In the 10th century, Jestyn (Graham McGrath), a 16-year-old Briton with a Celtic father and Saxon mother, is captured by Viking raiders and carried off in the longship Sea Dragon.
Jestyn is rescued by the mighty Thormod (Janek Lesniak), a Viking who saves his life and stops him from being sold into slavery.
As their friendship develops, they become blood brothers and Jestyn swears to help avenge the murder of Thormod’s father.
Their search for the killers – brothers Anders (Martin Spang Olsen) and Herulf (Lasse Spang Olsen) – leads them to the Baltic and Kiev.
Chasing Andres and Herulf back to Britain, Thormod is mortally wounded in the confrontation but Jestyn is nursed back to health by nuns at a priory – Novice Ffion (Holly Aird) and the prioress (Anna Massey).
While recovering from his wounds, Jestyn (who, before his capture, bred goats and sheep) helps to safely deliver a woman with a breech baby, to the surprise of the nuns who assumed the child would be lost.
This four-part kids series – a British/Icelandic co-production – was a dramatisation of a novel (BloodFeud) by Rosemary Sutcliff. Filmed on location in Wales and Denmark (with scenes of the Viking longship filmed in Fishguard Bay), the cast had several Scandinavian actors.
Jestyn
Graham McGrath Thormod
Janek Lesniak Haki
Baard Owe Aslak
Pat Roach Sister Gytha
Eiry Palfrey Ffion
Holly Aird Anders
Martin Spang Olsen Prioress
Anna Massey Gyrth
Bernard Latham Thraud
Øystein Wiik Ayrun
Trine Pallesen Thormod’s Mother
Lisa Thorslunde Herulf
Lasse Spang Olsen
Episodes
Raiders from the Sea | The Journey Home | The Pursuit | The Blood Feud
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As their friendship develops, they become blood brothers and Jestyn swears to help avenge the murder of Thormod’s father.
