Ten films in which Magnus Magnusson explores the Viking world. 7: An Island Called Thule
'Thule where, from the sun that has approached the Arctic pole, an ever-shining fire spreads out through the days and the nights.
After one day's sail from Thule the frozen sea is reached.'
The mysterious Thule of the ancients was at one time thought to be Iceland. What is certain, however, is that of all the Viking lands Iceland is the only truly Viking nation. A land both forbidding and fascinating, it was the unlikely setting for the birth of the world's most remarkable democracy.
MAGNUS MAGNUSSON returns to the land of the sagas. with Jeremy Kemp
Daniel Massey , Ben Kingsley
Music bv JACK POINT
Series adviser PROFESSOR p. h. SAWYER Research LIZ WRIGHT
Film editor MALCOLM DANIEL Producer RAY SUTCLIFFE
Series producer DAVID COLLISON