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The great arc of Viking history told through a chain of life stories, presented by broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason.

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Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are frankly obsessed with the Vikings. In this new podcast series, Richard and Kári travel the world to unearth the individual stories of these men and women of extraordinary fierceness, imagination, cruelty and courage. We see their burning passions and moments of astonishing tenderness, recorded in their own words a thousand years ago.

This series, several years in the making, begins with Odin, the king of the Norse gods, then progresses into the stories of part-legendary figures like Beowulf and Ragnar Lothbrok, then moves into the lives of Viking women and men who are revealed to us in the full light of history through the sagas, medieval chronicles, and archaeological records.

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Kári and Richard trace the evolution of the Vikings as raiders, traders and settlers in search of treasure and honour. We follow them as they traverse astonishing distances, forcing their way into Europe, Russia and North Africa, then to Iceland, Greenland and North America.

In making these episodes, Richard & Kári have travelled to the island of Lindisfarne where the Viking Age began in 793 CE; to the saga lands of Iceland; to the grave of an unknown Norse warrior at Prague Castle; and to Helgafell, the holy mountain where a temple to Thor once stood.

Viking Lives will follow the great arc of Viking history over four series of ten episodes each, beginning with the first Viking raids and concluding in an Icelandic farmhouse where Kári’s ancestor, the greatest of the saga authors, was murdered in the year 1241. Along the way we'll be joined by guest specialists and authors with their own intimate connections to the Viking world.

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Kári and Richard present the strange tale of Amleth the Mad: the Danish prince whose uncle murders his father and then marries his mother in unseemly haste.

Amleth, alone and in great danger, pretends to be mad until he can figure out how to take his revenge.

This was the original story that inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and formed the basis of the recent film The Northman’, with Alexander Skarsgard.

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Kári and Richard present the strange tale of Amleth the Mad: the Danish prince whose uncle murders his father and then marries his mother in unseemly haste.

Amleth, alone and in great danger, pretends to be mad until he can figure out how to take his revenge.

This was the original story that inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and formed the basis of the recent film The Northman’, with Alexander Skarsgard.