He’s the second strongest man in the world. He plays a character called “The Mountain.” And he’s headed to U.S. Bank Stadium on Sunday.
Game of Thrones star Thor Bjornsson will lead the Skol Chant and sound the ghallahorn as the Minnesota Vikings face off against the Green Bay Packers.
We are all Vikings. #Skol pic.twitter.com/AtJTr4TTRK
— Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) October 14, 2017
The 441-pound 6-foot-9-inch man, a native Icelander, helped pass along the Skol Chant tradition to the Minnesota Vikings after the Iceland men’s national soccer team made it famous upon its return from the Euro 2016.
The chant — known as the Viking War Chant in Iceland — starts as a slow clap above the head and slowly speeds up. In 2016, Bjornsson and Icelandic Soccer Team Captain Aron Gunnarsson appeared in a video to help transfer the chant to Vikings fans.
The Vikings began the chant during their game against the Packers in 2016. A YouTube video of it has nearly 50,000 views.
They’ve been using it at every home game since.
