R Ragnar Lothbrok is almost certainly the most famous name in early Viking history. He's supposed to have been one of the leaders in the great attack on Paris in the middle eight forties where those guys were slaughtered by the Vikings. Some people will suggest he'd ever existed at all but like so many figures in ancient or medieval history he was turned into something like a demigod over time.
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.