Victims of the Vikings

Dec 22, 2020

0h 52m

★ 6.6

While Vikings have been celebrated as heroic explorers and conquerors, they have a dark history as slavers and human traffickers, the extent of which is being uncovered through archaeology.

Overview

Adventurers, explorers and conquerors: the Vikings are considered the greatest heroes of the Middle Ages. Is this interpretation justified? In fact, they left a far darker and lesser-known mark on history: they were ruthless slavers, human traffickers and hostage-takers. „Victims of the Vikings“ is the first TV documentary to investigate this infamous and often horrifying aspect of the Nordic warriors.

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

ZDF

ORF

TG4

Česká televize

Abú Media

Interspot Film

ARTE

ORF Enterprise

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Cast

Melkorka

Cat Williams

Findan

Rickie O'Neill

Höskuldr

Michael J. Cloke

Old Findan

Brian Comerford

Narrator

Eszter Hollósi

Irish Slave

Joseph Palmer

Viking Chief

Piotr Markiewicz

Irish Man 2

Martin Gilligan

Slave Trader

John Heathwood

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