"Vinland Saga" brings the era of the Vikings to the ... Thorkell is an eight-fall-tool ogre of a man who needs the blood of slain enemies to live as much as the blood pumping through his veins.

Based on the long-running manga penned by Makoto Yukimura of Planetes fame, Vinland Saga is a Norse tale told through a humanist lens. It follows Thorfinn, an Icelandic boy living in the early ...