Vikings: How the Vikings lived and died.

1200 years ago, the Vikings exploded out of the cold north sea. Like beasts unleashed upon an unsuspecting world. They came from the land of fjords, a land hard to farm, and bitter clan rivalries. Modern day Scandinavia. They left behind legends of their violence and courage, sagas of exploration and conquest, along with treasures buried in their Scandinavian homelands.

In 1818, Norwegian Archeologists made an extraordinary discovery, opening a window to the past, and revealing for the first time how the Vikings truly lived, and died.

This documentary gives us a look at the Vikings, Nordic seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central and eastern Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries. The term is also commonly extended in modern English and other vernaculars to the inhabitants of Viking home communities during what has become known as the Viking Age. This period of Nordic military, mercantile and demographic expansion constitutes an important element in the early medieval history of Scandinavia, Estonia, the British Isles, France, Kievan Rus' and Sicily.

Facilitated by advanced seafaring skills, and characterized by the longship, Viking activities at times also extended into the Mediterranean littoral, North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Following extended phases of (primarily sea- or river-borne) exploration, expansion and settlement, Viking (Norse) communities and polities were established in diverse areas of north-western Europe, European Russia, the North Atlantic islands and as far as the north-eastern coast of North America. This period of expansion witnessed the wider dissemination of Norse culture, while simultaneously introducing strong foreign cultural influences into Scandinavia itself, with profound developmental implications in both directions.

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