[ Panting ]
[ Strikes Shield Twice ]
[ Fighting Resumes ]
[ Crowd Gasping ]
-[ Men Grunting ] -[ Metal Clanging ]
[ Gasps ]
[ Sighs ]
You stupid fools !
[ All Gasping ]
See to your friend.
He was a brave man.
- You--you could have killed him at will. - Yes ?
- Wh-wh-why the deception ? - Deception is the point !
Any fool can calculate strength.
That one has been doing it from the moment he saw us.
Now he has to calculate what he can't see.
And fear what he doesn't know.
As you say, foolish and expensive.
We'll miss Angus tonight. We will miss his sword.
Edgtho ?
Stifle your racket. I hear you.
- I thought to find you in the tower. - Yeah.
- Why I'm not in it. - Brought your food.
[ Distant Thunder ]
- It's going to rain. -Surf.
Three miles up there's a cliff.
Tide's right, waves make thunder.
Farmers call it the ''thunder cliffs. ''
The mist is forming.
I see it.
[ Horse Snorts ]
[ Horn Blowing In Distance ]
The worm. They've roused the fireworm.
[ Drums Beating ]
[ Gong Sounding ]
[ Gong Continues ]
[ Shouting ]
[ Neighing ]
Quickly !
No time to waste. Outside ! Go !
Quickly ! Move !
Come on !
[ Man ] Go get the water.
A serpent of fire.
Breathing fire.
What's that in the field below the tower ?
- It's a child. - Look at her.
Open the gate. Get the gate !
- Open the gate ! - Push !
No ! You need to raise the spikes first ! Help me !
- Come on ! - Down.
[ Whinnying ]
[ Pounding Hoofbeats ]
[ Whinnying ]
Push it now !
Heave !
So you saw the fireworm ?
It's cavalry.
- I rather prefer a dragon. - Hundreds.
With torches.
Take the north.
Let's go, little brother. It's beginning.
" Arabe" ! Here !
[ Shouting ]
Guard !
Allah, be merciful.
[ Horse Whinnies ]
[ Pounding Hoofbeats ]
Ja! Did you see that ? Hold this.
I got you ! Ja !
[ Groans ]
[ Whinnying ]
[ Laughing ] Yeah !
[ Growling ]
[ Grunting ]
[ Groaning ]
[ Growling ]
[ Groaning ]
[ Groans ]
It's a man.
It's a man ! It's a man !
It's all right, little brother.
- There are more. - [ Growling ]
Aah !
- Aah ! - Aah !
Aah !
- [ Whinnying ] - Get 'em over !
Aah !
They've breeched the gate !
Aah !
[ Groaning ]
Aah !
They've breeched the gate !
Fight them ! Turn and fight them !
Aah !
Come on ! Come on !
Ahmed !
What do I do with it ?
Put your foot on it and stand !
- Aah ! - [ Whinnies ]
Aah !
[ Indistinct ]
[ Grunting ]
[ Horn Blowing In Distance ]
Aah !
[ Panting ] Don't !
[ Grunting ]
[ Horse Whinnies ]
Aah !
[ Panting ]
Skeld, Halga, Roneth...
and Rethel will be joining them.
I cannot...
taste neither the fermentation of grape...
nor of wheat.
- [ Chuckles, Laughs ] - What ?
Why do you laugh ?
Honey. [ Laughs ]
It's made from honey.
We will die here.
It is...
possible.
Come.
Come on.
She finish you, or bring you back to life ?
A gentleman doesn't discuss such things.
- [ Growls ] - Three more on the fence.
Looks like the mating of a man and some beast.
It's a man.
If it's a man, it must sleep.
If it sleeps, it has a lair and we have a trail.
Attack them ?
Is there a choice ?
Come with me. There is a woman who can help.
Bring the Arab.
There's one down here who was old...
when my grandmother was a girl.
She's quite mad.
The perfect advisor.
Oh, Weilew. Oh.
[ Clicks Tongue ] Shame, shame, shame.
It's a Queen Weilew fronts me now, does she not ?
We seek your counsel, Madam.
We or he ?
Step closer, Buliwyf.
Closer.
You know me ?
I have ears. "Warrior," says the wind.
''Chieftain, '' says the rain.
But why seek you me ?
Met you your match ?
Met you your match...
with the eaters of the dead?
We seek your wisdom.
Wars are won in the will.
Perhaps you've been fighting in the wrong field.
Have you a token ? A thing.
- A thing of them. - Yes.
Ahh.
They show you the way you will not see.
Slaughter them till you rot.
You'll accomplish nothing.
Find the root.
-Strike the will. - How ?
This is the mother of the Wen.
She they revere.
She is the will.
Where do I seek her ?
She is the earth. Seek her in the earth.
[ Clears Throat ]
And Buliwyf,beware the leader of their warriors.
He wears the horns of power.
He, too, you must kill.
Have we anything resembling a plan ?
Uh-huh. Ride till we find them, kill them all.
[ Panting ]
A child could follow this.
They have no fear, no fear of us at all.
[ Dog Barks ]
[ Barks ]
The dog does not approve.
Bear skulls.
I don't think they like company.
The claws.
The headdresses.
Bears.
They think they are bears.
They want us to think they are bears.
Hey, how do you hunt a bear ?
Chase it down with dogs. What--
How do you hunt a bear in winter ?
Go in his cave with spears.
Where is a cave ?
It's in the earth.
[ Horse And Rider Approaching ]
The next glen, many fires.
Is there a cave ?
[ Rushing Water Sound ]
But there's no cave.
Yes, there is.
-Straight into the rock face. - Can we get to it ?
If they don't keep dogs, maybe.
[ Speaking Native Language ]
[ Shouts ]
[ Arrow Whooshes ]
You'd have to kiss me first, dearie.
Let's go.
[ Snoring ]
Oh, how deep in the Earth are we ?
- Deep enough to fall out the bottom. - Come on !
Look at your feet.
I was wrong.
These are not men.
[ Rushing Water Sound ]
If we cut our way through them,
we will have the other lot on us.
Down the wall,
and we swim.
I go.
[ Grunts ]
- Let's go, little brother. - I do not enjoy heights.
[ Grunts ]
Stay.
[ Speaking Native Language ]
[ No Audio ]
[ Wendols Chanting In Native Language ]
[ Chanting Continues ]
[ Groans ]
[ Shouting ]
Aah !
[ Shouting ]
Go ! Kill her !
Do it !
[ Grunting ]
[ Growls ]
[ Grunts ]
[ Snake Hissing ]
- Aah ! - [ Grunts ]
[ Guttural Sounds ]
[ Growling ]
- [ Screeches ] - [ Grunts ]
Aah !
[ Groans ]
[ Shouting ]
Damn it !
It is done ?
It is.
[ Shouting ]
A hard fight to get clear of here ?
Hey, there's a passage leading down.
[ Groans ]
I've run about as far as I care to.
[ Spits ]
Today was a good day.
A good day.
[ Men Shouting, Distant ]
Get along, lad.
Go.
Helfdane ?
We'll just keep following this stream.
It has to come out somewhere.
Stream disappears under the rocks.
- Buliwyf! - I'm all right.
We fight by twos. Give the other pair a chance to rest.
[ Rumbling ]
Here they come.
Go on, make it worse.
Now it's gonna rain. [ Laughs ]
-[ Men Laughing ] - It's gonna rain. It's gonna rain.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait !
- Thunder. - Waves make thunder.
- The thunder cliffs. - Surf. Surf.
There's a surf out there.
Can we swim it ? Do we drown trying ?
Try it.
Breathe ! Breathe ! Deep breath !
Now, one, two, three !
The way we'll know is...
if they don't follow us,
it's too far to swim !
[ Laughs ]
[ All Gasping ]
Not through the night.
- His fate is sealed. -[ Ahmed ] You don't know that.
The skeane is tied.
The weave was settled long ago.
You're wearing that long face for me ?
I cannot help it.
I have only these hands.
I will die a pauper.
You will be buried as a king.
A man might be thought wealthy...
if someone were to draw...
the story of his deeds...
that they may be remembered.
Such a man might be thought wealthy indeed.
He's traveling to the other side.
He grips his sword as if afraid he will not wake.
Think no more of these things. You must rest now.
- I'm not tired. - Rest.
The Wendol want vengeance for killing their mother.
They will come soon.
Again ?
We killed the mother but not the leader.
As long as he lives, they will come back to fight us.
When ?
Tonight.
[ Sighs ]
The evening lasts so long here.
Not like home.
I don't think tonight there will be--
-[ Horn Blowing ] - fog.
[ Horn Blowing ]
[ Grunting ]
[ Child Crying ]
[ Rumbling ]
" Kill the mother," she said.
" Kill their leader and they will break."
We'll soon find out if she was right.
At least we don't have to worry about fire.
They're all terrified, ready to break and run.
I wish we had Buliwyf with us.
It's a small matter.
Here.
Prepare yourselves.
Merciful Father,
I have squandered my days with plans of many things.
This was not among them.
But at this moment,
I beg only...
to live the next few minutes well.
-[ Babies Crying ] - When the time comes.
Don't let them be taken.
For all we ought to have thought...
and have not thought,
all we ought to have said...
and have not said,
all we ought to have done...
and have not done,
I pray Thee, God, for forgiveness.
[ Horse Neighs ]
They're coming!
[ Dog Whining ]
[ Horn Blowing ]
[ Whinnying ]
[ Horn Blowing ]
[ Thunder ]
'Lo there do I see my father.
- 'Lo there do I see my mother and my sisters... - Mother and my sisters...
- and my brothers. -and my brothers.
'Lo there do I see the line of my people,
back to the beginning.
'Lo they do call to me.
They bid me take my place among them.
In the halls of Valhalla,
where the brave...
may live...
forever.
Aah !
[ Horse Shrieks ]
[ Screams ]
[ Growling ]
Aah !
[ Groans ]
Aah !
[ Scream Continues ]
[ Horn Blowing ]
It's over.
[ Dog Barks ]
[ Whining ]
[ Thunder ]
We shall make prayers for your safe passage.
Prayers to who ?
In your land one god is perhaps enough, but we have need of many.
I will pray to all of them for you. Do not be offended.
I'll be in your debt.
Good-bye, Arab !
Good-bye, Northman.
[ Ahmed Narrating ] Across seas of monsters and forests of demons we traveled.
Praise be to Allah,
the merciful and compassionate.
May His blessing be upon pagan men...
who loved other gods, who shared their food...
and shed their blood...
that his servant, Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan,
might become a man...
and a useful servant of God.