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The White Viking

A film by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson

In that terrible battle in heaven between Christ and Satan

Chapter 3 - The Resurrection In that terrible battle in heaven between Christ and Satan

Chapter 3 - The Resurrection and his minion, Beelzebub,

Chapter 3 - The Resurrection a third of all angels fell down to hell

a third of all angels fell down to hell

and their bodies were solidified by the fall

that the people of earth could observe them.

These angels are now demons and imps of Satan

and are still revolting against the White Christ

and try to lure humankind to evil.

This church will be White Christ's fortress in his battle with Satan

and on the day of judgment, we will fight at his side.

Kyrie Eleison

Kyrie

Sanctus. Sanctus. Sanctus.

Kyrie Eleison.

They have seen us.

Kyrie Eleison

Kyrie.

Sanctus. Sanctus. Sanctus.

What news from Iceland?

So you would like some news from Iceland?

Have the heathens been converted?

It is expensive to travel to Iceland.

Great seas

and the trip long and chilly as you would know yourself.

You have nothing to fear. Askur had no success.

Is he not with you?

Or at least a part of him?

You promised me a ring of gold if Askur failed.

I promised you the ring for Askur's head.

Askur met his father and brother and there was no conversion.

Give me the ring!

Give me the head!

If he's alive, I do not owe you anything at all.

I asked for he head!

The ring!

The head!

The head!

The ring!

Now you are ordained as a priest.

White Christ is pleased with you.

And so am I

You will return my daughter to me?

Only the White Christ can return your daughter.

When you have finished his church.

Finished the church?

But I have finished it?

When it is completed, even the most barbaric heathen

would hesitate to burn down such a magnificent building.

King!

King!

Askur, who tried to kill you,

and whom you sent to Christianize Iceland,

has joined forces with his father and brother!

We should have sent them the head alone.

And kept the body.

He's now walking around in one piece

and leading the heathens against you.

And that makes you happy.

If Ketill brings bad news from Iceland,

I'd rather have him telling me that himself.

From now on, no ship sails for Iceland without my permission!

A church of Christ differs from a temple of Odin, Godbrandur.

A church has to be twice as high

rise towards God, the creator of Heaven.

You'll have to build another level.

Twice as high.

And when that is finished the church will be splendid enough

to keep White Christ himself.

And his bride.

This church of Christ, will it ever be finished?

Push.

Push.

Bear down.

No!

No!

White Christ. Embla will be your bride

and I know you will take good care of her.

I love her more than life itself.

And when she returns, all my belongings will go to her.

Where is Embla?

The bishop said that you had decided to settle in Iceland.

Where is Embla?

What happened in Iceland?

I asked where Embla is!

Christ has chosen her as his bride.

Is that what the King said?

No, Christ himself told me.

He spoke to you?

Yes.

Like Odin used to?

I used to feel Odin in my head.

This Christ does not speak to me.

But the White Christ that the King has with him, is white

with a beard, and a mouth that speaks.

He told me he had chosen Embla as his bride.

You're saying that White Christ is your son-in-law, and not I?

I'm just telling you what the White Christ said to me.

The god himself.

Embla is descended from the gods.

Her forefather Odin, came to her foremother during one night

and if the White Christ marries the descendant of Odin

it means that differing powers merge in one family

and peace between warring powers.

Odin is attracted to women.

So why should not White Christ be the same?

The king has tricked you.

Hear my words, White Viking.

I shall take Embla from the king and from you, even if it costs me my life.

Why can't I get that young Valkyrie out of my mind?

I have promised you all the lands in the west that belong to the Vikings

and now I want you to promise me this:

When Embla becomes your bride

then transform into flesh your Holy Ghost.

Be incarnate in me your bravest warrior

and your most faithful servant,

the king who Christianized Norway!

Those who God loves die young.

Those who Christ calls to him, find everlasting life.

I have a visitor for you.

Where is my child?

Christ will bestow upon it the crown of life.

Christ...?

This milk was intended for one of his children,

but now it shall burn you! Murderer!

Witch!

You heathen witch!

Get away!

My orders were that Godbrandur's daughter be treated as a queen.

Not as a witch!

I was not told you were carrying a child.

I did not ask either so the fault is mine.

Allow me to give it a burial in the name of the White Christ

as a token of my heartfelt regret for what has happened.

That will not bring my child back to life.

I will even conduct the ceremony myself.

That is the highest honour I can bestow upon anyone.

I will give the child back to Freya, who gave it to me.

You are a woman most fit for a king.

A chieftains daughter.

Your father is building the biggest church in Norway.

A king needs a strong woman by his side.

I'm afraid you will not see Askur again.

He has taken over his father's farm in Iceland,

and he is not coming back.

He has betrayed the White Christ.

And... you.

He will never betray me.

If you will be baptized of your own free will

and become mine,

I will take you away from here.

If not...

Consider my offer and send for me.

Askur will come back.

My dreams tell me so.

Do not steal from me my hope as well as my happiness.

This was a birth of a virgin.

Why was I never told that she was carrying a child?

Birth of a virgin?

Birth of a virgin.

How could I know?

Babies are born here all the time.

I thought the most important thing was that she did not escape.

Embla was an untouched virgin.

And now it has happened that the son of God

has been killed the second time!

What did you promise me?

What did you promise me?

To look after her with your life and soul!

Why can I never trust you?

Have I ever let you down?

Remember what I did for you in England?

Outlawed from Norway, when you came from Russia.

I made you a king!

England.. England.

How many times shall I have to pay for what you did in England?

I made you king!

How often have I not forgiven your foolishness and stupidity

for the same reasons?

I baptized you

Go. Go.

The king is here.

Wait for me here.

Embla!

Is she here?

No. Shall I fetch her?

Has she asked for me?

Not that I know of.

But she knows she is expected and that you intend to baptize her.

Bishop Thangbrandur asked for a ceremony fit for a queen

when Embla is to be baptized.

Start the ceremony.

You did not send for me.

You did not send for me.

I will wait for Askur.

One day you will be old, gray and ugly,

and still waiting.

Then you will remember how I once offered you the world.

I offered you the throne. Everyone would have to kneel for you.

Whatever you desired

could have been yours.

I have made my decision.

If you change your mind, you will become the Queen of Norway.

Christ is risen...

Jesus!

Jesus Christ!

I've seen him!

I've seen him!

Who?

The miracle!

It is true! He has risen from the grave!

Whom have you seen?

Jesus. He is in there.

Not in there.

There!

Can you swear by the Holy Mother of God that it is true?

Both in the name of the Mother of God and God himself.

If you saw a phantom then it was Satan.

Here is neither Christ nor Satan.

But I saw him!

I saw Jesus Christ!

She has seen Jesus Christ!

I allow you to perform mysteries,

and you begin to see ghosts!

Sister Helga claims to have seen a vision of Christ.

But Satan sent that vision to her mind!

Satan can appear in any shape in our minds.

He doesn't even hesitate to take on the shape of White Christ himself.

No! Satan.

Not Satan!

Christ will not reveal himself until the final day.

And even if he had come down to us,

he would have been wearing all his holy attributes.

The crown, the robe,

and the sword!

As you can see, here are his attributes.

No one. Not even Satan dares touch them.

No one is here except us

and this holy icon of wood.

Christ himself is invisible.

His holy spirit will protect us against the evil.

Now, go back to your chambers and praise the Lord.

If it was Satan that appeared in my mind,

then I must be baptized again.

I must be cleansed.

Satan! Not Satan!

Anyone who so wishes may be baptized now,

and then we'll take the Holy Sacrament together.

Jesus Christ!

Go back to heaven! Or they will crucify you again!

Jesus Christ is here!

We are not prepared for you. They will punish you again!

Go back to heaven! It isn't time yet to raise the dead from their graves.

Christ has come to punish her.

Go away! You have nothing to fear from him.

Come. He will not hurt you!

He has come to punish her.

Do not punish me!

Look! Look at my scars! I have been punished enough.

Punish me not for those babies. I didn't make them.

Children of sin! They deserved to die.

I was only doing your will.

Get away from me, evil Christ.

I have done no wrong but serve you.

Embla!

He is coming to get us!

Embla! It's me. Askur.

It is you.

I knew it! I knew you would come.

I never doubted for a moment.

Our baby is dead.

They took it away from me.

They gave it a Christian burial.

Against my will.

I know. I was there.

How?

I lay hidden. Then, I opened the grave.

It was a boy.

I love you.

I saw him!

We have to get away from here.

I saw him.

We have to. We have to.

I saw Jesus.

I told you so!

Now you'll believe me.

I saw him.

I saw Jesus!

I told you so!

He came to me in the chapel. Then he tried to follow me.

It was not Satan.

It was Christ.

Was it Christ?

He had all his holy attributes.

Are you sure?

If we all pray together, he might come once more to bless us.

Are you sure he'll want to bless us?

He wants to bless us.

How do you know that?

I could tell from his eyes.

Who are these men?

Looks like Godbrandur's men.

Godbrandur's assassins.

I baptized them.

Go find the rest of them.

The king has left.

Mother Freya.

I give back to you the child you gave me.

The White Christ has demanded that Askur must die.

The day you kill Askur I will join him in Valhalla.

I have begged him to have mercy on his life

but if you would do the same he would maybe hear your prayers.

His heart is large and bleeding.

You have used me to break my father's and husband's will.

But you will never break me.

You are like me.

You would die for what you believe in.

But could you sacrifice Askur?

White Christ has promised that if you agree to become his bride,

he will spare Askur's life.

But if you refuse him,

Askur must die.

Your father is here.

He too longs for you to become the bride of the White Christ.

Godbrandur

Now you see your daughter, as I promised.

Your father, true to his word

is building the most beautiful church in Norway.

I have kept my word.

Now you may speak!

Embla!

Remember White Christ's will.

I agree!

Joyously!

Only let her return to me.

With... with White Christ.

Father.

Let the king neither force you nor fool you.

Your daughter must accept White Christ of her own free will.

If not, Askur will die.

Now you may return home to continue building your church.

Continue?

The bell tower!

Embla! Embla!

If I agree to become the bride of White Christ,

on what conditions will you spare Askur's life?

Askur must return to Iceland.

You must convince him that this is your will.

He will go on your command.

On my command?

And your sworn oath to him? Concerning me?

A king's oath shall stand as law.

Then I accept.

Anew millenium is soon upon us.

A thousand years have passed since the birth of Christ.

This year, Christ intends to reincarnate

and return to us as man.

On your command.

Embla!

The king is willing to spare your life.

That hound will spare no one!

Say nothing. These walls have ears.

Promise me you will go back to Iceland.

You must return to Iceland. That is his condition.

I will go,

only if you come with me.

I am his hostage.

Until you return and tell him Iceland is Christian.

But I am an outlaw in Iceland. Anyone has the right to kill me.

But I am the one who is asking you to go.

You are going at my behest.

Will you promise to go back to Iceland?

If you want me to do the impossible,

and that is the only way,

then I will go.

The king has a generous heart.

He said if you agreed to go,

he would allow me to spend your last night here with you

because tomorrow you must set sail for Iceland.

My king!

It was not my fault that Embla fled.

Forgive me.

Punish me!

I am the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

Agnus Dei!

These men have waited for months for you to allow my...

...your ship to sail to Iceland.

My king!

This Icelander was Christian when he left Norway.

I baptized him on your command.

He became heathen as soon

as he set foot on Icelandic ground.

Yet he dares to return here to Norway.

My family has inheritance here in Norway.

Is that a cross?

Or the hammer of Thor?

Or both as you see fit!

This ring was given to my father by King Haraldur Bluetooth.

Your father is a heathen chieftain.

I will talk with my father. And my mother has been baptized twice.

First by Bishop Thangbrandur and then by Askur.

You can attest to my words.

Yes.

Kjartan!

Kjartan Olafsson.

That is a family heirloom. I beg you to take something else.

Kolbeinn Thordarson.

Kolbeinn Thordarson, Kjartan Olafsson.

Hallur Gudmundsson. Svertingur

All Icelandic chieftains' sons.

I'll give my permission for all these treasures to return to Iceland.

But you will all stay here with me.

For your sake, I hope your families will understand

the message I'm sending with this jewellery, carried by Bishop Thangbrandur.

This time you will carry out the instructions you gave Ketill

concerning how much of Askur Thorgeirsson

would return to Norway.

Or else..

...will give this head to my ravens.

No! No!

Never!

Never!

Go away! Stop touching me!

Embla!

Askur.

It's you.

It's you.

It really is you.

I dreamt of our child.

And then the White Christ appeared

and the child disappeared.

Then the White Christ tried to come to me.

I felt his hand.

It was cold.

As cold as a dead fish.

But yours is warm.

He has visited me in my dreams repeatedly

and always he tries to get into bed with me.

I then push him away.

But this time it was only you

and not that evil spirit.

And you're alive.

Alive!

And I'm so happy!

So happy that can't do anything but cry.

There is nothing to fear.

Look!

Freyja is with us as well.

But there is so much to fear.

It isn't just the White Christ who wants me to become his bride,

but the king himself.

That will never happen!

Then we'll go to Valhalla together, here and now.

No. I want us to live and fight the evil in this life.

That is the reason for us being here.

And I will never give up.

Never!