Vinland Saga, tome 14

ヴィンランド・サガ [Vinland Saga] #14

by Makoto Yukimura

L'armée du roi Knut a débarqué au domaine de Ketil. Loin de s'avouer vaincu, Ketil a rassemblé ses troupes pour défendre sa ferme. Mais sans une réelle formation militaire, les paysans sont loin d'être de taille face aux redoutables Jomsvikings. Une folie meurtrière s'abat sur la ferme. De leur côté, Thorfinn et Einar, qui ont enfin gagné leur liberté, décident de tout quitter avec Leif pour fonder, au Vinland, un pays où règnera la paix. Si Einar est tenté de partir sans un regard en arrière, ce n'est pas le cas de Thorfinn. Ce dernier reste furieux contre Maître Ketil depuis que celui-ci a tué Arneis. 2009: 13e Grand Prix du Manga décerné au Japan Media Arts Festival. 2012: 36e Prix du manga Kōdansha dans la catégorie générale.

Genres: Manga, Historical Fiction, Seinen, Comics, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Comics Manga

208 pages, Paperback

First published February 21, 2014

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Reviews

[Amin Matin · Rating 3 out of 5]

ایدئولوژی تورفین به نظرم خیلی مسخره و غیرواقعیه

[Ali · Rating 4 out of 5]

شروع خوبی برای فاز سوم داستان بود. مصور هم که طبق معمول عالی بود. نکته مهم این جلد، توجه ماکاتو سنسی به زن و مسئله برابریِ.
نمیدونم ماکاتو سنسی بازم قرارِ به این مسئله بپردازه یا نه ولی پرداختش به نظرم کم بود. جا داشت که بیشتر و بهتر به این موضوع پرداخته بشه.

[Andrei Stoian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Romanian review: Cel de-al doilea arc al seriei, The Slave Arc, reprezintă o schimbare uriașă în tot ce privește ritmul poveștii, atmosfera și filozofia personajelor. Fiecare poveste despre răzbunare se încheie, de obicei, cu moartea unuia sau a ambelor persoane implicate; acest arc continuă povestea după acel prag.
Thorfinn din această parte a poveștii este de nerecunoscut. Este gol în interior, lipsit de orice fel de dorință și dominat de regrete. Evoluția vieții lui este oarecum poetică. În acest arc, învață cât de greu este să despădurești o zonă, să ari pâmântul, să practici agricultura și cât de multă muncă este necasară pentru a construi și întreține o fermă— asta după ce și-a petrecut cea mai mare parte din viață distrugând fermele și satele altora.
De asemenea, este pus în contact cu o victimă a acestor raiduri vikinge: Einar, un englez răpit și transformat în sclav după ce o armată daneză i-a distrus satul și i-a ucis familia. Einar este exact genul de om creat de un războinic ca Thorfinn.
Ritmul acestui arc este foarte lent. Din punct de vedere al acțiunii, povestea nu progresează prea mult, însă avem o dezvoltare uriașă a protagonistului. Thorfinn înțelege, în sfârșit, filozofia pacifistă adoptată de tatăl său și, în acest volum, seamănă din ce în ce mai mult cu el.
Sunt introduse câteva personaje noi și interesante printre care se numără: Einar (menționat anterior), Snake (care sper să mai apară pe viitor), Ketil (proprietarul lui Thorfinn și al fermei), Sverkel (tatăl lui Ketil) sau Thorgil (fiul cel mare al lui Ketil și un războinic asemănător cu Thorkell).
Extinderea și prosperitatea fermei lui Ketil îi atrage atenția și Regelui Canute (Knut), ocupat să-și consolideze domnia, care ajunge astfel să se confrunte cu Thorfinn. Cele două planuri de a construi un paradis terestru sunt puse față în față sub forma unei discuții dintre cei doi, care este, în acest moment, cea mai impresionantă scenă din toată seria.
Odată cu finalul acestui arc narativ, se pregătește terenul pentru începerea călătoriei și colonizării ținutului Vinland, însă misiunea nu va fi una ușoară. Între eliberarea lui Thorfinn și călătoria propriu-zisă există un al treilea arc, pe care îl citesc în acest moment, și care are destule de oferit.



English review: The second arc of the series, The Slave Arc, represents a huge shift in the story's pacing, atmosphere, and character philosophy. Most revenge stories usually end with the death of one or both involved parties; this arc continues the tale beyond that point.
The Thorfinn we meet in this part of the story is unrecognizable. He is empty inside, devoid of any desires, and consumed by regret. His life’s progression is somewhat poetic. In this arc, he learns how hard it is to clear a forest, plow the land, practice farming, and understand the immense effort required to build and maintain a farm—after having spent most of his life destroying other people’s farms and villages.
He also encounters a victim of these Viking raids: Einar, an Englishman kidnapped and enslaved after a Danish army destroyed his village and killed his family. Einar is the exact kind of person created by a warrior like Thorfinn.
The pacing of this arc is very slow. In terms of action, the story doesn’t progress much, but we see tremendous development in the protagonist. Thorfinn finally begins to understand the pacifist philosophy adopted by his father and starts to resemble him more and more in this volume.
Several new and interesting characters are introduced, including Einar (mentioned earlier), Snake (whom I hope to see more of in the future), Ketil (Thorfinn’s owner and the farm’s proprietor), Sverkel (Ketil’s father), and Thorgil (Ketil’s eldest son, a warrior akin to Thorkell).
Ketil’s farm’s growth and prosperity draw the attention of King Canute (Knut), who is busy consolidating his reign. This brings him into conflict with Thorfinn. Their contrasting visions of building an earthly paradise culminate in a discussion between the two, which stands out as the most impactful scene in the entire series so far.
With the conclusion of this narrative arc, the stage is set for the journey and colonization of Vinland, though the mission will not be an easy one. Between Thorfinn’s emancipation and the actual journey lies a third arc, which I’m currently reading and which has plenty to offer as well.

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yo no tengo enemigos

La primera parte de Vinland me flipó, pero me quitaron a mi personaje favorito y no tuve muchas ganas de seguir con la historia. Luego salió la segunda temporada en anime y la empecé a ver. Se me hizo muy raro el tremendo cambio, el dejar a un lado las batallas por la granja. Me aburrió al principio, no me gustaba tampoco Einar.
Entonces apareció Snake y la cosa mejoró. No paró de mejorar en cada nuevo capítulo.

La evolución de Thorfin es espectacular, la trama de Arnheid es magnífica, Canuto está muy guay y Snake es Snake.

Hoy he entendido porque Thorfinn es tan buen personaje. "Yo no tengo enemigos". Gracias.

El único pero es que se acabó Snake 😭

[Fran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Si el primer arco se centra en lo grandioso, en la guerra, en personajes movidos por ambiciones personales, el segundo se orienta por caminos más íntimos y reflexivos; y ahí, en lo pequeño, en lo cercano, el manga se vuelve profundamente emotivo y honesto.

Thorfinn, que había quedado eclipsado en el primer arco por otros personajes llenos de matices, como Askeladd, aquí, en la segunda etapa de su viaje iniciático, tiene un desarrollo conmovedor. Asimismo, la historia de Canuto sirve como contrapunto a la de Thorfinn, y ambas se encuentran en un final dramático en el que se pone de manifiesto la habilidad de Yukimura para crear personajes complejos y ambivalentes.

Pero qué bueno es este manga.

[Melanie Schneider · Rating 4 out of 5]

Der Band war ruhiger als seine Vorgänger, was nach den Ereignissen sehr gut tat. Es ist richtig genial, wie die Familie sich nicht wirklich geändert hat und ich bin auf die kommenden Bände gespannt!

[Christina Pilkington · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Thorfinn drama is back! I've been missing this side of Thorfinn for awhile. While he has changed drastically from the first volume, we still see his intense fire, grit and determination. I loved the way this farm arc ended.

And the last two chapters were just too cute! A totally different vibe from the beginning. It ended with me intensely curious where the plot will go from here.

[Monica ✧♬•* · Rating 3 out of 5]

I missed this manga, it's good to be back... Vinland saga was one of the best seinen readings I've had in 2014 or so, But today I see the problems in the story. Thorfinn's dream is something impossible to achieve, this manga is not a battle shonen with that shonen jump vibe...so no one needs to be fooled into think that thorfinn's goal will actually be what he wants. Because of that read all this journey seems that can be a waste of time.

In my opinion this journey is a bad choice, which can lead to a path with many unnecessary slice of life scenes, with no way back changing the weight of the story.

But now that I'm back I will continue to see how far this "thorfinn looking for the OnePiece" phase goes hoping for the best.

[Rama · Rating 5 out of 5]

I miss this series so much. Season 2 was brilliant and honestly hearing Canute laughing was probably the highlight of my year

[R. A. Strich · Rating 5 out of 5]

Slavery Arc ✅

Amazing. And soo different from the first arc, it's astounding how much variety Vinland Saga covers in both it's storytelling structure and exploration of the core-themes!

[Subham · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was such a cute chapter later on! It ends the farm saga, as we have them running away, THORFINN thinks to himself he should talk with Canute to solve the matter of the farm and help out the Ketils and he talks with him after taking a 100 hits and it was something and everyone who saw it there respected Thorfinn after it, his negotiations don't go well as we see the ambitiousness of Canute and how he wants to create a paradise for his vikings and then we have Thorfinn changing his stance in the sense he doesn't wanna fight because it leads to nothing and he says then he will run far away and create a paradise. A Vinland for people who don't wanna fight and they bid each other farewell and he returns to Iceland to his home for one of the greatest reunions ever and his sister Ylfa is the best lmao! Great volume and the manga is even better now!

[Ignacio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Conclusión del segundo arco, con el esperado (y no por ello menos atractivo) "combate" entre Thorfinn y Knut. Los guiños al shonen, sobre todo en la forma en que el primero consigue acceso hasta el segundo, se hacen un poco excesivos. Para bien y para mal, rebajan gravitas al momento. Aunque si hemos llegado hasta aquí ya estamos vacunados de estas cosas.

[Arley Guzmán · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thorffin es mi nueva inspiración su sabiduria y gentileza es muy gratificante.

Este segundo arco no fue siniestro pero si muy satisfactorio.

[Babeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cette fin d'arc de fifou!
Cette histoire, c'est une des plus fantastiques que j'ai pu connaitre, tous médias confondus.

[Jon Ureña · Rating 5 out of 5]

This entry follows my review of the first volume, which took into account volumes 1 to 6. Spoilers for what happened in those volumes.

I left Thorfinn, the guy who saw his father get killed by a mercenary band, having joined that same mercenary band in order to one day become stronger and kill its leader. He isn’t precisely sneaky about it: he regularly challenges the leader, Askeladd, to a duel in order to end his life. Thorfinn’s Nordic honor won’t allow him to kill the guy any other way. Askeladd keeps him around not only because the protagonist is extremely talented, but because he came to regret having killed his father, whom he considers a very honorable man. They roam Britain representing Denmark’s army, that historically attempted to invade the land. We follow them around as they fight vicious foes (which include vikings who sided with the English when they realized the locals were going to lose; those vikings wanted a challenge). Along the way they meet Canute, the youngest son of the king of Denmark. That son, a shy weakling, had been sent to the battlefield for the chance of him getting killed and therefore off the succession line. The mercenary band we are following captures an English town, and to avoid any of them alerting their pursuers of the mercenary band’s position, they murder everybody.

Plenty of great stuff happened during the rest of that arc, which ended around 5 or 6 volumes before volume 14. The shy weakling of a heir lost his father figure, and in the process discovered that there are things worse than death. He stopped fearing getting killed, and became unfazed when the surrounding viking warriors pressed their luck against a member of the royal family. That earned the respect of enough people for them to follow his command. His interests aligned with those of Askeladd, the leader of the mercenary band; the guy is only half viking: his mother was a member of the Welsh royalty who was sold into slavery. Askeladd is playing everybody in order to rule himself, as a supposed descendant of the mythical king Arthur (or so his mother used to say). Once they survive the main hostilities, they get ready to face the king, who won’t be happy about his useless son surviving and possibly becoming the next king. The side we are following needs to maneuver carefully to avoid the king’s spies and hitmen; for example, a crossbowman shoots and kills Canute’s double (as an aside, I loved how the author played with the cliché of “girl dressed as a guy during medieval times”. Canute looks like a woman, so one expects that eventually he would reveal that she’s the king’s daughter. The double they use to fool the king’s hitmen is a woman, and for a few pages the author tries to convince you that the predictable reveal actually happened. But no, Canute is a guy). They get an audience with the king while they are trying to figure out how they are going to kill him and usurp his power.

Now comes my favorite part of that arc. The author had set the confrontation between Askeladd, as Canute’s emissary, and the king of Denmark himself, as a chess match of wits. The king, to trip Askeladd, declared he was going to invade Wales next. He offered Askeladd an ultimatum: either give up helping Canute gain the crown, or lose his homeland. In a shocking turn of events, Askeladd cuts off the king’s head in front of the entire court and his bodyguards. Askeladd then acts the part of a madman as he cuts down waves of guards. In the end, his hatred of the vikings who had captured his mother won out his own goal to rule Britain. He will allow himself to get killed by Canute, someone who has a different plan than his father’s for the future of the viking lands, in order for the formerly mild-mannered successor to claim the throne after having killed his father’s murderer. Our protagonist Thorfinn, a sort of bystander in this mess, sees Askeladd being killed in front of him: the same Askeladd he had spent the last years of his life trying to kill in order to avenge his own father, but that had ended becoming a second father figure to the distraught and traumatized protagonist. In a daze, Thorfinn attacks the new king, who manages to survive. Canute, instead of killing Thorfinn, orders him to be sold into slavery.

The next arc opens with Einar, a British slave sent to Denmark, being bought by the wealthy owner of numerous farming lands. He’s told that if he manages to clear a forest and farm the cleared lands enough, he’ll be able to buy his freedom back. The other slave working in that forest is none other than our protagonist Thorfinn. He’s lost his drive: he hadn’t considered his future beyond avenging his father, and with his second father figure dead, and himself being sold into slavery on top of it, he’s hollow, depressed and hopeless. He doesn’t know how to deal with the friendly Einar, who is glad about being able to talk with someone in the same situation.

The author introduces plenty of characters: the family that owns the farms, the numerous guards with their different responsibilities, personalities and talents, other slaves, etc. You get to care about their troubles and their hopes. At one point, the owner of the farm, along with his sons, travel to the city where the king is staying in order to offer some gifts and secure their future as the owners of wealthy farmlands. The new king, Canute, who has gone over into “the ends justify the means” territory in order to build his paradise on Earth, has hatched a plan to frame one of the land owner’s sons for murder and use it as an excuse to banish the family and take over the farm for the state. They manage to escape back to the farm. They convince themselves that they’ll manage to defend themselves against the elite force of the new king, but predictably they get slaughtered.

Our protagonist Thorfinn manages to save the day. He resents his past. Every night he’s tortured by the souls of the many, many people he has murdered, and has come to the conclusion, as his dad did, that to become a real warrior he should break the circle of violence and solve his problems another way. He approaches the king’s guards in order to negotiate and save the farm. However, the guards won’t let him pass. Thorfinn places a bet: if he can take a hundred hits from a particularly nasty guard, they’ll allow him to speak to the king. Their mockery ends up turning into solemn respect, as Thorfinn, his face disfigured into a mass of bruises, wins the bet. He faces the king with the demand of turning away from the farm and changing his mind about how to govern both Denmark and England (because they had won the war): he should win the loyalty of his new subjects through a different way than the strength of his army alone. Canute, intrigued by the predisposition of his former bodyguard to build a new country, peaceful and free of slavery, and hopeful after finding such a person amongst the vikings, agrees and leaves the farm alone.

Through this arc, one of the slaves loses her husband and her unborn child. Having lost everything, as she’s dying of a brutal beating, she says that death is better than this life full of pain. Thorfinn states his new life long-goal: to arrange an expedition to Vinland (the east coast of North America) and through building a community free of war and slavery expiate his own sins.

In most fiction you tend to get watered down moral dilemmas that despite the artifice you clearly know which side is better. In “Vinland Saga” I was there with the characters as they faced the hope of breaking the circle of violence, yet not knowing how to face the fact that despite their wish to solve problems without violence, other people would use violence against them. To what extent is it right to defend yourself and the people you care about? Is it truly possible to build a country without war nor slavery of some kind? Are war and violence innate to human beings, as a constant state of war is the norm in nature? So on and so on.

I already mentioned in my previous review, but I must praise again the quality and subtlety of the drawings. As the characters struggle through extremely well plotted conflicts and dilemmas, you can see on their faces the complex thoughts and emotions they are processing. Lesser authors and artists would have told you straight what was on those characters’ minds, and still wouldn’t have come close to reproducing the impressions that many of these scenes left me with.

Isayama, the creator of “Attack on Titan”, mentioned this series as one of his favorites. The influence, and even downright borrowing of some aspects, is evident. Thorfinn’s “birth” as a wrathful, vengeful character. The very phrase of “I killed beasts dressed as humans” that Eren uses in the sixth episode of the first season. The idea of the cycle of violence that needs to be broken, one of the central aspects of “Attack on Titan”. The imagery of warriors standing over mountains of corpses belonging to the people they’ve managed to kill either directly or through their decisions. There were some other clear influences that I can’t recall at the moment. Unfortunately it makes "Attack on Titan" look like a lesser version of a very similar attempt. It doesn't help that the drawings in "Vinland Saga" are far, far better.

Beyond my personal preferences that lead me to consider some series better than others, for example that I don’t care for vikings in general, I must admit that “Vinland Saga” is the best series I’ve read in a long, long time. Even better than “Berserk”, another extremely ambitious long-form narrative. “Berserk” shits itself shortly after the grand arc about the second Eclipse finishes; its author shifted the series to a conflicting genre (high fantasy as opposed to pitch dark fantasy, which is how that series started), and as a consequence I could no longer believe most of the threats the characters faced, and some of the decisions seemed tacked on, just because “they needed to be there”. There’s none of that in “Vinland Saga”: the characters are extremely compelling and distinct, they go through believable arcs, and their moral dilemmas are understandable and interesting. Thorfinn himself started out as a hopeful, adventurous but naive child, but he turned into a wrathful, vengeful killing machine with no regard for others nor his own future, then into a depressed husk of a human being with no idea about how to deal with other people, then into a wise monk-like figure, someone who appreciates the people around him and even works to build a peaceful community.

For years I overlooked “Vinland Saga”, despite the high ratings, because I didn’t give a damn about vikings. Don’t make my mistake, and read this series.

[amé · Rating 5 out of 5]

l’évolution de thorfinn 🥺

[Laura Coll · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vinland Saga se mantiene como un manga brillante. Estos tomos no han sido tan espectaculares como los anteriores; sin embargo, muestran mucho más desarrollo de personajes y reflexión en los temas centrales de la obra: el pacifismo, la esclavitud y la violencia. Los dos primeros tomos de esta tanda son algo más introductorios e introspectivos, pero a partir de ahí, la historia vuelve a coger ritmo. Por otra parte, se presentan nuevos personajes que están bien desarrollados y que aportan mucho tanto al tema central de la obra como a Thorfinn. Este, que al fin es protagonista, va evolucionando de forma lógica y natural y nos plantea cuestiones realmente interesantes, como la posibilidad de redención de alguien con las manos manchadas de sangre. No hay que olvidar que estamos ante una obra muy violenta y cruel con escenas muy gráficas, pero todo ello es necesario para el mensaje de la obra y para que el mundo sea realista. Esto último se consigue, además, gracias a la gran documentación del autor sobre la época, que se refleja en el detallismo del dibujo. No solo la ropa y los fondos están muy trabajados, sino también el diseño de personajes, muy diverso y con gran expresividad.

Reseña completa:
https://paseandoentrepaginas.blogspot...

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the best volume so far, one of the best ending for a story arc. Since this is the end of the slave arc, gonna discuss more about this volume. I hate Ketil for being a coward, and Thorgil for being such a cruel guy. The character I love most is Roald, he's loyal towards Ketil even though that stupid man is weak and made stupid decisions. He is rational and handsome too, he treated Thorfinn and Einar well. Thorfinn, oh thorfinn, he is a warrior now, saying no to violence and willing to negotiate with Canute about the farm. I'm glad that his speech sorta woke Canute from his evil plans, and now he has became a better king, I guess. Thorfinn's bruised face was the best part,hahah! Ylfa's treatment towards Thorfinn really cracks me up. Great and heart-warming ending for this arc, Cheers!

[Agnese Rosengren · Rating 5 out of 5]

CHE VOLUME MERAVIGLIOSO.
Ho impiegato giorni per concluderlo perché il confronto tra Thorfinn e Canuto mi agitava tantissimo, ma sono felice di aver superato il blocco e di aver ripreso in mano questa serie.
Inutile dire che quei due capitoli incentrati su di loro mi sono piaciuti tantissimo e li ho trovati spettacolari. Sono cresciuti entrambi e si vede. E adoro il fatto che abbiano entrambi lo stesso obiettivo perché, pur seguendo due sentieri differenti, hanno promesso di sostenersi a vicenda sempre, proprio come due compagni e alleati.
Bello, bello, BELLO.

[N.E.C.C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here's the end of the arc and it was pretty good in my opinion.

This volume had some ups and downs for me. It was very entertaining and satisfactory till the end but i'm not convince with Canute's actions at the very end, i don't know, it felt to easy and fast but we'll see.

The last chapter was very endearing and funny and long awaited for me. I'm very pleased with this arc and can't wait to see what's next for Thorfinn and Einar.

[Hamid · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars

[titi · Rating 4 out of 5]

fin d'arc incroyable...thorfinn m'a fait pleurer...et sa dynamique avec knut est juste sublime

[Angelika · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yup, just a meh ending to me. Incredibly verbose volume with no meaningful action, as if Yukimura have run out of ideas how to resolve the whole arc in a more creative way than a series of deep conversations and time skips. Words, words, words...

The 100-punch face-off was just plainly ridiculous. Thorfinn acting like Jesus Christ, as everyone else watches in confusion and admiration... kinda cringey. The vibes have indeed become so biblical at some point it got me wishing we were finished with the sermons and could go back to the earlier, more thrilling stuff.

The Canute scene was interesting not so much for what was spoken but for how it revealed the extent of his mental disturbance. I didn't notice before how much he was becoming affected by this whole psychotic thing. I didn't think he was leaning so much towards that Sweyn's voice in his head – I thought he was resisting it or tolerating its presence. But the twink really has become so alienated, scared and paranoid that his subconsciousness was urging him to get a guy killed just for voicing criticism.

But then what happened afterwards was not really convincing to say the least. Basically Canute after a transformative conversation with Jesus Christ Our Saviour undergoes a change of heart, backtracks on his former plans and eschews his tyrannical ways. Somehow even though the first time Canute changed so drastically was equally rapid, it still felt more natural than this.

And then we just get lots of panels of happy people either smiling, shaking hands, crying tears of joy, and just generally being content with their new lives, like in a Jehowah's Witnesses' booklet. Oh, and we get to see Thorfinn's annoying tomboy sister being annoying. She is about the last character in this story that I missed.

I'm all for Thorfinn learning how to de-escalate conflicts and live peacefully. I don't mind if it means less action. I just think his new journey can be written in a much more compelling way than whatever's going on in here.

[Katherine Sigarán · Rating 5 out of 5]

The slave arc was a raw and difficult arc to digest but it also had beautiful and brilliant moments Thorfinn's change was beautiful how Einar's friendship and the kindness of other endearing characters helped a lot in Thorfinn's development and gave him a purpose to live and they showed him another way of life, the reunion with King Canute was incredibly beautiful (we also have the highlight of both the manga and the anime, Canute's laughter and the appreciation he still has for Thorfinn), that last chapter of Iceland was very beautiful, the perfect way to end the arc and this Vol.

El arco del esclavo fue un arco crudo y difícil de digerir pero también tuvo momentos hermosos y brillantes el cambio de Thorfinn fue hermoso como la amistad de Einar y la amabilidad de otros entrañables personajes ayudaron mucho al desarrollo de Thorfinn y le dieron un propósito para vivir y le mostraron otra forma de vida, el reencuentro con el Rey Canute fue increíblemente hermoso (además tenemos el hightlight tanto del manga como del anime, la risa de Canute y el aprecio que sigue teniéndole a Thorfinn), ese último capitulo de Islandia fue muy bello, la manera perfecta para terminar el arco y este Vol.

[Devero · Rating 4 out of 5]

Questo albo porta alla conclusione la seconda parte di Vinland Saga.
Thorfinn si fa massacrare di botte per poter parlare con re Cnut, sostenendo un centinaio di cazzotti.
Alla fine il confronto tra i due avviene, e Thorfinn parla con Cnut. Comprendono di avere obiettivi simili, ma di perseguirli in modo totalmente diverso.
Thorfinn sconterà il dolore che ha provocato in passato cercando di creare un luogo di pace su questa terra, mentre Cnut cercherà la pacificazione dei suoi regni, Danimarca e Inghilterra, con la forza delle armi. Cnut, convinto da Thorfinn lascerà a Ketil la sua fattoria, anche se oramai sarà di proprietà del suo figlio minore, quello idiota.
L'albo termina con il ritorno di Thorfinn nel villaggio natio, in Islanda.

[Nickonero · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es el mejor hasta ahora.
El 11 no estuvo mal, pero este tomo es una bestialidad. Aquí termina el arco de la granja y se quedan para siempre personajes para Einar o como Olmar. Canuto, por su parte, ha trocado en otra cosa como esperábamos de él.
A pesar de que esta serie utiliza casi siempre una escena importante del capítulo como portada, me tiene impresionado. Las portadas siempre me han parecido mágicas. Gran culpa de ello la tienen One Piece, Dragon Ball y Bleach. Más allá de las portadas, además, Vinland Saga me ha dado otra dosis del por qué me gusta el manga. Su dibujo es maravilloso, la atención al detalle me tiene obsesionado. Cada vez me gusta más y cada vez estoy más cerca del final.
Muchísima comparación con Grifith y Guts en los dos últimos tomos.

[⋆ ࣪˖ ִֶָ sel ་༘࿐ · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a reply to my thoughts in the previous volume: I am going to live. Volume 14 marks the culmination of Thorfinn’s long, painful journey from vengeance to peace. "I have no enemies," isn’t just a moral stance, but the rebirth of a boy who once lived only to kill. Plus, his reunion with Canute is both poignant and profound. Thorfinn still remembers Canute’s words from years ago and Canute showing rare cheerfulness at their meeting speaks to the quiet intimacy of their bond. In that conversation, both find clarity: one letting go of power, the other of hate. They're so gay!

And finally, Thorfinn returns to Iceland. Not as a warrior drenched in blood, but as a man who has chosen to build, not destroy. It’s the homecoming of someone truly free.

[Elou · Rating 5 out of 5]

Je suis continuellement impressionnée par l'auteur et la manière dont il structure son récit et se tient à ses propres thèmes et idées. Pour moi ce tome est pour l'instant le meilleur de la série, la conversation entre Thorfinn et Knut c'est une dinguerie, hyper intéressante au niveau du charadev mais aussi juste trop intéressante au niveau moral/philosophique. Voir Thorfinn se débattre avec la limite de ses idéaux "absolus" (par rapport à l'utilitarisme de Knut) me fait enfin comprendre ce que les gens trouvent d'intéressant chez Kant. Ca me donne envie d'essayer de lire Kant ??? Dinguerie vraiment. Je suis tellement heureuse d'avoir commencé ce manga.

[Alejandra RL · Rating 2 out of 5]

Otro arco se ha cerrado ¿O no? Al menos la vida en la granja ha concluido para Thorfinn y Einar.

No estoy segura si volveremos a ver a los Ketil, pero al menos estos cambiaron para bien, ahora les toca a Canuto y Thorfinn crear un nuevo mundo a su manera.
Presiento que pronto veremos a este ultimo surcando los oceanos en busca de la tierra prometida.

Por cierto, Ylva sigue siendo genial XD.

[ياسمين · Rating 4 out of 5]

أكتر شئ عاجبني ف السلسلة دي إنك عمال تشوف وجهات نظر ممكن تفكر فيها ف يوم م الأيام بس مش هتعرف هتخلص ع ايه ؟ ولا هي أصلا قابلة للتطبيق أبدا، وده الجزء الجميل ف المانجا والخيال عموما.

عالم بدون حروب جديًا يا ثوروفين؟! طيب أما نشوف آخرة هذا العالم المُتَمنَى..
تسخير القتل والحروب لهدف نبيل -من وجهة نظرك- جديًا يا كنوت؟! طيب أما نشوف آخرتها إيه..

عايزة أشوف آخرة الأفكار دي إيه، أفكار لا نراها على أرض الواقع إطلاقًا، أتمنى النهاية تليق بالعمل ده، نهاية مرضية أقرب ما يكون للواقع. 🥲