How Assassin's Creed Valhalla CORRUPTED Viking History

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