By Jordan Robert Schraeder and Jake Randolph Musgrave

Vikings Map

The time range for the Vikings was from the late Eighth century to the mid Eleventh.

A Viking was known for being a pirate around Europe. They would row on huge boats that were made out of wood that looked like big canoes with lots of people on each one. They were trying to rule as much land as they could in Europe and were successful and

started in the eighteenth century to the eleventh century.

Vikings Social structure conformed in to the indo-European pattern where people were split in to classes. There was the class of the rulers and the classes of the free and unfree. Lowest in the social ladder were the thralls.

The Viking houses would usually contain three generations of a family in one house. If they were healthy they would also have servants. They would have other buildings near the farmstead for storage and making tools and for Servants as well.

The wealthy Vikings had a bigger farmhouse with extra and nicer rooms also they had extra and larger quantities of food than the peasants. The wealthy had more privileges than the less wealthy and were able to live a better life.

The Vikings ate two meals a day, one usually consisted of some kind of meal or porridge. The mainstay of a everyday meal was a huge kettle of stew containing what ever vegetables or meats that were available. The bread that would have eaten was made in great quantity and variety, both flat and risen. Freshwater fish such as Salmon, Trout and Eels were widely eaten. Though is coastal areas there were Shellfish and Herring.

The Men would provide food by going out and hunting for food for the family and the women would cook and look after the children which is like today for most people. Most Viking would farm and keep cows, sheep, chicken and goats and harvest barley and many different sorts of Vegetables. The Vikings would have to work very hard to keep a good farm so the kids would not go to school but work for the family.

The man most ask the woman's father if he can marry her at first. The men would then have to pay the wives father very big amounts of silver. The priest would tell lots of spells to let them have children. Then the feast would go on forever. Then one of them would have to be moved into the other persons farmstead.

The Vikings did not have any Hospitals and that meant that they would have to suffer threw childbirth on there own with there family without having a doctor.

Most Viking children would have to be with there parents and travel everywhere with them and have to fight when they are ten. If the children are sick or disabled when they are born they get left outside to die. The chance of a Viking child to live until they are five is one in five chance. The children will have to be with there parents the whole time with all of the travelling on the boats.

For childhood in Canada we have a really good life because we get to go to school and hang out with your friends but for the Vikings they would have to go with there mom and dad from place to place with mom on the big boats and do lots of chores with there family.

Viking children did not leave home to attend school they learned a simple education at home usually taught by a parent. When the children got older they learned how to help their parent with daily chores. The boys would help on the farm or learn a craft and the girls would learn to cook and sew. Poetry and music were taught to children of wealthier families.

Some of the Vikings believed in something called the Morse Mythology. The Morse Mythology flourished in the Vikings age and followed in to the Christianization of Scandinavia during the High Middle Ages in to Nordic Folklore and some of its aspects still flourish today.

Thor was a very common god for the Vikings. He was the god of thunder, sky, and law. Thor was the son of Odin who is the chief god

Thor was always armed with hismagical hammer that conservedthunder in it. Thor married Sif whowas known for her wonderful goldhair. He was a very powerful god and was very powerful if you evegot in a fight with him or war

The Vikings would use wool for clothing because they would have harvest sheep and they eat the sheep and then use the skin for there clothing. They would dye the clothing with vegetables and many types of minerals.

There was three types of Viking art, Jellinge style, ringerike style and the Urnes style. The Urnes style was they would wood carve. They would mostly carve church doors and doors. The Jellinge style was on types of animals and the ringerike style was they would do anything about art on serpents and great beasts.

If the Vikings were working or going from place to place they would sing a rhythm or song. The children in the Vikings would mostly sing song that rhyme like my One two buckle my shoe.

There is a recreated Vikings festivals called

“Laa Boaldyn”. Laa Boaldyn has it’s Celtic orgins but the battle it's self is a Norse custom which was absorbed in to the traditional May day celebrations of the Manx people. The battle is based on a Norse custom that had died out 200 years ago and now being brought back.

The Vikings were a very strong group of warriors that ruled over Scandinavia from the late eight century to the mid eleventh. One of the Vikings most popular items was there hats that the warriors wore and another popular thing that the Vikings had was their Longship. It was a huge 35 meters long and was made to take their famous soldiers from battle to battle.

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