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Viking Ships: Teacher's guide

Teacher's guide.

Introduction

This website is full of exiting stories; partly about the late Viking Age, partly about those scientific issues relating to the ship, the sail and the navigation. The teacher's guide will help you use the site in your classes.

The table of contents lists the various assignments and exercises. They can be a set of questions, assignments to be solved in front of the computer or on paper or they can be practical indoor or outdoor exercises. We also try to estimate which subjects and age groups the assignment is best aimed at - but your comments are welcomed.

If you have created your own exercises or curricula based on vikingshipmuseum.dk, you are welcome to send them to us. We will then add them to the website for the common good.

Warrior and battle

This exercise contains problems, suggestions for written work and practical activities, in addition to the worksheet The Vikings' bow and arrow which includes instructions for making your own hunting arrow and acting out the role-play The Battle for England.

This exercise deals with topics such as:

• The warship's equipment
• The Viking warrior and his equipment
• Normans versus Saxons/English
• The Viking Age versus modern times
• The Battle for England
• The Vikings in England

The following places and subjects described on the Sea Stallion website may help in solving the exercise: Holumen and crew, Clontarf, Iona, The Vikings in England, Written sources for the Viking Age, Iconographic sources for the Viking Age, Hastings, Stamford Bridge, The battle for England, Aggersborg and the role-play The Battle for England . Also use the library and the Internet for further inspiration and information. For example www.youtube.com contains a series of video clips from 2006 showing Viking re-enactment groups recreating elements from The Battle of Hastings 1066.

This exercise can be used for both the ages 10-15 and 16-20, by setting appropriate sets of questions and activities.

The exercise, or parts of it, may overlap with several different study projects, for example The Vikings' Warship, The Vikings in England, The Battle for England, Sources for the Viking Age, and can therefore be used in combination with several other exercises from the Sea Stallion's home page; for example Ship building, The Vikings in England, The Battle for England, Who writes history? and Historical criticism

Subjects: Woodwork, Art, History, English, General studies

Suitable for age: 10-15 & 16-20 years.

• The Norse gods

This exercise contains problems and suggestions for a practical activity as well as the worksheet The Hammer of Thor made of bone .

It deals with topics such as:

• Superstition 
• Heathen parties and rituals

The following places and subjects described on the Sea Stallion's website may help in solving the exercise: The Norse gods , Christianity comes to Denmark, Christianity and foreign policy, Written sources for the Viking Age, Colonsay, Brough of Birsay, Scar, St. Magnus Cathedral, Haithabu and Aarhus . Let the pupils use the library and the Internet for inspiration and to find extra information. There are some good children's books about the Norse gods by Lars Henrik Olsen.

This exercise is intended for the ages 10-13 but some parts are appropriate for the ages 16-20 when combined with other exercises from the Sea Stallion's website.

The exercise can, for example, be combined with the following from the Sea Stallion's website: When the Danes became Christians and The heathen barbarians.

Subjects: Religious studies, English, History.

Suitable for age: 10-13 & 16-20 years.

This exercise contains problems, suggestions for practical activities and written work as well as the worksheet The runic alphabet .

The exercise deals with topics such as:

• Written sources for the Viking Age
• Ornamentation/picture stones in the Viking Age 

The following places and subjects described on the Sea Stallion's website may help in solving the excercise: Maes Howe , Haithabu, Aarhus, Crown and State, Christianity comes to Denmark, Written sources for the Viking Age and Iconographic sources for the Viking Age . The pupils should also seek material and inspiration in the library and on the Internet, i.e. examples of runic and picture stones.

This exercise can be used for all ages – with the setting of appropriate questions and activities.

For the ages 10-13 the exercise can, for example, be linked with some parts of A good story, Stories aboard, Who writes history and The heathen barbarians in a project about story tellers and written sources from the Viking Age.

Some parts of the above exercises, as well as Historical criticism , can be combined in a project on written sources for the ages 15-20.

This exercise can also be combined with work on written characters and language in various parts of the world through time.

Subjects: Art, History, English.

Suitable for age: 10-13 & 15-20 years.

Ship building

This exercise contains problems, suggestions for practical activities and the worksheet Viking colours.

• Ship building in the Viking Age
• Sources for the Viking Age
• The Vikings' colours
• The Sea Stallion then and now
• The Sea Stallion – an experimental-archaeological project

The following subjects, places and logs on the Sea Stallion's website may help in solving the exercise: Boatswain's diary, Skipper's logbook, Archaeological sources, Iconographic sources, Dublin, Roskilde . See also the introduction about Longships in detail . The ship's news from the expedition to Dublin 2007/2008 may also provide inspiration. 

This exercise can be used for all ages – by setting appropriate questions and activities.

A project on experimental archaeology and the sources of information about ship building in the Viking Age is an obvious way of adopting a problem-oriented approach to studies of the past, especially for the ages 15-20. Parts of the exercises about Sailing and The square sail can also be linked in with this project. The data collected in the logs and the experiences recorded from the expedition enable the pupils to evaluate whether the reconstruction of Skuldelev 2 is a success. They can also assess the information the vessel can reveal about ship building and society in the Viking Age.

For the ages 10-15 a project on the ship's construction, materials, craftsmen, rigging and decoration can be supplemented with some of the practical activities. Questions about sources on ship building in the Viking Age can easily be included here.

Subjects: Science and technology, Woodwork, History, General Studies.

Suitable for age: 10-20 years.

Skipper’s law

This exercise contains problems and suggestions for written work.

• Organisation of the ship
• Coxswain and Skipper
• Life on board
• Sources for the Viking Age 

The following articles on The Sea Stallion's website may help in solving the exercise: Holumen and crew, Styrimaðr and Skipper, Archaeological sources for the Viking Age, Iconographic sources for the Viking Age, Written sources for the Viking Age. Logs and diaries from the voyage to Dublin 2007/2008 and the Armchair comments may also provide inspiration.

The exercise can for example form part of a project about life on board, together with the exercises The duty roster, Sea fare, Stories aboard and Sailing .

This exercise could also be included in a project about the sources of information we have for the Viking Age. The archaeological, pictorial and written sources are all able to provide different information about the Vikings. They each have, however, their advantages and disadvantages; these could be discussed during lessons. The Gulating Law, which is mentioned in this exercise, was written down after the Viking Age. Which problems can this present and why?

Subjects: History, Science and Technology, English.

Suitable for age: 10-15 years.

This exercise contains suggestions for practical activities as well as the worksheet Nine men's morris and Tic Tac Toe .

• Viking leisure time

The following places and articles on the Sea Stallion's website may help in solving the exercise: Holumen and crew, Lewis and Aa rhus . Pupils can find rules for other games from the Viking Age, such as Hnefatafl and Kub , on the Internet.

Subjects: Art, History.

The appearance of the Viking

This exercise contains problems and suggestions for practical activities as well as the worksheet Thor's hammer made of bone .

• The Viking's appearance
• The Viking's clothes
• The Viking's jewellery
• Sources on the Vikings' appearance, clothes and jewellery
• Images of the Viking

The following places and themes on the Sea Stallion's website may help in solving the exercise: Lindholm Høje, Ballyholme, Dublin, Larne, Caithness, Isle of Man, Eigg, Iona, Lewis, Colonsay, Brough of Birsay, Scar, Archaeological sources for the Viking Age, What did the Vikings look like?, Iconographic sources for the Viking Age and  Barber-surgeon and nurse.

Encourage the pupils to use the library and the Internet for further studies. Direct them towards information on burial sites and various pictorial representations from the Viking Age, for example The Mammen Grave, The Bayeux Tapestry and the Gotlandic picture stones.

Teaching could begin with the pupils being asked to draw or paint their own interpretation of a Viking. Later, the pupils can find pictorial representations of Vikings from various periods or contexts (or the teacher can find and provide these). Use these, together with their own drawings, as a basis for a discussion of why the Vikings have been perceived and represented differently in different periods and in different situations.

The exercise is primarily intended for the ages 10-15 but the theme on Images of the Viking could be used for the ages 16-20 by forming the basis for a discussion of our (mis)use of the past in the present and our historical consciousness. See Images of the Viking and the linked questionnaire. The teaching course Images of the Viking can also be booked at the Viking Ship Museum.

Subjects: Needlework, Art, Science and Technology, History, English.

Handling abilities (several exercises)

A series of exercises has been produced which aim to analyse The Sea Stallion’s handling abilities under sail and oar power respectively. In other words, the pupil is able to carry out him- or herself much of the research which the Viking Ship Museum is to embark upon after the voyage to Dublin. The exercises are best tackled in the order shown, and it is a good idea to present the results together in a final report.

The data set to be processed comprises the ship’s geographic co-ordinates (recorded with the aid of a GPS) as well as a series of other navigational and meteorological measurements. All of this is assembled in a zipped, semicolon separated text file Datalogger which can be downloaded from Tools in the right hand column of the exercise. This table can be used as the basis for a large number of exercises involving data validation, source criticism, searching and sorting, calculations and column updates and much more. The exercises are best executed with the aid of a spreadsheet and/or GIS and can be incorporated in a wider teaching context dealing with, for example, the GPS system, statistics and cartography.

Maximum speed deals with sorting and querying of data, averaging of data and, not least, scientific source criticism! This exercise can be used in a course about GPS navigation. Use can be made of the Internet’s many good websites about the structure and function of the GPS system.

Rowing deals similarly with searching or sorting the data and leads up to putting this into perspective with the aid of information searches on the rest of the site.

In Tacking abilities a calculation has to be made of the difference between the wind direction and the steered course (Geography: also possible to query the relationship between the steered course, BoatHdg, and course made good, COG). If this exercise is solved using a spreadsheet, it is necessary to create a formula which accommodates positive and negative angles greater than 180º. Subsequently, a simple sorting exercise is involved in finding the minimum value for the measurements when the ship is under sail. It may be a good idea to focus on a tacking stage or tacking attempt: for example the 13 th and 20 th July and the 2 nd August.

Turns is an analysis of how much speed The Sea Stallion loses in a turn. The exercise can either be solved on paper or the route can be drawn as a graph in a spreadsheet but it is a good idea to use GIS. For example, a thematic map can be drawn with the speed as a z-value depicted by a colour or symbol. When solving on paper it is a good idea to convert the geographic co-ordinates to a metric co-ordinate system. It is easiest to concentrate on an actual tacking attempt: see 30 th July and 2 nd August.

The speed diagram is a very direct expression of the ship’s handling abilities and is a good example of a practical application of a polar diagram. The core of the exercise lies in sorting of the data so the individual curves only contain measurements taken at the same wind speed and sail area. You could also choose to concentrate on the dates 2 nd - 3 rd August when, off Lagavulin, circular experimental sailing exercises were carried out with the aim of producing a speed diagram. Remember to calculate the angle between the wind direction and the steered course as in Tacking abilities.

GIS and mapping is an introduction to solving the other exercises with the aid of GIS but also leads up to the production of thematic maps and other analyses of the recorded metric   data. You could query GPS and the surveillance society against the background of the information about and interpretations of the events on board which it is possible to deduce from the GPS trace.

In all the exercises reference is made to a common Help for exercises about sailing abilities from which it is also possible to reach a description of the methods and aims of the experimental voyages.

Subjects: Maths, physics, geography, general study.

Level: Sixth form/A level.

This exercise contains problems and suggestions for written work and practical activities, in addition to the worksheet Vikings' knots , as well as a link to a 3D model of the Sea Stallion where various sail settings can be tried out.

• Sails on a Viking ship
• The ship's speed and manoeuvrability
• The ship's log

The following logs, diaries and features on the Sea Stallion's home page may help in solving the exercise: Boatswain's diary, Skipper's logbook, Iconographic sources . Further to these, other diaries and stories from the ship's voyage to Dublin in 2007/2008 may provide inspiration.

On the Sea Stallion's website you also find the exercises: Dead reckoning, The square sail, Natural or intuitive navigation and The sun compass . These can be combined with this exercise in a project on the Vikings' ships and navigation. The class can also complement this with a trip on a reconstruction of a Viking ship at the Viking Ship Museum. For further information contact the Education Department at the Viking Ship Museum.

The exercise can be used for the ages 10-20 – by setting appropriate sets of questions and activities. For the ages 16-20 the exercise is most relevant in combination with some of the other suggested exercises from the website.

Subjects: Science and Technology, Maths, History, General Studies.

This exercise contains problems, suggestions for written work, the computer game SEA STALLION ATTACK and the worksheet Food in the Viking Age .

• Sea fare in the Viking Age
• The ship's logistics
• Physical performance
• Food in the Viking Age 

The following page on the Sea Stallion's website may help in solving the exercise: Matsveina and cook , but consult in particular the diaries from the voyage to Dublin 2007/2008. Use the library and the Internet to obtain further information.

This exercise could, for example, form part of a project on the life on board together with the exercises The duty roster, Skipper's law, Games, Stories aboard and Sailing .

This exercise is an obvious conclusion for studies of the Viking Age. A proper party – Viking style – is recommended as a finale.

Subjects: Home economics, Science and technology, History.

Suitable for age: 10-20 years

Dead reckoning

This exercise works with ordinary multiplication using the formula D=V*t. It deals with topics such as:

• Subtracting two points from each other and converting hours and minutes to decimal hours
• Calculating distance as a product of speed and time
• Plotting angles with a protractor.
• Plotting distances to scale.

When this problem has been solved you can proceed to the next part - to find out your speed. The same formula is used, but now speed is the unknown factor.

You can also discuss how time was measured. Try asking a group to count up to 60 seconds in their heads – some using only numbers, others using "one-crate-of-beer, two-crates-of-beer…." , "one elephant, two elephants…." or a similar enumerations – and see who comes closest to the minute mark.

The exercise sheet Dead reckoning should be printed out and you will also need a pencil, a protractor, and possibly a ruler.

Subject: Maths

Suitable for age:  14 – 20 years.

Set and drift

This exercise introduces vectors, graphic addition and subtraction of vectors, the parallelogram of forces.

It can also be used as an introduction to further work with calculus of vectors, for example to introduce co-ordinates.

Discuss whether current triangles may have been used in the Viking Age. Does this make sense when navigating without using a compass marked in degrees? Is it possible to do this mentally so the principle is used in a more intuitive way without allocating precise values? Think of other areas where one compensates without thinking for some force or other – ball games in windy weather…

This exercise can be solved on the exercise sheet Dead reckoning .

Subject: Maths.

Suitable for age: 16-20 years.

The duty roster

• Life on board/the organisation of the ship

The following articles on The Sea Stallion's website may help in solving the exercise: Holumen and crew, Styrimaðr and Skipper , Sail and Trim . Logbook and diary notes (see for example under the rooms' diary), as well as news from the ship's voyage to Dublin and Armchair comments may also provide inspiration.

It is obvious to link this exercise with themes about life on board and the Sea Stallion then and now: Skipper's law, Sea fare, Sailing, Stories aboard and Games.

Subjects: History, Science and Technology.

Suitable for age: 10-15 years

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Viking Longships and Voyages (Years 5-6)

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Children can learn all about Viking longships with this PowerPoint. It explains how they were made and includes labelled diagrams to show the different parts of the ship. How many of them can children remember? Children are also encouraged to do their own research to find out how Vikings successfully navigated on their long voyages.

Using this fun worksheet , children can design their own Viking longship.

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10 Facts About Viking Longships

Harry Atkins

02 apr 2023.

The Vikings are best remembered as fearsome warriors, but their longlasting legacy owes just as much to their seafaring aptitude. Both the Vikings’ ships and the skill with which they utilised them were key to the success of many of their exploits, from fishing and exploring the oceans to raiding.

Though Viking boats came in many shapes and sizes, the most iconic and effective Viking vessel was undoubtedly the longship. Long, narrow and flat, longships were fast, durable and capable of navigating both choppy seas and shallow rivers. They were also light enough to be carried over land.

It’s easy to characterise the Vikings as bloodthirsty reprobates rampaging across Europe , but the craft and innovation of the shipbuilding that enabled their conquests deserves recognition.

The fact that Leif Erikson led a Viking crew to North America in around 1,000 — 500 years before Christopher Columbus set foot on the New World — makes clear the Vikings’ remarkable maritime prowess and showcases the robustness of their boats.  

Here are 10 things you may not have known about the impressive longships.

1. Their design evolved over many years

Reenactment of the Viking landing at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada, 2000

Image Credit: Joyce Hill, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The design principles that led to the Viking longship can be traced back to the beginning of the Stone Age and the umiak, a large open skin boat used by Yupik and Inuit people as long as 2,500 years ago.  

2. Viking ships were clinker built

The so-called “clinker” method of ship construction is based on planks of timber, usually oak, being overlapped and nailed together. Spaces between planks were then filled with tarred wool and animal hair, ensuring a watertight ship.  

3. Longships were able to navigate in shallow waters

A shallow draft allowed navigation in waters as shallow as one metre and made beach landings possible.  

4. Their top speed was around 17 knots

Speed was variable from ship to ship but it’s thought that the quickest longships could achieve speeds of up to 17 knots in favourable conditions.

5. The boats were typically embellished with decorative head pieces

Skilfully carved animal heads often featured as figureheads at the front of longships. These heads – those of dragons and snakes were popular – were designed to provoke fear in the spirits of whichever land the Vikings were raiding.

6. Longships combined rowing power with wind propulsion

Typically equipped with rowing positions along their entire length, longships also utilised one big square sail, woven from wool. Steering came courtesy of a single steering oar at the back of the ship.

7. They were double-ended

Their symmetrical bow and stern design allowed longships to swiftly reverse without having to turn around. This was particularly handy when navigating icy conditions.  

8. Longship classifications were linked to rowing capacity

Skibladner ship on Unst

Image Credit: Unstphoto, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The Karvi had 13 rowing benches while the Busse had up to 34 rowing positions.

9. The vessels were instrumental in enabling the Vikings to explore the globe

The breadth of the Vikings’ explorations was remarkable. From North America in the west to Central Asia in the east, the Viking Age is defined by geographically expansive exploration that wouldn’t have been possible without such advanced shipbuilding.

10. The longship design was hugely influential

The Vikings’ shipbuilding skills accompanied their extensive travels. Many of the longship’s characteristics were adopted by other cultures and continued to influence shipbuilding for centuries.

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Viking Longships - Quick Facts for Kids

Updated: Feb 10, 2023

Vikings are well known for their ability to travel long distances to gather a fortune and search for better land to settle on. Vikings travelled on vessels called Longships (sometimes called Longboats or Dragon Boats). The ships were super-advanced during the Viking age, a skilled navigator could even reach America on one!

Find out more about Longships with these quick facts:

The Vikings used longships for trading, exploring and raiding.

Longships were narrow and light making them quick to manoeuvre through water. They could even be carried by Vikings over land, allowing them to sneak up on an enemy be approaching from a different direction.

Watertight:

Longships were built in a 'clinker' style. Wooden planks, usually oak, were overlapped and then nailed together. Any gaps would be filled with tarred wool and handfuls of animal hair, just to make sure the Longship wouldn't leak.

They had a single sail in the centre of the boat, often shown striped in red and white. Sails were made from wool or linen and then dyed red. Some archaeologists believe that Longship sails came in many different colours, Vikings were known for liking bright colours.

In situations of low wind, the crew would row the boat using the oars. Different styles of Longships would

have different amounts of oars. For example, the Snekke longboat had space for 18 pairs of oarsmen, whilst the Busse had 34.

Vikings steered their ship left or right (or port and starboard) using a steering oar at the rear of the Longship.

Longships had a shallow hull so they could sail in any type of water such as oceans or rivers. Because of this shallow draft Longships could sail on water as shallow as 1 metre. They could also perform beach landings, allowing the Vikings to slide up onto the sand and leap ashore.

Longships had a dragon's head at the front of the boat to intimidate enemies. This dragon head was also said to scare off evil spirits, ensuring a safe voyage. Longships were also double ended, this meant they didn't have to turn around, they could just reverse. This was much more manoeuvrable.

Vikings would hang their shields on the side of the boat to protect the hull and save space aboard the deck. Plus, it would make the Longship nice and colourful - Vikings liked bright colours - and all the symbols of the scary animals and creatures on the shields would help scare the enemy.

Vikings would sleep on the deck of the ship, beneath the stars. There were no cabins, if it was raining then Vikings would just get wet!

Longship or Longboat:

Always Longships! Ships are big, carry lots of people and sail out to sea. Boats are small, carry only one or two people and sail close to land. So, it's a Longship, never a Longboat.

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After the Anglo-Saxons , came the vicious Vikings! Join the National Geographic Kids gang as we learn to live like a Scandinavian sea-warrior, in our ten fierce facts about the Vikings…

Viking facts

1. The Vikings were famous for sailing huge distances from their home in Scandinavia between AD 800 and 1066 to raid and plunder, but they also traded with people from other countries.

2. The name ‘Viking’ means ‘a pirate raid’ in the Old Norse language.

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3. Around 500 years before Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ the American continent, Vikings had visited its shores, landing in what is now Canada in around AD 1000.

4. Among the many gods Vikings believed in were Thor, the god of thunder, and Loki, a cheeky mischief-maker who could shape-shift to become all different kinds of animals. What a beast!

5. The Vikings were expert boat builders and sailors. Keels – central spines along boats’ bottoms – made their 16 to 37m ‘longboats’ easy to steer, and because these were designed to float high in the water, landing on beaches was easy.

6. The Vikings were eco-pioneers – sort of! The ‘long houses’ where families lived would have turf roofs to help keep in the heat.

7. Fenrir Grayback, the werewolf in the Harry Potter books, was named after a ferocious giant wolf from ancient Viking mythology.

8. When important Vikings died, they would be placed with all their clothes, jewellery, even their animals, in a burial ship. This would either be covered with a huge mound of earth or set alight and pushed out to sea.

9.  Bitter Scandinavian winters and frozen fjords didn’t stop the Vikings from tucking into their favourite food – fish! During warmer months they would hang up and dry fish to eat later.

10.  Ever wondered where the word ‘berserk’ comes from? ‘Berserkers’ was the name of some terrifying Viking warriors who wore bear or wolf skins and howled in battle like wild animals!

What did you make of our fab facts about the Vikings? Let us know what you loved about them in a comment, below!

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• Trelleborg Museum The National Museum of Denmark. Museum on the site of a Viking fortress.
• The Viking Age Danish National Museum. Covers many topics regarding Viking society and culture.
• Vikings: The North American Saga Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. From the rise of the Scandinavian kingdoms during the Viking Age (A.D.750 to 1050) to the demise of the Greenland colonies around A.D. 1500, Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga examines the history of the western expansion of the Vikings and sheds new light on a well known culture.
• The Viking Ship Museum Museum of Cultural History. University of Oslo. Museum dedicated to Viking Ships and artifacts.

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• A history of the Vikings. by Jones, Gwyn 1907-1999 ISBN: 01928013413 Publication Date: 1968

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Viking homeschool! Free printables, crafts, lesson plans and more

Are you looking for fun resources to teach your kids about the Vikings? There are all sorts of wonderful crafts, printables, lesson plans and more — free for the taking!

Crafts and costumes:

• Bug, Boo and Bean has instructions to make your own cardboard Viking helmets and swords and shields .
• Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational has another great DIY Viking shield .
• Hellokids.com has a printable Viking face mask .
• Loolido shows how to make a Viking ship from items from the recycling bin.
• Crayola offers another plan to make a Viking ship .
• House Manticore has detailed plans on how to make a Viking era tunic .
• Hurtswic has lots of photos of authentic looking Viking era clothing .

Lesson plans:

• Discovery Education offers a lesson plan that involves using egg cartons to make Viking longships , among other activities.
• Viking Network Ireland offers many lesson plans to teach kids about Vikings.
• CoreKnowledge.org offers The Vikings: Marauders or Explorers? (PDF file), The Vikings of Scandinavia (PDF file), Leif Ericsson (Leif “the Lucky”) an Unsung Discoverer (PDF file), Vikings: Vicious or Victorious? (PDF file), and Vikings: A Misunderstood People (PDF file).

Teacher resources:

• BBC offers lots of Vikings resources such as videos, worksheets, pictures and activities.

Online interactives:

• PBS’s The Vikings site offers a vast amount of information, including a video model Viking town and how to write your name as a rune.
• BBC offers a primary site all about the Vikings and Viking Quest .

Free downloads:

• The Smithsonian Institution’s Vikings Exhibit includes free PDF downloads for families and educators.
• www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk offers a printable Norman ship to color and assemble.

Further information:

• The Amazing Vikings offers in-depth information from Time magazine.
• A Book in Time offers books on the Vikings .

Just for fun:

• BBC offers a Horrible Histories online game for kids to play about the Vikings.
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