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Aksel Hennie (born 29 October 1975) is a Norwegian actor, director and writer. He has acted in a number of successful Norwegian movies, and has received several awards. Hennie grew up in Lambertseter in Oslo. In his late teens he was sentenced for graffiti, and became an outcast in the community for confessing to the police. This personal story contributed much of the background for the movie Uno. The conviction against Hennie was in fact one of the first such cases in Norway. Hennie was admitted to the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre after applying four times. He graduated in 2001, and has since acted both at Teatret Vårt in Molde (2001–2002) and at Oslo Nye Teater (2002–), where he has been in plays such as Hamlet, and Kvinnen som giftet seg med en kalkun (English: The woman who married a turkey). His main success, however, has been as a film actor. He made his debut starring in the feature film Jonny Vang in 2003. Though the director, Jens Lien, originally thought Hennie was too young for the role, the actor convinced him he was the right man for the film. The same year he also acted in the movies Buddy and Ulvesommer, and the next year he made his debut as a director and writer with the movie Uno, in which he also acted. For this film Hennie, and his co-star Nicolai Cleve Broch, went into hard physical training for six months to perform convincingly as bodybuilders. He won the Amanda Award – the main Norwegian film award – for "Best Direction" for the movie Uno in 2005, and that same year he was also among the nominees for "Best Actor" and "Best Film". He also won an Amanda award as "Best Actor" for the movie Jonny Vang in 2003. He was named one of European films "Shooting Stars" by European Film Promotion in 2004. In 2001 he was also named "Theatre talent of the year" by the newspaper Dagbladet. In 2008 Hennie starred in the movie Max Manus, where he played the role of the Norwegian war hero by that name. The movie had a large budget by Norwegian standards, and was met with great expectations. His next upcoming international film is Age of Heroes, a world war 2 movie primarily shot in Norway starring Sean Bean and Danny Dyer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aksel Hennie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Aksel Hennie
Leif´S Crew Of 35
for Leif´S Crew Of 35 in Saga of Leif Eriksson
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Leif was wise, considerate, and strong man. he was the middle son of Erik the Red, the founder of the Norse settlement in Greenland and his wife Thjodhild. We don’t know when and where he was born but it’s believed to have been around 970AD in the recently-colonised Iceland. His grandfather, Thorvald Asvaldsson, had been banished from Norway for manslaughter and lived in exile in Iceland with his son Erik. During Leif´s stay in the Hebrides, he fell in love with a noblewoman, Thorgunna, who gave birth to son Thorgils. He discovered Vinland after being blown off course on his way from Norway to Greenland. Prior to the voyage, Leif had spent time at the court of Norwegian King Olaf Tryggvesson, after exile from Norway for killing Eyiolf the Foul. Leif heard the tale of Bjarni Herjolfsson. He bought Bjarni’s ship and raised a crew of 35 and set out to discover the verdant land of the Americas. When Leif encountered the storm that forced him off course, he (accompanied by a priest) had been on his way to introduce Christianity to the Greenlanders. They finally found a land that seemed like the place they were searching for. They found wild grapes, self-sown wheat and maple trees. Afterwards, they loaded their ship and sailed east to Greenland, rescuing a group of shipwrecked sailors along the way. Leif is last mentioned alive in 1025 he had passed on his chieftaincy of Eiríksfjǫrðr to another son, Thorkell.
