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Viking Legend: Ragnar Lothbrok

Dan Snow's History Hit

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Ragnar and the Vikings on TV

Tat justi apologd wyll. That is the flipsile of trying to make t v vikings. We stole that story of bion and gave it to r Ragnar in paris. Primary school kids go absolutely bonkers we tell them that. The trouble is now half of them like yo sall that on telly. It was great using ragnar. And you look at the chronicles and there is literally 25 words written about him contemporaneously. You have to make a character. To do that, we took a lot of the salga material out of the sagas stories and gave those to Ragnar and his sons.

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