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It's the year 1098 and we are on the rugged aisles of Anglessee in Wales.

Land of St David, Daffodils, Leaks, Tom Jones and of course the Vikings?

Yeah, they got there too it's winter and you've guessed it the weather isn't great there are hundreds of wooden long ships pulled up all along the shore and one man is pacing up and down the beach.

Despite the weather, he's got his legs out.

He's wearing something kind of similar to a kilt. This man,

betwixters, is the King of Norway, Magnus bear legs,

and apparently he got his nickname because he was very fond of short tunics.

Who isn't? And he's just taking control of the island after killing his Norman opponent

with an arrow to the eye and Anglesie is now officially classed as the southern

border of Norway. A Norwegian bare-legged king in a kilt on an island in Wales without a horned

helmet is perhaps not the stereotypical image of a Viking.

But it is a true story.

So today we are going to be busting a few more Viking myths and find out how the Victorians rewrote our understanding of that period

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