Viking Women
Viking Women
2014
1 Season
7.2
Documentary

The Vikings changed Europe forever, yet half of them have almost completely disappeared from collective memory: the women.

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E1Sep 13, 2014

Part 1: Sigrun's Wrath And The Discovery Of Iceland

Viking women commanded ships and settled colonies. They took up arms and negotiated with emperors. Their traces can now be discovered all the way from America to Kiev. Without their biographies the period of the Vikings stays incomplete. This is the story of Sigrun, in Norway, in the year 872.

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E2Sep 13, 2014

Part 2: Jova's Heritage And The Fall Of Haithabu

Viking influence stretches from the Baltic to the Black Sea in 1072. Jova, a young Viking woman, goes in search of her warrior father, and her quest takes us to the Viking communities transitioning to kingdoms and undergoing the transformation to Christianity.