Vinland Saga Chapter 81 Discussion

Very emotional chapter and it raises strong feelings. I think people finding it boring lack empathy. Personally i was disrupt by the ugly whims of fate.



Mormegil said:
It's as if the past is doomed to repeat itself. Canute's getting ready to raze the farm. I hope Arneis and her unborn child both make it this time.



...then again, I might be overthinking things.



I think they might not make it and that may be the trigger for Thorfinn to forget his Jesus mentality and try to go against Canute.



Neizaru said:


How will Thorfinns and Arneis pacifistic-passive aggression ideology will work out against Canute? Something to look forward to.



It can't work. Being a pacifist and all is nice but if you do nothing against those who use violence against you then you will just be their victim. And when his father told him that he has no enemies he was right because no one was trying to ruin his life, he went to the battlefield by himself. But Canute will bring the battlefield to him. Canute is definitely an enemy that wants to destroy his peace.

Really glad that Arneis is getting more fleshed out. It's a tragedy what happened to her family, but unfortunately these things happened on a daily basis.

Nidhoeggr said:


                        Wonderful chapter, Arneis is a character that needed a bit more development and it was handled in a good way.



Yep, considering her personalities, beliefs and past were rarely explored.

I liked the  woman's perspective of war, what the innocents go through and how they see the reasons men give for going to war. Interesting chapter.



Like Beatnik pointed out, the contrast between Thorfinn and the husband is quite interesting. That is what Thorfinn could have been if he had not accepted his past, filled with raging blood-lust and whatnot

Good chapter this one. The contrast between the life of war or peace is being put front and center if everything.

It's nice to see that she's getting some actual development.

robal15 said:
damn...nothing is happening since we learnt that the farm is going to be attack. Those chapters are pointless. I think that the author is stretching this manga a lot. We would be fine without Gardan - he will probably  be freed by thorfinn, but one man can change nothing against the army.



I shame I have to point this out, but Arneis' husband looks almost exactly like Thorfinn used to, thus the last few chapters are showing you a contrast in who he was and who he is now.  He's also been taking an interest in the Bible.



Do you honestly expect him to go around killing people like a shonen hero?  Drop the manga already.