Ik vind dat het wel een beetje braaf blijft allemaal. Het valt toch wel hard op dat The History Channel mee in de productie zit. Te vaak worden bepaalde zaken te expliciet uitgelegd zoals waarvoor de raven dienen, die zonnesteen, enz. Dat haalt de vaart er toch wat uit. Zoiets houden ze beter voor hun website of de extra's op een DVD of zo.
Ze hebben wel aandacht voor wat de bronnen zeggen over de Vikingen:
Bijvoorbeeld in de tweede aflevering:
They cannot, of course, avoid washing their faces and their heads each day, which they do with the filthiest and most polluted water imaginable. I shall explain. Every day the slave-girl arrives in the morning with a large basin containing water, which she hands to her owner. He washes his hands and his face and his hair in the water, then he dips his comb in the water and brushes his hair, blows his nose and spits in the basin. There is no filthy impurity which he will not do in this water. When he no longer requires it, the slave-girl takes the basin to the man beside him and he goes through the same routine as his friend. She continues to carry it from one man to the next until she has gone round everyone in the house, with each of them blowing his nose and spitting, washing his face and hair in the basin. (Ibn Fadlan).
Ze zijn zelfs mee met de archeologie:
http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/buitenland/1.1567830
