Erik the Viking (1989)

Samantha Bond: Helga

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Helga : Have you done this sort of thing before?

  Erik : Me? Of course. I've been looting and pillaging up and down the coast.

  Helga : Looting and pillaging, eh?

  Erik : Yes

  Helga : What about the raping?

  Erik : Shut up.

  Helga : Well, it's obvious you haven't raped anyone in your life.

• Helga : [Erik has accidentally run his sword through her while killing the other two Vikings who were raping her]  Thanks for saving me from a fate worse than death.

  Erik : I didn't mean to!

  Helga : [Gasping for breath]  Oh, that's all right then. It's the thought that counts.

  Erik : You told them I raped you, why?

  Helga : I don't know. You looked so - vulnerable.

  Erik : Why should you care?

  Helga : Why should you care?

  Erik : Tell me your name? Tell me, what is it?

  [Helga dies before she can answer] 

• Helga : Why do you have to go around killing and looting all the time?

  Erik : To pay for the next expedition, of course.

  Helga : But that's a circular argument! If the only reason for the expedition is the killing and looting and the only reason for the killing and looting is to pay for the next expedition, they cancel each other out.

  Erik : Stop talking as if we were married!

  Helga : Well you started it.

  Erik : I just said I didn't feel like raping you.

  Helga : And I was just saying that rape is no more pointless or crude than all the killing and looting.

• Helga : Oh, good, it's Mr. Wonderful!

  Erik : I've come to take you back to the land of the living.

  Helga : What a stupid idea.

  Erik : Why?

  Helga : Well, what's the point of being dead in the land of the living?