the context of sources speaking about the series the historical connections between the characters of this series to those persons from history. For example, some people have enough historical knowledge to know that Aslaug was the daughter of Sigurd and Beunhilde, but no one has added references from a source reviewing the series that makes that connection. Without these, they are just names of tv series characters - without historical connection. We as editors cannot make that connection, as it is Original Research, and more specifically, Synthesis. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 14:50, 23 September 2013 (UTC)