Had Quote by Michael Hirst

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

I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far more democratic than the Saxons and…

— Michael Hirst

A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters.

— Johnny Flynn

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

— Kristofer Hivju

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

— Harper Lee

We're not troubled at all, but I think...Well, we're Scandinavians! We're Vikings and we have a lot of blackness in our souls.

— Nina Persson

It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are.

— Gretchen Mol

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

— Donal Logue

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.

— Jonathan Franzen

I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful…

— Michael Levitt

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense.

— Donal Logue

I focused on how these people became how they were.

— Luther Allison