Recent years have seen a few films and TV series try to buck the stereotypes established by early Hollywood tales of Vikings, with Robert Eggers’s The Northman joining the likes of The Last Kingdom and the History Channel’s Vikings. While these have made strides, the most accurate Viking movie ever made is the Icelandic tale of revenge When the Raven Flies (Hrafninn Flýgur). Set in the 9th century, director Hrafn Gunnlaugsson drew inspiration from movies like Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars as well as the Icelandic sagas in a bid to replace the Hollywood image of Vikings with something truer to life.