Vikings

The fiercest Viking Warriors were known as Berserkers. They often felt that their gods were protecting them, and often imbibed various substances to the point where they were barely more than animals. They could often shrug off near fatal or even (eventaully fatal) blows due to the concoctions they imbibed.

The Viking Sagas was created in 1995.

Vikings were very skilled craftsmen. Their boats were built with overlapping planks, then waterproofed with a mixture of resin or tar and reindeer hair, cow hair or moss.

ANS 2 Near my home, in Vancouver B.C. we actually have a half size fully operational replica of a Viking longboat, the Munin. It was built by a group of Scandinavian seamen including two professional wooden boat builders. It took a year and half to build the 40 ft ship and apparently everything was done the original way with original materials. The seams are caulked with rope hammered in between them. I know this for a fact as I was once in her, far out in English Bay on a very hot summer day and the tops of the seams began to dry out. The crewmen threw buckets of water into the bilge to seal them tighter.

The Vikings NEVER invaded Rome however the Visigoth's invaded and sacked Rome in 410 A.D.
Perhaps you have the two confused.

Yes, he had three sons named Leif Ericson, Thorvald and Thorsteinn, and one daughter named Freydis.

September 1066. Harald Harðráði (Sigurdsson) died September 25th 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. As he was the last great Viking king, this date is often considered the end of the Age of Vikings.

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One was considered a viking in Scandinavia during the Dark Ages if one went out on sea-raids abroad and that is how you became a viking. But all scandinavian men at the time were well trained in weoponry and warcraft.

The viking ships were better then the ships of other people of the time and the vikings allready had colonies on Iceland and Greenland so its not so strange that some of them wanted to explore further to the west and perhpas create new colonies of their own.

Yes.

The Vikings were able to trade and raid easily (as well as expand) their reach due to economic and military weaknesses in neighboring countries, and due to the unprofitability of old trade routes in that period.

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Actually, No.

It was impossible for a Norse woman to be a viking, since being a Viking was to be of a particular sect of the Norse culture.

The idea of a female viking warrior is a myth, mostly due to Victorian notions of what the Valkyrie where wing helmed warrior maidens. When you actually read the Edda's they are actually considered shapeshifters that took on the form of the crows/ravens and wolves that came around after a battle was over.

No, the women of the Nordic countries where much like the Christian women of dark ages in their roles with a few added powers when things like divorce came along. They kept the hearth warm, and tended to the daily needs of the children and her husband. If the man was away on trade or in war then she would take over the managing of the farm/house until the man returned.

From my understanding women where not even allowed to wield weapons unless in the defense of the home and they where barred from Things in which the men would conduct meetings for the year ahead, which would include any plans for raiding or wars.

For more information please check out:

https://thevikingworld.pbworks.com/w/page/3931551/Real-Women-of-the-Viking-Age

which provides basic information and links to more articles about the role of women in Nordic Dark Age society, including an article about where the myth of the Norse warrior woman came about.

Most Vikings were farmers.

Spoons, along with knives, forks and chopsticks are generally lumped together as eating implements or cutlery.

In the earliest days people ate with their hands but hot cooked foods soon made this uncomfortable and difficult (especially for soups). People improved on this using cupped pieces of bread or seashells to scoop up saucy or fluid foods and knives or sharp twigs to spear the lumps. Forks came much later as lump spearers and lifters while knives were limited to cutting larger lumps into smaller. Chopsticks evolved on their own apart from western eating tools. The spoon drifted through this period essentially unchanged.

Vikings were pretty much in the "use your fingers for big chunks, knifes to spear and hold hot chunks and spoons for the liquids" phase of table manners. Their spoons would be made of horn or metal or carved from wood. A set of instructions for making your own Viking wooden spoon starting with a log is at the link.

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The runestones that dated back to the same time that it was documented that the Viking's discovered Vinland. Also, in 1960, L'anse aux Meadows was found, which was a major Viking port here in North America, and where they first settled.

The Vikings will play Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 7:20pm CST against the Green Bay Packers.

He had five, in all. Two with Sigyn, Nari and Vali. Vali gets turned into a wolf, who attacks and guts Nari. Nari's guts are then used to bind Loki to the rocks as punishment. Its possible that Sigyn was an pre-viking age goddess that was worshipped, and based on her name, she may have been similar to Freya; a Goddess of both war and love.

His other children with his istress Angrboda was the Goddess Hella, who is half beautiful (albeit pale) woman, half decomposing corpse, the wolf Fenrir, and the serpent Jormangand.

The Vikings original homeland was in Scandanavia. However their logn-term conquests included large parts of Britain, France, Sicily, and Russia as well as settlements in Greenland and Iceland..

The Frankish policy of settling them and converting them to Christianity.

the monks protected themselves from viking in a round towers when the vikings came the monks grabbed anything valuable and climbed to the door and then pulled up the ladder .If you want to see a round tower go on google images.

Many probably didn't wear helmets at all. Artwork from that era shows roughly half of Vikings in battle bareheaded, while the rest wear unremarkable dome-shaped or conical helmets. Low class or poor vikings wore leather helmets that didn't last. A few metal ones have been included iron "spectacle" helmets, so called because they have bronze eye-and-nose guards that look a bit like a pair of glasses. In general a viking owned only a pound or two of iron fo r his weapons and armor, so equipment was a t a minimum.

One thing that they did not wear was a helmet with eagle wings or cows horns. That affectation is reserved for opera vikings and cheesy movies made on a tight budget.

Depends where of. You could argue that William the Conqueror and his descendents were Viking rulers.

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