The Vikings have a dragon on the front of the ship to keep evil spirits away. Viking means a pirate raid. Viking children did not have to go to school but they had to milk the goats cows and pigs, help with the cleaning and pick out the vegetables. Vikings collected silver, bronze and bones for jewellery. Their toilets were a hole in the ground. Thursday is God Thor of thunder. The Viking ships were usually built of oak and sometimes pine Facts about Vikings

The Vikings were from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The Vikings raided Scotland and Ireland. They travelled in longships. The areas the Viking settled in were known as Danelaw. Many Vikings were great travellers and sailed all over Europe and the Atlantic Ocean in their longships.

Viking female clothing would generally consist of; a simple, long, plain dress made of wool or linen. Viking liked to wear lots of jewellery, tunic brooches were made of bronze, sometimes the ladies tunic brooches had beads between them or the brooches were attached to chains which held personal items like a comb, keys or scissors.

These are figures the Vikings used to play chess. They had wooden and metal instruments.

The Vikings used grains to make bread and also porridge Herbs fennel, common sorrel, wild garlic, parsley Leaves nettles and spinach. Most Vikings were simply searching for better land for their farms. The economics of Viking life were based on a trade of precious metals. The Vikings were people from Scandinavia.

The Vikings were skilful weavers and made their own clothes. Viking clothes were made from wool, linen and animal skins. Women, with the help of children, made the wool into yarn and used natural dyes from plants to give it colour. Men wore tunics and trousers and women wore a long dress with a pinafore over it. Their clothes were fastened with belts and brooches. When a Viking died they were buried with some of their belongings.

We can tell where the Vikings settled by place names of towns and villages today. Some of the names of places in Britain are made up of Viking words. Names of places they went to were called Derby, Rugby, Whitby, Selby, Grimsby –by meant farm or homestead (village).