Freydis, Leif, and Harald are based on historical figures, but they never actually met in real life. Leif Erikson was a real explorer and the first European to set foot in North America around ...

Frida Gustavsson tells PEOPLE that before getting cast to play real-life Viking warrior Freydis Eriksdotter on Vikings: Valhalla she'd "never trained to be strong, I'd trained to be skinny" ...

Kristofer Hivju, a.k.a. Tormund Giantsbane from “Game of Thrones,” is hosting a Smithsonian Channel competition about becoming a real-life Viking. The hour-long format, working-titled ...

Sam Corlett on Playing Famous Real-Life Viking. Published Feb 25, 2022 at 4:00 AM EST. By . Molli Mitchell is a Senior SEO TV and Film Newsweek Reporter based in London, UK.

Everyone knows that the Vikings were barbaric raiders from Scandinavia who raped and pillaged coastal Europe during the Dark Ages. And everyone is right. But the image of the frothing berserker ...

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla - 10 Real-Life Viking Legends Who Should Appear. We take a look at the best and baddest of Scandinavian history ...

Fans are wondering whether Vikings is based on real Viking history, ... Throughout the show, viewers get some insight into what life was like for Vikings between the eighth and 11th centuries.

Ulf Larsson, former director of Junibacken Museum now working to build the new Life of Vikings attraction in Stockholm. Photo: Ryan Tebo / Sveriges Radio.

The Vikings cast weighs in with their ... How The Vikings Cast Feels About Getting Older On The Show But Not In Real Life. ... They can have a 60-year-old actor playing Rollo in his later life.

History's 'Vikings' just wrapped its first season, so let's get a look the cast behind the beards. What The Cast Of History's 'Vikings' Looks Like In Real Life – UPROXX Sound+Vision ...