Why does he talk English with the foreigners?

I think they done it to make it more understandeble and enjoyble. How fun would it be to read translated latin for example? Not at all. I think that the english part is a great compromiss and would gladly do accept it in my own script (where english would be instead of rusian) since most swedish can understand english very well.

Why would you make a stupid generic statement about Americans like an imbecile?

After watching this with over 80% subtitles would I be bothered by another 20% more ? No! I would've liked to see them speak Latin and French etc. but it was the directors choice to make it English. The director didn't consult or consider American audience for this.

You're a biased ignorant person.

''They should definitely not have been speaking English. In fact, this was the main reason I haven't seen this movie yet. People always complain about Hollywood movies being inaccurate when even aliens speak flawless (American) English, but this movie is even worse. If everyone had spoken Swedish I would have accepted it since it's a Swedish movie, but why English? That makes no senese - English isn't the main language of modern Sweden, and in the Medieval English was a peasant language noone outside England bothered about.''

They speak Swedish in the Swedish segments of the film. English is only spoken by foreign characters many of which are from England but were Normans who should be speaking the Anglo-Norman dialect of Norman French.

Formerly KingAngantyr

At least they are pretending to speak German using accents.

Swedish, Arabic and Latin are used in the film.

Any time two people who speak different languages converse it's in English. That was clearly, to me, a stand in for "whatever they are speaking, probably a mis-mash of French, and phrases from their own two languages, with awful accents" but is something we can script and understand more easily.

Chinese, Russian, or anything else unlikely to be what they are speaking would have worked as well. Since they subtitled THE US RELEASE, I think they did not do it for the 'Murican audience. If they were really chasing that, then we'd have a dubbed one available also.