Will2Powa posted:

One thing I find interesting about Vinland Saga is seeing medieval viking culture portrayed through a kind of Japanese cultural lens. Though everything seems actually pretty close to being historically accurate, the characters behave more closely to Japanese cultural norms. In the recent chapter, the pose of the old man hoeing on the last page is very Japanese really, very reminiscient of a rice paddy farmer. It's really cool seeing a non-western take on a historical culture that is usuallly (at least, to most of us) portrayed through a modern Western cultural lens.