When you think of brutal hand to hand warfare, you think of the soldiers of the Dark Ages -- the Vikings, the Goths, the Vandals and the Huns. This program will reveal their revolutionary fighting styles, and demonstrate what their greed-inspired aggression achieved for them.
History's Hell's Angels
Jul 8, 2002
Richard Rudgley traces the legacies of the Huns, Vandals and Goths, looking at both the migrant tribes, and the pre-existing tribes, to ask whether the "dark ages" represent a resurfacing of much older tribal lines.
In a Time Of Shadows
Jul 15, 2002
It is the time when the Anglo-Saxons impose their culture and their authority on the Northern reaches of Europe. It is a time when we discover that the first Englishmen were, in fact, Germans.
Out of the Darkness
Jul 22, 2002
The third assault on the tattered remains of Roman civilisation came from even further North, where the melting glacial ice had created immense sheltered fjords, leaving its inhabitants little choice but the sea.
