Viking Homeland & Culture
This is the region of Europe — now known by this name — where the Vikings came from.
What is Scandinavia?
Sailing a longship took courage and strength because of this — related to weather.
What is being open to the weather (no cabins for shelter)?
This is what it meant to go "a-viking."
What is to raid?
Eric the Red was banished from Iceland and settled here.
What is Greenland?
According to Norse mythology, the world was created from this.
What is the body of a dead giant?
This is another name used for the Vikings.
What are the Norse?
The Vikings navigated using these two things in the sky.
What are the sun and the stars?
This is the name for the fiercest Viking warriors.
What are berserkers?
Leif Eriksson was this kind of person.
What is an explorer?
This is what Odin and the warriors did in Valhalla.
What is battled by day and feasted by night?
Viking farms were often nestled between these two natural features.
What are fjords and mountains?
This is why the Vikings brought caged birds out to sea with them.
What is to help them find their direction if they got lost?
This is the term for a Viking chief.
What is a jarl?
The Vikings were the first Europeans to set foot on this continent.
What is North America?
This is the term for an idea or story that many people believe but is not true.
What is a myth?
This natural feature of the Viking homeland made farmland scarce.
What are (many) mountains?
This is the term for those on a ship responsible for rowing.
What are oarsmen?
Besides raiding, this is what Vikings did as they journeyed through Europe.
What is trading with the people they met?
This is the term for a deep, narrow portion of the sea that stretches inland, with high cliffs on either side.
What is a fjord?
This day of the week is named after Thor.
What is Thursday?
This is the name for the letters of the Viking alphabet.
What are runes?
This is the term for the pointed front end of a ship.
What is the prow?
This word means to take something by force.
What is plunder?
This is the term for land covered with grass on which farm animals feed.
What is a pasture?
This is the term for a young, unmarried woman — like the Valkyries.
What is a maiden?