The Vikings (1958)

Kitala: [about Eric] You'll not kill him, but you throw him into the slop pool to be drowned and eaten by crabs.
Ragnar: Then let the crabs be cursed by Odin. That's my decision.

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Eric: Still afraid?
Morgana: No. I'm worth much more alive than dead. Are you?

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Einar: All right, you can keep the slave... for as long as you live.

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There was actually a kingdom called Northumbria, whose history undoubtedly formed part of the basis for the novel from which the movie was made: It was formed about AD 616 by the union of two smaller kingdoms, Bernicia and Deira, with Edwin, son of the Deirian ruler Aella as its first king. In AD 867, it came under Viking control when conquered by two brothers, Ivar and Halfdan Ragnarrson, and integrated into Danelaw - a Viking kingdom already established in Britain. The now-earldom of Northumbria was later divided between two rising kingdoms, Scotland and England. The English portion becoming known as "Northumberland."
Some of the names used in the movie, such as Einar and Ivar, have been common names in Norway for hundreds of years, and still are.
The three Viking ships in the film were designed using blueprints for an actual Viking ship salvaged from the water and restored by a Viking museum in Norway. It turned out that the boats built for the film were too accurate, because the modern actors were taller than their historical counterparts. Every other oar hole had to be plugged so the modern men would have room to row with a full oar stroke. Otherwise, they would hit the backs of the oarsmen seated in front of them when pushing the oar handles forward to start each new stroke.
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