Homelands and Settlements
This modern day island nation was settled by Norwegian Vikings in the late 19th Century and is home to the world's oldest surviving parliament.
What is Iceland.
They tell stories of Norse gods and creation.
What are Eddas?
Two types of fishing boats built by the Norse during the Viking Age.
What are Knarrs and Faerings.
Allowed the Vikings to travel deep into Europe.
What are longboats?
These people were known as Karls and Thralls.
What are freeman and thralls?
The name of the region in Northern and Eastern England that was ruled under Scandinavian law and governance during the Viking Age.
What is Danelaw?
The Vikings kept their history alive by this.
What is storytelling?
Knives, spears and axes fall in to this category.
What are weapons used by Vikings?
The term for chopped up fragments of foreign coins in gold and silver arm rings used as currency by exact weight rather than fare value.
What is Hacksilver (Hacksilber)
Viking society was bound together by this.
What are traditions?
This period lasted from 800 to 1050 CE.
What is the Golden Age?
The specific literary term for a complex two-word metaphorical phrases used in Old Norse poetry such as "whale road" or "sky candle" for the sun.
What is a Kenning?
A highly prized specialized type of Medieval sword that was engineered using advanced crucible steel technology making stronger and more flexible than standard Viking swords.
What is an Ulfberft sword.
The most famous of all Viking ships.
What is the Oseberg Ship?
Rituals and Sacrifices were a part of this system.
What is Viking beliefs?
The name of the original Viking Homeland.
What is Scandinavia?
It was rarely made for display, but carvings with elaborate patterns were found on functional items like combs, belt buckles and drinking horns.
What is Viking art?
This is considered the event that marked the beginning of the Viking Age.
What is the Raid on Monastery at Lindisfarne?
Swedish Vikings trading along the Eastern European rivers network established a highly lucrative commercial hub in Northwestern Russia that served as the primary gateway between Scandinavia and the Silk Road.
What is Staraya Lodoga (Novgorod)
The name of the legislative and judicial public assembly where the Vikings me to resolve legal disputes, pass laws and vote on community matters.
What is the Althing?
These originated the Scandinavian Homeland of modern day.
Who are the Vikings?
This was depicted as knot like animal designs and was meant to represent wyrd.
What is flowing fate?
The technical term for the overlapping hull planking method used to build Viking long ships which gave the vessels flexabilty needed to withstand rough ocean waves.
What is clinkerbuilt or lapstrake?
Live polar bear cubs and white Gyrfalcons were used as what?
What are gifts for kings, caliphs and emperors.
The name of the magestic hall in Asgard were the god Oden recieves the souls of warriors who died honorably in battle.
What is Valhalla?