Sea Dragon

1 9 9 0 (UK)
4 x 30 minute episodes

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 (Blood Feud) 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