The Saga Of Biorn
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- Опубликовано: 17 фев 2011
- Graduation film from The Animation Workshop, Denmark.
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Story
Biôrn, an old Viking, is determined to reach Valhalla, the warrior's afterlife full of excessive drinking and debauchery. To gain entry he has to die honorably in battle, but he discovers that the right death isn't so easy.
Credits
A film by: Benjamin J. Kousholt, Daniel D. Christensen, Mads Lundgaard Christensen, Jesper A. Jensen, Jonas K. Doctor, Steffen Lyhne, Pernille Ørum-Nielsen, Frederik Bjerre-Poulsen, Jonas Georgakakis 
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He wanted Valhalla, but he got nun of that.
good joke
XD
ha puns
@@rainbowgunsh3331 hey! It hap puns.
Get thee to a nunnery!!!
LMAO the large axe-man being grabbed by the bird instead of falling through the wedged rock got me good!
A classic use of bait-and-switch humor.
I can see why Vikings would always destroy churches during their raids
+DkLnBr YES.
My thoughts exactly! They especially seemed to hate monasteries...
Michael Kardal Oh hey did you get my party invi-ohhh erm never mind. I'll see you later Mark, er Morgan.
Except that judging by the architecture, this is a Scandinavian "black church" from around the 1000s. There was in fact a period of several centuries in which Christianity and Norse heathenism existed side by side.
The monasteries were full of gold at the time. Like if those megachurch pastors bought gold instead of jets, and mansions. They were objectively totally worth the looting.
I'm starting a "Set Biorn free!" petition. Let's send him where he belongs! Who's with me?!
Hell yeah! Biorn deserves Valhalla so much. Count me in!
@@misolahky8924 I'm in!
Where do I sign
count me in
I'm in
One mans Heaven is another mans Helheim......
Darth Panzer Helheim*
***** Thank ye kind sir!
Darth Panzer there is just one problem souls don't go to hel they go to Nifflheim hel is just the hall of hel.
Óðinn It's a metaphor of course.
+Darth Panzer
no, there is nothing as a double L word
the saddest ending possible for such a beautiful story
At least the music be bumpin lit elevator music
I agree it was sad. He wanted Valhalla but was denied
He is a pagan and Hell would be like a Valhalla to him. So Heaven it is since it is the equivalent of Hellheim to all Norseman.
Well he was made a saint, by his deeds.
To this day, I like to think he ended up going on a rampage which got him sent to literal hell, where he ironically would find a less boring more enjoyable life battling demons instead.
wait is he the DOOM SLAYER
He believes in Valhalla 😅
Poor guy! He deserved Valhalla so much. That was mean.
I Agree.
agreed
+blondepaprika It was horrific >XD
+blondepaprika And Murphy said so: Every good deeds must have his punishment!
Also ro Matias christophersen: The celtic "heaven"(Mag Mell) almost the same, you can get free beer, hot watered fountains for bathing, and the weather is far better than the skandinavian - less hailstorms, more sun, et cetera...
+Ilya Dubrovin Well if we have to look at it historically then "dying in battle" was never a requirement to enter Valhalla in death. The vikings did however believe that it bettered your chances.
This is so funny. I love the rotating afterlife wheel.
+kaguth
I think it just goes to show that religion is merely a matter of personal choice, rather than objective truth.
+kaguth The Buddhist one should have had a revolving door.
+JusheisPwn
The Mormons love to bapzize people posthumously.
They did it to Anne Frank, Adolf Hitler, Elvis Presley, Pope John Paul II, Mahadma Gandhi, Joan of Arc and many, many more.
+Mark P. Hah, nice one
Yeah, that was brilliant !
This NEEDS a sequel where poor Bjorn manages to escape Christian heaven. I don't care how
agreed. heck just for kicks he could beat the crap out of yahweh because he doesn't expect a human to betray him in the after life.
Hey, true Christian religion is not like that, it's catholic religion
yep
Elbow drop into hell, where he wrestles Satan.
There needs to be a religious worshipper exchange. Odin: Hey Jehovah, I think you have one of my guys...here, have these priests that mysteriously got into Valhalla.
It's been 9 yrs pls we need a sequel or a full animated series this is too good to just leave here
so moral of the story is never try to save nuns?
+Shroomis YUP lol!
or making sure they're dead first :P
no, moral of the story is, as Uthred used to say: "Fate is inexorable"
And to avoid bad habits?
the moral of the story is to run up the stairs as fast as you can, never saver it
lol, did not expect this to be this good. Lovely style, great humour, and a weirdly engaging plot- I couldnt tell if I wanted him to win or lose against the giant.
+an1m8r Same.
He ended up doing both
@@cyrildanilchenko6776 the win was shortlived though
Poor Bjorn, all he wanted was eternal battle and drinking. :(
Tal Madar Spelling! Bjorn
It Biorn
Don't forget about sex the day goes form battling till "dead" or Sundown then drinking and sex all night
@@soulishere3869 But remember you have to die killing someone in a war to get to the Valhalla. Are you prepared to do it? Maybe viking paganism it´s not the answer, they used to commit human sacrifices and castrate and then rape their prisioners after the raids. I don´t know what you think about thar moral...
Miguel Rey well yes but this wasn’t immoral either. Morality I based on your own opinions and religion. They believed that the weak suffered so the strong could live. Men killed and raped, women killed and raped. As well as christians, Greeks, pagans, Muslims each religion is based on ones morality and to believe yours is better than their’s is hypocritical. The Vikings also lived at a time where it was kill or be killed. They had to fight to survive.
I absolutely *LOVE* the part at 5:45, the revolving gates of the various after life realms!
О да все хотят видеть это и думают что так и будет))) но я разочарую вас только один ответ верный 🙏
Nearly 11 years old....This is still great, a classic and definitely needs a sequel.
Damn nuns! He was awaited in Valhalla!
+FiskenTheFish MEDIOCRE!
This is actually super upsetting
doesn't count unless he repents, they'll notice the filing error in a few millennia
@TC Trygg But remember you have to die killing someone in a war to get to the Valhalla. Are you prepared to do it? Maybe viking paganism it´s not the answer, they used to commit human sacrifices and castrate and then rape their prisioners after the raids. I don´t know what you think about thar moral...
@@leatherandtactel Many Chirstians had the same moral. For example, those spanish and portuguese who went to America and destroyed the civilizations and he people there.
@@leatherandtactel Same thing happened in Christian raids, so morals are different according to religion.
@@leatherandtactel no you dont have to die killing someone to get into valhalla, who told you that? You simply have to die in battle.
Even after all these years, still one of my all time favorites.
Same. Truly genius animation.
That is so horribly cruel!
Edited: Love the animation but damn! Biorn went through so much only to be denied his greatest desire.
I know right!
I would love an entire game in this style
tribes of midgard
Valheim!
Have u played the Asterix & Obelix games ?
Fun fact.
Hell is directly taken from the nordic bad afterlife Helheim, named after its goddess, Hel.
Who owns a boat made from toenails. Nagelfar.
Nord mythos is fun :P
Christianity basically steals all their mythos from the Norse. XD
Christmas? Yeah, that was Norse Jul. Santa Claus? Yep, that's Odin Allfather.
Another fun fact, Hell is a place you can go to :D
It's in Norway. :P
Oh yeah! I forgot about that. XD I had actually done some research in 7th grade on Hell, Norway and thought the place was kind of boring. I never realized back then that it wasn't a major city.
Matt LITC I'm going to have to call Bullshit on that one as I place high doubts that the Bible written down in the area of the Mediterranean was based on Nordic mythos.
Don't forget that it also went the other way, especially as the majority of Norse Sagas we have written down today came from christian scholars well after Christianity began exerting a strong presence in the area.
Santa Claus was also based on Saint Nicholas who went around giving gifts in Russia as well.
Christmas though was a Christianized holiday but celebrations are pretty common throughout the world so it still isn't exactly special.
TheGrandslam89 I never mentioned the Holy Bible.
I want a sequel where biorn escapes into Valhalla cause cmon that’s just cruel
Can there be sequel where he escapes heaven and journeys through the astral planes to Valhalla?
Cause this is bummer man lol
That is very Life itself
REMAKE THIS AND PUT BIORN WHERE HE BELONGS.
Even after all these years, this is still one of the best animations I've ever seen.
Love this! Didn't expect to be so invested in the story but it was so well animated and entertaining, I was totally absorbed the whole way through!
I felt phisical pain for the ending.
The morel of the story? Even if it is not your religion, deal with the dead according to their religions or else you deny them their heaven and condemn them to their hell.
Very true ^
Yessssss
See that Mormons?
Untrue. That would imply that other religions are based upon truth. And that once all you've got is a lifeless hunk of soulless meatsack of skin/bones, anything done to it on Earth matters one bit. Certainly you should respect what was once a reciprocal for the soul of a person. But once someone's Dead, nothing you do with their body('ies), will effect that person's eventual fate.
(I hope and pray that your death would not result in "bodies", but you can't always help how you die)
Peace! ✌😇✝
Yeah, I mean, what were they thinking ?! That's what I hate about religion, there'll always be these pricks who think their religion is the "Correct One". I mean, if I was an egyptian and found a dead celt in my garden, I wouldn't dry him up and put him in a box because that's my religion, I would research the correct burrial way of his religion. To *honor* him. To *_respect_* him.
God.
Fucking dammit.
*_WHY AM I ANGRY OVER A FUNNY CARTOON ?!_*
Oh, BTW, if I wasn't clear on that, I don't mean that _every_ religous person is a prick, I meant that there is some of them who are pricks while the other a respectful people who do not judge on other people's belief.
See, THIS is why you don't push your religion onto other people!!!
What's wrong with you? If you don't like something then forget about it. If vegetarian doesn't eat meat they just don't eat it without screaming why doing opposite is bad. Curse you.
meat is murder...if you dont believe in GOD then youll go to hell hahaha your example is soooooo bad vegetarians and Christians are on a crusade and feel obligated to spread their beliefs on others.. and in this case biorn could not object. he was already dead
christians, muslims, jews, communists, nazis, femminists, vegans,... they're all the same (and that's exactly what vegans do: shame you for eating meat, just as christians shame you for not believing - because that's all they can really do... and violence, when they can't lie their way out)
Arin Jäger um im christains, and i am not any og that, and also, I fucking hate nazis, they are not like us, they slaughtered jews and christains, besides, i am a Christian, and i aint like that, racist jerk !
Arin Jäger
That’s not what we do at all?
This is fantastic! You really out did yourself. My boyfriend who is a video game programer and myself, a filmmaker, loved your work! Biorn's ending was priceless! That would be my reaction for sure! Great job!
Very nicely done. It illustrates clearly how the idea of the shape of a possible afterlife is shaped by fashions and culture. And making a point with humor always gets my admiration.. The animation is good as well.
Love this video. Would love to see a sequel where Biorn fights his way through the afterlifes to get to Valhal.
This makes me feel so bad for Biorn
Same man
Same man
I love this video, seen it many times. I wish I had the same skills to create such great animations for my own videos. It really has a great story and deserve each view and like has gotten! Really well made :)
This is amazing I love your work especially the artistic style you use. I can't wait to watch more from you.
I guess he was Biorn again.
Biorn to be wild
Hahahahaha gtfo im feking dead!!!!
Lol that's just wrong.
The dwarf was simply epic :D
Such an amazing piece of work. Kudos to you!
Ffs, this was the best short I've seen in a long time and GODDAMN I legit didn't see that ending coming! Good shit!
The animation on this is beautiful!
+DoctaDuckroll Its quite detailed.
That's the saddest thing i ever watched, poor warrior.
Really clever and well, check that; beautifully and professionally done, imo. Continued good luck on your path(s).
I played this clip for my kid to interest him in Norse mythology, he asked a few logical questions and left( kids these days). I, in the other hand, loved the clip. Thanks.
The morale of the story, Never help Nuns
Sorry to tell u after 5 years but it's moral .
@@enchantedfill9471 Telling him that was probably bad for his morale. :D
Seriously my favorite animation short of all time. :D
Ty so much for this movie, it changed my life!
This is so cool, great cinematics!
Absolutely fantastic. Loved the surreal animation, with realistic snowflakes. Very well done.
one man's heaven is another man's hell
Absolutely wonderful art, story and imagery!!!
1 of the best video out there I saw it in couple of years now I've come to see it again
The makers of this Animation better give Biorn a better ending or i will start WW3
Too late ww3 is already reserved sir
@@ididntmeantoyt3864 How do you know it's not his doing?
@@xxscrublordxxx5652 true
@@ididntmeantoyt3864 ww4 then lol
I would like but it has 69 likes soo
6:18
well,
I do not mind being a pagan if THAT is what heaven looks like.
Am catholic, and after thinking in this well... nope am not going to heaven plis, i wanna go to tye valhalla
I came to this video about 10 years late but really enjoyed it. Nice job.
2:57 I'm forced to say this: the falling snowflakes made just like the Viking runes is truly a touch of genius. ^///^
Poor dwarf! He was kinda cute when he was scared!
so basically this can pretty much just state that Valhalla is the best place to go while heaven is fucking boring
Really good animation, would love to see a longer film about Biorn :)
How are you not more popular!! Your so good at animation and store plots! All my friend will know about you from me bro!
Moral of the story: There is no moral just eat beans and you will be happy.
can't be happy since I found out that jelly beans do not contain pork gelatin >.>
@@ArinJager1 I meant kidney beans, not jelly beans.
Meh, who cares?
@@outlanderwraith KBs are good, but baked beans in tomato sauce? even better!
Thor has a hammer and Jesus has nails - nuff said.
They would be the best Carpenters EVER! Like Mario and Luigi, Thor and Jesus!
Chris G No, the nails go into jesus.
Chris G Actually he doesn't exist, so yeah
Zach Bly You should rename yourself to "CAPTAIN OBVIOUS, HE WHO STATES WHAT EVERYONE KNOWS AND IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE!"
***** No... he's gonna be poisoned by said snake, kill it, then die of the poison... :1
This channel is so slept on
Learning about this in school, We had to act it out and then write our own, We used your video to watch it!
Poor Bjorn, the nuns meant well they didn't mean to deprive him of Valhalla... They sought to give him a proper burial and send him off in the way of a respected hero... He saved their lives and they mourned him and gave him what they considered a proper burial in return...
Looks more like final version of Skyrim.
Exciting to think that the afterlife is not a static state either, loved it.
A wonderful animation, thanks!
According to this, apparently one's burial ceremony determines their afterlife. Who knew?
*im watching this just because I ŵatched it and learning it at school xd*
same
Holyshit this was f****** great. Very cool well done.
that was brilliant...saw the punchline coming but really enjoyed it thanks
Did you know that there is a serpent circling our world (Midford,home of the humans) called Jormungandr and at the bottom of the tree of life is a dragon called nidhogg chewing at the roots trying to drestoy it.
Valhall? Sounds so wrong when you remove the very important A at the end of the word. Valhallaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! The home of the brave. (Triggered Viking from Sweden).
i always have to say "ValhallA" whenever they guy says "Valhall" because it makes me stay sane
British Kid
Indeed :/
Valhalla is English. It's Valhal in Danish and Valhall in Norwegian and Swedish. You are an embarrassment.
It salso Valhalla in german, and german is nearly similar to the language origin.
PenttiLinkola23 /wm5ZRcHmexo watch it... and afterwards crawl away in shame.
God, this brings back memories. The last time I watched this was in primary school when we learnt about the Vikings.
I really liked the dial that spun around after they buried them. Too funny 😃
Ohhh what nostalgia, I watched this several year ago and I forgot the name and found this by accident.
As a Christian, this had me on the floor laughing XDDDD I feel so bad for Björn!
holy shit, that was funny....and with a twist too. nice. good job
This short gives me existential dread. Every time.
I remember reading about Valhalla as a kid. Fight all day, get healed of your wounds by lovely shield maidens in the evenings, then party all night. Kind of like afterlife designed for bikers.
too bad biker gangs are christins >.> (so I guess not THESE bikers, then)
Hilarious!
But there is a plot hole: he wasn't baptized!
AcemanTheSpaceman So, the sequel is Bjorn trying to find God so he can make a bid to escape Heaven. God grants him his escape, and Bjorn is resurrected for another life of fighting... and fighting... and fighting... and failing to get slain in worthy battle.
Doh!
+Sin tanan PLEASE tell me there is a sequel!
Alex Tirithedain Not that I'm aware of.
Interesting.
Still awesome all these years later.
I've seen 100s of 'em... none have been as funny as this one and this one is really really funny! ROTF LMAO
Is this what people truly picture the idea of what heaven would look like? I could be wrong but what I was taught was a lot more exciting. I did enjoy the video don't get me wrong, and I was routing for the Viking to reach Valhalla
+Asrick lore Every religion, even every denomination has it's own story of what will happen after death; one more unlikely than the other.
Yeah lots of people believe Heaven will be puffy clouds and whiteness where we will worship God for eternity, that's quite boring. Valhalla and the happy hunting ground sounds more interesting.
One of my favorites. Although the Dwarf looks a lot like Stimpy
That was AWESOME!
Animations like these are Incredibly Cool
Ha ha ha since I am partially of scandinavian Origin I can understand his pain...
I don't wanna go to heaven :)
Peace and Noise!!!
Heaven looks so boring.
I am sure it is, that is why I am only medium good...
Yeah and this is why I quitted Christianity last year and 1% good
One mans hevean can be another mans hell?
Maybe, to me the nirvana is the most accuarate description of hell
You can't think, or feel, or even be. A state of inexistence and solitude, like a total void.
Man, any other ethernal life sounds better than that to me, where you can DO SOMETHING after die.
TornadoAzulK4
Why's that? If you don't exist, cannot think, feel or be, how are you supposed to EXPERIENCE the void?
Perfectly fine for me, total non-existance. Count me in.
B20C0 Well i'm not shure if it was being nothing (like just dead) or in midle of nothing without reincarnate, but either way sounds really booring to me. However, this prooves the point that one man heaven can be other men hell
TornadoAzulK4 You can't feel boredom.
Thats a thought that will drive you mad, non-existance and the more you think about it the worse it gets; Simply because we are so used to existing, it's hard to imagine what it would be like to not exist, this is the fear of death. Once death comes calling we cease to be and because of this we look for life after death, and any thing is better than "the void" in my opinoin.
I remember being shown this to learn about the Vikings! Fun timez, fun timez.
Epic and awesome!
Hahaha...that's not how it supposed to work, but funny none the less.
+Marcin Mazurek yep
How else got this on recommend in 2020? Like if you did.
This is heartbreaking! From comedy to horror in such a short film.
+Maajesti IKR lol!!!
Beautiful.
So after all that he went to Viking Hell after all.
people seem to confuse Asgard with valhall, It's not the same thing
correct me if im wrong but as far as i know Asgard is the home of the gods , and Valhalla is where wariors(woriors?) who died during battle go. Again, correct me if im wrong
I'm afraid that you aren't entirely correct.
While Valhalla isn't the exact same as Asgaard, it is located in Asgaard.
Valhalla comes from the old norse "Valhöll" which means hall of the slain, and is essentially an enormous hall of warriors built in Asgaard and ruled by Odin.
Upon a glorious death in combat Odin would choose one of two fates for you.
You were either sent to Valhalla to join the ranks of the other warriors and heroes, here you would train, feast and generally prepare to aid Odin in the inevitable Ragnarok.
The other half would be sent to Freyja, as for what they would do there I am not entirely sure, it is outside my realm of knowledge.
Either-way, all we know about Valhalla and Asgaard is through the written Saga's, and there are minute differences depending on where that saga originated, you'll find it that saga's from Denmark may have a slightly different narrative than those from Norway, Sweden and Iceland, but it is pretty much the same in terms of Valhalla and Asgaard.
EDIT:
I may or may not have completely missed the fact that your comment is 3 years old. None-the-less at least other people know eh?
Ducky it’s Asgard.
Zalán Márkus it’s warrior.
@@AphoticGoblin Thanks. I'm Hungarian and sometimes i get confused whit the words.
A true Viking hell. This was hilarious! The Giant at the end is soo comical.
I don't remember this having 3d animation or a voice-over! But I love it!