Synopsis
Andrew reaches the Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged from Northern Europe to North America.
- Programme: Andrew Marr's History of the World
- Episode: 4: Into the Light
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2012
- History
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