El otro día un compañero de curro me recomendó la serie y ayer me vi un par de capitulillos. La verdad es que está bastante bien, con menos tramas e intrigas que CDHYF pero con nórdicos molones. Supongo que será más del rollo Spartacus (aunque yo no la he visto).
Es una colaboración entre una cadena canadiense y una irlandesa, para el canal de historia de la primera, según comentan intentando representar bastante fielmente la época.
En todo caso, os enlazo a la wiki y a filmaffinity:
The series is inspired by the epic sagas about the raiding, trading, and exploring Norsemen of early medieval Scandinavia. It follows the exploits of the legendary Viking chieftain Ragnar Lodbrok and his crew and family. Norse sagas were partially fictional tales based in Norse oral tradition and written down in the 13th century, about 200 to 400 years after the events they describe. Further inspiration is taken from historical sources of the period, such as the Viking raid on Lindisfarne depicted in the second episode. The series is set at the beginning of the Viking Age, marked by the Lindisfarne raid in 793. Ragnar's death is dated to 840 or 865.
The first season portrays Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) as a young Viking warrior who longs to discover civilizations across the seas. With his friend, the gifted craftsman Floki (Gustaf Skarsgård), he builds a new generation of faster longships and challenges the local ruler, Earl Haraldson (Gabriel Byrne), a man of little vision, to allow raids into the unexplored South West, to England. He is supported by his brother Rollo (Clive Standen), who secretly covets Ragnar's wife, the shieldmaiden Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick). Ragnar succeeds in carrying out the first Viking raids into the English kingdom of Northumbria, returning with rich loot and the monk Athelstan (George Blagden) as a slave. This triggers a series of increasingly violent confrontations with the autocratic Earl.'
'Serie de TV (2013). Sigue las aventuras de Ragnar Lothbrok, el héroe más grande de su época. La serie narra las sagas de la banda de hermanos vikingos de Ragnar y su familia, cuando él se levanta para convertirse en el rey de las tribus vikingas. Además de ser un guerrero valiente, Ragnar encarna las tradiciones nórdicas de la devoción a los dioses, la leyenda dice que él era un descendiente directo de Odín, el dios de la guerra y los guerreros. (FILMAFFINITY)'
