Ten films in which Magnus Magnusson explores the Viking world.
1: Hammer of the North
Pagan poets and wrathful fishermen7 Merciless farmers and valiant craftsmen? The Vikings were an extraordinary people, complex, brilliant, unpredictable and difficult to define.
Tonight MAGNUS MAGNUSSON, himself the descendant of Vikings, looks for the spirit of the Viking age: the ships, the sagas, the heroism and the obsessions which accompanied them to the farthest edges of the world.
With COLIN BLAKELY , JEREMY KEMP JOHN BENNETT , DANIEL MASSEY
Music JACK POINT
Series adviser PROFESSOR P. H. GAWYER Research LIZ WRIGHT
Producer RAY SUTCLIFFE
Series producer DAVID COLLISON