Discover exciting new insights as historian Neil Oliver digs for clues. Travel to archaeological sites in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, where Norsemen launch expeditions and raids. Watch in amazement as the warriors settle Britain, Iceland and Greenland and transform themselves from illiterate pagans into Christian farmers, statesmen and kings; all in less than 200 years.

Originally produced as a television miniseries in 2012. "177 min. approx."--Container; "150 min. approx."--Disc label.

Disc 1:Rites of passage -- Wrath of the Northmen -- Dispossessed. Disc 2: Trial -- Raid -- Burial of the dead. Disc 3: A king's ransom -- Sacrifice -- All change.