The White Viking (movie)
Hvíti víkingurinn- User score: 6.3
- Production country: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
- Producer: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
- Production companies: Filmeffekt AS, DR, YLE, RÚV, NRK, SVT
- Genre: Drama, Adventure
- Release date: 11/1/1991
- Run time: 125 min.
Movie description
Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless christian, wants to eredicate all traces of non-christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, Askur must go to Iceland and convert the people there to catholicism.
