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How were the Vikings educated?

Updated: 8/22/2023
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13y ago

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Viking children did not leave home to attend school. Children learned a simple education at home, usually taught by a parent. When children were old enough they learned how to help their parents with daily chores. The boys would help on the farm or learn a craft and the girls would learn sewing and cooking. Poetry and music were taught to children from wealthier families. Some children who were not needed at home were sent to work for other families.

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14y ago

Nope! they didn't have an education process back then.

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The viking age people would home school their children. Sometimes, close friends would foster each other's children, and then the child would learn from his foster parents.

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Early on, the Vikings were educated by their own literate people. We do not have a lot of records of this, but the Vikings had a system of writing in letters called runes, which were quite different from the Roman or Greek alphabets used in much of Europe.

Later, Vikings conquered literate people in places such as England and France. These people were literate Christians who eventually converted the Vikings to Christianity. These people began to educate the Vikings in Latin, using the Roman alphabet, just as people were educated in other parts of Western Europe.

Some of the places the Vikings conquered had schools, and at least some of these were kept open by the Vikings; an example is Beverley Grammar School, which was founded as a state run school in the year 700, continued to operate under the Vikings of the Danelaw, and continues today. Eventually the Vikings opened schools of their own, including what is not the Reykjavik Junior College, in Iceland.

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11y ago

no he did not go to aschoolat lest I think

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14y ago

the vikings were barbairian thieves! they stole things as work and children learn from their parents

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15y ago

They didn't have any. Teaching was done informally, one-on-one or in small groups. Apprenticeships were common.

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12y ago

Pretty much yes, but only to search and to sail viking boats.

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