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the coasts. They were the Vikings. They came across the North Sea, just as the Anglo-Saxons had done 400 years earlier. In time, like the Anglo-Saxons  , they made their home here. They drove the Saxons out of part of the country and took it for themselves. King Alfred, Saxon king of Wessex, fought them in a great battle, but he could not drive them right away and had to let them have part of the country, called Danelaw.

the three countries of Scandinavia:   Denmark,    Norway and  Sweden.

the 9th Century AD and lasted for 300 years. The Vikings first invaded Britain in AD 793 and last invaded in 1066 when William the Conqueror became King of England after the Battle of Hastings. The first place the Vikings attacked in Britain was the monastery at Lindisfarne, a holy island situated off the Northumberland coast in the north east of England. A few years later the island of Iona (off the west coast of Scotland), came under attack and its monks were slaughtered. Soon no region of the British Isles (Britain and nearby islands) was safe from the Vikings. They attacked villages and towns in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man and England.

stayed in England for 14 years, fighting the English kings. In AD 866 Vikings captured York. They captured King Edmund of East Anglia and shot him dead with arrows.

In AD 892-300
Viking
ships
Invaded
to fight
King Alfred of Wessex.
No one knows how big the Viking armies were. If there were 20 men in each ship, the army of AD 892 numbered 6,000! That was a huge army for the time. Most Viking armies were probably smaller - perhaps 1,000 to 2,000 men.

called the Danelaw. It formed a boundary separating Anglo-Saxon England from Viking England and was defined in a treaty between the English King Alfred and Viking King Guthrum in AD 880.

The Vikings settled in:
Islands off the coast of Scotland –
Shetland, Orkney and The Hebrides
Around the north and north west
coast of Scotland
Parts of Ireland - Dublin is a Viking city
The Isle of man
Small parts of wales
arts of England known as Danelaw

There were boat-builders and potters, leather-workers and smiths. Most Viking men knew how to handle a boat. And most could fight if they had to, to protect the family or to support their chieftain.

wool into cloth. They looked after the children, made the family's clothes and cooked
the two meals a day most families ate. On the farm, women milked the cows and made cheese.

trading voyage,
or become a raider. He
hoped to come home rich
so he could buy a farm.
Vikings met at
markets, like the
markets at Hedeby in
Denmark and Jorvik in
England. They traded
by exchanging goods (a
wolf skin for a pair of
shoes, perhaps) but also
used gold and silver coins.
Traders valued coins by weight, and carried small folding scales to weigh a customer's coins.

she liked. Some people
Were slaves or 'thralls'. Slaves did
the hardest, dirtiest jobs.
People could be born slaves.
The child of a slave mother and father
was a slave too, but the child of a slave mother
and a free father was free.
Many slaves were people captured in a Viking raid. Viking traders sold slaves in markets, but slave-trading in England was stopped in 1102.

were three that were especially important. Odin - the leader of the gods - god of knowledge and war Thor (Tor in Scandinavian languages) Is the god of thunder.  Frey (or Frej in Swedish) - god of agriculture and fertility Freya - goddess of love and beauty

sword was handed down from father to son, but Vikings also buried weapons with their owner when he died. Vikings did not wear much armour, though some chieftains wore mail coats. Most relied on a round wooden shield  for protection. On their heads, they wore  helmets  made of leather or iron. A Viking saying was, 'Never leave your weapons behind when you go to work in the fields - you may need them'.

days of the week are in fact remnants of both Viking language and culture of Roman as well.
Monday is “moon day.” Tuesday is derived from “Tyr’s day,” Tyr being the Norse god of heroic glory. Wednesday is derived from “Wodin’s Day,” an Anglo spelling of Odin’s day, Odin being one of the greatest gods in the Norse pantheon. Thursday is of course “Thor’s day,” Friday “Freyja’s day,” Saturday named for the Roman god Saturn, a left-over from Roman Latin, and Sunday is, of course, the “Sun’s day,” derived from worship of the sun, the fiery orb which still is the source of all life on this planet.