10 facts about vikings

Answer 1

Vikings drank out of skulls (not recently killed or extracted skulles, of course, but cleaned and carved-out skulls. They used wax to fillin the nose and eye and ear holes)

Vikings only went to war because they had to - their land was running out, and they needed more!

When in a battle, Vikings were feroscious and very affective.

Vikings came from Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

The Vikings were originally Pagan.

A Viking army pillaged, looted and razed an English Christian church.

The Vikings lasted from 780 to 1066.

The age that the Vikings lived in was called "The Viking Age"

Some Viking men stayed home to be Farmers.

The Vikings from Norway were the most warring of Vikings.

The Vikings from Sweden and Denmark were mostly farmers.

On the front of their boat they had a scary face (most were drangons) to scare away sea monsters.

Their sails were red and white.

Answer 2

1) Vikings were the only people in Medieval Europe who bathed. Everyone else thought bathing was unhealthy. 2) The Viking religion was unique in that they believed the entire universe was going to be destroyed, and living bravely was all that mattered. 3) Alimony was invented by the Althing, the Viking government of Iceland, allowing a divorced Viking woman to receive money from her ex-husband. 4) Because of their construction, Viking ships did not leak. 5) Vikings navigated the Atlantic Ocean without compass or any navigational tools. 6) Vikings did not have horns on their helmets. It is another stereotype. 7) To relax, Vikings drank mead, a kind of beer made from fermented honey. 8) Viking established a colony in North America three centuries before the Spanish, but attacks by natives eventually made them leave. 9) The word berserk is derived from the Viking word.
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1. The Vikings sometimes dragged their ships overland in order to get to rivers or other bodies of water.
2. about 80 trees and many skilled workers were needed to build one Viking ship.
3. According to historians, the word Viking only applied to those Scandinavians who went raiding. Other people who lived in Scandinavia were mostly farmers and are just known as Scandinavians. However in popular culture all Scandinavians of that time period are called Vikings.
4. the name 'Thursday' comes from 'Thor' and 'Friday' from 'Freya', Viking gods.
5. The Vikings were originally Pagans but later converted to Christianity.
6. Vikings gave their weapons names, eg: the spear named 'Gugnir', or the sword named 'Adder'
7. A viking could only go to Valhalla (the Viking Heaven) if they died bravely in battle.
8. Viking raids used tactics still in use today by guerrilla fighters: attack in small, mobile groups of soldier, strike very fast when the enemy least expects to be attacked, after attacking retreat quickly so the enemy is unable to counter attack.
9. The fiercest viking warriors were the Berserkers, who wore bear skins into battle. Before battle they would get themselves into a state of hyper energetic rage. In this state a Berserker would fight like mad, without fear of any enemy, feeling no pain from any injury and fiercely cutting, slashing and destroying anything that comes in his way, friend or enemy. After his hyper energetic phase, the Berseker would become extremely tired and passive and fall asleep
10. some proposed causes of the Berseker's rage are use of hallucinogenic drugs prior to battle, post traumatic stress disorder and genetic abnormalities.

•The Vikings would use their helmets as their drinking cups.

•Their longboats used up to 80 oak trees

•Their version of heaven was to be fighting all day

•They would love to ice skate.

•Vikings hated to die peacefully the worst way to die as a Viking was to die in bed

•At the turn of the last millennium the largest slave market in the world was ran by the Vikings in Dublin
1. vikings boats were called longboats

2. viking ships sailed at 18km/h

3. one long boat took 8 oak trees to build

4. the worst possible death for a viking chief was to die peacefully in bed

5. in 1000, the viking made the worlds largest slave market in Dublin

6. the vikings established the worlds oldest parliament in Iceland

7. vikings were used as guards to the Byzantine Emperor

8. vikings used ravens to navigate their way across the sea

9.the vikings uses dragons on the front of their longboat to ward off evil spirits

10. vikings weren't all naturally blond some bleached their hair using a special soap

Answer 3

The Vikings navigated by depending on the instincts of birds. They took several ravens with them on board, and released them while sailing. Whichever direction the birds flew determined the way the Vikings would sail.

Dublin was founded by Vikings.

The Vikings founded a settlement in North America almost 500 years before Columbus "discovered" the New World.

Answer 4

By the Middle Ages the Vikings had settled in Europe becoming part of the population and no longer raided places. Today there still are streets named using Viking names and places.