Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Vikings follows Ragnar Lothbrok, a warrior of mythic lineage who rises from fighter to king while honoring Norse devotion to the gods — and the belief that he descends from Odin himself. The show fuses brutal clan politics with genuine spiritual weight, treating the old religion not as backdrop but as a force shaping every decision. Across media, this combination of mortal ambition, divine mythology, and the friction between kinship and power is the thread — sagas lived from the inside out.
Vikings is a historical drama television series created and written by Michael Hirst. A co-production between Canada and Ireland, the series originally premiered on the History Channel on March 3, 2013. The series concluded with its broadcast on History in Canada from January 1 to March 3, 2021, after the second half of the sixth season was released in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video in Ireland on December 30, 2020. A sequel series, titled Vikings: Valhalla, premiered on Netflix on February 25, 2022.
From the Wikipedia article Vikings_(TV_series), available under CC BY-SA.
Film
Viking Quest
A young Viking warrior navigating rival clans and mythic creatures on a quest with stakes beyond his own survival.
Film
The Vikings
A brutal Viking heir and a clever slave clash over conquest and a woman, echoing the same dynastic rivalries that drive Ragnar's rise.
Film
Ragnarok
An archaeologist's discovery aboard the Oseberg ship leads his family on a quest into a dangerous No Man's Land.
Film
Vikings: Battle of Heirs
A young warrior confronts a hidden birthright and rivals fighting to deny him his rightful place — legitimacy as the real battleground.
Film
Viking
Blood law and clan discord in a dark medieval world where guilt over a kinsman's death demands violent resolution.
Film
Northmen: A Viking Saga
A band of Vikings deep in enemy territory, survival the only goal and death the price of failure.
Game
Vikings - Wolves of Midgard
Vikings fight for survival at the edge of Ragnarök, defending their world against the Jotan before the cold winter consumes everything.
Game
Rune
The gods survived Ragnarök but the world didn't recover — seven years of giants, beasts, and the undead filling the aftermath.
Game
Tribes of Midgard
Players defend their village against Giants during Ragnarök, survival depending on cooperation and Norse cosmology's own logic.
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Viking: Battle for Asgard
A goddess's rebellion against Odin threatens to unleash Ragnarök itself, making divine politics the engine of the conflict.
Game
Beowulf: The Game
A Norse warrior of legendary strength travels to Denmark to destroy a monstrous threat that menaces entire kingdoms.
Game
Viking Rise: Valhalla
A Viking strategy game where tribal leadership, exploration, and the legacy of the same *Vikings: Valhalla* world define the conflict.
Book
Thor's Serpents
Teenage descendants of Norse gods face Ragnarök, each forced to take a separate, solitary piece of the fight.
Book
Viking blood
A young Viking warrior sidelined by injury discovers his ancestors' sagas — battles, heroes, and gods — as a path back to purpose.
Book
About the Vikings
A factual account of the Scandinavian peoples who flourished across the Viking Age.
Book
The Hero of Ages
A trilogy's final act where heroes realize the enemy they've been fighting was never what they thought — the real threat is far larger.
Book
Beowulf
A Scandinavian warrior of towering stature fights monsters that threaten entire kingdoms, alone where others cannot stand.
Book
The bewitched viking
A Norse warrior entangled in an absurd captivity — chaos, sheep, and an unwilling companion undermining his fierce reputation.
Series
Vinland Saga
A warrior's son raised on a battlefield confronts the violent legacy of a clan built entirely on its thirst for conquest.
Series
Record of Ragnarok
Gods sit in judgment over humanity's fate and combat becomes the final arbiter of who deserves to exist.
Series
Vikings: Valhalla
A direct sequel set a century on, where a new generation of Norse legends must forge their own destiny and make history.
Series
Ragnarok
Norse apocalyptic mythology bleeds into the present as a small Norwegian town edges toward its own Ragnarök.
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Ragnarok The Animation
A young swordsman and his companion must face a great evil sweeping across the realm.
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Norsemen
Political rivalry and social upheaval inside a Viking village, played both seriously and with sharp irony.
The direct sequel Vikings: Valhalla picks up a century later with a fresh generation of Norse heroes, and Vinland Saga delivers a similarly brutal, saga-driven story through animation — both carry that same mix of warfare, mythology, and ambition.
If you want Norse mythology and Ragnarök stakes, Tribes of Midgard lets you fight off giants cooperatively, while Vikings - Wolves of Midgard is an action-RPG that puts you directly in the role of a clan warrior battling supernatural threats.
Viking Blood follows a young warrior discovering his ancestors' heroic sagas, which scratches the same itch for Norse adventure and legendary battles that the show delivers so well.