When Amleth was young, his uncle, Fjölnir (Claes Bang), murdered Amleth’s father, King Aurvandill War-Raven (Ethan Hawke), and ran off with Amleth’s mother, Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman).
Shades of Hamlet’s dilemma here are made all the more relevant because the main plot of the English play by Shakespeare was bodily lifted from a Latin work called “Amleth” by one Saxo ...