viking notes

1. Iceland's language is the language of the vikings
2. There were norweigan vikings and swedish vikings
3. The viking raids happen between the 8th and 11th centuries
4. You see vikings a lot in out culture
5. The vikings raid the coast of england and ireland. They spend a lot of time doing this
6. The vikings believed in Valhala- the after life
7. Odin would greet them as heros if they died in battle
8. Norse mythoology
• From norway or sweded
9. Primary sources
• Edda
• Older and younger
10. The viking age at the heights is in the 8th and 9th century
11. The second of the important books is the Heimskringla
• A poet wrote this and his name was Snori Sturluson
12. Eddas tell the myths and the heimskringla tell the legends of the kings
13. These books aren't written until the vikings are gone or christianized
14. Eddas
• Cosmology of norse thinking- your concept of the universe
• There are 9 worlds and we live on midgard
• North- elves; south- black elves; east- giants and fire; west- ice; up- god's world; down-hell; across- place far out and no one is there
15. He was told if he hung himself he would gain the secret knowledge and he hung himself on the tree
16. Runs were something you consult if you are making a big decision. It was an alphabet
17. Other major story is the story of ragnarok
18. The great battle that will happen at the end of the world and the entire world will be on fire and a new life will come out of the ashes
19. Vikings had no fear of death
20. Eirek the red was a viking king
21. His son leaf Erikson was the guy who supposedly found north America

Video notes

22. The Vikings come from Scandinavia
23. In Norwegian archeologists found out how the Vikings lived and died
24. They find a grave shell buried as a tomb filled with the needs the Viking will need in his afterlife
25. They had very good ships
26. They sometimes buried them in their ships when they died
27. They had chiefs who ruled the little groups
28. They made a Viking long ship- they had many techniques and built the boat well
29. The boats were swift and nothing could catch them
30. The battle axe was one of the fiercest weapons the Vikings had
31. The fleet of 120 hundred ships go to Paris
32. The Vikings conquered a lot and nothing could stop them
33. The king of France pays the raiders so that they would leave and never come back but it had the opposite affect
34. Erik the red led an exposition and became the first to settle Greenland. It wasn't good land so he called it Greenland even though it was not. It was very harsh land
35. Leaf Erikson- in year 1000 he set sail and found Newfoundland.
36. Leaf Erikson was asked to bring Christianity to Greenland