12,00 years ago the Vikings explode out of the cold north sea, like beasts unleashed on an unsuspecting world. They come from a land of deep water fjords and bitter clan rivalries, today the area is known as Scandinavia. They left behind legends of their violence and courage, sagas of exploration and conquest and something even more remarkable, buried beneath the earth of their Scandinavia homeland. In 1880 Norwegian archaeologists make an extraordinary discovery opening a window into the past and revealing for the first time how the Vikings really lived and died.