Vic the Viking
2013 / NRWelcome on board the drakkar to sail the seas and share the adventures of our Viking crew. In his home village of Flake or coming alongside far and unknown lands, you will share unique adventures with Vicky.
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An old shipwrecked sailor is the accomplice and bait for a group of pirates, who use the tempting prospect of a fabulous treasure to lure sailors in order to seize their riches more easily. Our Vikings fall into the trap, but Vic and Ulme use their talents as puppeteers to scare the brigands of the seas and send them packing.
In order to scare away tax collectors sent by Eric the Greedy, Vic invents a magic lantern (from flat pieces of translucent stones painted by Ulme and mirrors that focus the sun's light). He uses this to project "monsters" at the entrance to a cave (where the villagers have hidden all their wealth), frightening the tax collectors away.
Hungry and immobilized by lack of wind, Halvar's ship has to approach the island of the crazy wind queen, desperate for supplies. She dreams of marrying the wind god and uses a giant, dragon-shaped wind machine to raise a storm which blows ships away. Wickie realizes the unnatural wind blows only in one stream and circumvents it with an improvised kite, to trick the queen.
When Halvar's crew arrives on Thor's island, their incompetent druid Urobe misreads the inscription on the sacred oak and tells the others to cut it down. The three mighty druids who guard the island furiously condemns them to death. Wickie thinks up how to make it seem the god himself protects them.
A neighboring village's strongest man beats Halvar in arm-wrestling, so he dares him to full wrestling, but the rival raises the stakes to the loser's village's entire gold treasure. As if that weren't bad enough, Tjure's newborn son keeps everyone awake all night.
It's spring and time for the annual fertility festival in honor of the god Freyr. The women however refuse to participate until the dirtiest young Viking takes a bath, which all Halvar's men revile. Fake bathing fails, but druid Rube digs up a novelty he once received from a Gallic colleague, called soap, but he ignores how it works. Playing with it, Wickie finds out and tricks the smelly knave into cleansing.
Pirate Sven manages to kidnap Wickie and demands that Halvar delivers Flake village's entire treasure as ransom. The headman isn't prepared to give up either, but fails to trick the exchange. Wickie must think up a sneakier way out.
The village is out of supplies, but Halvar is too sick too lead a voyage. Druid Urobe stands in as captain, but is quite happy to leave the decisions to the headman's wife, who came along to shop. Due to improbable luck and naive impudence, they get the slippery better of Sven's pirated during a raid.
Druid Urobe is powerless when giant Faxe believes to be a dog, but a traveling druid offers an instant cure. He soon establishes himself as popular seer, whom the villagers shower with 'gifts' to obtain encouraging predictions. Only Wickie smells a rat and finds out he's abusing hypnosis and eager to cash in, so the cunning knave sets a treasure trap.
Halvar goes raid Andalusia, in Southern Spain. It's actually where bulls are raised for the arena, fierce enough to scare even Vikings. The crew gets mixed up in a conflict between a nasty hacienda owner with bully goons and a noble local whose champion bull Toro those stole.
It's time for Wickie to pass the Vikings's local initiation rite, the quest for Erci's jeweled shield. Halvar and some cahoots stage it to seems dangerous but remain safe enough for his smart but frail son. However the bumblers' plans all go wrong, so father and son prove more valor then intended.
Wickie has to miss a voyage to due chickenpox, but is recovered enough to play outside already. Halvar's ship is overpowered by Sven's pirates, but they can send a message for help home by pigeon. Helped by seals, he sneakily finds and boards the ship, liberates the men and uses his ghastly salve to fake a zombie infection.
Tjure's hammer has been hit by lightning and is stuck in a big rock. Everyone thinks it's Thor's hammer and a big argument starts with Schlake, the neighboring village, as the hammer in the stone is exactly in the middle between the two villages, who claim Thor's blessing. A competition starts to free the hammer from the stone, and Halvar is about to lose when Vic uses hot and cold water on the stone to crack it and help his father free the hammer.
Halvar and his men discover a mysterious cavern where Sven and his pirates hide their loot. This cavern has kept all the words Sven and his men exchanged during the last winter. When the pirates arrive to the cavern, the clever Vikings pretend to be invisible and with the words released from their frozen bubbles, the pirates soon get scared. Halvar can have his loot back!
Fat Flaxe is flattened by stomachache and druid Urobe can't cure him, so the ship brings him to his old mentor's island. They are received by an impostor, who convinces Halvar a cure can only be made from seaweed from another island. While the men gather that, he overpowers the skeleton crew, including Wickie, who must hastily prevent the ship from being stolen.
His ship being past by and nearly keeling-over due to a rich man's much big, faster ship, Halar can't resists a braggart dare. Now his crew must win and earn three barrels of gold or forfeit their 'antique' ship. That looks hopeless, but when the race already seems lost, Wicki invents a jet-like propulsion.
Halvar's treasure-loaded ship is robbed by Sven's pirates. Vic thinks up a way to lure his ship to a dangerous cliff by dressing up Tjure as a mermaid.
Ulme is kidnapped by Sven who quickly regrets his catch (he's noisy and nobody is interested to get him back). Vic claims he wants to exchange Ulme against their new loot. Sven is thrilled and accept. Vic manages to get Ulme back and fool Sven with a fake treasure.
Halvar and his crew expected raiding the island of dreams would be easy, but the rich golden loot is protected by the resident order's sleep-inducing chants. After Halvar is caught sneaking into the treasury, Wickie can barely get a single chance to have them released: showing the stars to the order's superior, who is always fast asleep at night.
After a battle on an ice bank, Halvar and Sven bump into each other on the head and their personalities change.
Old druid Urobe is declared winner of Flake's annual most courageous Viking contest. Jealous, rascal urchin Gilby dares Wickie to spend the night in the wolves-infested wood. After trying to have the wolf scare Wickie away, he ends up teaming up and sharing the credit for trapping it.
Vic and the Vikings arrive back in Flake to find the women enraged against a lazy Tjure, who didn't help them in any chores while his friends went on expedition. Soon it's a war between the men and women of Flake, and only Vic will be able to reunite them without bruising any ego.
The Vikings discover the true meaning of the saying "there is nothing like a free lunch" when, enjoying a well deserved rest in a hot spring "spa resort" in Iceland, they realise they have been conned by the owners of the place. To make them reveal where they have hidden the stolen Vikings loot, Vic will find a way to con the con artists.
Vic makes sure that the children of Flake have a happy winter festival by outwitting a nocturnal impostor intent on stealing their presents...
During a trip in Tunisia, Vic and the Vikings meet Sabu, the Caliph, who has been tricked out of his throne by his Vizier Harun. They will help him get his throne back, putting themselves in danger in the process. Paraphrasing the tale of Aladdin, Vic will use the powers of a genie in a lamp to defeat Harun.
Having being shot down from the sky above the Great Wall of China, the Vikings have to find a way to reach the ocean. Their plan is thwarted when the General catches up with them and takes them to the Signal Tower as he wants to know their secret to fly, as he always wanted to fly himself. Vic will give him his first "parasail" experience and will get the Vikings to be released and on their way.
Looking for the magical sword Tyrfing, Halvar and Vic discover that the gem in their possession acts like a GPS locator. As they locate the sword, an evil Warlord plans to let them gather the sword then steal it from them.
It's the Balder-festival in Flake and the Vikings are performing a play telling the story of Balder and her demise by Loki, the trickster god who was jealous of her. An incursion into the Norse mythology where Vic plays Thor and Halvar is Odin as they defeat the evil plans of Loki, played by Gilby.
Ork and his Berserkers rob the villages of Flake and Shlake. Vic thinks the Vikings need to stand unite if they want victory over Ork. But with Halvar's and Baltak's pride, it's going to be complicated! Vic manages to reunite both village against the Bersekers for a fine naval battle!
Fishing for Giant Clams and in search of a Giant Pearl for Ylva, the Vikings face an underwater monster, the Kraken (in fact a Giant Squid), which prevents them to collect the Clams and the Pearl. Vic will have to find a way to lure the Kraken away and eventually find the Giant Pearl for Ylva.
Preparing a gift for Vic's birthday, Ylvi and Ylva end up stranded on a ledge in the middle of a cliff. With his father and crew on an expedition, Vic will have to find a solution to help his mother and cousin without the strength of the men. He will create a trampoline to save them.
Vic and the Vikings participate in the Olympic Games organized this year in Spain and hosted by their friend Rodrigo (from "Andalusia"). The Games are the occasion to meet tribes our Vikings haven't seen for a long time, and to have a healthy competition, from which Halvar wants to come out victorious.
After his ship has sunk, Sven is rescued by the Vikings, following the Seafarers' Code. But as soon as the Pirates are on board, they overpower the Vikings and take their drakkar. They leave them on an island, and start to sail; away, but Vic finds a way to lure them back on the island and get the drakkar back.
While the Vikings prepare the drakkar for an expedition, Sven plans to steal their loaded drakkar. But when Gilby, frustrated not to be a Viking, offers Sven some more supplies, Sven fools Gilby into making him believe he can become a Pirate. Vic and Halvar will have to get on board the stolen drakkar to get their supplies back and to save Gilby.
In Ireland, the Vikings meet Puck, who looks for his friend Bernard, lost in the woods. They decide to help him (Urobe and Halvar thinking he's a Leprechaun) but are startled when they realise Bernard is a bear and Puck a juggler dressed as a Leprechaun. But having a bear in Irish woods can be hazardous, and Vic will have to save his new friends from the king's guards.
The King of Sweden visits Flake unexpectedly and accuses Halvar of stealing his jeweled scepter - and he has an eyewitness - himself! It's up to Vic to discover why the king thinks that he saw Halvar take his scepter, and prove to him that Halvar is innocent... and of course not hurt the King's feelings in the process.
The Vikings stop on the arctic coast and build an igloo style shelter when a blizzard heads for them. When they wake up the next morning, the ice sheet where they are drifts away from the mainland with the drakkar attached. All would be well if it wasn't for the polar bear stuck on the ice sheet with them!
As Ylvi is about to enjoy the new tree house Tjure made for her birthday, Gilby invades the place and holds it like a fort against Vic and Ylvi.
The inhabitants of Flake are awaken at dawn by loud hammering noises: the king's foreman is requisitioning the village to build the new royal summer residence! The Vikings are faced with the possibility of eviction. To avoid a war between the villagers and the king's army, Vic sets out to convince the foreman that their village is a very inhospitable place, and thus get him to leave.
Welcome on board the drakkar to sail the seas and share the adventures of our Viking crew. In his home village of Flake or coming alongside far and unknown lands, you will share unique adventures with Vicky.