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we've been watching all 6 episodes of the Norwegian SF-series "Beforeigners" (a wordplay with "Before" and "Foreigners") from 2019 in one go; it was like a 4½ hour movie (especially since there were no flashbacks at the beginning of the episodes). in the early 2000s a strange worldwide phenomenon occurs: in lakes suddenly people from the past pop up by the thousands from three ages: stone age, 11th century and 19th century.

the series picks up a few years after this phenomenon started. still people from the past pop up. one of them is actually Ólafr Haraldsson, better known as Olaf II of Norway (nicknamed "Olaf the Fat"). two of his shieldmaidens (female Viking warriors) also arrive, and one of them (who historically became his wife) is the first time-traveler cop. some of the newcomers from the 19th century are actually Luddites (a secret oath-based organization of English textile workers which destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest).

of course this leads to all kinds of culture clashes. no-one understands the stone-age people, and only a few experts understand the 11th century people (the female cop has to translate a lot). the ancient Norwegians were very much anti-Christian; Olaf the Fat actually killed a bishop once. later he converted to Christianity though, became a bishop himself and is considered to be responsible for the Christianization of Norway.

there was full frontal male and female nudity in the series (one of the stone-age people went hunting in the nude). the series was sometimes very funny and a great watch