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1 Season
3 Episode
Vikings - Season 1 Episode 2 The Trading Empire
Neil Oliver heads out from the Scandinavian homelands to Russia, Turkey and Ireland to trace the beginnings of a vast trading empire that handled Chinese silks as adeptly as Pictish slaves. Neil discovers a world of 'starry-eyed maidens' and Buddhist statues that are a world away from our British experience of axe-wielding warriors, although it turns out that there were quite a few of those as well.
- Year: 2012
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: BBC Two
- Keyword: viking
- Director: Neil Oliver
- Cast: Neil Oliver