A Quote by Kristofer Hivju

I'm from Norway, and when kids were reading comics, I was reading Icelandic and Norwegian sagas about the Vikings. The glorification of violence, their mentality, and their way of living - that was part of my own education growing up.

Kristofer Hivju

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Kristofer Hivju
Norwegian - Actor
Born: December 7, 1978

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Nora Ephron

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Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.

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I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.

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