Viking Women

Season 1

The Vikings changed Europe forever, yet half of them have almost completely disappeared from our collective history - the women. They played an important role in their society and performed extraordinary deeds: Viking women commanded ships and settled colonies. They took up arms and negotiated with emperors. Without their stories the Viking Era remains incomplete.

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S1 E1 - Sigrun's Wrath and the Discovery of Iceland
September 1, 2014
52min
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Norway in the year 872. Sigrun could be a happy woman. As a housewife she presides over an impressive Viking household on the coast, has many children, and her husband commands his own ship. Yet her marriage is an unhappy one. The family is burdened by a dark secret: her husband stole her away from her home settlement during a raid when she was a young girl, killing her father and brother.
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S1 E2 - Jova's Heritage and the Fall of Haithabu
September 1, 2014
52min
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Denmark in the year 1064. Jova lives as a servant in the household of the merchant Ottar. One day she learns that her father was a renowned warrior who set out to the East shortly after her birth and never returned. From then on Jova only has one goal - finding him. She escapes from Ottar, dresses like a man to hire on a ship that sails to the land of the Rus.
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