Are they in this
film? Seafarers, raider, traders,
yes to all of them!! This episode
of Nature focuses on the Vikings and their relationship with the natural
world. They both exploited and
nurtured their world. Researchers
travel from Norway to Newfoundland just as the seafaring warriors did in 1,000
A.D. This was hundreds of years
before the journey of Columbus.
Vikings ruled the northern seas and their only guides were the ravens in
the sky and the killer whales pushing through the cold waters. Everything needed by the Vikings was
taken from nature.
I thought this was good and interesting. I didn't know that the Vikings played chess and they used the ivory tusks of walruses to carve the chess pieces. The Viking Age of Scandinavian history was from 790's until the Norman conquest of England in 1066. They used the Norwegian Sea and Baltic Sea for sea routes to the south. The Normans were descended from Vikings and two Vikings ascended to the throne of England, Sweyn Forkbeard in 1013-1014 and his son Cnut the Great was king from 1016-1035. 3 1/2* (I liked this episode)
53 min, TV
episode, aired February 13, 2019, directed and produced by Nigel Pope and
Jackie Savery with Ewan McGregor as narrator.
Note: PBS 4* with one review, Amazon 5* with
two reviews.
Special
Note: Animals featured in this
film are reindeer, otters, harbor seals, orcas, puffins, gannets, arctic foxes,
eider ducks, ravens, walrus, gyrfalcons and humpback whales.
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