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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’
http://thatsamoray.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/stone_sculptures.jpg
What the Vikings left behind
stone sculptures
carved in ‘runes’
LANGUAGE
“husband”, “egg”, “law”, “knife” and “window” originally fromVikings' language
http://sensualjesus.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/asterix-and-the-vikings-8.jpg
Place nameshttp://static.blogo.it/ecoblog/norvegia.jpg
STORIES
Cristina & Ginevra 2°A