The Revenge (Hemnen)

The Revenge is about a free but vulnerable woman called Gunnhild, from Vik in Sogn. Gunnhild is married off to Magnus Barelegs (1073-1103) – king of Norway, the Orkney Islands, the Faeroe Islands, parts of Scotland, Man, Anglesey and Dublin with surroundings – as part of a larger power ploy. Gunnhild, who has never met or heard of Magnus before, puts up a fierce fight. Her powerful foster father Earl Skjalg's has endeavored repeatedly to marry her off in order to build powerful alliances, but she has always run from his efforts.

Gunnhild, with her extremely independent spirit, is very different from other contemporary women from powerful families.

Gunnhild seeks love and peace, not power and money like everyone around her.

A motion picture based on the life of King Magnus Barelegs

One of the biggest film-productions in Scandinavia, The Revenge is based on facts around the life of King Magnus Barelegs (1073-1103) - king of Norway, the Orkney Islands, the Faeroe Islands, parts of Scotland, Man, Anglesey and Dublin with surroundings - and the free but vulnerable woman Gunnhild from Vik in Sogn, Norway.

Starting to work on it at the age of 12, The Revenge is Randi Førsund`s first screenplay. Fridrik Thor Fridriksson is producer, with Nils Gaup as director.

The Revenge is projected to premiere: Work in progress...

The Process

This animated reconstruction of the stave church also reveals the process the project has been through since I first started working on it at age 12.