7.3/1028 votes#1 - 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
7.3/1026 votes#2 - 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
7.6/1025 votes#3 - 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
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Vikings is a 2012 BBC television documentary series written and presented by Neil Oliver charting the rise of the Vikings from prehistoric times to the...
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Who Were the Vikings" is the best rated episode of "Vikings" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 28 votes. Directed by Jon Eastman and written by N/A, it aired on 9/11/2012. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Trading Empire".