A Celt in Viking hell? Explain.

[Feelgood Citrus]

This has been bothering me since I first read about the game in the store: How and why is a Celt, separated historically by around 800 years from the Vikings, in Viking hell? Make me wonder why she's not just a Norse woman. What kind of Celt is she even? Irish? French? Spanish?
Throw spoilers at me if they explain it.

[Uncle Brad = Bad]

She's a celt from the pict tribe and the vikings actually stranded on their area if i'm not mistaken, whether they actually pillaged the area is up for questioning but the devs saw it as a possibility and went with it for the game's lore.
Here's a wiki about it if ur interrested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts

Just take it with a grain of salt, it's a ficitonal game afterall.

[Feelgood Citrus]

Originally posted by CrispyArrow:

She's a celt from the pict tribe and the vikings actually stranded on their area if i'm not mistaken, whether they actually pillaged the area is up for questioning but the devs saw it as a possibility and went with it for the game's lore.
Here's a wiki about it if ur interrested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts

Just take it with a grain of salt, it's a ficitonal game afterall.

Hm, that does seem reasonable. That bit of history is a bit sketchy at best. Yeah but there has to be some logic or reason to it, even if that logic and those reasons and illogical and unreasonable :p

[gomimin]

I was wondering myself first - locating the Celts in Sw of Britain and totally forgetting that the picts (tattoed people) are counted as a britannic celtic tribe as well (shame on me!)

Vikings raided the Orkney Isles where picts where living and started to settle there ... the first viking raids are documented for 742 in the Moireibh area ... about 50yrs before they raided Lindisfarme - thus it's believed they've went o Orkneys straight after they got Burghead Fort in 742 ...

But i was wondering too why her lover who knew abit about the vikings and got slaughtered by them landed in Helheim instead at a celtic realm of the death - probably because not much is known about that ;)

All in all it makes sense ... and Ninja Theory for sure did some studies on this ...

[Feelgood Citrus]

Originally posted by gomimin:

I was wondering myself first - locating the Celts in Sw of Britain and totally forgetting that the picts (tattoed people) are counted as a britannic celtic tribe as well (shame on me!)

Vikings raided the Orkney Isles where picts where living and started to settle there ... the first viking raids are documented for 742 in the Moireibh area ... long before they raided Lindisfarme - thus it's believed they've went o Orkneys straight after they got Burghead Fort ...

But i was wondering too why her lover who knew abit about the vikings and got slaughtered by them landed in Helheim instead at a celtic realm of the death - probably because not much is known about that ;)

So Celts and the tribe belonging to that group, still existed at the time of the Vikings?
Yeah it's weird.

[The Cure]

Yeah it's two different time periods. They're trying to have Pagans Celts (which didn't exist at the time) interacting with Vikings.

[Feelgood Citrus]

Originally posted by The Cure:

Yeah it's two different time periods. They're trying to have Pagans Celts (which didn't exist at the time) interacting with Vikings.

Yeah I thought Celts were between 300 to 0 BC, but not much past that and well into the 700's when the Vikings were raiding.

[foofighter_ii]

Maybe because she is dead in the underworld where time does not exist? Is my hypothesis.....

[The Cure]

Originally posted by Dreamlicker:

Originally posted by The Cure:

Yeah it's two different time periods. They're trying to have Pagans Celts (which didn't exist at the time) interacting with Vikings.

Yeah I thought Celts were between 300 to 0 BC, but not much past that and well into the 700's when the Vikings were raiding.

The Insular Celts were Christianized before the Angles and Saxons even. By the time the Vikings showed up, the southern Picts and Irish had been Christian for centuries (the rest of Pictland was converted in the late 6th century). The counties and petty kingdoms or Ireland and Pictland were actually quite advanced theologically. Charlemagne filled his court at Aachen with Irish monks for example.

[Feelgood Citrus]

Originally posted by The Cure:

Originally posted by Dreamlicker:

Yeah I thought Celts were between 300 to 0 BC, but not much past that and well into the 700's when the Vikings were raiding.

The Insular Celts were Christianized before the Angles and Saxons even. By the time the Vikings showed up, the southern Picts and Irish had been Christian for centuries (the rest of Pictland was converted in the late 6th century). The counties and petty kingdoms or Ireland and Pictland were actually quite advanced theologically. Charlesmagne filled his court at Aachen with Irish monks for example.

This all really begs the question: Why even bother making her Celt? She could've been anything else that would actually fit into the narrative.

[The Cure]

Yeah, they should have just made her Anglo-Saxon, but then her name would be something like Ælfþræðe.

[Uncle Brad = Bad]

This is the most informative discussion ever.
Really funny when the others are either bugs, b*tching or weird-@ss clickbait.

[gomimin]

I wouldn't trust christian PR writers from that time that much ;)

And probably they wanted a female char and as romans told there had been female warriors ... don't we all know Guinevere?

@The Cure Anglo-Saxon with an islandic name ?!? :O Besides i doubt Anglo-Saxon female warriors ... ?!? And then there'd be a real timelapse ...

[Bloomingtide]

Originally posted by gomimin:

But i was wondering too why her lover who knew abit about the vikings and got slaughtered by them landed in Helheim instead at a celtic realm of the death - probably because not much is known about that ;)

Afaik, he is there because the vikings sacrificed him to their gods, I guess? Also it is a videogame, not historical fiction or documentary ;)

[gomimin]

Originally posted by machinehuntress:

Afaik, he is there because the vikings sacrificed him to their gods, I guess?

Edit: the game tells you: to Hella your lover was sacrificed with her you must bargain ...

Interesting point for research ;) Not really ... Scientists mainly believe those legends where made by christian PR in later middleages ...

[Terrortoma]

Originally posted by Dreamlicker:

Originally posted by The Cure:

Yeah it's two different time periods. They're trying to have Pagans Celts (which didn't exist at the time) interacting with Vikings.

Yeah I thought Celts were between 300 to 0 BC, but not much past that and well into the 700's when the Vikings were raiding.

Boudicca's uprising against Roman occupation of Britain was in 60 or 61 AD, some 60 years after 0 BC. Bouddica was queen of the Iceni tribe of Celts, which held land in the east of Britain (Norfolk area?)

Originally posted by Dreamlicker:

What kind of Celt is she even? Irish? French? Spanish?

She's a Celt from the Pict tribe.