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Films & Shows Set during the Viking Age

Runs from7931066273 years wide

Shelfmark Liber XXI

Medieval Era

6
titles
3 films · 3 series (5 eps)
3.5/5
average rating
across 6 rated titles
60%
of the span is tagged
6 of 10 titles set inside it

See the Viking Age on the timelineEvery year from 793 to 1066 the archive holds, and what is set in them

Compare the titles of the Viking Age in the CanonsWhat every title on it shares, what two or three share, and what is proper to one

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during the Viking Age, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.

First on screen
The 13th Warrior1999
Most recent
The Northman2022

FilmsSeriesAt the archive’s paceeach bar is the titles released that decade

The median title about the Viking Age came out in 2016; the median across the rest of the archive, in 2004, so this period’s titles run 12 years later. Most over-told: the 2010s, with 4 titles where about 1.7 would be expected.

The gold dashes are how many of this period’s 6 titles each decade would hold if they had been released at the same pace as the other 285 dated titles in the archive. That measures the archive’s own collecting, not the world’s film output, and at these sizes one title moves a bar by a whole step.

Cast of Characters

The historical people the archive’s titles put on screen in this period, grouped by what they are known for. The number is how many titles set here they appear in.

Political3

Exploration1

Institution1

Military1

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

Places Connected to this Period

Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.

Saltiness Across the Period

No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.

Archive Density

60%6 of the 10 titles the archive sets between 793 and 1066 carry the Viking Age tag.

This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.

  1. 7931 of 1
  2. 8000 of 1
  3. 862nothing set here
  4. 8661 of 1
  5. 870nothing set here
  6. 880nothing set here
  7. 8951 of 1
  8. 9211 of 1
  9. 9221 of 1
  10. 9710 of 1
  11. 9721 of 1
  12. 1000nothing set here
  13. 10021 of 1
  14. 1050nothing set here
  15. 10600 of 1
  16. 10630 of 1
  17. 10650 of 1
  18. 1066nothing set here

18 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 6 of them with nothing set there yet. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.

Share of the 19 genre taggings across 6 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.

Credits

Directors

1Andrey Kravchuk1 title2.4/5unsalted2John McTiernan1 title3.2/5unsalted3Robert Eggers1 title3.8/5unsalted

Films only. Co-directors are counted individually, so a director’s solo work and their collaborations are grouped together. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

Networks

1History1 title3.7/5unsalted2Netflix1 title3.9/5unsalted3NHK G1 title3.9/5unsalted

Series only, counted once each however many episodes carry the period. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

Also on the Timeline

Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.

RelationPeriodRunsShared yearsShared threadsTitles
BeforeLife of Muhammad570–632161 years earliernone shared1
ConcurrentIslamic Golden Age786–1258793–1066none shared2
ConcurrentRurikid Dynasty862–1598862–1066none shared1
ConcurrentHigh Middle Ages1000–13001000–1066none shared6
AfterThe Crusades1095–129129 years laternone shared6