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Table of Contents | 1. Earth | 2. The Origin of Life and Evolution of Man | 3. Civilisation | 4. Fertile Crescent | 5. Egypt | 6. Indus Valley | 7. Yellow River (Haung He/Huang Ho) | 8. Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Assyrians | 9. New World (B. C./Pre-Columban) | 10. Greeks and Persians | 11. Rome ( - B. C. - A. D. 96) | 12. The Messiah/Christus, Jesus, James, Simon/Peter, Saul/Paul | 13. Rome ( - A. D. 275) | 14. Rome and Byzantium (Nova Roma) | 15. Islam | 16. Charlemagne | 17. Vikings | 18. Turks, Crusaders, Mongols, Moors, Explorers and Conquistadors | 19. Reformation, Enlightenment (1300s -1700s) | 20. Mid-1700s - early 1900s | 21. The Great War | 22. Inter-War Years | 23. The War in Europe and Africa | 24. Second World War | 25. War in the Pacific | 26. Defeating the Axis in Europe and Africa | 27. End of Japanese Imperialism | 28. Ending the War | 29. Conquest of Space | 30. Averting Nuclear War | 31. End of Empire | 32. Man on the Moon | 33. Arms Race and Limitation | 34. Lifting the Iron Curtain | 35. The 21st Century | 36. Outer Space | 37. | 42.





 
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PREVIEW




VIKINGS

Episode from the documentary series Barbarians

BBC

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1s3jc8

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkJy1b4q3WU




THE VIKINGS

Movie

1958

1:51:10

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ukkm0









Vikings

Journey to New Worlds

Documentary

IMAX

2004

40 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op2klBWynlA&t=112s


Vikings in America

Documentary

Public Broadcasting System / PBS (USA)

NOVA

24 January 1995

56:38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOIz4A3Q8Qo




THE NORMANS

KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

1066

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PfoYkgoBZQ



To see this page, 17. Vikings, click here.



http://johnthomasagain.tripod.com/page17vikings/




Vikings



Timeline:


Goths

Angles, Jutes

Norse

Normans

Crusaders



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Norse Timeline





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Vikings









Norse Cosmology



A Norseman's conception of a three-tier system of earth, heaven and hell

Source: The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland (1988) ( http://www.germanicmythology.com/original/cosmology3.html )



Norse Gods

norse mythology family tree

Chart of the Norse Gods (Source: Severino R)

Dates




The Norse Gods

Discussion on the weekly BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg

With Carolyne Larrington, Heather O’Donoghue and John Hines

11 March 2004

BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y243

or

You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6feKGQX5bo





Odin





Thor



Thor

Episode 10 of the documentary series Clash of the Gods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvarTmoDKms





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pic



Runestones in Denmark







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Viking longship





Vikings Journey to New Worlds

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkxvy7Gcd-c



Vikings, Fury from the North

Episode from the documentary series History's Mysteries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAF8Ai7WUss

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRC2R7wxQkw



Viking Voyage

2008 BBC documentary on the TimeWatch programme (1:28:50)

A Viking longship replica goes on a sailing voyage from Rosskilde in Demark to Dublin in Ireland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8jhnrNHk3g



The Vikings

Episode 3 of 3 of the 2014 dcumentary series Greeks, Romans, Vikings - The Founders of Europe



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGpQdDxfWX0







Viking routes 700s - 1000s





Viking settlements from Greenland to the Caspian










Viking voyages



The Vikings

Episode from the documentary series Barbarians


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0pSpIzIqpk







The Vikings



1994 documentary



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kIoa3k_wac (47:47)



or



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcoxk7fKv6A (47:47)







Vikings!



Desmistifying the Legendary Raiders of the North



Conversation with Anders Winroth



@YaleLive



Yale University (2013)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKLfSFHYuIY







The Vikings



History Channel documentary



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mkib3lYA2s







The Vikings



Episode from the documentary series Ancient Warriors



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prjEdv-4w5A







The Vikings



Lecture by Ryan M. Reeves



Uploaded 2014



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aGZRZgsq_4





THE VIKINGS
Who Were They?
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrNyYjPdAOU

The Vikings
Documentary
Three-part documentary with Neil Oliver
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsX7i5BCHso
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4oKyoiT0_M
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ydtLZfQrbo

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Hedeby

A big important Viking settlemtn on the southern edge of the Jutland Peninsula from the 700s to 1066

The village is called Hedeby in Danish and Haithabu in German

German-Swedish Viking Story

DW (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCQiUMyTAoQ


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Vikings in Iceland



The Viking Sagas
2011 BBC documentary with Janina Ramirez (56:54)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taVsvYWp1UU



Vikings

Eric the Red, Leif Ericson and North America

(4 clips)

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwKNdt8sJ38&feature=relmfu

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W53keOCIQRM&feature=relmfu

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxxWkNHuCkY&feature=relmfu

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh57njsvw5Q&feature=relmfu




Leif Ericson

Documentary (42:28)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWfE8Z5AgGE





Vikings in Greenland



Early Viking settlements in Greenland





Viking homes in Greenland





Lost Vikings

2000 documentary from the Secrets of the Dead series

On the uncertain fate of a Norwegian Viking colony in Greenland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb95CWvo3z0&feature=relmfu





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Vikings in North America



Vinland



Where was Vinland?



Canadian film documentary about the Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4v9x2HYxcc&feature=relmfu



The Viking Map Deception

NOVA documentary about a notorious 1950s forgery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW7NAE1pOO8





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Vikings in Russia



Graphic: Ukraine Map (Rich Clabaugh/Staff)

Vikings in Russia, Byzantium

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4_r-IySNKM

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6T9zVFhxkE&feature=relmfu

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C06pP0rCvMs&feature=relmfu



Varangian Rus



Documentary



The Rus - Vikings from Sweden - settle in Kiev, marry Slavs, trade with Constantinople and adopt the Orthodox Christian Church of Byzantium



1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4_r-IySNKM



2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6T9zVFhxkE&feature=relmfu



3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C06pP0rCvMs&feature=relmfu







Viking exploration and settlement







History of the Russian Empire



Land of the Tsars



Part 1 of 4-part 2003 documentary series







Rurik (statue in Novgorod)







(5 clips)



Part 1 (from the Vikings to Ivan the Terrible)



1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r_WXKto268&feature=related



2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haXaD6kuPSU&feature=relmfu



3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_MLYEQEkFI&feature=relmfu



4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyHoh2XSrs&feature=relmfu



5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyHoh2XSrs&feature=relmfu







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Vikings in the British Isles

pic

The sack of the monastery at Lindisfarne by the Vikings in 793



Norsemen divide Britain with the Saxon inhabitants

pic

King Alfred of Wessex saved Saxon England by defeating the Danish Viking invaders at the Battle of Edington in 878 and making a deal with them to divide the country in two, giving all of eastern England to the Vikings. The Saxons kept the west. The Viking leader accepted Christianity and became Alfred's godson.







In Search of Alfred the Great



1980 documentary film with Michael Wood



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AbHq1MuI4o



Or in 6 clips:



1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsOLu_lvHUQ



2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lDLASQE4iY&feature=relmfu



3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW-JcuWHNNg&feature=relmfu



4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc7DnEHvGU8&feature=relmfu



5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW-JcuWHNNg&feature=relmfu



6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tnsv_5O5RQ&feature=relmfu





Alfred and the Battle of Edington



Discussion on the weekly BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg



With guests Richard Gameson, Sarah Foot and John Hines



7 April 2005



BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9gm



or



You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wx1jQMKApk







The Vikings



Episode from the documentary series Lost Worlds



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_vVUK-gick&feature=related







Vikings



Journeys to New Worlds



Documentary series



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSUuJ05BxuE



Or in 4 clips:



1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwKNdt8sJ38&feature=related



2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W53keOCIQRM&feature=related



3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxxWkNHuCkY&feature=fvwrel



4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh57njsvw5Q&feature=fvwrel







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The Conversion of Scandanavia



Anders Winroth discusses his book The Conversion of Scandanavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe (ca. 1000)



The MacMillan Report with Marilyn Wilkes at Yale University



Uploaded 2013



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNiPz0xHzdM





And the Norse Gods







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Blood of the Vikings



Five-part 2001 BBC documentary series with Julian Richards presents Viking invasions of British Isles from the raid of Lindisfarne in 793 to the Norman Conquest in 1066



1. First Bood



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O5KkDZD4HE



2. Invasion



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrDiQCUzc8



3. The Sea Road



(Viking settlement in the British Isles)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFsnUdJukL0



4. Rulers (Knut/Canute the Great)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2tU4BiW9kk



For all first four parts in one:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C9c_dEhzbE



5. Last of the Vikings



Documentary about Harold Hardrada (Harold the Tyrant), King of Norway, the Battle of Stamford Bridge and the Battle of Hastings



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZRPwnWYatw











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The Vikings

1958 Hollywood movie (1 hr. 51 min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFes1Rl2l0Q








Viking Art

Episode from the 2014 documenary seiees The Culture Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sORSKJuWquA




The Art of the Vikings

Episode from BBC documentary series Secret Knowledge with Janina Ramirez (2013)

Ends at the 28-minute mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNK0fpSN-Ds




Secrets of the Viking Sword

2012 documetary film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXbLyVpWsVM





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Statues of King Knut/Canute, left, and King Edward ("the Confessor"), right, on a cathedral in Staffordshire





Rulers



Episode 4 of Blood of the Vikings



2001 documentary series with Julian Richards



Viking invasions of the British Isles from the Battle of Maldon in 991 to Knut/Canute the Great to the Norman Conquest in 1066



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGht0HNofzM&feature=related







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1066 - The Battle For Middle Earth

Documentary

(in 2 clips)

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnC6l6_TaMA

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPnCt0IktfQ






The Norman Conquest











Two invasions of England in 1066, both by Vikings



King Edward of England ("The Confessor"), a Saxon, dies, January 1066;



Harold Godwinson, a Saxon, becomes King Harold II of England;





First Invasion



Vikings under King Harold Hardrada of Norway invade England



Viking victory at the Battle of Fulford, September 20, 1066



Vikings defeated by King Harold of England at Stamford Bridge, September 25, 1066







Last of the Vikings



Documentary about Harold Hardrada; part five of the five-part series Blood of the Vikings



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrA6SB4yq4c&feature=related





Battle of Stamford Bridge






Discussion on BBC Radio's In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg



http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth#playepisode2







Second Invasion










Normans



French (or Latin) Vikings under William, Duke of Normandy, invade England from the south



Norman victory over the Saxons in England at the Battle of Hastings on October 13, 1066



William of Normany becomes King of England





William the Conqueror and the Norman Conquest




Statue of William the Conqueror, Falaise, Normandy - birthplace of William




Silver coin with William





Duke William II of Normandy invades England and the Battle of Hastings, October 14, 1066




Battle of Hastings





The Normans



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su95GWkYHZQ





The Normans



Three-part 2010 BBC ocumentary with Robert Bartlet



Episode. 1. Men from the North



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7SX3ulV_tk





For episodes 2 and 3, see below





King William I "The Conqueror"

(1028-1087)



1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gItfGVaRnZo



2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1ujajcPa0&feature=related



3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrXAVYEy-fs&feature=related





In Search of William the Conqueror



Documentary with Michael Wood



1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMsxnBj2wZY



2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qeqPbw5vyk&feature=related



3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOY3AKmqfYg&feature=related



4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYdf6bcIlSE&feature=related



5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvH7K6DVKoY&feature=related





William the Conqueror



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHkJ0sKrzN0&feature=related







Battle of Hastings



Documentary (1994)











Hastings 1066



Tapestry of a Battle



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxQ8UrGebrw&feature=related





Battle of Hastings



Documentary with Dan and Peter Snow



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_rAXH09qRY





Bayeux Tapestry



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8OPQ_28mdo






Bayeux Tapestry









Harold Godwinson, Last Saxon King of England








King Harold



Documentary from the Fact or Fiction series with Tony Robinson (BBC)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWVopr0V2OM






Death of King Harold Godwinson by an arrow to the eye at the battle of Hastings, Bayeux Tapestry







The Battle for Middle Earth



Documentary about the Viking invasions of 1066



The story of a Saxon village in 1066



(2 parts)



1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnC6l6_TaMA&feature=related



2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPnCt0IktfQ&feature=relmfu





A History of Britain - Conquest



Documentary with Simon Schama



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRaMAIq5xRY&feature=relmfu






Dominions of William the Conqueror circa 1087





Conquest



Episode 2 of three-part 2010 BBC documentary The Normans with Robert Bartlet



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ0Ny0jTiGc



Or in 4 clips



1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwKTc6h4Cb4&feature=relmfu



2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQAaV5_GvxI&feature=relmfu



3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqbkM5Rnle8&feature=relmfu



4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brq4OKkisPY&feature=relmfu










What was the Domesday Book actually for?



Excerpt from The Normans (BBC)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWPwnvYyAhc







The Domesday Book (1086)



Discussion on the weekly BBC radio program In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg, April 17, 2014



http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040llvb





Domesday Book & Death of William the Conqueror



Horrible Histories



Measly Middle Ages



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUuUbgHrxQ8









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The Adventure of English



8-part 2003 documentary presented by Melvyn Bragg



Part 2. English Goes Underground



On the influence of Norman French (Old French) (Language of the Latinized Vikings of Northern France) on England



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxRP2pkNBXU







The Normans



Episode # 1 of 6 of the British documentary series Kings and Queens of England



- William the Conqueror and the Norman Conquest (1066)

- Henry II and Becket

- Richard the Lionheart and the Crusades

- KIng John and the Magna Carta (1215)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PfoYkgoBZQ



For the entire series (all six episodes) on one clip, see:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlhItimrgWo







Becket



1964 movie with Richard Burton as Becket and Peter O'Toole as Henry II adapted from the play by Jean Anouilh (2:28:19)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM6nWIcevOE







Norman Conquest of the Southern Italy and Sicily










The Normans of the South



Episode 3 of the three-part 2010 BBC documentary series The Normans with Robert Bartlet



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSnXsYdJ9uo



Or in 3 clips



1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRZQmwRuuXo



2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvycEqq2PW4&feature=relmfu



3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L_liFeM5Io&feature=relmfu











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The Vikings and a Turbulent Anglo-Scandanavian World

Lecture by Christina von Nolcken at the University of Chicago on 22 October 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPArx3jjVJM





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Lectures about the Vikings



The Vikings

A course of 36 half-hour lectures on the Vikings by Kenneth Harl recorded by the Teaching Company (Great Courses)



About the course:

http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=3910

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgckwxrRso



This course appears from time to time on You Tube; its was recently available as follows but has since been removed:





1. The Vikings in Medieval History



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9cp24ymIwU



2. Land and People of Medieval Scandinavia



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoELwMUa4GU



3. Scandinavian Society in the Bronze Age



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyoUoO08r6s



4. Scandinavia in the Celtic and Roman Ages



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeMDBIQPpgU



5. The Age of Migrations



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAtH_TT207U



6. The Norse Gods



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pss08OPqRZI



7. Runes, Poetry and Visual Arts



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El4FWxMkJBQ



8. Legendary Kings and Heroes



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQCEPbdOVi0



9. A Revolution in Shipbuilding



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM2btZCYIbE



10. Warfare and Society in the Viking Age



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCQkACb-kyM



11. Merchants and Commerce in the Viking Age



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrrK6SZBxxk



12. Christendom on the Eve of the Viking Age



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTGWeOaF_-0



13. Viking Raids on the Carolingian Empire



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ar68pGkj-Q



14. The Duchy of Normandy



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC9ryNmTkaQ



15. Viking Assault on England



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFUUXCPEkZo



16. The Danelaw



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-4rXFNjkPk



17. Viking Assault on Ireland



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcnnitBrulk



18. Norse Kings of Dublin and Ireland



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7tVO554iwY



19. The Settlement of Iceland



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM2btZCYIbE



20. Iceland-A Frontier Republic



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p3L72kry78



21. Skaldic Poetry and Sagas



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL9v__oEj7Q



22. Western Voyages to Greenland and Vinland



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxKXSk89Vf4



23. Swedes in the Baltic Sea and Russia



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ZYDecKEgE



24. The Road to Byzantium



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCr-IjlKF_g



25. From Varangians into Russians



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLOLw_X-Idk



26. Transformation of Scandinavian Society



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikuoH3UsDTA



27. St. Anskar and the First Christian Missions



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HrfV_8DTIw



28. Formation of the Kingdom of Denmark



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp_6tVb3FfE



29. Knut/Cnut the Great (Knut/Cnut the Old)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4D_K3ta8nI



30. Collapse of Knut's Empire



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVYnRoIXvCI



31. Jarls and Sea Kings of Norway



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VVUyhF-bwY



32. St. Olaf of Norway



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ID_QQSnjks



33. Kings of the Swedes and Goths



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsFoxkYNMcY



34. Christianization and Economic Change



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73mrbreq_hU



35. From Vikings to Crusaders



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6aicWVe5Sk



36. The Viking Legacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVjVMnH-KcU



Each lecture is available on You Tube in three clips, as follows:



Lecture # 1.

The Vikings in Medieval History

Part 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvDOeasrJaQ

Part 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmILQ8JSD7k

Part 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQWHCMPCKPw

Lecture # 2.

Land and People of Medieval Scandinavia

Part 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lCFXr2vM80

Part 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bb62dHqQzw

Part 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bb62dHqQzw



Continue to Lecture 36



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