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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > VEGETA > Vinland Saga, Historie, Cesare, Otoyomegatari... Foreign history manga thread
 
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Algid
Oct 10, 2007

Forest Fuckery posted:

VVV wait what where

It wasn't the talk about his father, it was the king implying that his mother was a slave. I don't recall the specific details, but it was back when they were arranging secret passage for the prince and he mentioned who his parents were.

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Algid
Oct 10, 2007


 Yeah, if you told someone that a character in a work of historical fiction is the descendant of King Arthur and his name is basically the male version of Cinderella, they probably wouldn't expect someone like Askeladd.

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Algid
Oct 10, 2007

Sellanraa Six posted:

FATHER FROST!!! :argh:
Pretty sure that was actually the guys earlier in the chapter who trampled their wheat or something, the stalks are actually broken.

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Algid
Oct 10, 2007

Eiba posted:

I'm not actually sure about this development, even though I loved Farming Saga. Pacifism like this, not motivated by religion, kind of strikes me as one of those feel-good anachronisms that I was so happy didn't exist in this manga of brutal Vikings. Giving a protagonist in a historical context sympathetic modern values that are entirely inappropriate for their culture just so they don't alienate the reader really bothers me, and Vinland Saga was one of the few works that didn't.
It's not necessarily anachronistic, I mean we've really only seen two characters who believe in pacifism and Thorfinn can't exactly lead a life killing and pillaging in Vinnland. It's sort of like atheists during various periods of history, they were rare, but it's not exactly some sort of formalized belief system that people couldn't come up with on their own.

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