Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett) sails into Kattegat on “Vikings: Valhalla.” BERNARD WALSH/NETFLIX It’s an impressively small-scale way to begin a show with lots of moving pieces and battles. Too ...

The film is part of a larger renaissance of interest in the historical Scandinavian people commonly known today as Vikings ... every Viking-centric film or TV show is as raw as The Northman ...

Vikings: Valhalla introduces Leif Ericksson and a host of new characters who immediately become embroiled in parallel tales of revenge ... to have changed. The show’s production values retain ...

Do you have to have watched the History Channel’s “Vikings” series in order to fully ... almost seductively by torchlight. So, sure, the show can sometimes feel like a montage of strapping ...