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This riveting two-hour special investigates a new image of the Vikings that goes far deeper than their savage stereotype as raiding marauders.
Faithful replicas of their magnificent ships, life-like computer animation and fascinating recreations reveal the Vikings as canny merchants, expert shipbuilders, superb artisans, and bold colonizers of lands that lay beyond the edge of the known world.