Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel widens his eyes and runs his hand through his hair: he remembers when he won the Caméra d’Or ...

including Halfdan Ragnarsson, Ivar the Boneless, Bjorn Ironeside and Ubba. This was an army that would change Britain forever. It would lay siege to towns and cities like York, attack monasteries ...