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Wild Ways of the Vikings

Genetic analysis shows that items like the chessmen foundin the Hebridean Isle of Lewis...

Genetic analysis shows that items like the chessmen found
in the Hebridean Isle of Lewis were fashioned in the ivory
workshops of Norway

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Genetic analysis shows
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that items like the chessmen found in the Hebridean Isle of Lewis
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were fashioned in the ivory workshops of Norway...
Duration
9 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:39:56
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.
.. using tasks from the western Greenland walrus colonies - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:04
.. using tasks from the western Greenland walrus colonies
Precious items like carved chesspieces - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:14
Precious items like carved chesspieces
This was no throwaway culture - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:10
This was no throwaway culture
But ivory wasn't the most valuable resource found in Greenland - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:04
But ivory wasn't the most valuable resource found in Gr...
Prized above all other birds, - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:10
Prized above all other birds,
Gyrfalcons are the largest and heaviest member - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:05
Gyrfalcons are the largest and heaviest member
Hunting the subarctic tundra - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:08
Hunting the subarctic tundra
Historical and archaeological evidence has revealed - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:18
Historical and archaeological evidence has revealed
Trained to fly to allure, - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:10
Trained to fly to allure,
Owning a white gyrfalcon is the ultimate statement - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:05
Owning a white gyrfalcon is the ultimate statement
By the year 1000, the Vikings had reached the very extremes - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:06
By the year 1000, the Vikings had reached the very extremes
Icelandic sagas recount that in this year, - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:12
Icelandic sagas recount that in this year,
In an age before magnetic navigation, Vikings lost at sea - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:08
In an age before magnetic navigation, Vikings lost at sea
But above all, the movements of birds and mammals - Wild Ways of the Vikings 00:07
But above all, the movements of birds and mammals