All Episodes of Vikings

Season 1

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  Who Were the Vikings

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/2012

  Neil Oliver heads for Scandinavia to reveal the truth behind the legend of the Vikings. In the first programme, Neil begins by discovering the mysterious world of the Vikings' prehistoric ancestors. The remains of weapon-filled war boats, long-haired Bronze Age farmers, and a Swedish site of a royal palace and gruesome pagan ritual conjure up an ancient past from which the Viking Age was to suddenly erupt.

  Director: Jon Eastman

  Writer: N/A

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  7.3/1026 votes

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  The Trading Empire

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/2012

  Neil Oliver heads out from the Scandinavian homelands to Russia, Turkey and Ireland to trace the beginnings of a vast trading empire that handled Chinese silks as adeptly as Pictish slaves. Neil discovers a world of 'starry-eyed maidens' and Buddhist statues that are a world away from our British experience of axe-wielding warriors, although it turns out that there were quite a few of those as well.

  Director: Rosie Schellenburg

  Writer: N/A

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  7.6/1025 votes

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  End of the Viking Age

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/2012

  Neil Oliver explores how the Viking Age finally ended, tracing the Norse voyages of discovery, the first Danish kings, and the Christian conversions that opened the door to European high society. He also uncovers the truth about England's King Canute - he was not an arrogant leader who thought he could hold back the waves, but the Viking ruler of an entire empire of the north and an early adopter of European standardisation.

  Director: Simon Winchcombe

  Writer: N/A