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The most popular historical figures you’ve (probably) never heard of

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VIKINGS - Series 3, Episode 2

Vikings: an interview with the show’s creator and writer Michael Hirst . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A detail of the decorative carving on the side of the Oseberg cart c850 AD. A woman with streaming hair apparently restrains a man’s sword arm as he strikes at a horseman accompanied by a dog. Below is a frieze of intertwined serpentine beasts. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Viking women: raiders, traders and settlers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edmund II - better known as Edmund Ironside - shown in a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)

Edmund Ironside: Anglo-Saxon warrior king

Pearly queens

Q&A Why does Britain have so many accents?

B40B22 Runes MAESHOWE ORKNEY Norseman Viking Runes on Neolithic Burial tomb chamber stone wall blocks

A brief history of graffiti and creativity

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A virtuous Viking: the medieval legend of Havelok the Dane

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Anglo-Saxon saints and British slave-owners . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Avaldsnes Church, Norway

My favourite place: Avaldsnes, Norway

King Ecgfrith of Northumbria

The Anglo-Saxon who (almost) united Britain

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1987: Sweden, Gotland, Detail of stone relief representing the divine triad: Odin (chief god), Thor (god of thunder) and Freyr (god of fertility). (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

Q&A Were the pagan English gods the same as the Viking gods?

A view of Þingvellir National Park in western Iceland. It was here, in AD 930, that Viking settlers established the first pan-Icelandic assembly – possibly the oldest parliamentary body in the world. (© Dreamstime)

Vikings: A land without kings

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The Oseberg ship at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway. (Photo by: Carl Simon/United Archives/UIG via Getty Images)

How the Vikings ruled the waves . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Alfred the Great

Michael Wood on Alfred the Great . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Viking treasures and Hitler’s ‘perfect woman’ . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.