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A funny, messy, glorious series for 6-8 year-olds. Vulgar is a Viking boy who longs for the glory days of raiding, pillaging and enormous beards. Life in the village of Blubber is so dull, it’s all knitting and goat-herding and yawwwnnn. Vulgar feels it’s up to him to introduce a bit of mayhem and chaos, and just as soon as he’s finished juggling with Elk manure, he’s going to relish the challenge. Imagine Horrid Henry in a horned helmet and you’re there!
Vulgar decides to carry out his own Viking raid: a voyage across the fishpond to plunder the bake-house.
Every year, the village of Blubber competes against the neighbouring town of Gulp in the Viking Games, and every year, the Blubberers get thrashed.
Vulgar’s new teacher is called Otto the Bone-Cruncher and he’s a proper Viking!
From singing and dancing to doing things with pickled herring – the villagers of Blubber are gifted in many ways. And they’ve decided to have a talent contest to prove it.
The best Viking festival of the year is fast approaching and Vulgar is REALLY excited! There’ll be feasting, staying up all night and a massive bonfire for burning stuff! Bring on Midsummer’s Eve!
Vulgar can’t believe his luck. He’s going on a school trip in a real, live longboat, with oars and everything! And they’re going to visit Burp, where a long-ago battle once took place between the Vikings and the, er, Burpers.