Vikings: The Rise & Fall (Season 1)

Vikings: The Rise & Fall (2022) is a British documentary series you can watch online on iFILM. For three centuries — roughly 793 to 1100 AD — Norse warriors from Scandinavia raided coasts from Ireland to Sicily and as far south as North Africa.

The image of the axe-swinging brute was largely written by monastery scribes: the people left holding a quill after the raids. Recent digs in York, Dublin and Normandy tell a different story. The same crews that arrived by longship often stayed as traders, built market towns, minted coins and intermarried with local populations. The series works through archaeological evidence and medieval records to build a portrait of a civilisation that reshaped the medieval map — and whose legacy is still readable in English, Irish and French place names today.

Stream Vikings: The Rise & Fall online on iFILM.