Vikings Flashcards
What was their diet?
2 meals a day, fruit, fish, walnuts, honey, cake, pork, beef, milk and cheese
How would they accessorise?
Comb, broatch, gold ring with gems
Where/when was their first raid?
England, dominated nothern Europe, 793 AD stole gold silver and manuscripts
Who was odin?
God of thunder
Who was Freyia
In chatge of love and peace
What is Asgard?
Heavens, center of the world, spiritual
Where did they go when they died?
Valhulla
Who were berserkrs?
Specific type of viking that would be veru intense. Destroy anything that got in their way
Who was beowulf?
Brave Viking, destroyed a family of mosters, killed water monsters and defeated the greats (another Viking tribe)
What was a Viking raid?
Kill monks, crossed rivers, raided france Italy, Russia, Germany, Spain
What was a viking trade?
Traded with merchants, sold the goods at markets (Ivory, fur, fruit, honey)
What is a keel?
Large piece of wood connected to the bottome of the ship to make it sea worthy
Yorks stratigraphy
Located in north England, Displays its long history, daye back to the 9th century, useful artifacts, architecture.
Layers of York’s stratigraphy
Stuart, tudor, medival, norman, Vikings age
What are the Scandinavian countries
Sweden, norway, denmark
When were the vikings alive?
From 800CE to 1050 CE
Jorvik trades
Easy access, large river running through, many trades with Dublin
When did they capture york?
866
Who discovered North America?
The vikings leif Erikson. Was no fluke
Who was canute the great?
994AD, Denmark, effectivel ruler, international peace,created dominance across scandinavia
Erik the red
950AD, Norway, first viking to discover greenland, created a large community of Christians, committed many crimes
Who is Leif Eriksson?
- Iceland, first to discover North America, large step for humans,
Why is greenland called greenland?
Because Erik the red wanted people to think that it was green and go there so he could kill them
What is a push factor?
A reason to leave a specific place
What is a pull factor?
Reasons to go to a specific place
What bodies of water did they cross?
North sea, black sea, Norwegian sea, Arctic sea
Where did the vikings settle?
Iceland, Sweden parts of greenland, Denmark, south pf Italy (Sicily) Holland
Countries raided by the vikings
Finland, coast of germany, France, north spain, Bulgaria
Nobles?
Upper class, job to serve the king, lived in manors
Karls?
Farmers, craftsmen, sailors, worriors, basic working class, lived in liong houses
Jarls
Quite wealthy, second from the top, viewed as a leader
Punishment and crimes
Head shaved, betraying the king - arms and legs cut off,
Peasants
Look after farms small towns, small houses, public execution, long baggy clothes
