Vikings- The Nordic Saga

<p>The Vikings gave Ireland its first towns — including its capital, Dublin, founded as a Norse settlement and one of the great slave-trading hubs of the western world. We explore two centuries of entanglement between...

<p>The other half of the Viking world pointed east. We follow the Rus — the eastern Vikings — down the great river roads of Russia, through forests and deadly rapids, trading furs and slaves for Islamic silver, all the...

<p>Leave the longships and battlefields behind and walk the muddy, thriving streets of a real Viking city. Beneath modern York, the waterlogged earth at Coppergate preserved a Viking town almost intact — its timber...

<p>The most famous year in English history, told in full. One throne, three claimants, and two enormous battles fought nineteen days apart. We follow the death of Edward the Confessor, the wind that pinned William of...

<p></p><p>In the year 1000, the Icelandic parliament — the Althing — gathered as it did every summer. But this year, the debate was unlike any before it: should Iceland abandon the gods of Odin and Thor and convert to...

<p></p><p>On the 13th of November 1002, King Æthelred of England ordered the killing of every Dane living on English soil. In this episode, we explore what drove a king to order a massacre of an entire people, who was...

<p></p><p>In the autumn of 885, a Viking fleet of over 700 ships and 30,000 warriors sailed up the Seine and surrounded the city of Paris in the most dramatic siege of the entire Viking Age. In this episode, we tell the...

<p></p><p>In the spring of 845, a fleet of 120 Viking longships sailed up the Seine River toward the heart of the Frankish Empire — and the most powerful kingdom in Europe paid them to leave. In this episode, we tell...

<p></p><p>On a June morning in 793, longships appeared off the coast of a small holy island off northeast England — and nothing in Europe would ever be the same again. In this episode, we go deep into the raid on...

<p></p><p>He was the only English king ever called "the Great" — and he earned it the hard way. In this episode, we follow Alfred of Wessex from near-total defeat, hiding in the swamps of Somerset, to his stunning...

<p></p><p>He was a Danish invader who conquered England by force — and then became one of its greatest kings. In this episode, we tell the remarkable story of Cnut the Great: how a young Viking warrior defeated the...

<p>One man lived three lifetimes: a wounded teenager fleeing a lost battle, an elite warrior in the</p><p>Byzantine emperor's Varangian Guard looting the palaces of Constantinople, and finally the hardhanded</p><p>king...

<p>Vikings reached North America around the year 1000 — half a millennium before Columbus — and the</p><p>proof is in the ground. We follow Erik the Red, the violent outlaw who named an icy land "Greenland"</p><p>to...

<p>The real Raven-Floki who followed birds across the open ocean to discover Iceland — and named it in</p><p>bitterness after a brutal winter. Plus: the genius of the Viking longship, how a free society with no...

<p>In 911, a Viking warlord made a deal with a French king that changed European history forever. Rollo</p><p>traded raiding for land, founded Normandy, and started a dynasty that would conquer England in...