The entire history of the Vikings in one video: from the farms and fjords of Scandinavia and the invention of the longship to Lindisfarne in 793, the raids on Ireland and Francia, the Swedish Rus on the rivers to Constantinople and Baghdad, the Great Heathen Army and Alfred the Great, the sieges of Paris and the birth of Normandy, Iceland and the Althing, Erik the Red in Greenland, Leif Erikson in Vinland (America, AD 1021 exactly), Harald Bluetooth, Cnut's North Sea Empire, the Danegeld, Harald Hardrada and the two battles of 1066 - and the afterlife: the Normans, the sagas, the horned-helmet myth and the DNA of 442 Viking skeletons. Three centuries in under 30 minutes.

Chapters:
00:00 No horns, no cities, no kings: how the Vikings happened
00:59 I. The North Before the Storm (700–793)
02:54 II. Lindisfarne (789–841)
04:52 III. The Road To Baghdad (750–988)
07:09 IV. The Great Heathen Army (865–878)
09:32 V. Paris For Sale (845–911)
11:46 VI. The Land of Ice (870–1000)
13:50 VII. America, Briefly (1000–1021)
15:33 VIII. Kings and Crosses (950–1030)
17:17 IX. The King Who Bought England (991–1035)
19:37 X. The Last Viking (1030–1066)
21:51 XI. Myths and Reality (793–1066)
24:01 XII. The Long Afterlife (1066–today)

— DISCLAIMER —
This video is intended for entertainment and educational purposes. To fit three centuries into half an hour, some details are simplified. Dates follow the conventional chronology (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; Annals of St-Bertin; Russian Primary Chronicle; Ibn Fadlan; N. Price, Children of Ash and Elm; A. Winroth, The Age of the Vikings; E. Roesdahl, The Vikings; Kuitems et al. 2021 on L'Anse aux Meadows; Margaryan et al. 2020 on Viking genomes; Hedenstierna-Jonson et al. 2017 on Birka Bj 581; Britannica). Stories taken from the Icelandic sagas, Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Henry of Huntingdon and later chroniclers are presented as stories, not as facts. Don't rely on a single video — go explore the sources yourself.