r/VinlandSaga

From across the entire manga, some of the most iconic moments are Askeladds last stand, thorfinn being forgiven, the ending, and the oath. But what are some moments that you genuinely think are 10/10 and don’t get talked about enough. For me, I think Ivar’s last stand from the end of the manga is arguably top 10 moments from the entire series, also one of the best written moments, it brings his entire character to a full circle conclusion, and when it gets animated, it’ll be a generational episode!

Rewatching Season 1 and the scene where Thorfinn has the opportunity to kill Askeladd in his sleep feels like subtle foreshadowing of Askeladd later killing Olaf in his sleep. It also symbolizes that Thorfinn’s “character development” is really a decline in character during his teenage years, driven by trauma, followed by an eventual return to the ethical framework Thors originally taught him. The later scene where Thorfinn formally challenges Askeladd to avenge Thors reinforces this, because it shows that Thorfinn still held onto those ideals, while Askeladd chose a more pragmatic path when avenging his mother.

Nothing important just wanted people to to know and to those thinking of reading the manga, man i cried like a mother fucker at some parts but holy the tears couldnt stop in the last 20 chapters. Been a really long time since i cried reading a seinen manga.

So, in the Eastern Expedition Arc, which I have just finished reading, it is revealed that Floki did all of the horrible things he did, including ordering the assassination of Thors, for his son Baldr, or, more accurately, to ensure that his son becomes the next ruler of the Jomsvikings. At the end it was kind of unclear to me whether one could say that Floki really loves Baldr all that much or if he just wanted him as a political puppet. It seems to be a complex mix of the two, considering how he cries to Thorfinn for Baldr to be spared at the end. But I digress. What I was confused about, was that Thorfinn never questions this narrative, in spite of the fact that Baldr is something like ten years old and his father was killed some 17 years ago at the time of the "War in The Baltic" chapters. Did Floki really plan to have a grandson that would take the seat of chieftain, 7 years in advance or was Baldr's politically assassinated father meant to be the original chieftain and Baldr became a plan B after the death of his parents? Even still, it doesn't explain how nobody questions Baldr's utterance of how the death of Thors was "his fault", which would imply that Floki's ambitions had been set on Baldr from the start and for over 17 years (and 7 years before his birth) to boot.

Feel free to correct anything here, if I got something wrong timeline wise.

Also, side note: Kinda wish the final two arcs didn't do this whole "chapters with 20 parts" thing. I really liked the unique names for each part hitherto. Titles can be quite important and hard-hitting in their own right. Drawing attention to what the reader is meant to be focusing on in each part the most.

Before reading Vinland Saga, I thought Thorfinn becoming peaceful was weak character development.

Then I understood what the story was actually trying to say.

Thorfinn spent his entire childhood consumed by hatred after losing Thors.

He followed Askeladd for years believing revenge would finally give his life meaning, but every battle only made him emptier.

And when Askeladd died before Thorfinn could even kill him himself, it felt like his entire life suddenly collapsed.

The farmland arc completely changed how I viewed his character.

Especially the nightmare scenes with the corpses of everyone he killed and him trying to climb out of that endless pit.

That’s when “I have no enemies” finally clicked for me.

It’s not about pretending evil doesn’t exist.

It’s about refusing to let hatred consume your entire life the same way it consumed his.

I genuinely think Vinland Saga changed the way I look at anger.

me and my cousins wants to watch a new show and my sister dosent want high gore. how much gore in vinland saga anime

Thorkells weakness was being hit in the jaw, which obviously makes sense because any human if you just hit them on the chin hard enough it will knock them out or at least rattle their brain. But I was thinking that thorkell is so strong that it seems odd for him to even have such a glaring weakness, someone of thorfinns size even with a kick shouldn't knock someone of his size out.

Im not sure if other people also think this, but I think originally thorkell did not have this weakness, but when thors knocked him out, thors literally shattered thorkells jaw, and thats why its such a prominent weakness, is because of thors. In the episode when thorkell gets knocked out he talks about how thorfinn didn't learn anything from thors, but he won because of thors or because of what thors did to thorkell so its kinda cool