Neil Price (Uppsala University), ‘ My Vikings’. Chaired by Roderick Dale. Presentation at the IRC-Funded Conference ''Rediscovering the Vikings', UCC, 25 Nov. 2016.
The year is 872, and many of the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Danes, leaving the great kingdom of Wessex standing alone and defiant under the command of King Alfred.
Larsen's blog discusses movies from the perspective of an historian. History Channel's 'Vikings' has come under his scrutiny, and this item links to the discussions on that programme.
Wickie und die starken Männer (or Vicky the Viking) is German-Austrian-Japanese animated television series with the main character Wickie, a small Viking boy who uses his wits to help and outwit the starken Männer. This T-Shirt was photographed in…