Vinland Saga Chapter 94 Discussion

I really want to see some people KO'ing horses and stuff.

DivineSamurai said:
When it was talking about Canute making a bridge to paradise over the corpses of those he killed did anyone else get reminded of Griffith in Berserk at the eclipse where they also used the metaphor of a bridge of corpses to get to the castle in Griffith's dream.

Anyway it was a great chapter, very interesting. I wonder what Thorgil will do next.

Yes, Berserk definitely came to mind..



Anyway, I'm really looking forward to the next chapther now.

I'm waiting to see what Thorfinn is going to say to Canute.

Yessssssssss. That last page.... ahhahahahaahaaaaahhhnnhnnn

Nerdgasm.

Neizaru said:
Great chapter, and in the next one not only there will be a reunion, but also Thorfin fighting? Awesome.



So if the Ketil family gets outlawed how does that work exactly? They're sent off somewhere, locked up, escorted to the border with a "stay out" notice? Some of them could join Thorfin's crew and become the first settlers in Vinland maybe, but the old man not so much.



Being "outlawed" was a standard punishment in the old Norse days.    It basically meant that you were literally "outside the law" as in, the laws of society no longer applied to you.



I guess in modern terms, it would be like having your birth certificate and all official documents with your name on them stricken from the record, and all of your property given over to the government.   So if someone killed you, it wouldn't matter because in the eyes of the state you didn't exist.



So in this case, no one is going to kill Ketil and his family right away, but they won't be able to have any social standing in Denmark or own any property, and if someone commits a crime against them, they wouldn't be able to seek justice from the King of Denmark.   Their choices are pretty much to go live in a hut in the woods somewhere, or leave the country entirely.



So basically yeah, it would be a great idea for Snake and Orman to join up with Thorfinn, even if it was just to emigrate to Iceland, since they wouldn't be outlaws in Iceland.



Usually when people got outlawed it was because someone else had a serious grievance against them: for instance if you murdered someone, their family would ask for you to be outlawed.  Then if the state outlawed you, the family could hunt you down and do whatever they wanted to you, weather it was kill you, beat you, make you work as a baker, or whatever.



More than one Icelandic saga has a passage where the main character gets lost out in the wilderness and comes across a remote hut where some quiet, strange old man is living alone, with maybe a goat or some chickens or something, and it turns out that the man is an outlaw who managed to escape.  But to the old Norse way of thinking, that kind of solitary life, with no family, wife, or children, was a sad and pointless existence.

ohh shittt that last panel gave me a boner! no homo doe

Thorfinn might return for something and end up meeting Canute anyway. Another great chapter. I'm kinda hoping Snake joins Thorfinn and co. for the trip to Vinland.

DivineSamurai said:
When it was talking about Canute making a bridge to paradise over the corpses of those he killed did anyone else get reminded of Griffith in Berserk at the eclipse where they also used the metaphor of a bridge of corpses to get to the castle in Griffith's dream.

Anyway it was a great chapter, very interesting. I wonder what Thorgil will do next.



Well yeah obviously since both men created a path of corpses to achieve their ambition. Their ambition is pretty similar too.