Basic Info
Let's go A-Viking
Famous Vikings
Viking Mythology
Wild Card!!
100
The area of Europe where the Vikings came from is now called...
Scandinavia
100
Viking treasure was sometimes earned by trading, but often it had been...
Stolen!!
100
Leif Ericson was... a farmer, an explorer, a missionary, or a Roman emperor?
An explorer!
100
The main Viking god was...
Odin
100
The berserkers were warriors who thought wearing ____________ would protect them in attacks...
bearskin shirts
200
Another name for the Vikings is...
Norsemen
200
To go "a-viking" meant...
to go on a voyage to raid and plunder
200
Leif Ericson was the ___________ of Eric the Red...
son
200
Vikings carved _________ into the front of their ships in order to frighten enemies.
dragon heads
200
How did other Europeans feel about the Vikings?
They feared them!!
300
The Vikings can be best described as...followers, peacemakers, raiders, scholars?
Raiders
300
The fiercest Viking warriors were called...
Berserkers
300
Eric the Red was a brave man but he had a bad ________...
temper
300
Which day of the week is named after Thor, the Viking god of thunder?
Thor's Day = Thursday
300
Greenland was given that name in order to....
attract settlers to move there
400
The Vikings were best known for...drawing, writing, dancing or building great ships?
Shipbuilding and sailing
400
The Vikings navigated by using...
the sun and the stars
400
Eric the Red was banished from Iceland and settled in...
Greenland
400
What did Vikings carve into their rune stones...
important events and stories about the gods
400
What is a fjord....
a narrow inlet of the sea that goes into land
500
The letters of the Viking alphabet are called...
Runes
500
Why did the Vikings take birds with them on their longships?
To help them find their direction when they were lost
500
Thor's hammer was special because...
It would always return to his hand AND it never missed its target
500
The Vikings believed that the world was made from...
the body of a dead giant
500
The Vikings were the first Europeans to set foot on what continent...
North America
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