Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 The Vikings in Medieval History
- Season 1 Land and People of Medieval Scandinavia
- Season 1 Scandinavian Society in the Bronze Age
- Season 1 Scandinavia in the Celtic and Roman Ages
- Season 1 The Age of Migrations
- Season 1 The Norse Gods
- Season 1 Runes, Poetry, and Visual Arts
- Season 1 Legendary Kings and Heroes
- Season 1 A Revolution in Shipbuilding
- Season 1 Warfare and Society in the Viking Age
- Season 1 Merchants and Commerce in the Viking Age
- Season 1 Christendom on the Eve of the Viking Age
- Season 1 Viking Raids on the Carolingian Empire
- Season 1 The Duchy of Normandy
- Season 1 Viking Assault on England
- Season 1 The Danelaw
- Season 1 Viking Assault on Ireland
- Season 1 Norse Kings of Dublin and Ireland
- Season 1 The Settlement of Iceland
- Season 1 Iceland - A Frontier Republic
- Season 1 Skaldic Poetry and Sagas
- Season 1 Western Voyages to Greenland and Vinland
- Season 1 Swedes in the Baltic Sea and Russia
- Season 1 The Road to Byzantium
- Season 1 From Varangians into Russians
- Season 1 Transformation of Scandinavian Society
- Season 1 St. Anskar and the First Christian Missions
- Season 1 Formation of the Kingdom of Denmark
- Season 1 Cnut the Great
- Season 1 Collapse of Cnut's Empire
- Season 1 Jarls and Sea Kings of Norway
- Season 1 St. Olaf of Norway
- Season 1 Kings of the Swedes and Goths
- Season 1 Christianization and Economic Change
- Season 1 From Vikings to Crusaders
- Season 1 The Viking Legacy
The Great Courses - History of the Vikings - Season 1 Episode 16 The Danelaw
0.00 48 minutes Many Danes settled in the northern areas of England conquered by the Great Army. In the 9th and 10thth centuries, Anglo-Danish rule brought prosperity and lasting changes in language, customs, and legal institutions. But in adopting Christianity and becoming a landed class, these Danes also surrendered their Viking identity and, with shocking docility, accepted the rule of the kings of Wessex by 954.
