Vicious Vikings (Sketches)

Vicious Vikings is a Historical Era sketch in the Horrible Histories TV series.

It explains the history, the customs, & the events that occurred during the Age of Vikings (800-1066). 

Sketches[]

Series 1, Episode 1[]

• Video Game: Warrior! Viking VS Monk
• Historical Hairdressers: Ear spoons

Series 1, Episode 3[]

• Top Three Weird Viking Beliefs
• Asgot the Clumsy attempts to bluff his way into Valhalla

Series 1, Episode 8[]

• Stupid Deaths: Edmund II - The Saxon King tells of his famous death where he learns Vikings will attack in the most bizarre places!
• Valhalla Tours

Series 1, Episode 9[]

• Words We Get From the Vikings
• Debunking the myth of horned helmets (animated)

Series 1, Episode 11[]

• More Words We Get from the Vikings
• A returning warrior enthusiastically recites battle poetry to his distinctly skeptical friend

Series 1, Episode 13[]

• HHTV News: Bob Hale’s Viking Report
• Stupid Deaths: Sigurd the Mighty

Series 2, Episode 1[]

• Attempting to navigate by following a raven

Series 2, Episode 8[]

• An attempt at fearsome war paint

Later re-appeared in the Scary Special (Series 4, Episode 15)

• The attack on Lindisfarne monastery is interrupted when the warriors can’t quite remember why they’re attacking

Series 2, Episode 9[]

• HHTV Sport: The rules of a family feud
• A chief’s funeral celebration dissolves into a massive brawl

Series 3, Episode 1[]

• Even More Words We Get From The Vikings
• Historical Paramedics: Vikings

Series 3, Episode 7[]

• Historical Wife Swap: A well-to-do warrior family swaps with their slave thralls

Series 3, Episode 8[]

• Winter Cooking with the Hairy Vikings
• Historical Desktops: Ethelred the Unready suffers cyberbullying at the hands of Viking raiders

Series 3, Episode 9[]

• A literate monk convinces marauding raiders to spare him so he can record their oppression for all time. 
• We Sell Any Monk (Advertisement)

Series 4, Episode 3[]

• New Home Abroad
• HH Movie Pitch: King Canute

Series 4, Episode 8[]

• Wonders of the Viking Universe
• Historical Dates: A Nordic warrior

Series 5, Episode 2[]

• The traditional warrior method of settling a dispute: peaceful negotiation

Series 5, Episode 4[]

• I Can’t Believe You Fed Me Seal Blubber!
• Erik the Red makes an advert in an attempt to lure settlers to the ‘sun-drenched paradise’ of Greenland

Series 5, Episode 8[]

• Shouty Man: Runic Alphabet
• A merchant hawking Old Norse religious relics has to do some fast thinking to cope with the introduction of Christianity

Songs[]

• Literally (Series 2, Episode 1; later in Series 2, Episode 13)
• Vikings & Garfunkel (Series 5, Episode 2)

Notes[]

External Links[]

• Vicious Vikings at Horrible Histories TV