Corrected entry: The Vikings are supposed to all speak the same language (which is one of the reasons Ahmed manages to learn it). They even refer to it when asking Ahmed "How did you learn our language?". The only problem is, they are NOT speaking the same language. The messenger boy and the old crone both speak modern-day Norwegian, the other 12 warriors speak a mixture of Danish, Swedish and made-up words that don't make sense. Buliwyf himself sounds strained and unnatural, as if he has learned his lines phonetically.
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Correction: The movie takes place in Medieval times, and pretty much all languages have changed over time. A mixture of Norwegian, Danish and Swedish would be typical for the time, as even English of the period used words from different languages, and is pretty much a completely different language compared to modern English.
rswarrior
That is simply not true. In medieval times the language of the Norsemen was not a mixture of present-day Scandinavian languages, but their common ancestor - Old Norse. As Latin is a common ancestor of Italian, Spanish, Romanian etc. so is Old Norse common ancestor of Swedish, Danish etc. So using Norwegian language in the movie is like making a movie about Ancient Roman Civil War and letting Caesar, Brutus and Marcus Antonius speak a mixture of Portuguese and Romanian.