THE VIKINGS: FARMERS WHO CONQUERED THE WORLD
Episode 2 | Human History — Groups & Movements
In this History episode we focus on the Vikings — not the Hollywood version with the horned helmets, but the real story of Scandinavian farmers who became the most feared warriors in Europe and the greatest explorers of the medieval world.
This episode covers the raids that began at Lindisfarne in 793, the founding of Dublin and Kyiv and Normandy, the settlement of Iceland and Greenland, and the voyagers who reached North America 500 years before Columbus.
They were farmers. They were traders. They were the people who built the world's oldest…
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