[1] It is an adaptation of the Danish legend of prince Amleth, drawing upon the 12th-century works of Saxo Grammaticus, which was also the inspiration for Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Fenge tells Geruth that he arrived on the scene after her husband and son were murdered, and he doesn't know who is responsible.

The henchman Frovin finds Ribold's bloody tunic in a pig trough, and Fenge discovers Gunvor is pregnant with Amled's child.

Now sure that the prince is sane, Fenge announces that he is sending Amled to visit Duke Aethelwine in the Kingdom of Lindsey on the isle of Great Britain.

Amled feigns shock and ignorance, so Aethelwine pays him a large amount of damages in gold.

Amled ties up Fenge’s drunken men in tapestries and sets fire to the castle’s great hall.

His revenge complete, the common people gather to see Amled crowned king by Gureth, with Ethel by his side.

The deliberate artistic and stylistic choices that make it work also, at times – such as with the slightly clumsy fight sequences – don’t pay off and leave the film feeling a little flat.

"[4] Variety: "Despite a sturdy English-speaking cast, and a director whose rep with the 1987 “Babette’s Feast” still carries arthouse echoes, pic is a deliberate deconstruction of the Shakespeare play, shorn of familiar elements...“Prince of Jutland’s” only concession to mainstream entertainment values is Per Norgaard’s bright score in the pic’s first half.