A young warrior's quest for vengeance unfolds across a brutal, epic landscape of Viking conquest.
Melancholy. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
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For a thousand years, the Vikings have made quite a name and reputation for themselves as the strongest families with a thirst for violence. Thorfinn, the son of one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, spends his boyhood in a battlefield enhancing his skills in his adventure to redeem his most-desired revenge after his father was murdered.
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