The other Viking movie, Pathfinder

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Hey folks! I just saw Pathfinder a few days ago, and wrote about it in my LJ over here. Check it out if you're interested.

Looks like it's not so good for a crossover with our 13 warriors. I gradually figured this out last summer when I first started hearing about the movie, but it's painfully obvious now. Not only is the time period off by a century or so and this movie taking place on a different continent, but in Pathfinder, the Vikings are made out to be the bad guys. Bummer. :/

Comments

[emka007.livejournal.com]

You are right this movie can't be compared with our 13 warriors;
also it is historical totaly wrong... the Vikings were attack
by the natives - the Vikings never attacked them... at present
historians believe that a major problem arouse when Vikings and
natives met and drank together Mead - this Viking Drink contains milk
and for some reason most native american can't digist milk ... so they
got sick and this may have lead to believe the native
americans that the Vikings were trying to poison them...
This fact came to light after they discovered that in ancient times
most people had problems with milk only peoples who lived in the north
of Europe didn't have this problem... and still today more people living
in the south of Europe have a higher rate of this problem than those in
the North...

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Hm, interesting. I hadn't heard that native Americans couldn't digest milk, but it wouldn't be a stretch to theorize lactose intolerance was regionally based and eventually spread as cultures merged.