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Vikings
- Who, When, Where
- Image=
- brutal
- Pagan
- Cruel
- plundering barbarians
- blonde/red hair
- long hair
- warriors
- 800CE-1066CE
- in Scandinavia
- Viking society
- Men
- coming of age 12
- jobs
- boatbuilder
- farmer
- blacksmith
- artisan
- chief/nobel
- king
- all free men had a vote
- Most men were warriors
- was a noble duty
- Children
- brought up to
take parents role
- girls=sewing, farming
- boys=warriors,
craftsmen, farmer
- Women
- no vote
- allowed a divorce
- shield maidens
- Farms
- farmland wasnt fertile
- oats, barley, peas, beans
- hunted fish, reindeer, bears
- Government
- Free men assembly at the Thing
- on laws/policies
- or discussed general issues
- Then voted on actions to occur in community
- This was reported to the king or chief
- Religion
- Norse mythology
- Polytheistic
- Myths which explained the world
- When you died you
would go to Hel
- Unless you died in battle
- Then you would go to Vallhulla
- In Asgard
- The magical place were the gods
lived above midgard
- Here you would train for the
battle at the end of the world
- Spend days training and nights feasting
- In the
underworld
- Gods had emotions and
stories and marriages
- Odin=father of the gods + Fjorgyn
- Thor=god of thunder +
Sif=goddess of war
- Bragi+Idun=goddess of spring
- Freya
- Goddess of beauty and love
- Frey
- Goddess of feritlity
- Loki=god of mischief +Angroboda
- Hel
- Jormungandr
- Fenrir
- Longships
- Keel
- backbone
- allowed ships to be
shallow, wide
- Better in rough waves
- made it lighter
- Clinker construction
- overlapping planks
- wood
- waterproofing
- Sail
- wool
- coated with animal fat
- protects sail from salty air
- could lower sail
- turn boat into right direction
- Steering oar
- connected to sail
- moves sail
- moves boat
- oars
- row
- makes
- speed
- better direction
- get closer to shore
- and leave faster
- Types
- Knarr
- merchant ships
- long voyage ships
- wider, more space
- Longship
- military uses
- Lindisfarne
- Seen as beginning of Viking Age
- First major raid
- 798CE
- 3 ships from Norway attacked moastry
- took monks for slaves
- took treasures for own wealth
- Monks only ones to create sources
- created brutal, pagan,
animal like view of Vikings
- Raiders, Traders or Settlers
- Motives
- Raiding
- Desired revenge
against Christians
- Desire to die in battle
- Greed- stealing riches
from monastries
- Knew they could win
- Trading
- Set up merchant towns
- Driven by desire to sell wool,
skins, tuscks
- Settling
- Population growth-needed
more land
- Land was not fertile
- Famine
- try to discover places as
fame came with it
- How could they go so far?
- Skilled ship builders
- Intimate knowledge of the sea
- Good navigators
- Different purposes for different ships
- Timeline
- 789CE- First recorded raid on England
- 793CE- Raid on Lindisfarne
- 789-819CE- Vikings control North/Eastern England
- 886CE- Alfred the Great established peace treatey
- Vikings only allowed in the Danelaw
- Prosperity and peace but decline in power and
new attacks by the Danish on Vikings
- Vikings become more english
- 910CE- Alfred's son Edward controls the Danelaw
- 1013- Svein was King
- 1016-1035- son Cnut was King
- 1042- Edward the Confessor
- 1066CE
- Harold Godwinson, earl of
Wessex became King
- Norwegian Vikings led by
Hardrada in the North
- Harold marches North for Battle of Standford Bridge
where Vikings die and Harold wins
- Harold marches south and lose to William of Normandy
- no children
- Legacies
- Some English words come
from Norse language such as
- Sky
- Anger
- Awkward
- cake
- die
- dirt
- Knife
- Law
- mistake
- Viking Mythology has influenced
books such as Lord of the rings
- Evidence of Viking democracy is in
English political systems