Episode List

An old shipwrecked sailor is the accomplice and bait for a group of pirates, who use the tempting prospect of a fabulous treasure to lure sailors in order to seize their riches more easily. Our Vikings fall into the trap, but Vic and Ulme use their talents as puppeteers to scare the brigands of the seas and send them packing.

The drakkar runs aground on a reef in the fog! When they call for help, the Vikings only draw the attention of Sven and his men, who steal their cargo. Vic manages to recover the goods by making it appear like the pirates have been cursed. To do this, he uses bamboo sticks (bartered with a Chinese merchant during their last stop) that are actually filled in with gunpowder (kind of crafted firecrackers). These are loud enough to sound like the god Thor's thunder, and also explode with an unbelievable show of fireworks.

Halvar, his men and the drakkar are kidnapped by Sven! In order to catch up with them, Vic whips up some kite-surfing gear with a board and burlap bags. With Snorre and Tjure, he manages to get his father's drakkar back. Since the sail is ripped, Vic has the idea of making it move by building two large paddle wheels built with the help of Tjure, the crew's carpenter, and Snorre. Astounded by this boat with wheels, Sven's men take their eyes off of their prisoners and don't see Vic climb on board and cut the prisoners' ropes. The prisoners take the opportunity to attack and Vic helps them imprison their kidnappers by trapping them in the middle of the paddle wheels.

In order to scare away tax collectors sent by Eric the Greedy, Vic invents a magic lantern (from flat pieces of translucent stones painted by Ulme and mirrors that focus the sun's light). He uses this to project "monsters" at the entrance to a cave (where the villagers have hidden all their wealth), frightening the tax collectors away.

Drawn to a shooting star that has fallen on an ice field, Halvar and his men are convinced they have found a fabulous treasure. Sven the Terrible, who is also floating in the neighborhood, has the same thought. But the heavenly debris turns out to be nothing more than ugly, charred stones. Certainly not jewels worthy of taking home to Ylva! Only Vic understands the magnetic value of the meteorite stones: he first uses them as a compass to find their way back to the drakkar, then again as magnets when Sven the Terrible tries to attack and reclaim his "treasure"

Gilby challenges Vic: whoever can reach the highest point on the drakkar will accompany the Vikings on this year's expedition. With his scrawny arms, Vic has no chance. Unless he freely interprets the rules. In fact, there are no restrictions about how to climb. Vic will build special shoes with crampons before realizing that, by making the drakkar list, the mast will become a nearly horizontal pole, much easier to climb!

Hungry and immobilized by lack of wind, Halvar's ship has to approach the island of the crazy wind queen, desperate for supplies. She dreams of marrying the wind god and uses a giant, dragon-shaped wind machine to raise a storm which blows ships away. Wickie realizes the unnatural wind blows only in one stream and circumvents it with an improvised kite, to trick the queen.

A series of messages sent by a damsel in distress are floating wooden bottles. They are calls for help from a damsel in distress... a damsel who is offering a reward to anyone who will rescue her. Vic identifies the wood from the bottles as Bird Cherry. The crew are reluctant to go, but Halvar, in an incredible show of strength, flattens a table with his bare hands. This settles the crew, and they set out for Bird Cherry Island. On the way, Vic realizes that Halvar's show of strength was the result of a infestation of wood-eating worms! The damsel tied to the only tree on the island looks familiar. It is Pox wearing a wig! Halvar tries to turn the drakkar around, but there is Sven's ship, blocking their path. Halvar challenges him to a trial of strength. Vic rubs his nose. What are they going to do?

On a trip to Britain Halvar and his men are captured by fierce Celtic women warriors who accuse them of plundering their kingdom. For once, Halvar is innocent but the Britons insist that he must prove his innocence by undergoing four trials by ordeal. Only after Halvar has successfully passed through trials involving earth, wind, fire and water can he and the Vikings be freed. Thankfully Vic's experience at making the drakkar sea-worthy has given him lots of ideas on how to outwit the Britons.

The Vikings sail home through Scottish Waters after a successful voyage. They happily celebrate until night falls when talk of monsters generates fear amongst the Vikings. As a thunderstorm closes in, the ghostly light causes the Vikings to mistake a shipwreck for the hideous monster and they throw 'the monster' all of their food. As morning approaches, they are now starving and have nothing to eat. They will need to take go ashore if they don't want to starve to death but this means they must sail close to where they last saw Sven who they know will try to take everything that they have collected on their journey. Vic has an idea! They will disguise the Drakkar as a sea monster! Sven and the pirates are petrified and much like our Vikings, throw their food at the 'sea monster' while trying to escape.

Our Vikings are captured because Faxe has stolen and eaten an Icelandic Viking clan's sausage stash. The Icelanders, thinking the Vikings are bearing treasure from their expedition, hold them ransom. Vic convinces them they have Dagda's Cauldron, a sort of cornucopia that contains an unending supply of food... But the Icelanders discover this trick because of Faxe again and Vic has the idea of using a geyser's pressure to escape and reach their drakkar.

Vic and his friends are in the forest when Faxe finds a wolf cub. Soon after, a couple of angry wolves attack them and force them into a cave: against Vic's advice, Faxe has taken the wolf cub with him. Vic convinces Faxe to give the cub back to its mother. Meanwhile, Halvar, worried about his son's delay, tries to find him in the forest. When he sees Vic in danger, he gets ready to fight the wolves. Vic uses the cave echo to frighten the wolf mother, giving him time to rescue the cub and release it back to its mother.

When a runic shape appears on the side of Halvar's face, Urobe convinces everyone that he has been visited by the Gods, and soon the whole village thinks that he has the power to take the shape of any animal or person. Halvar disappears, and a duck takes his place as captain of the ship. To avoid disaster, Vic has to pretend to be Halvar, and restore his father to his rightful position of captain.

When Halvar's crew arrives on Thor's island, their incompetent druid Urobe misreads the inscription on the sacred oak and tells the others to cut it down. The three mighty druids who guard the island furiously condemns them to death. Wickie thinks up how to make it seem the god himself protects them.

Halvar is convinced that he is cursed with bad luck. He can't catch any fish, things fall on him, and he gets struck by lightning. It's the wrong time to be suffering from a crisis of confidence, because three Viking warriors are traveling to Flake to challenge his leadership. Vic and the other villagers try to cheer him up but nothing works. Finally, Vic stage manages the finding of a coin, and a series of events that convince Halvar that his luck has returned, and he fights the challengers and retains his status as chief.

A neighboring village's strongest man beats Halvar in arm-wrestling, so he dares him to full wrestling, but the rival raises the stakes to the loser's village's entire gold treasure. As if that weren't bad enough, Tjure's newborn son keeps everyone awake all night.

After a whale is rescued from beaching itself by Faxe, it starts to follow Faxe everywhere. When the whale's infatuation and its taste for playing peekaboo start to be dangerous for the drakkar (it bumps into the drakkar), Vic has the idea to lead the whale to a larger pod, with which it can make friends. On their way back, they see Sven and the Pirates on their way to kill the whales. With Faxe's help, Vic uses the whale's taste for peekaboo to defeat Sven.

As they storm a castle's treasure room, the Vikings run into Sven and his Pirates. When the Treasure Guard (a Giant) comes back and find them, Sven and Halvar have to pair up to escape with some loot. As they're sailing away with shallow waters ahead, the Vikings are trapped by Sven, who wants their share of the treasure. Halvar wants to fight but Vic has an idea. The Vikings give their share of the treasure, which overloads Sven's ship and leaves the drakkar lighter. The drakkar crosses the shallow waters, when Sven founders on the reef. With his ship immobilized, Sven is vulnerable when the Guard chases them on his boat and has no choice but to give up his treasure.

It's spring and time for the annual fertility festival in honor of the god Freyr. The women however refuse to participate until the dirtiest young Viking takes a bath, which all Halvar's men revile. Fake bathing fails, but druid Rube digs up a novelty he once received from a Gallic colleague, called soap, but he ignores how it works. Playing with it, Wickie finds out and tricks the smelly knave into cleansing.

Pirate Sven manages to kidnap Wickie and demands that Halvar delivers Flake village's entire treasure as ransom. The headman isn't prepared to give up either, but fails to trick the exchange. Wickie must think up a sneakier way out.