Brand var - søn af vermund i vatnsfjord

Ville være konge af det islandske jord

Hans ven Tjodolf skjald

Han hjælpe ham skal 

Fortælle kongen brand er god mand

For der ingen så gavmild som han

Han skal vær den nye konge af island

Kongen sagde igennem en prøve du skal

Hvis du vil ha mit land

Jeg vil se hvad du vil

Om du har hvad der skal til

Tjodolf fik bud og skyndte sig ud

”brand kongen din kappe du ska gi

For konge at bli”

Brand ville være fri

Han intet havde at sige

Men han ville være kongeli'

Så han lod sig kappen afgi’

Det ku kongen godt li

Brand han konge ku' bli

Men kongen mere ville ha

Tjodolf hans guldøkse sku ta’

Tjodolf måtte kongen beklage

Han ikke øksen ville ta’

Men kongen øksen ville ha!

Brand han også øksen afga’

Og igen intet han sa’

Kongen, brand nu ku li 

For alt det han var villig at gi

Nu kongen hans kjortel ville ha

Tjodolf hans kjortel ej ville tage

Kongen igen begyndte at klage

Brand sit ærme han rev af

Og tjodolf vente tilbage

Kongen nu sagde

Han viser jeg kun en hånd ka ha

Da jeg ikk ka gi men kun modta

Nu brand til kongen kom frem

Fortalte hvad der var hen

Ærmet var for kongen at tøve

Da det blot brands konge prøve.

 

1. Give a brief account of it 

 Chris McCandless was a young American man, who lived a life where he as a kid had to see his parents fight and his father beating up and choking her dad. He was told as a kid that all the paint that his mother went through was in the cause of him and he then ventured into the wild mostly by himself. Along his journey he met several people, stayed with some of them for multiple days at a time. Other times he camped in the wild. He survived by killing serval wild animals and eating wild growing plants. This way he stayed alive in over 100 days in the wild, sadly he one day ate a poisonous plant and was food poisoned and started to slowly starve since he was puking all his food up. He spent his last days in Denali National Park in Alaska, where he is said to have died of starvation, possibly due to poisoning. 
 
 2. What does the film reveal about Chris/Alex and his Family?
 
 Chris' family was plagued with domestic abuse. His father lived a double life, taking care of two families at the same time, without any of them knowing. It reveals that his father was abusive against the wifes and had made Chris/Alex’s life full of pain and made him suffer mentally. 

 3. Is the information relevant to you when you try to understand his decision to go to the Alaskan wilderness? Why/why not?
 
 According to his sisters Chris was trying to escape his abusive and somewhat dysfunctional family. He was trying to keep his family life secret, and told strangers that his reason for going into the wild was to rediscover himself. The journey into the wild was the escape from his life and a escape from the pain he had been through throughout his life.