Cristina & Ginevra 2°A

Who were the Vikings?

•Denmark, Norway and Sweden•1,200 years ago in the 8th Century AD and lasted for 300 years.

The Vikings In Britain

•Year 793 the North Sea to a Christian monastery

•Year 865 Army of Danish vikings in the northern, central and eastern England

Viking Houses

Viking Clothes

•jewellery: rings, bracelets, necklaces and brooches.

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Men, Women and Children

• Mencraftsmen or traders

•Womenhousehold jobs

•Children no school

Food And Feasting

Law and Order

•Chieftains

•Craftsmen

•Freeman

•Slave

The Norse Myths

Norse gods and goddesses

•ODIN wise and mysterious

•THOR most popular god

•LOKI mischievous

•FREYJAgoddess of love and fertility

•FREY fertility

The Vikings and Christianity

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Viking ships

•Wood

•Waterproof

•Carvings

Trading

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Discovering new lands

985 Greenland

1001 Leif Eriksson'the Lucky'

The end of the Viking age

•9th century western England

•10th century Viking areas

•11th century Viking King Knut

•1066 the Duke of Normandy•mid-12th century northern islands for another 300 years

What the Vikings left behind

Archaeological remains

•stone sculptures•carved in ‘runes’

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What the Vikings left behind

stone sculptures

carved in ‘runes’

LANGUAGE

“husband”, “egg”, “law”, “knife” and “window” originally fromVikings' language

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STORIES

Cristina & Ginevra 2°A