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Season 1 of Vikings: Valhalla is based on several Viking sagas and historical texts. Here you can find out which ones.
Episode 195: The Viking Sagas Hosted by John J. Miller September 14, 2021 12:52 PM (Corey Ford/Getty Images) ...
Dr Janina Ramirez finds out about one of the great Viking stories - the Laxdaela Saga.
Facing death, Ragnar laughs at his enemies. His final words—like many Viking sagas—reveal a culture that saw glory, not fear, in the end.
Facing death with defiance, Ragnar Lodbrok didn’t beg—he sang. His legendary death song echoes the Viking code: glory in battle, honor in life, and no fear in the face of fate.
The team behind 2014’s Breaking the Spell, which collected Scottish tales, returns to dramatize stories mined from the Viking sagas, with Don adapting the language for a modern readership ...
Robert Eggers' The Northman is a brutal Viking story, but other films offer different interpretations of the historical seafaring Scandinavians.
In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history.
It is unclear exactly who Jarl Estrid Haakon (portrayed by Caroline Henderson in the TV series) is in relation to the Viking sagas but there are a couple of possibilities based on the name alone.
Watch stories from Norse mythology told in a fun but faithful style for 7-9 year olds. The stories feature famous characters such as Loki, Odin and Thor. Suitable for Key Stage 2 English.