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Secret History S10E05 The Strangest Viking (12th June 2003) [TVRip (XviD)]
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Title: Secret History S10E05 - The Strangest Viking
Channel Transmitted: Channel Four
Date: 12th June, 2003
Source: TVRip
Format: XviD
Category: Documentary / Educational
About The Series:
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Secret History was a long running British television documentary series. Shown on Channel 4, the Secret History brandname was used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can still be found on US cable channels (like Discovery Times or The History Channel International) without the branding. It can be seen as Channel 4's answer to the BBC's Timewatch.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_History_%28television_documentary_series%29[/url]
About The Episode:
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In 865AD a great Viking army invaded Britain. The violence that followed engulfed half the country and altered the course of British history. At the head of the army was a mysterious, fearsome warlord called Ivarr, known to history by his nickname, 'Ivarr the Boneless'. Little is known about Ivarr from historical sources but in the Danish Sagas, larger than life tales written down centuries later, he emerges from the shadows of the Dark Ages in full colour: a great military strategist; a ruthless invader driven by revenge. But an intriguing detail about Ivarr has sparked a remarkable historical quest. The Sagas describe Ivarr's traumatic birth and claim that he had 'only the like of gristle where bones should have been'. They also say he needed staves on which to be carried into battle. Could Ivarr's nickname 'boneless' hint at something exceptional? Nabil Shaban, a writer and performer who suffers from a condition called Brittle Bones Disease, believes that Ivarr may have suffered the same disability. This programme recounts the story of the most brutal invasion Britain has ever suffered and follows Nabil's quest to explore the possibility that Ivarr, the leader of the invasion, was physically disabled. (C4 Press)
In 2003 Nabil Shaban, a disability rights advocate with osteogenesis imperfecta, made the documentary 'The Strangest Viking' for Channel 4's Secret History, in which he explored the possibility that Ivarr 'the Boneless' may have had the same condition as himself. It also demonstrated that someone with the condition was quite capable of using a longbow, and so could have taken part in battle, as Viking society would have expected a leader to do.
[url]http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/775297[/url]
About Ivarr the Boneless:
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[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_the_Boneless[/url]
[url]http://uk.geocities.com/jinghiz53/Ivarr_the_Boneless.html[/url]
Producer and Director: James Quinn
Production Company: 3BM Television
[url]http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/organisation/165047[/url]
A/V Info:
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Size: 345 MB (354,000 KB / 362,496,000 bytes)
Running Time: 0:46:01.680
Format: Avi, 512 x 320
Aspect Ratio: 1.600 (8:5)
Video Codec: XviD (XviD 1.0.3)
Video Info: Frames/s 25.000, 921 kbps
Audio: English
Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 VBR
Audio Info: 48000Hz 110 kb/s, Joint Stereo LAME3.90
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