Vikings in York
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
When archaeologists uncovered perfectly preserved evidence of domestic life in Viking York in the 1970s, it changed the way the Vikings were viewed. No longer just violent pirates who terrorised communities all over Europe, they were revealed to be merchants and craftsmen who mostly led peaceful lives. Dr Peter Addyman and Professor Julian Richards worked on the dig in the 1970s and told Rebecca Kesby the significance of what they found.
(PHOTO: The Sea Stallion Timewatch - Viking Voyage follows the world's largest reconstructed Viking ship on its 1,000 mile journey from Denmark to Dublin. BBC)
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| 0:35.4 | Sounds. |
| 0:36.4 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:40.9 | My name's Linda Davies and I commissioned |
| 0:43.0 | podcast for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:45.0 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality, |
| 0:49.0 | featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:54.4 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 1:00.9 | poltergeist, cricket and conspiracy theories, Cricket, and Conspiracy Theories. |
| 1:04.3 | And that's just a few examples. |
| 1:06.2 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, |
| 1:09.4 | find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. |
| 1:21.0 | Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Rebecca Kessby and today we explore a society that had a profound |
| 1:26.2 | effect on Europe between the 8th and 11th centuries. |
| 1:29.7 | Often depicted as marauding savages in the old history books, it wasn't until the 1970s with a discovery in Northern |
| 1:37.7 | England that we understood more about the sophisticated culture of the Vikings. |
| 1:45.9 | Curiously enough, the word Viking does something for people. |
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