Vikings (2012)
The Trading Empire (1x2)
Air date: Sep 18, 2012
Neil Oliver heads out from the Scandinavian homelands to Russia, Turkey and Ireland to trace the beginnings of a vast trading empire that handled Chinese silks as adeptly as Pictish slaves. Neil discovers a world of 'starry-eyed maidens' and Buddhist statues that are a world away from our British experience of axe-wielding warriors, although it turns out that there were quite a few of those as well.
- Premiered: Sep 2012
- Episodes: 3
- Followers: 61
- Ended
- BBC Two
- Tuesday at 21