EVERY DAY HISTORY LIFE IN VIKING TIMES SARAH RIDLEY Smart Apple Media
WHO WERE THE VIKINGS ICT he Vikings lived over 1 000 years ago in the lands we know as Denmark Norway Ali CG and Sweden They were mainly farmers and shipbuilders However their land was not very good for farming Norway was very hilly Sweden was covered in forests and Denmark had a lot of sandy areas This meant that when the population increased there was not enough land for everyone L By the end of the eighth century some Vikings looked for other ways to make a living At first they raided towns and monasteries in other parts of northwest Europe They stole treasures and took some of the people to be slaves The Vikings then began to travel overseas to settle and trade as well as to raid When they settled most Vikings farmed while others made beautiful objects from stone wood and metal This stone cross was carved in the 10th century It shows a Viking warrior with some of his weapons SOME IMPORTANT DATES IN VIKING HISTORY 793 The Viking age starts 840 Viking traders from when Viking raiders attack Sweden reach Istanbul Lindisfarne which is off the which they call Miklagard northeast coast of England I meaning great city 874 Vikings from Norway 886 When England is begin to settle in Iceland divided the Vikings settle in the area known as the
GREENLAND western settlement III Eastern settlement ICELAND RUSSIA NORWAY FAROES NEWFOUNDLAND Staraya Ladog SHETLANDS WEDEN BRKNEYS DENM Novgorod THE VIKING WORLD The Vikings built fantastic ships that let them sail farther than any other Europeans at that time They RELAN settled in parts of Scotland Ireland England Iceland Greenland and Normandy Some reached Newfoundland North America while others sailed down the rivers ENGLAND Normandy Istanbu of Russia to trade MAP KEY Viking homelands Viking settlements 911 The King of France agrees to a peace treaty with the Vikings after their many raids and allows them to ca 980 Erik the Red discovers Greenland After five years Vikings from Iceland begin to settle in Greenland ca 1000 Leif Eriksson sails I 1066 William Duke of from Greenland to North Normandy invades England America He calls the land he The Viking age soon comes discovers Vinland to an end settle in Normandy II
