Key Stages: 2 - 4

Description

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Episode length - 1 hour

Neil Oliver heads for Scandanavia to reveal the truth behind the legend of the Vikings.

1 - Neil begins by discovering the mysterious world of the Vikings' prehistoric ancestors. The remains of weapon-filled war boats, long-haired Bronze Age farmers, and the Swedish site of a royal palace and gruesome pagan ritual conjure up an ancient past from which the Viking Age was to suddenly erupt.

2 - Neil discovers a world of "starry-eyed maidens" and Buddhist statues that are a world away from our British experience of axe-weilding warriors, although it turns out that there were quite a few of those as well.

3 - He explores how the Viking Age finally ended, tracing the Norse voyages of discovery, the first Danish kings, and the Christian conversions that opened the door to European high society. He also uncovers the truth about England's King Canute - he was not an arrogant leader who thought he could hold back the waves, but the Viking ruler of an entire empire of the north and an early adopter of European standardisation.

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