Viking Timeline

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Make this viking people craft with paper, crayons, glue and scissors. Then color a map of the Viking raiding and trading routes along with some settlements.

A great set of printable posters for use on a classroom Viking timeline display or to aid discussion about the Vikings.

The Key Role Vikings Played in the History of Ireland The image of bloodthirsty Vikings, raiding and pillaging vulnerable coastal monasteries, is a familiar one in British history.

Viking History Timeline (789 – 1066) Erik the Red (950 – 1003 AD) was a Norwegian Viking and the first person to discover Greenland.

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Daily Update 2.2 Week 3: Module 2: Date 2/13/13 Yesterday we learned a little bit about the first people in recorded history to have rowed across the Atlantic. Today we are going to go a bit farther back in history and look at the Viking explorers of the 10th and early 11th century. Popular history credits Eric the Red with the discovery of Greenland after leaving Iceland, around 982. It is believed that other Vikings, namely Gunnbjorn Olfsson, had made the “discovery” of this North American…

Use the interactive map to find out where the Vikings travelled to and how they traded and plundered in everything from spices to slaves. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

This painting portrays a Viking longship leaving the shore for open sea. As one of the primary vehicles the Vikings used for transportation, longships such as this served as the tool to bridge the ocean between Scandinavia and Britain. The connectivity such creates allows for a spoken-word legend of a viking monarch to become the most well known narrative in the Old English tongue.