Curated playlist
Viking fantasy
- Thor (Marvel Comics)Donald Blake, the surgeon who became Marvel's Thor, was never a real person. Odin invented him to teach Thor humility.
- God of War (franchise)When the credits of the first God of War finished rolling, a closing line promised, "Kratos Will Return." He did, again and again. The God of War franchise now spans ten installments, beginning on the PlayStation 2 in 2005 and reaching…
- The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimA modder made Falskaar for Skyrim as a job application to Bethesda. Bungie hired him instead.
- Hägar the HorribleThe Viking in Hägar the Horrible pillages Paris, then can't make his stolen palace plumbing work at home.
- Vicky the VikingRammstein's keyboardist took his nickname, Flake, from a cartoon Viking village. He watched Vicky the Viking as a kid.
- For HonorIn the sword-fighting game For Honor, you block duels by guarding left, right, or top.
- The Lost VikingsThe Lost Vikings began with hundreds of tiny Vikings, until TV screens could not show them.
- The Witcher 3: Wild HuntWhen The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launched in 2015, Poland's prime minister, Ewa Kopacz, and its president, Bronisław Komorowski, visited the studio behind it. That studio was CD Projekt Red, and the game was an open-world action role-playing…
- The 13th WarriorThe 13th Warrior, a 1999 action film directed by John McTiernan, grossed 61 million dollars worldwide and still became the biggest box-office bomb of its year. It tells of a poet from Baghdad who is swept into a war among Norse warriors.…
- The Long ShipsThe novel The Long Ships opens with a boy dragged aboard a Viking ship against his will.
- Assassin's Creed ValhallaAssassin's Creed Valhalla nearly had a female-only Viking hero. Senior Ubisoft executives disagreed with the team.