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Vikings!

By: Scott McCormick
Narrated by: Ray Porter, Gabriel Vaughan, Josh Hurley, Khristine Hvam, Cary Hite, Ramon De Ocampo, Kevin T. Collins, Elizabeth Evans, Therese Plummer, Marc Vietor
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Grab your battle axe, hop into a longship, and set sail on an adventure 300 years in the making! Vikings! Scandinavians Who Shaped the World tells the hilarious-but-true adventures of history's most amazing raiders, leaders, and explorers.

Ride along with Rollo, the raider who spent decades laying waste to France and whose descendants eventually would rule over much of Europe. Rule with Olga of Kyiv, the most lethal saint in history. Learn the incredible stories behind Erik the Red’s and Leif Erikson’s adventures in the New World. And hold on tight for the unbelievable adventures of Harald Hardrada, whose exploits are like a Viking’s Greatest Hits.

Vikings! has it all: death trees, murder birds, defensive chickens, prophesy horses, drunken Drevlians, blinded emperors, raiding, fighting, exploring, elaborate revenge plots, and battles galore. So gather your friends and head out into the wild blue yonder. Vikings! Scandinavians Who Shaped the World will have you going berserk with laughter.

©2023 Scott McCormick (P)2023 Audible Originals, LLC.
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About the Creator - Scott McCormick

About the Creator

Scott McCormick: When he’s not flustering emus or stymying mambas, Scott McCormick enjoys annoying his children until they tell their mother. He also writes. He writes all kinds of stuff. Some of it is good. He wrote the Mr. Pants series of graphic novels. Those were good. You should totally check them out. So are the books he writes for Audible, including Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World, and its sequel, Rivals 2. He’s also excited about his first novel, The Dragon Squisher, which is just as funny and squishy as it sounds. Scott lives on the western edge of the easternmost part of southern North Carolina, right smack in the middle of it all.

About the Performer

Sean Patrick Hopkins has narrated over 250 audiobooks written by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning authors, traversing universes from Star Wars to Halo, and spanning centuries from Shakespeare to Back to the Future. His work has garnered AudioFile Earphones and Parents’ Choice Awards. The firstborn child of a preschool teacher and a Navy nurse, his path to audiobooks has taken him from studying neuroscience and speech pathology, to performing on film, television, video games, and stages across the country. When not in the booth, you can find him raising an amazing daughter alongside his talented wife, fellow narrator Patricia Santomasso.

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Berserk abound.

As usual Scott makes history fun. I felt for the guy trying to type up on the rock stone; been there, done that. While these stories are based on true stories it told like a Monty Python movie ‘it’s only a flesh wound’. I wonder if the Red Funeral inspired GOT’s Red Wedding, it was very similar. Productions is great, very easy to listen to. In the How to Train your Dragon series they always have meetings called The Thing, which always cracked me up. Now I know it was based with real Viking history.

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AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love it its amazingly done I love the jokes they make it so funny 😂and it's a great book to listen to while you're in the car 🚙 it's so interesting and I hope that they can make more 😊🤗AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Love Scott McCormick!

Anything Scott writes is hilarious and also very informative. I am a forever fan of his! Vikings is another five star performance!

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Just yes e has just out done him self again and again just amazing

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Funny and well written story

I truly enjoyed the way the story was knit together including women (who are often forgotten) and influences from of other cultures. I chuckled often.

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Taught Us a lot about human nature with humor

The book was insightful, funny, and entertaining . I found myself actually telling people about it and recommending it before I was done with it. I chose it for both my11 yr old son and I to listen to in the car together. We both enjoyed it. Although, me more so.

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The narrator

Nothing perfect 🤩😀loved it but I did not like the Ragnarok singing heavy metal it hurt me ears.

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They still need fabric softener

:-) It good Just not As much Actors talking And being goofy Then the last book Well I think the story is pretty good I wish they use the guy that they used for rivals to I was the narrator.

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Perhaps the best in the series!

Recognized Ray Porter's smooth voice immediately, and he's an excellent choice for this series. The humor, songs, and of course the HISTORY laced throughout this audiobook are just fantastic. I hope these keep coming, because I am thoroughly enjoying listening to them. I'd have given anything to have had history lessons delivered this way in grade school!

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Brisk Pace Lots of Info

I really liked how fast paced and how much information was included in the audiobook. All these Rivals-type series books are fast paced, but unlike most of those, this one isn't so political, which is a nice bonus.

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