Vickie the Viking

Vickie and his friends.

Vicky the Viking, was an Austrian-German-Japanese cartoon series which tells the adventures of Vicky, a young Viking boy who uses his wits to help his Viking fellows.




 

Vickie appeared
 in 1974, 
40 years ago.

The series' main character is Vicky, son of Halvar, chief of the Viking village of Flake. Unlike his village fellows - including most of the other boys of his age - Vicky is blessed with a sharp and imaginative mind which helps his fellow Vikings out of many tight situations, including rival Viking lord Sven the Terrible. Certain results of his intellectual approach shown in the series and the film adaptation include building a makeshift catapult to beat his father in a stone-ferrying contest, fitting their long ship with kites to make it glide through the air, and using a small sawfish to cut an escape hole through a wooden door.