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Amleth (Old Norse: Amlóði;
Latinized as Amlethus) is a
figure in a
medieval Scandinavian legend, the
direct inspiration of the
character of
Prince Hamlet...
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Eggers from a
screenplay he co-wrote with Sjón.
Based on the
legend of
Amleth, the film
stars an
ensemble cast
featuring Alexander Skarsgård (who also...
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guarding him.
Joining Amleth and his newly-formed unit were the
Jutish Princess Ophelia and her
protective knight, Godot.
Despite Amleth's objections, Ophelia...
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should put the
attendants to
death and give
Amleth his
daughter in marriage.
After marrying the princess,
Amleth returned at the end of a year to Denmark...
- combat.
Introduces Amleth as a
grandson of a
Danish king,
whose father was
murdered by his uncle, the
governor of Jylland.
Amleth pretends to be a fool...
- Eggers, and it
stars Robert Pattinson and
Willem Dafoe. In 2022, Eggers's
Amleth-inspired
Viking epic film The
Northman was released,
starring Alexander...
- of
Amleth,
which was
preserved in
Latin by 13th-century
chronicler Saxo
Grammaticus in his
Gesta Danorum, and
printed in
Paris in 1514. The
Amleth story...
- a
tragic play by
William Shakespeare,
based on the
story of Jute
prince Amleth.
Hamlet may also
refer to:
Prince Hamlet, the
protagonist Hamlet (1900 film)...
- significant: "It was no mere Englishing; he
could readily have been
called Amleth here too. He had been
deliberately rebaptised by his new creator." Sams...
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various Germanic heroes of legend, such as Wihtlæg, who
defeated and
killed Amleth, King of the Jutes.
Under Wermund the Angles'
fortress at
Schleswig is said...
