Uncovers new information about the Vikings, describing where they originated, how they lived, and what drove their thirst for exploration, traveling as far as America and Baghdad over one thousand years ago.

By rock and ice -- Stone, bronze, and iron -- The wider world -- Pagans from the North -- Swedish Vikings in the East -- The endless stream of Vikings -- The Great Heathen Army -- A rising tide -- Cnut the Great -- Principal Viking characters.