episode description
Episode One opens in the turmoil of 12th century Ireland, a “Game of Thrones” type society where provincial kings vie for supremacy. When two of these power players drive their rival, Diarmait MacMurrough into exile, he goes to France to make an alliance with the Anglo-Norman king, Henry II. The episode traces the story of Henry’s ancestors, bands of Vikings who settled in northwest France around 900 AD. These “Northmen” or Normans became one of Europe’s most powerful military and political forces. And in 1166, Henry II allows Diarmait to recruit them to recover his lands in Ireland. An Anglo-Norman lord known as Strongbow joins Diarmait and soon afterwards, he and other allies invade Ireland with frightening power.
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