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Viking Wolf movie explained

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I imagined Norse lycanthropes plundering and raiding their way up and down the coast when I first saw the title Viking Wolf, or Vikingulven in its native Norwegian. Sadly, that's not what it's about, though the story does start with a prologue that, for some reason, is shot like a silent movie and depicts a raiding party led by Grim Gudbrand storming an abbey. The monks forbid them from entering a locked room, thinking it to be full of treasure, only to break down the door and discover a snarling, red-eyed wolf cub inside. Of course, they take it with them, and by the time their longship arrives back at home, it is the only thing still alive there. The little hellhound jumps off the boat and vanishes into the forest. The same woods that seventeen-year-old Thale (Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne, , Kosmos) has been invited to party in by her friend Jonas Brean, Delete Me, Three Wishes for Cinderella). The party comes to an end with Elin (, The Painting), the mayor's daughte...