Ten films in which Magnus Magnusson explores the Viking world. 5 : England at Bay
' All they wanted was a nice warm welcome and a few beers in Weymouth, but they were insulted, so fists began to fly.'
That is Magnus Magnusson 's slightly tongue-in-cheek interpretation of events on the Dorset coast around AD 790, when England's first recorded Viking visitors arrived unannounced and slew the king's representative for daring to ask them their business!
Today's episode of Vikings! looks at the Viking kingdom of York, and at the beleaguered kingdom of Wessex where it was left to a young Saxon king to stem the onslaught of the ' Viking host'-Alfred the Great. with DENNIS EDWARDS
DANIEL MASSEY , JEREMY KEMP
Music hvJACK toint
Series adviser PROFESSOR P. 11. SAWYER Producer riy si tcuffe
Scries producer DAVID COLLISON