Went to Puy du Fou in France (English language link) a few weeks ago and saw their Vikings show (among others). It was a lot of stunts and they had a couple stunts where dogs took down the invaders, and it definitely seemed like there were a few wagging tails in there. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were having fun and were happy because they were doing a good job.
PSA: this park is controversial for its biased representation of history (mainly pro-catholic and anti-strangers, erasing any diversity from their stories). There are also questions over treatmant of workers and animals. In French: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puy_du_Fou#Controverses
That would explain the bizarre “Christian” aspects of two of the shows I saw. My French is good enough for ordinary conversations but I had a bit of a hard time following along with the recorded dialog over the loudspeakers. In the Viking show all hope seemed lost for the villagers when suddenly the pope (?) appeared out of a river and the Vikings were so impressed by this that they immediately stopped their attack and swore off their Norse gods to become Christian. And the Roman arena show had the Gauls fighting for their freedom to be Christian while the Romans tried to force them to worship pagan gods, when I’m pretty sure the history was basically the opposite of that.
I saw afterwards if you downloaded the app you could see synchronized translations in your own language so maybe it would make more sense, but I doubt it.
Went to Puy du Fou in France (English language link) a few weeks ago and saw their Vikings show (among others). It was a lot of stunts and they had a couple stunts where dogs took down the invaders, and it definitely seemed like there were a few wagging tails in there. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were having fun and were happy because they were doing a good job.
PSA: this park is controversial for its biased representation of history (mainly pro-catholic and anti-strangers, erasing any diversity from their stories). There are also questions over treatmant of workers and animals. In French: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puy_du_Fou#Controverses
That would explain the bizarre “Christian” aspects of two of the shows I saw. My French is good enough for ordinary conversations but I had a bit of a hard time following along with the recorded dialog over the loudspeakers. In the Viking show all hope seemed lost for the villagers when suddenly the pope (?) appeared out of a river and the Vikings were so impressed by this that they immediately stopped their attack and swore off their Norse gods to become Christian. And the Roman arena show had the Gauls fighting for their freedom to be Christian while the Romans tried to force them to worship pagan gods, when I’m pretty sure the history was basically the opposite of that.
I saw afterwards if you downloaded the app you could see synchronized translations in your own language so maybe it would make more sense, but I doubt it.