You can watch it online: http://www.history.com/show…

Excellent theory!

Let's not forget though that Sigurd has a fucking snake in his eye.

Thanks. Actually I've commented on previous episodes as sonofbruce, but for some reason Disqus has more than one login for me, so those are associated with some other account. Whatever. My point about NOVA is that I was rather annoyed by their breathless sensationalizing, e.g. "Never before have scientists been able…

My biggest pet peeve: Why not just make TV series out of the sagas? It would be hard to improve on Egil or Grettir or Njal.

Chris, with due respect, it's not quite as revolutionary as NOVA made out. Archaeologists have been finding buried walls and ditches for decades now, by looking at aerial photographs of fields and pastures in drought conditions. The main difference is that this use of near-infrared imagery gives more consistent access…