Why do they all have to look like extras from Game of Thrones? The music is fine, but somewhat interchangeable, it's a style that has become popular. I'm happy when girls play guitar so well rather than just wiggling their butt in time.
This fashionable collective obsession with the medieval world (and earlier) or early middle-age inspired fantasy scenarios and all that Viking nonsense (I found the series incredibly dreary and stopped watching it) is beyond me. It was an age of intellectual darkness, hardly anyone could read or write,
there were no dragons ever goddamit and all the druids and magicians were friggin' failures. Never did the West lag behind so much and was so sluggish in development as in this period. It was a huge setback compared to Classical Antiquity (Romans, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians) or other developed civilisations such as the Aztecs, Incas and Mayas.
Rant over
(well, almost ...). Like all Germans, I like Italians. The saying goes that Germans love Italians, but don't really respect them, and that with the Italians it's the other way around! In the part of Germany where I live, Roman civilisation left (luckily) an indelible mark. I can't stand it if people celebrate the Teutoburg Forest Battle victory of Germanic tribes against the at this point overstretched Roman Empire in 9 AD, it's like commemorating Taliban or Isis victories today. All Hermann/Arminius did (no insult intended, Dave) was set Northern Germany's development back for a couple of hundred years. More taking craps in forests, less plumbing. More dancing around oaks, hop(p)ing for a good harvest, less sensible irrigation. Spare me.