VIKINGS_EVERYTHING_U_NEED_TO_KNOW

It began with the sacking of the monastery at Lindisfarne in 793 and ended in 1066, at the Battle of Stanford Bridge where King Harald Hardråde was killed. These two bloody events mark the opening and closing of an era in Nordic history which featured dramatic social change. The Viking Era.

The part of history know as the "Viking Age" is considered to have started in the year 793. This was the year of the first large Viking raid. It occurred at the monastery of Lindisfarne on the north-east coast of Britain.

Reasons and prelude to the Viking Age

At the beginning of the 6th century large changes took place in the Lake Mälar Area of Sweden Suddenly a Svea power appeared which was strong enough to wage war against the Gutar.

Piracy was all very well for yielding sporadic bursts of wealth but only trade could yield a regular income. The achievement of the Scandinavians as traders rather than raiders proved the more enduring

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Viking Trading

The Vikings were a great trading people.

Death, burial and the Viking gods

The pagan Scandinavians acknowledged a pantheon of gods and spirits which could be called on in different situations.

Viking Carts

The only Viking Age wagon found in Norway as yet is the Oseberg cart. Sleeves were full-length on both tunics and dresses. The more prosperous also employed servants, who lived on the farmstead and depended on the family for their food and shelter. A woman had equal rights to other women, but if insulted by a man her husband received the penalty.

Vikings

Vikings! The word conjures up images of wild, barbaric, sea faring men, intent on setting their mark on their less warlike neighbours with fire and sword. This had two wheels in front and a plank to turn the top soil at the back end of the plow.

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Viking Clothing

Viking Clothing

Throughout Europe, the dress of the time was little different from place to place. Tables of oak or pine would have been common in large halls, but rare in the average home. Each farmstead supported an extended family, with up to three generations living together. "Smock" refers to an undergarment, the thing we in the Society might call a shirt if a man wore it and a chemise if a woman wore it.

Viking Facts and Fiction

Welcome adventurers, in this phase of your journey you will learn of Viking heritage and language you may have heard before but did not really know what was meant, by these strange words and sayings.

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