Vikings found themselves on the northern edges of scattered settlements within vast trading networks that stretched from China and India to the Mediterranean Constantinople offered one node Baghdad another with perhaps hundreds of cities providing connections across Steppe mountain desert and forest. centralized power and military might did not preclude frequent raiding but made a collaborative economic exchange the much more profitable option end quote.
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.