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Wild Ways of the Vikings

Farming in Iceland is challenging But the newly arrived Vikings soonrealised that one bird...

Farming in Iceland is challenging But the newly arrived Vikings soon
realised that one bird species could be farmed
while staying absolutely wild The eider

Full Transcript

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Farming in Iceland is challenging
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But the newly arrived Vikings soon realised that one bird species
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could be farmed while staying absolutely wild
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The eider
Duration
17 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:30:03
Uploaded
Jun 17, 2025
Genres
documentary, family

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Movie Summary

Travelling from Norway to Newfoundland just as seafarers did in A.D. 1,000 to get a sense of how the Vikings lived in the Americas; narrator Ewan MacGregor.
Eider always nest near the shoreline, - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:11
Eider always nest near the shoreline,
Eider duck farming is big business in Viking Age Iceland - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:22
Eider duck farming is big business in Viking Age Iceland
Carefully cleaned of grass and straw, the pure down - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:11
Carefully cleaned of grass and straw, the pure down
Eider down offers superb insulation, because the densely barbed feathers - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:15
Eider down offers superb insulation, because the densely bar...
By the year 950, the island of Iceland was booming - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:17
By the year 950, the island of Iceland was booming
Natural products were fashioned into valuable commodities here - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:12
Natural products were fashioned into valuable commodities he...
A hugely valuable resource - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:05
A hugely valuable resource
Tiny animal immigrants were also arriving, - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:08
Tiny animal immigrants were also arriving,
Analysis of Icelandic house mouse DNA has revealed - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:09
Analysis of Icelandic house mouse DNA has revealed
It seems that these enterprising little creatures carry the genetic - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:07
It seems that these enterprising little creatures carry the ...
Norse mythology was celebrated here - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:06
Norse mythology was celebrated here
The oral traditions of saga and history became so intertwined - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:07
The oral traditions of saga and history became so intertwine...
Much of what we know of the pagan Viking past, - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:10
Much of what we know of the pagan Viking past,
Wiley and highly intelligent, this the world's largest crow, - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:23
Wiley and highly intelligent, this the world's largest ...
In the Icelandic villages and townships, - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:08
In the Icelandic villages and townships,
Odin, the All-Father god was attended by two ravens, - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:08
Odin, the All-Father god was attended by two ravens,
Spies for the god, - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:17
Spies for the god,
In the year 985, a rogue adventurer called Erik The Red - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:10
In the year 985, a rogue adventurer called Erik The Red
The colony Erik established here flourished from harvests - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:13
The colony Erik established here flourished from harvests
In 10th-century Greenland, huge colonies of walrus - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:07
In 10th-century Greenland, huge colonies of walrus