The Longships enabled the Golden Age of the Vikings. Lasting for approximately 400 years their state-of-the-art marine technology ensured their dominance of the seas of the known world.Background music by Richard Wolfe
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Episode 2: Gods, myths and legends
This episode explores the gods, myths and and legends of the Vikings and the effects that their belief system had on their destiny.
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Episode 1: An Introduction to the Golden Age of the Vikings
This episode describes in broad-brush strokes what can be expected from the rest of the series, separating myth and legends from reality.Credit for background music is here
About The Golden Age of the Vikings: The Saga of the Norsemen
A compelling series of podcasts describing the life, times and some of the not-so-well-known history during the the golden Age of the Vikings. It lasted for four hundred years and the series describes their cultural changes, explorations, conquests, achievements and some of the, major players during this period of great change in medieval Europe.
More information on the books can found on the narrator's website at https://peterdrichards.co.uk/
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