The Viking Saga -  The Era of The Long Ships

The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 10, 1999

Runtime

2h 0m

Genres

Documentary, Drama

Original Title

The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships

Production Companies

Agaton Film & TV

Director

Mikael Agaton

Description

A major presentation of the life and deeds of the Vikings - seafaring Scandinavians that raided and traded from today's Iran, along the Russian rivers, all over Europe and over the oceans to Greenland and America, five hundred years before Columbus. Here scientists from around the Viking world explains how modern international archaeology works, and illustrates the amazing discoveries about who the Vikings were and what they actually achieved, founding cities like Dublin and countries like Russia.