vikings ! Flashcards
793-1066
-the viking age
- June 8 793
- ransacked the monastery on
Lindisfarne (england E. coast)
-the Vikings led their final invasion of England, led by Norwegian King Harald Hardrada.
1000
-vikings turned Christian
-sometimes cited as end of GE
-iceland converted first
1151
last christian crusade
on England
1263
-battle of larg
-Norway king Haakon
-Scot king Alex III
-Norwegian attack on Scots
-they repelled.
Valhalla
-viking heaven
-where killed warriors go
-under Odin
-if a besirker dies in battle with a sword, he goes to Valhalla
saga
-adventures and legends
-about vikings and their gods
-originally spoken for winter nights
-showed courage, boldness, and intelligence
-similar to Greek epics
thing
-town meeting
-democratic
-few weeks in summer
-punishments were harsh (banishment was the worst)
-accusers, defenders, witnesses, judges
asgard
-where human like gods lived
-lived in by many
-ruled by odin
Odin
-cunning, wise, dangerous
-ruled asgard
-sacrificed one eye to see everything
-god of war and death
Thor
-god of war, rain, farming
-vikings wore his hammer on a necklace as a good luck charm
-son of odin
Ragnarok
-twilight of the gods
-world would be destroyed
-vikings turned christian before it happened
karl
-free men
-largest group
-rented farmland
-wealth went to oldest son
jarl
-wealthy
-most powerful
-owned land
-usually had a small band of warriors
primogeniture
-vikings wealth went to his oldest son
-others had little to do
-others spent time raiding and adventuring
Northman
-vikings
-denmark, norway, sweden, iceland, scandinavia
-believed in norse gods then christianity
Norman
Norse
-the North Germanic language of the Scandinavian people
Lindasfarne
-island off of E. coast of of England
-first place to ever be viking raided in 793
-shocked the english
Monestary
a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows
drakkar
-warship
-28 meter length
-300 in a fleet
-sleek and light
-60 oars
-expensive
-only a few inches
into water
knarr
-sturdy
-cargo ship
-16 meters long
-rough sea
-fixed mast
berserker
-skilled and crazy warroir
-sometimes did mushrooms
clinker
-the planks were overlapped at one edge and riveted together
prow
-the forward-most part of a ship’s bow above the waterline. -dragon headed drakkar
cross hatch
-sails had them. -to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines
mast
pole that rises vertically from a ship and supports the sails
sail
-fabrics that propel a ship through water. -red crosshatched leather NOT STRIPED
keel
-ridge on bottom of vessel to help with stability
-made from oak
leif erickson
-Lief Erikkson
and other Viking explorers used this type of ship on their voyages to North America.
-exiled for murder
-used it to explore
-knarr
kenning
-colorful metaphor used in EDDAS
Gods
Thor, Loki, Odin. Tyr, Baldr
bayauex tapestry
-The Tapestry tells the story of the events surrounding the conquest of England by the Duke of Normandy.
-bishop odo in 1077
last viking
-harald hadrada
-king of norway
-fought in battle of stamford bridge (25 sept 1066)
-wanted english throne
-earl tosting
battle of hastings
oct 1066
french under anglo saxons
norman’s under william duke
norman’s won
scandinavia
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
region in europe
great army
3 sons
865
fleet
Found king of northumbria in 869
led br Ragnar Lodbrok
danegeld
weak king ethelred have vikings money to leave, but they kept coming back for more money. raised by taxes.
danelaw
place where danes that had been chrisitasnized lived in their own customs
summer
alfred the great
defeated danes at battle of eddington in 877 led by guthrum
futhark
language in runes
thralls
slaves
farm workers or house keepers or craftsmen
captured in war
althing
nationwide thing
every 2-3 years
tried by ordeal
guilt or innonece was proved. by a painful test
wergeld
the amount of compensation paid by a person committing an offense to the injured party or, in case of death, to his family.
sweyn forkbeard
invaded england in 1013
got english throne surrendered
cnuts dad
