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Ragnar Lothbrok: Viking Legend

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Norse Mist That Shaped the Way We Think

Ragnar is the hero of Vikings, the TV show. And he and his sons are able to tell a story about how Ragnar was just a regular farmer from Denmark. The idea that you could spread out to attack the British Isles would have been very new in Scandinavia at this point. By the end of the Vikings' TV show, they've colonized Iceland and Uppa, who isn't dead yet.

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