Back Quote by Madchen Amick

I know Vikings isnt really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.

— Madchen Amick

Your ancestors called it magic... -Thor

— Thor

I read a lot of Icelandic sagas when I was young. I've always been interested in the Viking culture.

— Kristofer Hivju

I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Viking is a term—thought to have its root in the old Norse vika, meaning “to go off”—for Scandinavians who left their native land to…

— Mark Kurlansky

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

— Shawn Ashmore

I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become... breaking their…

— Tracy Hickman

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

— Chris Hemsworth

Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them,…

— Gabriel Byrne

The Vikings themselves are fascinating creatures. They're human beings, of course, but their ethos are so different from ours. The fact that they live…

— Linus Roache

Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant…

— Bronislaw Malinowski

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these…

— Karl Urban