Longships!
Chapter 1
Story Time, Episode 9. Goes with Story of the World, Volume 2, chapter 14 and chapter 15, section 1. About 4 minutes. Voices were made with ElevenLabs. The music box is played live by your browser. Turn Voices off to read the captions together at your own pace; each line still moves on by itself.
Where the facts come from
- Goes with Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World, Volume 2: The Middle Ages (Peace Hill Press), chapter 14 and chapter 15, section 1. The story here is our own telling.
- The raid on Lindisfarne in 793: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, entry for 793, and Alcuin's letter to King Æthelred of Northumbria (793).
- Longships, Viking farmers and traders, and voyages to Iceland, Greenland, and North America: Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (Basic Books, 2020).
- Scripture: Matthew 6:20, King James Version.
- Made with: hand-written JavaScript on an HTML canvas; voices from ElevenLabs, including real child-character voices for the kids; music played live by the browser's Web Audio.