English Literature Vikings

• Denmark
• Norway
• Sweden

pirate raid

AD 700 to 1100

• AD 787
• three Viking longships landed in southern England, fought the locals and sailed away/

Danes

Norwegian Vikings

• Scotland
• Wales

The Vikings had their own pagan religion. They worshipped many gods and told stories about gods, giants and monsters which were known as Norse myths.

they buried or cremated them with some of their belongings, to take into the next world.

About how people lived in Midgard or Middle Earth along with giants elves and dwarfs.

• sea serpents
• trolls
• dragons
• fierce wolf Fenrir

• it's thought they had magic trees or wooden temples.
• after they became christians, they founded churches and painted stone crosses.

• going viking
• mean
• raiding ships

• danes
• mean
• it's what the English called vikings

• norse
• mean
• Norwegian vikings

• thor
• the god of thunder

• odin
• the god of the gods
• god of magic, poetry and war

• Freja
• the god of love and fertility
• cried golden tears

• loki
• the trickster god

• Valhalla
• a great hall where dead heroes feasted at long tables

• valkyries
• odin's handmaids who conducted their warriors of choice to Valhalla

• midgard
• middle earth

• asgard
• the sky world where gods and goddesses lived

• Sleipnir
• odin's 8 legged magical horse

greek mythology has a dreamlike atmosphere and there is a tendency to escape the vileness of the barbaric world. whereas norse mythology presents the horrors of barbaric times and is gloomier and darker.