The BEST episodes of Vic the Viking (2013) season 1
Every episode of Vic the Viking (2013) season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Vic the Viking (2013) season 1!
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 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#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 - 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"
#17 - 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.
#18 - Thor's Thunder
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/6/2013
The drakkar runs aground on a reef in the fog! When they call for help, the Vikings only draw the attention of Sven and his men, who steal their cargo. Vic manages to recover the goods by making it appear like the pirates have been cursed. To do this, he uses bamboo sticks (bartered with a Chinese merchant during their last stop) that are actually filled in with gunpowder (kind of crafted firecrackers). These are loud enough to sound like the god Thor's thunder, and also explode with an unbelievable show of fireworks.
#19 - The Sparkling Race
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/9/2013
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.
#20 - Free Ylvi
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 9/21/2013
When Ylvi is captured by Pox to become a maid on Sven's ship, Vic and the Vikings rush to rescue her. While the drakkar catches up with the Pirates, Ylvi creates arguments aboard Sven's ship (she's way too young to be a maid!), and proves she can be a mischievous girl when needed. When the Vikings catch up, Sven thinks he's got the upper hand as he threatens to throw Ylvi overboard. But Vic creates flippers and snorkels and swims near the Pirates' ship to rescue Ylvi as she is dropped in the ocean.
#21 - The Treehouse
Season 1 - Episode 76 - Aired 5/26/2014
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.
#22 - Cow Express
Season 1 - Episode 65 - Aired 5/21/2014
On his way back to Flake, Halvar loses the ring he plans to give Ylva for their anniversary... in a cow's stomach! the crew doesn't have a choice but to take the cow with them and hope to get the ring once it poops. The travel with the cow is an expedition in itself, but back in Flake, they also have to hide the cow from Ylva, who thinks it's a very unusual (and rather lame) anniversary present. As the banquet is about to start and the ring hasn't reappeared yet, Vic has to work his genius to get the cow to "deliver her package".
#23 - Oops a Daisy
Season 1 - Episode 63 - Aired 5/20/2014
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.
#24 - The Olympics
Season 1 - Episode 64 - Aired 5/20/2014
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.
#25 - For the Love of Cake
Season 1 - Episode 78 - Aired 5/27/2014
The Annual Dessert Contest is around the corner and this year, Ylva decides to make her special Myrthus Cake to retain the trophy in Flake. But Baltak, spying on her, gives the same idea to Morag, his wife. The only problem is that Myrthus is hard to find and only grows on one island south of Flake. A race starts between Halvar and Baltak to get to the Myrthus first, and only Vic will be able to prevent traps and cheats along the way.