A Commonplace Book

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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