Vikings

Objectives

Viking OER

Viking ship museum

Vikings in a Nutshell 2

Aya Sofia and Viking Graffiti

Culture of conquest

Vikings in a nutshell 1

Ducksters-Vikings

Vikings Season 2

Gokstad- It was a flexible and fast ship built in 890 AD when the viking age was in full swing

Oseburg- This ship was decorated very well and had lots of carvings.

Vikings were excellent seamen

They were known for their ships.

Weapons indicated social status

When Vikings were in Greenland they created a democracy the allowed people to discuss laws. Anyone could come to the assemblies.

Viking, Magyar, Muslim, Europe

Vikings, Longships

Viking age, Vikings, Christianity

Viking, Old Norse

Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, Danes, Treaty of Wedmore

Viking would often get buried in ships.

Vikings took baths and cleaned regularly.

Vikings were very good at navigating

At one point vikings owned most of Europe

The viking age ended at the 12th century

The vikings were pagans.

They had long ships that were very useful

Vikings were from groups of Scandinavia

The viking age was from 800 CE to 1066 CE

Longships were boats that were very narrow and useful for going fast

Vikings don't actually wear horned helmets

It is still a mystery why vikings decided to expand so rapidly

The smallest raids normally had 6 ships in it

They fought with double edged swords and battle axes

A viking called Halfdan carved "Halfdan was here." in a church's marble.

Vikings were hired as personal guards and were fiercely loyal.

His sword has an amber stone at the end of it.

Seige warfare could be used to try to break down the door.