Esper Silkjær takes the audience on a sailing journey along Europe's coasts aboard his boat Nordstjernen, which he sailed together with his wife Lis from 2022 onwards. The talk follows their route past Normandy, where the Vikings settled and later converted to Christianity.
Along the way he touches on William the Conqueror, the Bayeux Tapestry, D-Day and the proclamation of Prince Charles as King of Great Britain on Guernsey. Other stories include a German U-boat bunker in Lorient, a giant elephant on the streets of Nantes, an encounter with Jack Sparrow and his crew, and a Viking in Galicia who was canonised. Silkjær draws on his own life at sea, having sailed several vessels and later served as a parish priest in several places, before retiring from Glostrup in 2022.
