The BEST episodes of Vic the Viking (2013)
Every episode of Vic the Viking (2013) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Vic the Viking (2013)!
Vic, son of Halvar, chief of the Viking village of Flake, is blessed with a sharp and imaginative mind which helps his fellow Vikings out of many tight situations.
#1 - The Kraken
Season 1 - Episode 61 - Aired 5/19/2014
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.
#2 - Use Your Loaf
Season 1 - Episode 74 - Aired 4/19/2014
Waiting for his brother Hlaford, who's coming for a visit, Halvar goes and fetches him on boat, ignoring his brother is actually coming on foot through the woods. Hlaford, a Viking warrior with a fearsome reputation, turns out to now be a peaceful baker. When Flake is attacked by Ivar the Ruthless, Hlaford's nemesis, Vic saves the day by building a 'skjaldborg' or 'shield wall' from burnt bread loaves to repel the attack.
#3 - Grandpa Olaf
Season 1 - Episode 72 - Aired 5/24/2014
Near Greenland, Vic finds a man frozen in an iceberg : Olaf, Halvar's grandfather. But when they thaw him, Grandpa Olaf wakes up and wants to defeat the Giant that froze his companions and stole his drakkar and treasure. Halvar agrees, hoping to get part of that treasure as a reward. Vic will have to find a solution to defeat the mean Giant, and will give him a taste of his own medicine.
#4 - Mistaken Eye-dentity
Season 1 - Episode 70 - Aired 5/23/2014
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.
#5 - Mushroom Picking
Season 1 - Episode 66 - Aired 5/21/2014
In the woods to pick mushroom for their mother, Vic, Gilby and Ylvi cross the river they know they're not allowed to. When they are caught into heavy rain, which makes the river grow, they can't cross it anymore. It would be fine for them to wait if they didn't upset a bear in a cave, which is now on their toe. They hide up a tree and Vic has to invent a "flying fox" to get them out of there and back to the village.
#6 - Gilby the Pirate
Season 1 - Episode 68 - Aired 5/22/2014
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.
#7 - The Invisible Treasure
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 9/28/2013
When the spoiled, bored king passes Flake village, he's attracted by the smell of Hilva's home-baked cake and orders the cook conscripted for his palace kitchen. When Halvar objects, the king orders him jailed. The empty village treasury chest seems useless to buy her back, but inspires Wickie to conjure a way out. He pretends it contains an invisible armor, which renders the wearer invincible, just what the weakling king wants to become the greatest Viking warrior. The ploy works hilariously well.
#8 - Back to Flake
Season 1 - Episode 53 - Aired 4/20/2014
Halvar and the Vikings are on their way back to Flake, Halvar delighted to have his invincible sword, when they come face to face with Sven. Halvar wants his revenge after Sven broke his sword, but Vic warns him about the danger of such a battle, even with an invincible sword. Despite Vic's recommendations, Halvar attacks Sven, but soon finds himself in a dire situation, that only Vic can save him from.
#9 - Princess Badoura
Season 1 - Episode 60 - Aired 5/18/2014
The Vikings are passing through an Arabian desert on their way back to the coast when they come to the rescue of a Princess on an out of control camel. The Princess soon escapes, taking Vic with her. When the princess' Governess reaches Halvar and his men, she pair up with them to get the princess back before a sandstorm falls on them. Vic and the princess find shelter in a cave during the sandstorm, and then the Princess takes Vic to her final destination; a storytelling festival where she can hear all the tales from her country. When Halvar and the Governess find them, they are all happy and the Governess understands that the Princess needs some freedom.
#10 - Silent Night
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 3/5/2014
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.
#11 - Stardust
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/14/2013
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.
#12 - Trojan Snorre
Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 3/26/2014
On a distant island, the Vikings are refueling when Tjure and Snorre have their biggest argument yet and Snorre decides to leave. But soon he disappears and Vic and his friends decide to go after him. They are surprised to find him amongst a tribe of people with a lisp, who think he is their new king. When they try to rescue him, the Vikings are defeated. Vic understands that the second in charge plans to harm Snorre to take his place. Tjure then creates a Trojan horse (in the shape of the new king Snorre) to enter the fortress and save Snorre before he gets injured.
#13 - Being a Leprechaun
Season 1 - Episode 69 - Aired 5/23/2014
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.
#14 - Dagda's Cauldron
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/10/2013
Our Vikings are captured because Faxe has stolen and eaten an Icelandic Viking clan's sausage stash. The Icelanders, thinking the Vikings are bearing treasure from their expedition, hold them ransom. Vic convinces them they have Dagda's Cauldron, a sort of cornucopia that contains an unending supply of food... But the Icelanders discover this trick because of Faxe again and Vic has the idea of using a geyser's pressure to escape and reach their drakkar.
#15 - Almost Treasure Island
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/6/2013
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.
#16 - Faxe and the Whale
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 8/31/2013
After a whale is rescued from beaching itself by Faxe, it starts to follow Faxe everywhere. When the whale's infatuation and its taste for playing peekaboo start to be dangerous for the drakkar (it bumps into the drakkar), Vic has the idea to lead the whale to a larger pod, with which it can make friends. On their way back, they see Sven and the Pirates on their way to kill the whales. With Faxe's help, Vic uses the whale's taste for peekaboo to defeat Sven.
#17 - Siren Song
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 11/16/2013
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.
#18 - The Julbock
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/9/2014
Vic makes sure that the children of Flake have a happy winter festival by outwitting a nocturnal impostor intent on stealing their presents...
#19 - Shooting Star
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/20/2013
Drawn to a shooting star that has fallen on an ice field, Halvar and his men are convinced they have found a fabulous treasure. Sven the Terrible, who is also floating in the neighborhood, has the same thought. But the heavenly debris turns out to be nothing more than ugly, charred stones. Certainly not jewels worthy of taking home to Ylva! Only Vic understands the magnetic value of the meteorite stones: he first uses them as a compass to find their way back to the drakkar, then again as magnets when Sven the Terrible tries to attack and reclaim his "treasure"
#20 - Knock on Wood
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/27/2013
A series of messages sent by a damsel in distress are floating wooden bottles. They are calls for help from a damsel in distress... a damsel who is offering a reward to anyone who will rescue her. Vic identifies the wood from the bottles as Bird Cherry. The crew are reluctant to go, but Halvar, in an incredible show of strength, flattens a table with his bare hands. This settles the crew, and they set out for Bird Cherry Island. On the way, Vic realizes that Halvar's show of strength was the result of a infestation of wood-eating worms! The damsel tied to the only tree on the island looks familiar. It is Pox wearing a wig! Halvar tries to turn the drakkar around, but there is Sven's ship, blocking their path. Halvar challenges him to a trial of strength. Vic rubs his nose. What are they going to do? Yes! Neither wishes to board the other's boat, so they agree to fight on a bridge built between the two.The planks, of course, are infested, and when Sven and his men try to board, they fall into the water!
#21 - The Highest Viking
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/20/2013
Gilby challenges Vic: whoever can reach the highest point on the drakkar will accompany the Vikings on this year's expedition. With his scrawny arms, Vic has no chance. Unless he freely interprets the rules. In fact, there are no restrictions about how to climb. Vic will build special shoes with crampons before realizing that, by making the drakkar list, the mast will become a nearly horizontal pole, much easier to climb!
#22 - Shape Shifting
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 8/17/2013
When a runic shape appears on the side of Halvar's face, Urobe convinces everyone that he has been visited by the Gods, and soon the whole village thinks that he has the power to take the shape of any animal or person. Halvar disappears, and a duck takes his place as captain of the ship. To avoid disaster, Vic has to pretend to be Halvar, and restore his father to his rightful position of captain.
#23 - A Wind That'll Tear the Horns Off a Viking
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/27/2013
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.
#24 - Shallow Waters
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 8/31/2013
As they storm a castle's treasure room, the Vikings run into Sven and his Pirates. When the Treasure Guard (a Giant) comes back and find them, Sven and Halvar have to pair up to escape with some loot. As they're sailing away with shallow waters ahead, the Vikings are trapped by Sven, who wants their share of the treasure. Halvar wants to fight but Vic has an idea. The Vikings give their share of the treasure, which overloads Sven's ship and leaves the drakkar lighter. The drakkar crosses the shallow waters, when Sven founders on the reef. With his ship immobilized, Sven is vulnerable when the Guard chases them on his boat and has no choice but to give up his treasure.
#25 - Bamboo Surprise
Season 1 - Episode 59 - Aired 4/19/2014
Sailing home from China, the Flake Vikings see a dragon. Rushing to get the mythical creature, they realize the dragon is in fact a costume, worn by the villagers to scare away a real monster that is terrorizing them. Village elder, Junjie, believes they're cursed by his son Qi's refusal to learn their traditional ways. Frustrated by the old ways, Qi is determined to prove there are no such things as monsters. Vic will help Qi uncover the mystery and will capture the "spirit", in fact a wounded panda. Junjie will see how his son was right and he will trust him from then on.