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Back up to: Noiser Presents

1. Introducing... Real Vikings

   The Vikings terrified the medieval world. Yet they beguile us today. Who were they really?
2. 8. Promised Lands: Greenland and Vinland

   Banished from Iceland, a criminal named Erik the Red puts to sea.
3. 7. Rise of the Sea King

   Lured by its treasures, a fearsome chieftain named Thorgest arrives in Ireland.
4. 6. Greek Fire: Across the Mediterranean

   Mounting ships on wheels, Vikings launch an audacious land-borne attack on Constantinople.
5. 5. Land of Fire and Ice

   Pioneering Norsemen establish a brand-new homeland - a Viking utopia in Iceland.
6. 4. The Wild East: Rise of the Rus

   A Viking state is established - the Rus. It comes with a fearsome matriarch, Olga of Kyiv…
7. 3. Blood Eagles: The Great Heathen Army

   Emboldened by their forays, the Vikings escalate their raiding.
8. 2. Ragnar Lothbrok and the Siege of Paris

   Charlemagne launches a Christian crusade against the heathens on his northern border.
9. 1. Murder on Chesil Beach: Raiders From the North

   A murder in Dorset marks the beginning of the Viking Age in the British Isles.