During this era you see the growth in these emporiums and trading centers. Places where you can take stolen goods and fence them places where you can convert cash or pretty metals that don't have any other purpose into usable goods. It's also possible that all this wealth coming into Scandinavia through piracy is creating a level of inflation I mean they're finding tons and tons of coins from the Islamic states in Viking era Scandinavia.
This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster.