Erik the Viking (1989)

Tim Robbins: Erik

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• Thorfinn Skullsplitter : You mean... you can't kill ANYBODY?

  King Arnulf : Right! Isn't it wonderful?

  Thorfinn Skullsplitter : What? Not being able to kill anybody?

  King Arnulf : Well, of course.

  Erik : How?

  King Arnulf : Well... for a start... er... there's no killing...

  Erik : Well, OBVIOUSLY there's no killing.

  King Arnulf : Well...

  Thorfinn Skullsplitter : But how d'you take revenge?

  Keitel Blacksmith : How do you punish people?

  Ivar the Boneless : How do you DEFEND yourselves?

  King Arnulf : We don't have to. We're all terribly nice to each other.

• Erik : And you, Sven, aren't you afraid of crossing the Rainbow Bridge to Asgaard?

  Sven the Berserk : I will join my grandfather there!

  Thorfinn Skullsplitter : He's not in Valhalla! He died of old age.

• [first lines] 

  Helga : Have you done this sort of thing before?

  Erik : Me? Of course. I've been looting and pillaging up and down the coast.

  Helga : Looting and pillaging, eh?

  Erik : Yes

  Helga : What about the raping?

  Erik : Shut up.

  Helga : Well, it's obvious you haven't raped anyone in your life.

• Erik : Ooh! Scary! Scary! Don't we look mean? You can't see me! But I can see you!

• Erik : Maybe none of us will return.

  Snorri the Miserable : Oh, well that's much more sensible than just Thorfin getting killed. Shall we all go and pack now?

• King Arnulf : Now, I want you to be absolutely, totally, genuinely honest with me. Did you really, truly, honesty like it?

  Erik : ...No.

  King Arnulf : They didn't like it! Oh my God! I want to die!

• Helga : [Erik has accidentally run his sword through her while killing the other two Vikings who were raping her]  Thanks for saving me from a fate worse than death.

  Erik : I didn't mean to!

  Helga : [Gasping for breath]  Oh, that's all right then. It's the thought that counts.

  Erik : You told them I raped you, why?

  Helga : I don't know. You looked so - vulnerable.

  Erik : Why should you care?

  Helga : Why should you care?

  Erik : Tell me your name? Tell me, what is it?

  [Helga dies before she can answer] 

• Erik : Bring the Age of Ragnarok to an end and stop all this fighting and bloodshed.

  Odin : Erik the Viking, the things you seek are not in our power. We don't make men love each other or hate each other.

  Erik : But, you're the Gods?

• Snorri the Miserable : Anyone know any good drowning songs?

  Erik : Listen! Maybe we won't get to Hy-Brasil! Maybe we won't find the Horn Resounding... but at least we've tried... and at least we shall have died like men.

  Snorri the Miserable : Like fish.

• Erik : I am the air! I am the wind!

• Princess Aud : Have you ever felt like this about anyone else?

  Erik : You mean got into bed with them?

  Princess Aud : No. Of course not, silly. No, I mean felt like this about them?

  Erik : You mean you have got into bed with somebody else?

  Princess Aud : No, I mean have you ever felt that for the first time in your life you've met someone you really can believe in with your whole heart? Someone who's goals suddenly seem to be your goals. Those dreams become your dreams.

  Erik : Have you ever been to bed with anyone else?

• Princess Aud : But, but you loved her all the same?

  Erik : We never went to bed together.

  Princess Aud : Why do you go on about that?

  Erik : You have been to bed with somebody else, haven't you?

  Princess Aud : I've never loved anybody!

  Erik : I've never been to bed with anybody!

• Helga : Why do you have to go around killing and looting all the time?

  Erik : To pay for the next expedition, of course.

  Helga : But that's a circular argument! If the only reason for the expedition is the killing and looting and the only reason for the killing and looting is to pay for the next expedition, they cancel each other out.

  Erik : Stop talking as if we were married!

  Helga : Well you started it.

  Erik : I just said I didn't feel like raping you.

  Helga : And I was just saying that rape is no more pointless or crude than all the killing and looting.

• Erik : What's it all about, grandpa?

  Erik's Grandfather : What?

  Erik : We toil and labour, we loot and pillage - we rape and kill, and yet...

  Erik's Grandfather : Why're you talking this piffle, son?

  Erik : Where does it all get us, Grandpa?

  Erik's Grandfather : Who you've been talking to?

  Erik : I met this girl.

  Erik's Grandfather : A woman. It's always a woman who causes all the trouble.

  Erik : She got me thinking.

  Erik's Grandfather : So? What'd you do to her?

  Erik : I killed her.

  Erik's Grandfather : That's my boy!

  [laughs] 

• Freya : The Old Stories tell of an age that would come such as this when Fenrir the Wolf would swallow the sun, and a Great Winter would settle on the world. It was to be an axe age, a sword age, a storm age, when brother would turn against brother, and men would fight each other until the world was finally destroyed.

  Erik : Then this is the Age of Ragnarok?

• Erik : Is there nothing men can do?

  Freya : The Gods are asleep, Erik.

  Erik : I will go and wake them up then!

• Thorfinn Skullsplitter : Let's hack her to pieces!

  Erik : No.

  Keitel Blacksmith : Well, what else do we do?

  Erik : How? How about making friends?

  Sven the Berserk : "Friends"?

  Erik : Well what's wrong with making friends?

  Thorfinn Skullsplitter : You don't go through all the hardships of an ocean voyage to make "friends".

  Sven the Berserk : We can make "friends" at home!

• Helga : Oh, good, it's Mr. Wonderful!

  Erik : I've come to take you back to the land of the living.

  Helga : What a stupid idea.

  Erik : Why?

  Helga : Well, what's the point of being dead in the land of the living?

• Erik : Thangbrand sit where Ornulf is. Ornulf sit where Ulf is. Ulf sit where Thangbrand was. Ragnar sit behind Thorfinn. Thorfinn stay where you are.

  Sven's Dad : I wanted to sit next to Leif.

  Erik : Shut up. Sven switch with Snorri. Snorri sit behind Sven. Keitel sit here, Harald there, Leif there, Bjarni there.

• Erik : What if we could find Bi-Frost the Rainbow Bridge?

• Princess Aud : Welcome!

  Erik : What did you say?

  Princess Aud : I said you're welcome.

  Erik : Welcome?