Fara í víking (to go on an expedition). Viking Raids 789 started to attack England 872 First colony on Iceland 860 raided Constantinople 911 Found Normandy.

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fara í víking (to go on an expedition)

Viking Raids 789 started to attack England 872 First colony on Iceland 860 raided Constantinople 911 Found Normandy 981 Erik the Red “discovers” Greenland 1000 Christianity reaches IS/GL 1010 Viking come the Canada 1050’s End of the Viking Age

What is a Viking? From Scandinavia Used a longship Raided villages and Monasteries First European explorers to travel West Wrote sagas Used runes “Pagans”

What are Vikings NOT? Wear horned helmets Wear horned helmets Indiscriminant killers Indiscriminant killers Used skulls to drink from Used skulls to drink from

Pagan Polytheistic Pre-Christian religion Old English hæðen Old Norse heiðinn

Íslendingasögur Saga Poetic stories about families, feuds, travels, battles, and adventures

Beowulf Epic Poem Written between the 8 th and 11 th c

Runes Pre-Latin letters Jelling Stone 10c Pagan and Christians