Exiled from Baghdad for a sexual indiscretion, a poet named Ahmed (Antonio Banderas) travels to a faraway land, and on the way meets a band of Norse warriors who enlist him to help combat a flesh-eating demon army.

Sven Bloody Hand and his Norse warriors also destroyed the Kislevite city of Erengrad during the Great War of Chaos.

While traveling by caravan they run into a band of Norse warriors who describe a demon army that has been terrorizing their homeland in nighttime raids.

During the ninth & tenth centuries, waves of Norse warriors ransacked the countryside.

He recalled telling Bono that "there's a wooden statue of a Viking in Alexandria," referring to Big Ole, the 25-foot Norse warrior that stands guard outside the Runestone Museum, "and it doesn't look anything like a dignified founding father of America.

Yaroslav had arrived in Novgorod and sent a request to Scandinavia that he needed Norse warriors.

During excavations undertaken in 1872-73, Dmitry Samokvasov uncovered two cremated bodies of Norse warriors (probably father and son), surrounded by slaves, sacrificial animals, arms, armour, and decorations.

There were still sporadic outbreaks of fighting to the north, and a band of Norse warriors crept into Dublin by night and made a desperate stand at the Thingmote, the sacred assembly place on a fortified hill in the center of the city.

Mr. Banderas plays an exiled Persian poet who hooks up with a group of Norse warriors to do battle with an evil tribe of flesh-eaters.

It is based upon the Norse warriors most commonly referred to as Vikings, as well as their mythology.