However, as with his finales for The Witch and The Lighthouse, there is more going on than meets the eye about Amleth’s fate and why his end is a happy one, if only for him and his culture. This is the end of almost every revenger’s tragedy and it is in-keeping with the ancient Hamlet tale that The Northman takes inspiration from. Now their corpses are likewise left to molder, unwept and unsung.Īs with Robert Eggers’ other two films, the actual plot mechanics are quite clear. Beneath their vainglorious ends also lies the body of a woman they each claim to love, Gudrún ( Nicole Kidman): the mother Amleth swore to avenge but instead slaughtered alongside her youngest son Gunnar (Elliott Rose).
However, the prince without a kingdom is also slain, stabbed through what I believe is the heart and left to simmer by a lake of fire that both men recognize as Hel. But was any of it worthwhile?īefore the credits roll, Uncle Fjölnir (Claes Bang) is well and truly dead by his nephew’s hand his head cleaved clean off with a massive stroke of Amleth’s arm. I will avenge you, father! I will save you, mother! I will kill you, Fjölnir! By the time The Northman concludes, Alexander Skarsgård’s wayward Viking prince has accomplished two out of the three. This article contains massive THE NORTHman spoilers.
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