Category: Vikings...
- sailing the Viking route from Iceland to Greenland to Newfoundland to Nova Scotia to Maine
- the Vikings are also called the Norsemen and these Scandinavian seafaring warriors profoundly affected European history
- Viking meant "pirate" in the early Scandinavian languages
- It is the great north wind that made the Vikings. (Scandinavian proverb)
- for 300 years, from the 8th to 11th centuries, the Vikings took the world by storm - in search of land, slaves, gold, and silver
- the Vikings' love of jewelry and ornaments: brooches, necklaces, finger rings, arm rings
- Odin, Thor, and Frey
- Viking burials
- runes and picture stones
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