Helvetian folk metal outfit Eluveitie have posted the whole of their new album, due for release on February 19th, on their Myspace page. The album, Everything Remains (As It Never Was), will be to listen to for free right up until the official release date.
Nuclear Blast, the Swiss bands label, has also released four preview trailer videos along with the music video for the track Thousandfold.
Hollywood actor and director Mel Gibson’s next directing project will be an as-yet untitled film about Vikings, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, “Variety” reported on Monday.
“This will be an awe-inspiring story, created with some of the industry?s finest cinematic talent and I am just over the moon to be making this film with Mel, Leo and Bill,” said the film’s producer Graham King in a statement.
Baltasar Kormakur, Iceland’s best known film director, has started work on a new high-budget Viking movie. This will be the most expensive film ever made in Iceland with an estimated budget of 60 million dollars.
Baltasar, who is probably the most popular movie director in Iceland, became famous for directing “101 Reykjavik” some years ago. His new movie is partly based on the stories of Njal (”Njals saga”), a Viking herse and his family living in Norway and Iceland. The sagas are full of dramatic stories, and they are a very important part of the history of the Icelanders.
A burglar leaped out of a first floor window after being disturbed by a man dressed as the Norse god Thor.
Torvald Alexander was still wearing a red cape and the thunder god’s silver-winged helmet and breastplate after a New Year’s Eve fancy dress party when he discovered the man rummaging through drawers in the front room of his home in Inverleith, Edinburgh.
Alexander, a 6ft builder who had made his costume out of tin foil, frightened the intruder by charging at him.
Icelandic-Swedish Viking film Embla (2007), directed by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, will have its US debut at a student conference hosted by the German and Scandinavian studies division at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) on February 15.
