I watched this last night. I assume its the same version as going to be released soon by AB US.

Very much a rip-off of The Vikings but mildly diverting. The picture quality of the DVD is pretty good capturing Bava's use of lighting very well, with numerous shots in which different parts of the screen are bathed in different colours. This is especially evident in the various viking lair scenes looked to be shot on some left over fantasique sets from a Hercules movie.

The English audio sounded as if it had been recorded in a cave. The dialogue is also an over-wordy somewhat literal translation. Cameron Mitchell's is dubbed by someone else although there is one bizarre moment in which he speaks in a differently dubbed voice for the last couple of lines of one scene (which repeats earlier dialogue). His hair colour also changes from blonde to black for several close-ups in the second half of the film (filmed later as post porduction re-shoots ??).

The German DVD includes all of the footage listed as missing from the US "Invaders" version of this film by Tim L in his Bava book. The opening narrative scrawl is in Italian (English voice-over) but a later caption saying "20 years later" is oddly in English. It runs just over 86m translating to just under 90m in NTSC.

The ABE version restores the closing shot, which is missing from the German disc. I looked through my collection for alternative audio to reloop the lines you mention, which sound like they were looped in by someone on the German DVD production team, but couldn't find anything. The color is a bit better, I think, on the ABE disc too. But the German disc will remain a hot collectible for the bonus feature Bava interviews.

Thanks for the clarification Tim.

The extra line shouldn't really be there at all since it repeats what he's just said earlier but someone seemed to feel it was needed as the camera pans back to him after an off screen voice-over has finished and his mouth is still moving (was the end of this shot removed from some English language releases??)

If I remember correctly, I think they slowly faded to black on Mitchell before he spoke.