I would never have thought that I would watch a long series about the Vikings, but I was encouraged to watch the recommendation of historian Mark Solonin. Since everything in life is connected and everything is connected, every action triggers a chain of others.
To say that this is an amazing series, not enough. It is a multi-level and multi-dimensional, time-extended piece of our unconscious, without which the loaf of life would look bitten off, losing its elegance and completeness.
Michael Hirst is the writer of Vikings, seems like a genius. Thus, only a person of a very high level of development can fit modern knowledge of human psychology into the events of a thousand years ago.
After watching Vikings, you can say, “Tell me what you’re looking at and I’ll tell you who you are.” But just watch little, you need to be imbued with the atmosphere and meaning inherent in the series, and then you can understand a lot about yourself, about life and other people.
I had a preconceived notion (and I now know exactly where it came from) that the Vikings were barbarians, and the whole show would be about urine and robbery. That’s a lot because it’s part of life then, but that’s not what the show is about.
The events of the series affect the 8th and 9th centuries, and what is striking is that we are separated by more than a thousand years, but we are not much different from the people of that time.
Yeah, life's a little better. Houses have light, water and heat. We procure food and clothing in stores and are protected by laws and nuclear buttons against barbarians.
But we lost our sincerity, our insistence, our faith, and that was what fueled the Viking life force with powerful energy.