Geography
This is the area of Europe where the Vikings came from.
What is Scandinavia?
This is what you call the front of the boat.
What is the prow?
This is what the Viking letters are called.
What are Runes?
This is what warrior vikings did when they went out on raids.
What is to go "a Viking" ?
This is what you call a young, unmarried woman.
What is a maiden
This is why the farmland was so scarce in Scandinavia.
What is the many mountains and not enough pastures?
This is what you call the people who row the boat
What is oarsman?
This are the Vikings two greatest skills.
What are ship building and sailing?
This is what the Viking Chief was called.
What is Jarl?
This is an idea or stpry that many people believe but is not true.
What is a myth?
These are the two landforms that most Viking villages were between.
What are fjords and mountains?
This is why Vikings had to be brave and strong to go by longboat across the ocean.
What is Longboats had no roof and did not protect them from weather and storms?
This best describes what Vikings were. ( remember viking means pirate. )
What is a fierce raider?
This is what the fiercest Viking warriors were called and means "bear shirt".
What are berserkers?
According to Norse Mythology, this is how the world was created.
What is by the body of a dead giant.
This is the reason Greenland was called Greenland.
What is to attract settlers who wouldn't have settled there if they knew it was mostly ice?
This is how Vikings navigated on the Longboats.
What are the sun and stars?
This is another name for Viking and it is not the Northmen.
What is Norsemen.
Erice the Red was banished from Iceland and ended up founding this country that is mostly ice.
What is Greenland?
This is what Odin and the other warriors did in Valhalla.
What is battle by day and feast by night?
This is what you call a deep narrow portion of the sea that stretches inland, with high cliffs on either side.
What is a fjord?
This is why Vikings took birds on their longboats when they went exploring.
What is to help them find their way when they get lost?
In addition to going on raids and farming, this is what Kikings did as they journeyed through Europe.
What is trade.
This famous Viking explorer was known for being the first to set foot on the continent of North America.
Who is Leif Erikson?
This is the day of the week that is named after Thor.
What is Thursday?