Vikings
The origin of the word "Viking"
What is vikingr, meaning a bay?
What was a peasant's main job?
An industry in which women were the majority
What is brewing?
Name the three types of castles
What are Motte and Bailey, Stone Keep, and Concentric
The social system that organized by class and obligation
What is feudalism?
The region of the world from where Vikings originated?
The origin of the modern word "landlord."
What is the Lord of the land? Because the local Lord owned the land that the peasants farmed?
The groups of women who were more frequently educated.
What are the clergy and elite women?
A hill on which is built a keep
What is a Motte?
An organization that regulated trade and helped its members.
What is a guild?
How did the Vikings move around Europe?
What is by water?
The name for the type of peasant who is tied to the land.
What is a serf?
Name one woman highlighted in the article
Who are:
Eleanor of Aquitaine,Herrad von Landsberg (1125 / 30-95), Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) and Héloïse d’Argenteuil, Hadewijch, Christine de Pizan, Constance of Altavilla (1154-98), Urraca of Castile (1080-1126), Joanna I of Navarre (1273-1305) and Melisenda of Jerusalem, Ildegarda and Trotula de Ruggiero
The iron and wood gate at the front of a castle.
What is a portcullis?
Would you rather be a monk or a viking?
I'd rather be a monk, but Vikings got to go sailing, so there's that.
What is the name of the runic alphabet?
The name of the agricultural method that changed medieval history.
What is the three field system?
The reason that elite women could more easily join a convent.
What is...because their families had to pay enough money to the abbey to support the nun for the rest of her life?
Would you rather scale a castle wall to attack it or try your luck through the front gate?
Neither. Leave the castles alone. It's dangerous, friend.
The name of the burial mound in southern England where they found all the fancy grave goods.
What is Sutton Hoo?
The sorceresses that accompanied Vikings on their raids and were sometimes responsible for executions. According to legend, they could also see the future.
What is a völva?
The name of Christine de Pizan's book
What is The City of Ladies?
Theoretically the strongest castle.
What is the concentric castle?
Would you rather be a royal in a castle (but no indoor plumbing/ electricity/internet) or would you rather live as you do now?
What is....it's up to you