Ragnarok - Netflix

Really good show. I watched it when it first dropped about a year ago.

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Finland

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Norway. Finland doesn't have mountains like that.

Decent series.

Climate change played a big roll in the rise and fall of the Viking age. The Medieval Warm Period was significantly warmer in northern Europe than today. Grapes were being cultivated in Southern England. Higher temps allowed for more productive farm land farther north. Higher yields meant a larger carrying capacity for the land resulting in a massive population boom in Scandanavia. This population explosion fueled their conquests in the 7th-10th centuries.

At the dawn of the Renaissance, temps turned colder, crop yields fell, and population growth slowed substantially. With that decline, so declined the power of the Viking kingdoms. Their colonies in America and Greenland died, the Kievian Rus were conquered by Mongols, and the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden no longer were capable of projecting substantial force outside of Scandanavia. England, France, Holland, and the Holy Roman Empire (later Prussia) became the dominant regional powers.

Without that excess population, they lacked the manpower to compete with Spain, Portugal, England, and France for colonizing the New World, and the small Swedish colonies died out or were conquered quickly.

Same here. I thought the high school storyline might ruin it but it was so well done. And the way they merge darker elements with Norse mythology is really cool.

What I like about this series is how the story is being told. It’s slowly gets into who these characters are, without flatly stating out there true identities.

It kind of reminds me of another Netflix series, Hemlock Grove. There are subtle references and signs of the true nature of certain characters, but it isn’t put out there right in everyone’s face from the very start.

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IDK, but with success with Thor in the MCU, the VIKINGS series, and now this show, I'm kinda digging the revival of the Norse culture and mythology.

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Don't forget The Last Kingdom

Interesting, what happened to vikings .
Wish sequel show would show what happens to them on middle east

I wish thor was more epic like God of war , vikings yeah

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The way he picks up the dance of the frost giants without even trying told me who he was right then and there

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See, I saw right away he was a bit of a 'trickster', an took note of him saying on their first day in class that they were brothers, but not twins.

I was thinking only at face value, but you took it to the next logical, and correct, step. And that's why I like this show. You know what's going on, they know you know, yet they still sorta drag it out.

Probably would help, but no, not necessary.