vikings

Cartoons and facts combine to provide a portrait of what life was like in a Viking village and aboard a Viking ship looking for new lands.

Takes a look at the history and culture of the Vikings, seafaring raiders of the early Middle Ages, including their warrior ethic, practice of slavery, and religious beliefs.

It is better to stand and fight. If you run, you'll only die tired. - Viking saying. Beginning in 789 CE, the Vikings raided monasteries, sacked settlements and invaded the Atlantic coast of Europe and the British Isles. They looted and enslaved their enemies, terrorising all whom they encountered. But that is only part of their story. Sailing their famous longboats, they discovered Iceland and America (both by accident) and also sailed up the Seine to Paris (which they sacked). They settled from Newfoundland to Russia, founded Dublin and fought battles as far afield as the Caspian Sea. A thousand years after their demise, traces of the Vikings can be found as far apart as Canada and Turkey. They traded walruses with Inuits, brought Russian furs to Western Europe and took European slaves to Constantinople. Their graves contain Arab silver, Byzantine silks and Frankish weapons and artefacts. Arranged thematically, The Viking Warrior examines the Norsemen through their origins, society, raiding culture, weapons and war tactics, exploration, trade, settlements and kingdoms. Illustrated with more than 200 colour and black-and-white photographs, maps and artworks, The Viking Warrior is an expertly written account of a people who have long captured the popular imagination.

In order to save his beloved Astrid, Dane the Defiant must defeat his former nemesis, Thidrek the Terrifying, who has been resurrected by the goddess Hel to find the Ship of the Dead, and Dane, with help from the Ruin Warriors, must find the ship before Thidrek to prevent him from creating an army of dead soldiers to overthrow mankind.

At the end of the ninth century, Alfred the Great is on his death bed and unified England is on the brink of chaos, and Saxon-born, Viking-raised warrior Uhtred is forced to choose between his vows to Alfred and England or to lay down his sword to reclaim his long-lost ancestral lands in the north.

Freydis joins her father, a Viking leader, on a quest to find her brother who had been taken prisoner after a raid by marauders. Freydis draws close to her slave and protector Enno, but they find that friendship, family, and loyalty are tested to the limit when the battle begins.

Presents information about Vikings, discussing their travel and trade, religions, occupations, and more.

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders.