
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.
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Air Date: 2002-07-08
Richard Rudgley traces the legacies of the Huns, Vandals and Goths, looking at both the migrant tribes, and the pre-e...
Air Date: 2002-07-15
It is the time when the Anglo-Saxons impose their culture and their authority on the Northern reaches of Europe. It i...
Air Date: 2002-07-22
The third assault on the tattered remains of Roman civilisation came from even further North, where the melting glaci...