Storytelling
“Men are weaklings!” said Freydis, taking the axe from his hand…
Women
Some of the most important rulers and greatest explorers of the Viking Age were women.
But women at home on the farm also had a completely different role than the one they were squeezed into in the Middle Ages.
Hear about women’s power in the Viking Age, and why equality is more evident in Scandinavia than elsewhere in the world.
Go North
The real daredevils headed north, to Shetland, Orkney, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Vinland.
No more raids – to the north, the Vikings were alone in the middle of the Atlantic, between icebergs, northern lights and volcanoes.
Here they found a sanctuary, and here they wrote the sagas of Scandinavia. Meet the most adventurous Vikings on a farm in Brattalið.
Go East
Forget about England and the Danelaw. Kievan Rus was the largest kingdom in the Viking Age.
From Birka, the Rus Vikings sailed across the Baltic Sea, down the Dnieper River to Istanbul, Baghdad, and Cairo.
Along the way, they founded Europe’s largest empire, importing the gene for blond hair, Arab coins, Buddha statues, and Indian pearls.