The Loggerheads was an animated cartoon

Animated cartoon

An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot...

 television series by Magma Films. It combined an old viking

Viking

The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to...

 storylines with dark humour. It lasted only one season and was shown in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 in 1997, on Britain's Channel Five in 1998 and later on the Pop TV channel, and in Italy TMC2

TMC2

Transmembrane channel-like protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TMC2 gene.-Further reading:...

 in 1999.

The Story revolved around the Loggerhead chief Bjorn the Red and the rich Gissur the Pale and his family's attempts to contest the post.

The opening/ending theme of the Italian version was written by Vito Abbonato and Andrea Ridolfi

Andrea Ridolfi

Andra Ridolfi studied doublebass and complementary piano at “Licinio Refice“ – College of music in Frosinone. He achieved the study of musicality and composition with Maestro Carlo Crivelli. In 1984 he graduated at the State Institute for Cinematography and Television “Roberto Rossellini” in Rome...

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Episodes

• Viking Olympics
• Give and Take
• A Song for Europe
• Rolvo's Big Adventure
• Skeggi and the Fountain of Youth
• The Taxman Cometh
• Pirates
• Queen Irmgard
• Alfred the Admirable
• Law and Disorder
• Preacher Man
• Sealed with a Kiss
• Whale's Tale
• Reversal of Fortune
• Dragon
• Love thy Neighbour