Transcript The Vikings

Facts about Vikings
The Vikings have a dragon on the front of the ship to keep
evil spirits away.
Viking means a pirate raid.
Viking children did not have to go to school but they had to
milk the goats cows and pigs, help with the cleaning and
pick out the vegetables.
Vikings collected silver, bronze and bones for jewellery.
Their toilets were a hole in the ground.
Thursday is God Thor of thunder.
The Viking ships were usually built of oak and sometimes
pine
The Vikings were from Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
The Vikings raided Scotland and Ireland.
They travelled in longships.
The areas the Viking settled in were known as Danelaw.
Many Vikings were great travellers and sailed all over Europe and the Atlantic
Ocean in their longships.
Viking female clothing would generally consist of; a
simple, long, plain dress made of wool or linen.
Viking liked to wear lots of jewellery, tunic brooches
were made of bronze, sometimes the ladies tunic
brooches had beads between them or the brooches
were attached to chains which held personal items
like a comb, keys or scissors.
These are figures the Vikings used to play
chess.
They had wooden and metal instruments.
The Vikings used grains to make bread and also porridge
Herbs fennel, common sorrel, wild garlic, parsley
Leaves nettles and spinach.
Most Vikings were simply searching for better land for their farms.
The economics of Viking life were based on a trade of precious
metals.
The Vikings were people from Scandinavia.
The Vikings were skilful weavers and made their own
clothes.
Viking clothes were made from wool, linen and
animal skins. Women, with the help of children,
made the wool into yarn and used natural dyes from
plants to give it colour.
Men wore tunics and trousers and women wore a
long dress with a pinafore over it. Their clothes were
fastened with belts and brooches.
When a Viking died they were buried with some of
their belongings.
We can tell where the Vikings settled by place names of
towns and villages today. Some of the names of places in
Britain are made up of Viking words.
Names of places they went to were called Derby, Rugby,
Whitby, Selby, Grimsby
–by meant farm or homestead (village).