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Vikings & the Norse Age: Complete History from Raiders to Kings | Sleep Story
Drift off to the complete history of the Vikings — the Norse seafarers who terrorized, traded with, and transformed the medieval world. Far more than mere raiders, the Vikings built settlements from Iceland to North America, established trade routes to Byzantium, and founded the kingdom of Kievan Rus.
Covered: Origins of the Norse people and the Viking Age, the first raids (Lindisfarne, 793 AD), Viking shipbuilding and navigation, the settlement of Iceland and Greenland, Leif Erikson and the discovery of North America (Vinland), the Vikings in Normandy and England, the Varangian Guard in…
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