I'm John Bathurst, visiting with Professor Eleanor Barakoff,

embers of the hands, hidden histories of the Viking Age.

The Viking Age closed over time or didn't close because it's still with us.

Everybody who knows Lord of the Rings well knows the Viking world.

We're talking about a language and a time that's magical.

However, there's also what I find in Eleanor's closing remarks, a sadness to it, because the world ended.

And when did it end?

It's the story we're now approaching.

Eleanor, where is Harleof Ness?

So Herriyov's Ness is right at the southern tip of Greenland.

And Greenland, for me, is one of the most fascinating parts of Norse Viking Age history.

It's the bit that I think I love the most.

I've spent a lot of time researching out there.

It's very wild.

It's very remote still.

But it also means there's a lot still to see.

You know, there's whole churches still standing.

There's farmsteads.

You know, you can really get a sense of what it was like.

Herios-Ness was one of the first places to be settled.

So the Norse essentially start to settle parts of the west coast of Greenland under Eric the Red,

who's sort of outlawed from Iceland for killings and ends up spending three years of his outlawy in Greenland,

...