Severed Ways

Severed Ways The Norse Discovery of America is a 2007 independent adventure drama film that tells a story of Norse explorers battling nature, natives and Christianity in North America in the year 1007 AD. It was written, directed, edited and produced by Tony Stone who also plays one of the lead characters.

Two Viking men are stranded in northeastern North America when their party of explorers loses a battle with Skraelings indigenous peoples. The two men move northward, hoping to link up with an expedition led by Leif Ericson. They deal differently with the grim situation, one turning inward spiritually and the other reverting to a primal state, but both men are beset with memories of their earlier lives. Orn Tony Stone remembers his wife Gaby Hoffmann, and Volnard Fiore Tedesco flashes back to his childhood home and his Christian sister Clare Amory who committed suicide after Volnard killed the man who converted her to Christianity. Traveling, they encounter two Irish monks who have escaped from another Viking partyone monk Sean Dooley is murdered at first, and a makeshift Christian church is burned down. The other monk David Perry joins the journey. The Viking men disagree about the monk and they separate. On his own, Orn meets a beautiful native Abenaki woman Noelle Bailey who drugs and rapes him. Volnard bonds with the surviving Christian monk who washes his feet. An Abenaki man trails Volnard, intending to kill him. The two Vikings are reunited, but Orn kills the monk, the Abenaki man kills Volnard, and Orn builds a funeral pyre for his dead countryman. The strange cold land ultimately prevails over Orn.The films setting was inspired by the story of Thorfinn Karlsefni, an Icelandic explorer who followed Leif Ericson to Vinland North America hoping to establish a colony at the beginning of the 11th century. ........

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